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poidoson Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

cute stories, whimiscal ascii art reveal over time, problems of various difficulty, and the cool (to me) idea that many people are working and "struggling" with the same idea/problem over time. I'm also in awe at the work that goes into it. It's like watching a master craftsman to consider Eric making 25 unique puzzles, testing them, crafting many inputs that all work with the same rules, writing hints and stories to go for each puzzle. It boggles the mind.

poidoson Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

If you’re willing to use GNOME (and, I believe, KDE Plasma) you can set up keybindings that are a reasonable approximation to Rectangle. That’s what I did before i3 or on machines that can’t have i3 for odd reasons.

poidoson Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

That’s good to know, thanks for clarifying that!

poidoson Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

I like rectangle [0]. It fits my needs well enough without requiring disabling SIP. I especially like the “repeated key presses resize a window on the same side” feature, so I can get cycle the size of the window on the right side of the screen from 1/2->1/3->2/3 easily. I miss i3 sometimes and this ain’t an identical replacement but it gets the job done! Turns out I don’t move my windows all that often anyways.

[0]: https://rectangleapp.com/

poidoson Henry Kissinger Has Died

I always go back to this quote from Bourdain when it comes to Kissinger:

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”

Referenced many places, but I got it from https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/anthony-bourdain...

poidoson "Useless Ruby sugar": Argument forwarding

This is how I feel with Clojure -- it fits into the way my brain thinks about how to solve problems computationally better than anything else.

poidoson 'AI' Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System's Worst Tendencies

You can never precisely be sure, but here are some of the behaviors I’ve been observing that give me the feeling I was auto-rejected:

- rejection coming in nearly instantly - rejection coming at “odd” times — weekend evenings, 3 AM in my time zone for a company in my time zone

The latter one doesn’t hold up too well for remote-first companies but I would hope few tech firms have recruiting staff going through applications on weekends.

poidoson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)

Location: Miami Beach, FL

Remote: Yes. Also open to hybrid and in-office arrangements in Miami Beach or Brickell.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Clojure, TypeScript, Python, Bash, Linux, AWS (SQS/SNS/DynamoDB/Lambda), Docker

Résumé/CV: https://luciano.laratel.li/cv

Email: luciano@laratel.li

I'm a software developer and engineer that likes to work on high-performance backend systems. I enjoy functional programming (especially in Clojure and using fp-ts in TypeScript) but aim to be a practical functional programmer. I have an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and scientific research experience as a computational chemist as well as an MS in Computer Science.

poidoson How to draw software architecture diagrams (2022)

I like D2 for this. In a previous role, I wrote a program to parse all of our serverless.yml files (we were doing micro services on AWE) and auto-generate a big D2 diagram from it. It was nice because it would auto-update as the system grew and I wrote it so that the diagram could be broken out into smaller diagrams for each sub system (think splitting on SNS topic)

poidoson The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue

Do you have a reference handy? Would love to learn more about this.

poidoson Things I just don't like about Git

maybe fossil[0]? Not sure about `large files` (and in fact I went to comment to ask about anyone using it 'in production' when I saw your comment)

[0]: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

poidoson The Economics of Programming Languages [video]

I was lucky enough to be in attendance for this one. Loved the energy in the room during this fantastic talk.

poidoson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)

Location: Miami Beach, FL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Clojure(script), Typescript, Python. Some Scala at my last role. Prior experience with iOS and macOS development. Used lots of AWS tech in my last role: DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Lambda.

Résumé/CV: https://luciano.laratel.li/cv

Email: luciano@laratel.li

poidoson Ask HN: Have you been affected by layoffs?

1. Unfortunately yes, at the beginning of the month.

2. Not sure, still searching.

3. As of yet unsure. I'm grateful that no one in my social nor professional circles appears to feel this is a stigma -- most people have expressed sincere regret when hearing about it.

Since I'm in the US, the immediate impact was health insurance, which will run out at the end of this month. COBRA is so expensive that it isn't a real option, so I will have to figure that out, as I take a daily medication that I rely on. Unfortunately, not one of the Obamacare plans I found covers both the medication and the prescribing physician, which is really shitty.

