I miss the fig workflow :-(
Try `jj`, as others have mentioned. It's being built by the team that built/maintains fig, and the are porting all their learnings into that.
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kyrra commented on Code review can be better tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/sealeck
kyrra commented on Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess planetscale.com/blog/anno... · Posted by u/thdxr
They did a interview 2 weeks ago about this on the changelog podcast with Sugu Sougoumarane, the co-creator of Vitess, who is at Supabase now. Watching the competition year will be interesting
kyrra commented on I prefer human-readable file formats adele.pollux.casa/check-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Let’s say that hypothetically one were to disagree with this. What would be the best alternative format? One that has ample of tooling for editing and diffing, as though it was text, yet stores things more efficiently.
Most of the arguments presented in TFA are about openness, which can still be achieved with standard binary formats and a schema. Hence the problem left to solve is accessibility.
I’m thinking something like parquet, protobuf or sqllite. Despite their popularities, still aren’t trivial for anyone to edit.
Protobuf has a text and binary format. https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/
Google uses it a lot for data dumps for tests or config that can be put into source control.
kyrra commented on GPT 5 vs. Opus 4.1 for Vibe-Coded Apps instantdb.com/essays/gpt_... · Posted by u/stopachka
Its funny you say that because everyone just started moving back to monoliths, and vibe coding would fit perfectly with microservices lol
Microservices don't make it any better. They tend to have a lot of implicit contracts that people don't necessarily express well through the API. All it does is give you a boundary that is fuzzy depending on the protocol used to communicate between the services.
kyrra commented on Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/mikece
From the source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/voi...
> The instance was used to store contact information and related notes for small and medium businesses. Analysis revealed that data was retrieved by the threat actor during a small window of time before the access was cut off. The data retrieved by the threat actor was confined to basic and largely publicly available business information, such as business names and contact details.
kyrra commented on IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone' theverge.com/news/717308/... · Posted by u/microsoftedging
How does something like this happening not make people immediately realize that the Republican party is not working for the people anymore? I don't think Dems are doing a bang up job, but this is something developed and deployed, 100% working, that only helps the American people navigate a complicated tax system. The only reason to get rid of it is to hurt the American people.
But there was already a free way you could file taxes with Turbotax, FreeTaxUSA, and H&RBlock if you had a simple return. Direct File was a government built alternative to that.
Eg: https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/free-editi...
If there was also a free flow available, why would the government need to build an alternative?
kyrra commented on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024) quartr.com/insights/edge/... · Posted by u/bilekas
No, the Central Bank of Brazil did not force any person to start using Pix.
Also, care to elaborate why you think the spec is complicated and hard to implement?
Coerce is likely a better word.
Pix and OpenFinance are extremely chatty APIs with a ton of rules. Being a merchant using the ecosystem is not that bad, but trying to be a participant in the network is complicated.
kyrra commented on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024) quartr.com/insights/edge/... · Posted by u/bilekas
Brazil central bank introduced Pix a few years ago. It took over the country as the public basic infrastructure for money transfer. Totally free and instantaneous transactions between people and companies, available to all banks.
Then, just last week, the US presidency launched an investigation considering Pix an unfair trade practice against the US.
Actions like that may show the current direction of the US government is aligned on preserving status quo. But still, I wonder how impactful a public digital infrastructure for the dollar would be.
My understanding is that Pix took over because the Brazilian gov did transfer payments during covid and the (only?) way to get those payments was via Pix. So it forced everyone to start using it. And once people had more familiarity with Pix, merchants started pushing for it because it charges ACH level fees.
The chargeback system (MED) is only so-so right now, but expected to get better.
There is a lot to like about Pix, but the spec is extremely complicated and hard to implement.
Shall we have some way of freely encrypting the web that is relying on one authority?
Especially something that needed to be renewed every 90 or is it 40 days now. How about issuing 100 years certificates as a default?
Many of the cloud providers give free certs via acme.
https://cloud.google.com/certificate-manager/docs/public-ca-... (EDIT: Google is their own CA, with https://pki.goog/ )
The browsers and security people have been pushing towards shorter certs, not longer ones. Knowing how to rotate a cert every year, if not shorter, helps when your certificate or any of your parent certs are compromised and require an emergency rotation.