yogsototh (u/yogsototh)

yogsototh commented on GitHub was having issues githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/rock_artist

gmerc · 13 days ago

Is this a good time to mention forgejo as a self hosted alternative?

yogsototh · 13 days ago

I host a forgejo instance and I feel it is great to embrace the distributed nature of git.

But be aware if you intend to host it you will need to protect it from recent AI web scrapers. I use anubis but there are other alternatives.

yogsototh commented on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs github.com/manzaltu/claud... · Posted by u/kgwgk

mijoharas · 19 days ago

I tried that for a bit, and bounced back to just using claude code in a terminal. It was a little bit janky in emacs, and didn't have any features that justified not just running a separate terminal window (for me, at the time I checked it out).

I'm wondering if this project will work. It does feel a shame that it doesn't work with the existing mcp.el package[0], but I never got around to setting that up anyways. I wonder if it's a limitation of the package? or not wanting another dependency?

(in addition I've only really played around with claude code a little because I haven't gotten it to a place where I can make it write code I'd consider acceptable for my day job.)

[0] https://github.com/lizqwerscott/mcp.el

yogsototh · 19 days ago

I personally have great success with gptel + mcp + claude (via copilot due to corporate restrictions)

I wrote a short article about how I configured it there: https://her.esy.fun/posts/0029-ai-assistants-in-doom-emacs-3...

One thing I really appreciate with gptel is that it is very easy to switch from Claude to something else like a local llm (via ollama or gpt4all for example). And the interface will be similar.

yogsototh commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber

Garlef · 21 days ago

Maybe we can get a counter-AI that does the AI interview for us?

yogsototh · 21 days ago

I think this already exists and there are lot of them. Regarding stealth AI interview, there are many existing products.

Mainly they listen to the interview, and write down answers in an overlay for you to repeat. They ace leet code, etc...

I guess this is already pretty close.

yogsototh commented on Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges github.com/git-bug/git-bu... · Posted by u/stefankuehnel

rzwitserloot · 3 months ago

I've been yelling 'omg why doesnt someone build a ticketing system on the basis of git, having a separate 'root' (no-parent git commit that is at the bottom of a git tree; technically a git repo can have more than one), with most of the conversation happening in git commit form' - for YEARS.

This is wildly exciting.

yogsototh · 3 months ago

I had the same idea for a talk a long time ago the result is https://git.esy.fun/yogsototh/gpm

I never used it seriously, but the concepts are easy enough to grasp.

Have a separate dedicated branch that contains all the metadata of your project. Like issues, todo-list, review comments, etc...

Hopefully, something decentralised like this could become more popular maybe.

yogsototh commented on Why I Program in Lisp funcall.blogspot.com/2025... · Posted by u/ska80

lukaslalinsky · 4 months ago

Whenever I hear someone talking about purely functional programming, no side effects, I wonder what kind of programs they are writing. Pretty much anything I've written over the last 30 years, the main purpose was to do I/O, it doesn't matter whether it's disk, network, or display. And that's where the most complications come from, these devices you are communicating with have quirks that need you need to deal with. Purely functional programming is very nice in theory, but how far can you actually get away with it?

yogsototh · 4 months ago

"Purely Functional Programming", I guess mostly Haskell/Purescript.

So this only really mean:

Purely Functional Programming by default.

In most programming languages you can write

"hello " + readLine()

And this would intermix pure function (string concatenation) and impure effect (asking the user to write some text). And this would work perfectly.

By doing so, the order of evaluation becomes essential.

With a pure functional programming (by default).

you must explicitely separate the part of your program doing I/O and the part of your program doing only pure computation. And this is enforced using a type system focusing on I/O. Thus the difference between Haskell default `IO` and OCamL that does not need it for example.

in Haskell you are forced by the type system to write something like:

    do 
      name <- getLine
      let s = "Hello " <> name <> "!"
      putStrLn s

you cannot mix the `getLine` directly in the middle of the concatenation operation.

But while this is a very different style of programming, I/O are just more explicit, and they "cost" more, because writing code with I/O is not as elegant, and easy to manipulate than pure code. Thus it naturally induce a way of coding that try to really makes you conscious about the part of your program that need IO and the part that you could do with only pure function.

In practice, ... yep, you endup working in a "Specific to your application domain" Monad that looks a lot like the IO Monad, but will most often contains IO.

Another option is to use a free monad for your entire program that makes you able to write in your own domain language and control its evaluation (either using IO or another system that simulates IO but is not really IO, typically for testing purpose).

yogsototh commented on Why Clojure? gaiwan.co/blog/why-clojur... · Posted by u/jgrodziski

DeathArrow · 6 months ago

>Rich said one of the reasons he built it was he was programming like this already (pure functions acting on data) but the languages he was using didn’t support it well.