Otherwise, though, the period of rest (working on personal projects and applying to jobs notwithstanding) has been welcome. I'm lucky to have gotten some severance that has been affording me the time off without yet having to tap into my savings.

poidoson Ask HN: Best practices for safeguarding master password in organization?

Something like [0] maybe?

[0]: https://mprimi.github.io/portable-secret/

poidoson Red Planet Labs 100x

I got an email about this last week:

> In exactly one week on August 15th at 10:59am PT, we will be revealing our 100x programming platform. Because our platform is so big in scope and its capabilities sound so unbelievable, we will also be releasing something else that proves what it can do.

> This platform is the biggest paradigm shift in software engineering in at least 30 years. You can expect lots of blog posts from us moving forward exploring the platform, how to make use of it, and how it's implemented.

Been only a couple minutes since then. I hope we'll hear something soon.

EDIT: timezones are hard. :facepalm:

poidoson Faculty Are Godzillas

I spent some time doing a (never completed) PhD in chemistry before I got into CS. One thing that stuck with me was a comment my PI made frequently -- he always said that there were fewer tenured chemistry professors in the US than there were professional baseball players.

I never followed up on it; it might not be true![0] But it does back up your "jackpot winners" comment, which I think is true even if his particular stat is wrong. It's really formed my perspective of academia, given that it came from someone with both tenure and decades in academia.

[0]: a quick search didn't yield any hard numbers. Maybe someone with better research skills could find 'em.

poidoson Sorting in Emacs

The documentation is very good. The Getting Started[0] page has all you need for basic operations. I haven't watched this particular video[1], but Prot's other Emacs content is great.

[0]: https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Getting-Started.html

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-0OwGTt0dI

poidoson Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

Very insightful, thank you for writing this.

poidoson Apple TV's MLS Season Pass subscriptions doubled since Messi's arrival in US

Were you watching in English? The Spanish commentators are significantly better. Of course that doesn’t help if you don’t speak it.

poidoson Htmx 1.9.3 Released

There’s also their book:

https://hypermedia.systems/

poidoson Shelf – open-source asset management software

Is there something like this but for “home” usecases? What’s in my pantry, how much of y do I have left in my medicine cabinet, etc.

poidoson Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://luciano.laratel.li/

Not as frequent as I would like, probably because I’m always working on four blog posts at the same time.

poidoson Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

> layer 8

TIL[0]:

> Layer 8 is a term used to refer to user or political layer on top of the 7-layer OSI model of computer networking.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_8

poidoson US Secret Service: “blockchain is an opportunity to track money”

Notice they don’t mention anonymity, just “privacy”. I’m kind of tempted to read it as privacy from third parties but not privacy from the government.

poidoson Htmx Is the Future

I’ve been using HTMX (from Clojure) for projects recently and I have to say I like it a lot. Full-stack web stuff is a hobby for me and I always had trouble really grokking all the parts of SPAs. HTMX fits neatly into my brain’s model of how websites should work.

poidoson Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (2019)

Down for me. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230406214102/https://www.spoon...

poidoson Programming isn’t coding (2020)

I forgot the place I read this:

Software development ("programming" in your taxonomy) is a solitary activity. Software engineering involves multiple people and the explosion of complexity involved.

I do like your point about knowing when not to program. Will keep that in mind next time I think about this.

poidoson Ask HN: Share your personal site

Here’s me: https://luciano.laratel.li/

I was happy I could get the domain! Pretty simple hand-rolled server-rendered site using the kit-clj[0] and neat-css[1]. Main backbone of the site is here[2]. I used to use a CLJS SPA but it was overkill and not as nice to use (load times particularly.)

[0]: https://kit-clj.github.io/ [1]: https://neat.joeldare.com/ [2]: https://git.sr.ht/~luciano/laratel.li/tree/main/item/src/li/...

poidoson What frequent fliers do for status

Seems very wasteful to be taking extra, unnecessary flights for perks, no matter how big. I don’t care about the fliers’ money, that’s theirs to do what they want with. But the environmental costs are non-nil (even accounting for the fact that those flights would be going regardless of if they fly on them) and can’t be worth the perks for these privileged few.