When I need a facial tissue I ask for a Kleenex even if the box says Puffs. Because who says "pass me the Puffs"?
I've been curious of that phenomenon, why not juat ask "pass me a tissue?"
Readit Newsmartsa1 commented on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update antirez.com/news/154... · Posted by u/antirez
If the FDA is a roadblock in the USA, will Moderna still seek medical approval in other countries for this vaccine?
martsa1 commented on Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me vincents.dev/blog/rust-de... · Posted by u/chaosprint
Is there anything in existence which has a version of this idea? It makes a ton of sense to me, but you are right that it would be practically impossible to do in a current language.
Wasm + wasi let you define hard boundaries between components with explicit interfaces, might be loosely along these lines?
Pex and Shiv both require the end user to have Python installed, so I think PyOxidizer is the best tool in this category: https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/pyoxidizer_compa...
How does Pyoxidizer compare to pyinstaller and nuitka?
I do not like the mandate because I prefer the lightning connector as the objectively better connector.
I’m always amused when people say they don’t see a difference. The difference to me is significant.
I hold the opposite perspective, to me personally, the USB-C feels objectively better.
I own phones with both connectors and I've hit issues with two lightning cables over the last ~6 years where dropping the cable onto something metallic shorts out a couple of the connectors rendering the cable useless. Thus far I've not managed to do similar with USB-C.
Both cables ultimately wind up being replaced after fatiguing to failure in roughly comparable time IME.
Both adapters are pleasant to use compared to predecessors, but USB-C I can share between devices, so the 100W laptop charger will happily charge my phone etc which I find quite convenient.
I'm curious what you find preferable about the lightning adapter?
I'm looking forward to the Go rewrite. Purely so it's less of a pain to declaratively install, and I can work it into my workflow.
I wonder why they haven't setup a pyinstaller build for consumers that just want to use it? Making people have python and faff with virtual environments feels an odd choice...
Would be nice to see a nix flake etc for tinkerers as well...
martsa1 commented on Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) buttondown.email/hillelwa... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Nowadays, things like Treesitter can provide comprehensive semantic syntax for many languages, along with surprisingly elegant ways to run custom queries that might let you do some of the things listed here, with a consistent interface across multiple languages.
Cool ideas!
martsa1 commented on Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust rolldown.rs/... · Posted by u/bpierre
CMake is actually a perfect demonstration of how annoying C++ development tooling can be.
The documentation is massively verbose but doesn’t really say anything helpful. There’s basically no “Modern CMake” examples that anyone can agree upon. (I do see that there’s some GitHub repos these days that maybe do show some of it). There’s very little information on “The CMake way of doing things”. You really need to learn by examination, and your assumptions in the end will very likely be wrong.
Even just adding a package fetch in CMake is infuriating. What is the currently accepted way to do this? (I admit that I haven’t used CMake in a while, but as of a year ago, the internet and CMake docs did not agree on the correct way, even internally)
The Professional Cmake book is an indispensable, fantastic resource I've used on a couple of work projects, I highly recommend it to anyone working with Cmake.
That being said, Cmake is a far cry from the ease of use of cargo (albeit with potentially much more flexibility).
martsa1 commented on How I keep myself alive using Golang bytesizego.com/blog/keepi... · Posted by u/ingve
Nice write up! I stumbled across the Open Pancreas project a while back, may be of interest to techies with T1: https://openaps.org/
martsa1 commented on Why are we templating YAML? (2019) leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2019... · Posted by u/spiros
I agree that YAML templating is kind of insane, but I will never understand why we don't stop using fake languages and simply use a real language.
If you need complex logic, use a programming language and generate the YAML/JSON/whatever with it. There you go. Fixed it for you.
Ruby, Python, or any other language really (I only favor scripting ones because they're generally easier to run), will give you all of that without some weird pseudo-language like Jsonnet or Go templates.
Write the freaking code already and you'll get bitten way less by obscure weird issues that these template engines have.
Seriously, use any real programing language and it'll be WAY better.
This. It's why things like Cloud Development Kit and Pulumi are quite interesting to me.