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klas_segeljakton Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto

"Any sufficiently VC-funded AI startup will inevitably try to re-invent a log.md file" - Spongebob Squarepants

klas_segeljakton It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004)

What about drawing a pelican riding a bicycle?

klas_segeljakton What color is your function? (2015)

They are (lightweight) processes since they have no shared memory. Each process has its own stack and heap.

klas_segeljakton Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

so much for acquiring Bun...

klas_segeljakton Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

It's downdetectors all the way down

klas_segeljakton The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming

Would it be possible to create a programming language that allows you to write branching programs, but is guaranteed to compile it into branchless code?

klas_segeljakton Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly

I tried to run these commands. It downloads python@3.13.1, but then hangs without producing any output. However, it seems to work for

  wasmer run python/python@=0.2.0

klas_segeljakton You don't want to hire "the best engineers"

It brings Steve Jobs' quote to mind: "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do"

Companies who generically look for "the best engineers" think their problems will be solved if they can just hire someone smart and tell them what to do. They say they want "the best engineers" but then their job descriptions and interview processes scream "we want someone who will execute our vision exactly as we've defined it."

The best engineers will tell you why your architecture is wrong, why your code sucks, why your timeline is unrealistic, and why your product decisions make no technical sense. If you're not ready for that level of pushback, you don't actually want the best engineers.

klas_segeljakton The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

https://transactional.blog/talk/enough-with-all-the-raft

klas_segeljakton Zig's Lovely Syntax

When I first read it I thought it was line comments.

klas_segeljakton Why Cargo Check Is So Slow

#![forbid(proc_macros)]

klas_segeljakton Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault

https://youtu.be/SbeNRICgzTA?si=YdLrozOEtCBTclW2

klas_segeljakton Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

I thought I wouldn't cry but then I cried

klas_segeljakton Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

It's not only about showing off syntax. It's also about showing what type of applications the language makes easy to implement.

klas_segeljakton Asynchrony is not concurrency

This talk gives a good distinction between asynchrony, concurrency, parallelism, scheduling (cooperative, preemptive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5_MmZVLiSM&t=346s