Do you happen to have any link for blog/something about this?
Readit Newswillhbr commented on Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack fabulous.systems/posts/20... · Posted by u/DoctorOW
willhbr commented on Show HN: I implemented Snake in a tmux config file willhbr.net/2025/03/20/sn... · Posted by u/willhbr
willhbr commented on MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small. msgpack.org/... · Posted by u/davikr
Ignorant question - is the relatively small size benefit worth another standard that's fairly opaque to troubleshooting and loses readability?
Is there a direct comparison of why someone should choose this over alternatives? 27 bytes down to 18 bytes (for their example) just doesn't seem like enough of a benefit. This clearly isn't targeted to me in either case, but for someone without much knowledge of the space, it seems like a solution in search of a problem.
If you need a format that can transport byte arrays unmodified (image data, etc), msgpack (or protos or whatever) is much better than JSON since you don't have to base64 encode or escape the data. It also supports non-string keys which can be convenient.
willhbr commented on Show HN: Making a Compiler to Prove Tmux Is Turing Complete willhbr.net/2024/03/15/ma... · Posted by u/willhbr
The moment you think your configuration language needs loops or conditionals, drop it and just throw a scripting language on there. Your users will thank you.
I actually wrote some thoughts about this a few months ago [0]. tmux actually does a really good job in this regard, the config language is fairly simple, and if you want to do more complicated things you just shell out and then use the CLI which is great because it exposes all the things you can do in a config file.
[0]: https://willhbr.net/2024/01/18/the-code-config-continuum/
willhbr commented on Why are we templating YAML? (2019) leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2019... · Posted by u/spiros
I actually wrote about my thoughts on the tradeoffs between purely-config and purely-code:
The only use case I encountered is people who want to run Docker without root or admin permissions and use Podman just as a drop-in replacement.