But he could have been using F#, OCaml, Haskell. So it might not be just about pure functions and immutable data.

yogsototh · 6 months ago

For being an Haskell and Clojure dev. Data manipulation in Clojure requires a mind shift coming from Haskell. But it feels a lot more straightforward in Clojure. Even if `lens` is incredible. This is like Haskell lenses was were included in the core language if you want. Of course, not type-safe. This is just that, solving problems in Haskell or in Clojure does not really require the same approach. But both ways are delightful. And personally, Clojure has always felt more natural, even though, I also love the Haskell approach.

yogsototh commented on Why Clojure? gaiwan.co/blog/why-clojur... · Posted by u/jgrodziski

rrgok · 6 months ago

I would like to learn ClojureScript for webapp development with react. But, in 2025, I don't know how to get started. In 2024 I had the same problem. Lein, Shadow, Deps? What do I have to use? How do I get started with REPL driven development? Any in depth video-tutorials on how to take advantage of nREPL in 2025? If I want to use React, how to use third-party packages? Should I use reframe, fulcro, or retit with ohm? Everytime I try to start I give up because the ecosystem is confusing. What is the right way? And if I want to develop in clojure fullstack (frontend and backend both in clojure/script), what is battletested approach?

Oh well, I forgot: how to use with TailwindCSS 4? What incantation of build system do I have to configure for live-reloading when classNames changes?

Sorry for the rambling. Just a poor confused user.

yogsototh · 6 months ago

One part of the joy that came with using Clojure is that there isn't really any bad choice. For example, I wanted a quick and dirty internal web application for admin purposes. I went with reframe. Why? Because I wanted to try it. And I knew, that I could get things done with it.

This is probably not the easiest "framework" (not sure this is a good name for it) but it was very fun. I think, if I had to progress from just a toy to a really strong, user facing UI, I think it would still be a pretty good choice. If some feature is missing, or something doesn't work as I would have liked, I know it will not be difficult to correct it myself.

I know that this could feel overwhelming, but this is freedom in a world where you expect there exists a single "best practice". As long as the tool is powerful enough it will be fine. On my end, I appreciate the fact there is not a single "web framework" in Clojure. Instead you have tons of libs you can use that work well together because they are all tied with a few common concepts (like ring for example). If you don't like to choose the libs. There are a few people that provide a starter pack with somewhat nice bundle of libs in a single system like pedestal or luminus for only citing two of them.

My recommendation is to not lose too much time looking for the best choice. Most of them will be good.

yogsototh commented on I Received an AI Email timharek.no/blog/i-receiv... · Posted by u/_xivi

PlusAddressing · a year ago

I already started readying for it. I'm ensuring that ALL services that have my email have a Plus Address on them. The plus addresses are random and labeled only on my end.

Still not close to 100%, but when I feel like I do, I will then have a filter and an automated message telling people that removing plus addresses from my email is forbidden and I will not read their message if they do.

You will tell me where you found me, or I won't even listen to you. Because in the future, with an even larger infestation of automated agents passing off as human, that's the bare minimum I need to do.

yogsototh · a year ago

I am pretty confident the spammers will remove the `+` suffix from your email. And this is why I find the Apple fake email building solution a lot better because they build a fully different email per service. No way for the service to be able to cheat and discover my real email address from the one I give them.

Still a smart enough system might be able to discover a valid email from my other id info, like my name. But this start to be a lot of work, while just `s/+[^@]*@//` is easy enough to do.

yogsototh commented on In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022) danluu.com/simple-archite... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

yogsototh · 2 years ago

I am very glad of the architecture we use at my current company. This is a monolith, BUT with the capacity to be deployed as microservices if needed.

The code is structured in such a way that you only start the sub services you need. We have node that launch almost all services, some only a few.

If we need to scale just a particular part of the system we can easily just scale the same node but configuring it just for the sub services we need.

yogsototh commented on Why is Jepsen written in Clojure? aphyr.com/posts/367-why-i... · Posted by u/manicennui

pif · 2 years ago

Out of topic, sorry!

> Backwards compatibility is hugely important

Why is this always considered a Good Thing (TM), apart when applied to C and C++?

Why is it OK when languages and systems are bent backwards in order to avoid breaking stuff that works, but the two languages that together support a huge part of the running software are expected to up and break ties with their glorious past and present?

yogsototh · 2 years ago

Let me talk about my experience. I was (yes was) mostly an Haskeller. I loved using Haskell, and even a long time ago (in 2007 I think) when I learned it, the book to learn the basic of the language had snipped that no longer worked.

But I still loved, it. And it changed every year, and I was even part of the proponent of the changes.

But after a while, you realise that your old project stop working. That if you want to use a new library, you also need to update many dependencies. But each one has breaking changes, so you start updating your code.

Mainly, if you wrote some code, and forget about it, it will no longer work or will be very hard to use with newer libraries. After a while this became very tedious.

In Clojure, the code I wrote 10 years ago is still working perfectly today. The application still launches.

If a bug is discovered and I need to fix it, for example, by upgrading or adding a new lib, I am not afraid to loose hours finding an fixing my existing code that suddenly become deprecated.

So yes, stability is VERY important for me now.

And last but not least, Rich Hickey talked about it in this talk and make a lot of very great points:

https://piped.video/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk