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meitroson A non-standard book list for software developers

https://dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf is a great read that cites Alexander's work and talks about how that influenced OO design. Very accessible too

meitroson Ask HN: Should I even bother with React?

I would take a look at vue and see what you think. It should be simpler and feel more familiar, and it’s been around long enough that folks have made complex frontends with end.

(I spend all day in react and like it, but understand people’s reactions.)

meitroson Japan’s anti-aging vaccine looks promising in mice

One thing I never understood is that if results in mice so often don’t carry over to humans, what about the opposite - treatments that might work for people but are discarded because they don’t work well with mice.

meitroson Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

There's this classic article on someone's quest to make a toaster from scratch https://gizmodo.com/one-mans-nearly-impossible-quest-to-make....

meitroson Twitter acquires Quill

This happened with another Twitter acquisition Smyte, where in that case they shut down the api immediately [1]. It seems like it’s some property of Twitter’s acquisition process?

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/a...

meitroson Thinking in OODA Loops [slides]

It's hard to absorb the slides without being able to experience the talk in person, but the talk itself seems so dense that even attending it live seems like it would be challenging to really grok everything.

Hopefully a video of this talk will be available someday.

meitroson Async Python is not faster (2020)

I understand what the article is saying but there’s still a something I’m missing. All I want (for my admittedly simple service) is to be able to send multiple api calls or database calls in parallel rather than one at a time to reduce overall endpoint latency.

I guess I should be using a normal synchronous framework that just calls asyncio.run within each api call?

meitroson Ruby on Rails: View Components, Storybook and Tailwind - a match made in heaven?

I built something very similar with straight flask templates paired with bootstrap 5 and htmx (very similar to unpoly.) I think it’s an especially great way to build an internal tools framework, since you get the approachability of python and components make it easier for non-frontend folks to build UIs.

meitroson Final Fantasy remasters reignite controversies over pixel art

I guess it would be too small to translate well, but wow that aesthetic would be remarkable for a game

meitroson Ask HN: What are some good resources for a programmer to learn UI/UX design?

https://shiftnudge.com/ is very good, but unfortunately doesn’t open for enrollment for a few more months

meitroson Ask HN: I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?

I would suggest looking for interesting videos and twitch streams that let you watch more experienced coders live-code. Not video courses where you're trying to learn a curriculum, but live-coding streams is a way to watch the process of more experienced engineers.

There might also be online mentorship platforms (I googled and https://www.platohq.com/ came up), but I don't know as much about these.

meitroson “Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)

Richard Gabriel has a really interesting and more nuanced book about this that I read early in my career https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

meitroson Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

Interesting...no slack blog post about it. Just a report of the salesforce news article

meitroson Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes

This is reminding me of a couple of old tile-based RPGs from the 90s - Realmz and Exile 2/3 - that both did multitile creatures. I do think that there was a bit of a lull between then and the more recent resurgence of (tile-based) roguelikes