JG

Software developer interested in local-first, software design, personal computing.
Also drums, (electronic) music, economics

[JG @jesgma]

@TheGingerBill You might like this paper: https://t.co/FW8xqdHzVK and this talk: https://t.co/UeIva1TBFQ

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@rockthejvm [Learn Advanced Software Design](https://t.co/WU9KLYiOEZ)

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@Hasen_Judi I toggle it off and on with a kb shortcut. It's very distracting when you're trying to write code yourself

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@aarondfrancis Data modeling, like your video about how you integrate stripe

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@joodalooped

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@mjackson I'd say React is responsible for declarative rendering, which you need for DX; and reactivity, where you need some way to only run part of the view code when state changes

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@mjackson declarative rendering is a must for adoption (and for ssr without some dom shim) and not web native, gotta pick your poison between vdom, tagged literals like lit, etc

[Glauber Costa @glcst]

We at @tursodatabase have just done something unheard of in the startup world: we hired a person in prison. Not an ex-con: he is actually serving time right now.

If you follow us you may remember when we announced our full rewrite of SQLite in Rust, Project Limbo. It got a tremendous amount of attention, but by far, my favorite story was that of @PThorpe92: Preston is currently incarcerated for things he regret doing a decade ago. A model reformed inmate, Preston was given the beautiful opportunity by the Maine Department of Corrections to access the internet. He then found our project, and since it's not like there are many entertainment options competing for his attention in prison, he decided to pour his heart and soul into helping us rewrite SQLite.

I immediately fell in love with his story. Reading his old blogs, his Github profile. I prayed we would be able to hire him as soon as he was out, and make him a part of our team. But thankfully, things have happened in such way, that we were able to do it *even before* he was released. He's now given an opportunity to make a dent in the world, from prison.

Preston claims he is immensely thankful for this opportunity. It is certainly not an opportunity that comes often, and I understand him.

But when I read his story in his personal blog, where he mentioned how he clearly saw his life going downhill, had this sudden epiphany, saw clearly that he could do differently, and then started being showered with blessings, I saw the unmistakable markings of how our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, operates in the world.

I was an obnoxious Richard Dawkins-style atheist for more than two decades. I am not an experiential person, and I came to a change through the rational evaluation of the historical context of His resurrection. I am not the kind of person that feels the hand of God in my life, but over the years I learned to recognize his patchwork through those sudden, unexpected changes, where everything suddenly "just works".

And because of that, I am the one who's thankful. The Lord decided to operate such a drastic change in Preston's life. Clearly He has a great plan for him. I am immensely thankful for the opportunity to play a small part in that story. God, in his infinite power, doesn't need me to do any of that, and yet he gave me the opportunity to act. I feel thankful and blessed.

I am also very thankful to @LabsUnlocked , and entity helping people like Preston find a better life once they're out. If you feel inspired by their mission, you should reach out and help.

And if you want to hear from Preston in his own words, read the article he just published on the Turso blog:

https://t.co/xvp3j0Tnnw

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@msimoni I use branded types a lot, but I don't think they're very widely used. In flow.js classes are nominal, which is maybe a better choice. TS does have the excess property checks for object literals

[Aaron Boodman @aboodman]

I have an amazing idea for a better js/sqlite bindings layer *and* the most amazing possible name for said library.

Know js well? Know C/C++? Have you ever created a native npm module? Rocicorp would probably fund this work.

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@fabiospampinato For anyone into fine-grained reactivity, React is like the "stop it, he's already dead" meme. Rerendering everything, recreating a bunch of fns and arrays but then try to keep the same references for the children is... not great

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@sergiodxa @CloudflareDev Yes, but they can be evicted from memory at any time, so you actually need to use their storage for any state you want to save

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.DS_Store stores folder layout preferences in a portable way. It's just that people don't even think about that, they just want to find things

[Aiden Bai @aidenybai]

does anybody know why .DS_Store actually exists

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@Shpigford Cloudflare is very cool but afaict you cannot set a hard stop like in Vercel, so denial of wallet is still a thing for cf workers – their rates are much cheaper though, and they specialize in preventing ddos attacks and apparently don't charge for attack traffic

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@thekitze Also: "sprinkling" JS

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@ImSh4yy Do you consider server-side sqlite + litestream proven by now?

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@artman haha fair enough :)

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@Hasen_Judi Alan Kay's Dynabook proposal is from 1972! https://t.co/302cUaa3Ut

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@mattpocockuk Not just for AI: https://t.co/pmNLyXc2lz