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Wow, "neal" looks excellent. Good on you for creating and sharing it, and for the awesome blog post.

Thanks for the link! I'm finally gonna ditch the garbage Logi+ app.

Closely-related tangent: for an amazing resource showing how to leverage CSS from first principles, see https://every-layout.dev

Adding a RUM beacon for observability / performance metrics capture, as an opt-out feature for free plans (opt-in for paid plans), is not exactly nefarious. Hopefully/presumably there was some communication before the change was rolled out.

CF owns it all, coming and going (request handling and response writing), thus can choose how/whether to interpret, ignore, modify or append any headers.

> "All flagged stories are flagged by users that are part of an interest group."

False. I occasionally flag items, never as part of nor acting on behalf of any particular interest group.

Good on you for doing this. High five!

In countless corporate environments (including in highly regulated industries), far from being a firable offense, piping curl to bash is often a prescribed step in setting up the standard dev env. The cognitive dissonance is soul crushing. Maybe they're testing for one's ability to tolerate it.

I recently^1 came across an analysis of no-code tools/platforms vs AI IDEs / Harnesses, and their relative usage and trajectories, and it looked pretty dismal for nocode.

1. I'll edit or reply to my comment if I get a sec to dig up the URL.

Yeah. IMHO Claude Design's current UX is so abysmal, it's borderline unusable. Kind of ironic, given its remit.

Excellent article. More compelling than TFA being discussed. Thanks for sharing!

https://smolmachines.com has "smolvm" microvms, for better security. The DX is whatever you decide to do with it.

> "almost doubled the number of known X-ray sources"

That's a fantastic achievement!

what industry employs your engineer friends?

It's kind of strange how the state ("of, by, and for the people") and corporations (comprised of people) are such distinct entities with their own interests. The fact that the state and corporations can and do collude in opposition to the public good is at the heart of so many enormous problems.

Same thing happened to Tolkien and fantasy literature.

This matters. Beyond performance (a universal good), the definition of "good" UX is strictly dependent on the user. Fintech platforms for traders who open a multi-window thick client application(s) and spend hours in it every day have little in common with consumer mobile apps designed to hold your attention for maybe a minute. It's mind-bogglingly lazy to choose something like MUI (Material UI) as if it were some kind of reasonable foundation irrespective of context.

Yes. This was the case long before LLMs sprayed the tire fire with gasoline. See e.g. this 2021 gem from Dan Abramov (React's creator) https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/

Agreed. Also, pretty confident this is one of the reasons Obsidian is able to compete (and win) against Notion despite the huge difference in capitalization.

Thanks for sharing. Naming tangent: FWIW I have recent interest in "smolvm" microvms from smolmachines.com, which are unrelated.

Yeah I was going to share it too. I watched a yt video yesterday where Tanner talks about how (in contrast to trad component-based libs) it takes a very different approach to composition, letting D3 do the heavy lifting and using its visual grammar, and staying grounded in putting the data (not the component tree) first.

> "I can compute PageRank on a directed graph with one billion edges (graph500-26 from the Graphalytics dataset) using 5 GB of memory. Alternatively, I can identify all the weakly connected components in a graph with two billion edges (twitter_mpi from the same dataset collection) using 10 GB of memory. Neither NetworkX nor Igraph can do this; most existing graph algorithms require the graph to fit into memory. Previously, I thought you needed Apache Spark and GraphFrames for billion-scale graph analytics. Now, however, I think all you need is a laptop. I have completely changed my old opinion about using Apache DataFusion for graph analytics."

Impressive!

sounds great; is any of it published / OSS?

not nitpicking; huge difference between 0 and 1 competitor

Related tangent: I recently bought an inexpensive consumer CO2 monitor for under $40. It confirmed my suspicion about air quality in my home office; after a few hours, levels rise above 1000ppm unless I leave a window partway open. Mid-afternoon mental fog cleared right up.

Yes! And, whether it stems from research or not, putting yourself out there and talking to other people is one of the most fundamentally important things you can do for your career and your personal development as a human being.

(edited 2023) agreed mods should append a year given how fast things have been changing

k3-256 consumes half the quota, so... yes? (assuming the user isn't making use of the larger context window)

Pretty sure a similar approach should work using smolvms from smolmachines.com

(sigh) I was replying to:

>"If you’re a small shop and have a need for a little database, what do you use?"

not the rest of the comment. mea culpa for not quoting that specific Q.

Edit: as for the rest of it, I love using Obsidian for ~everything. It's not a database, but it does support queries and rendering of tabular data, which meets all my admittedly modest needs.

(if a true db is required, some ppl like logseq which has some feature overlap w obsidian but is db-driven)