Hacker News: Rican7

New comment by Rican7 in "PostgreSQL 17"

Rican7 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:09:17 +0000

Wow, yea, the performance gains and new UX features (JSON_TABLE, MERGE improvements, etc) are huge here, but these really stand out to me:

> PostgreSQL 17 supports using identity columns and exclusion constraints on partitioned tables.

> PostgreSQL 17 also includes a built-in, platform independent, immutable collation provider that's guaranteed to be immutable and provides similar sorting semantics to the C collation except with UTF-8 encoding rather than SQL_ASCII. Using this new collation provider guarantees that your text-based queries will return the same sorted results regardless of where you run PostgreSQL.

New comment by Rican7 in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

Rican7 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:30:08 +0000

> And Rust's ~20 years

huh? It's only been about 9

Show HN: Benchmarks of UUID bintext codecs in Go

Rican7 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:22:32 +0000

Hey y'all. I've been reading so much about different kinds of k-sortable, unique IDs for entities/resources, and the different encodings to use for different reasons (length, case-sensitivty, etc), that I wondered if any of the well-known implementations (in Go) had any performance benefits, and decided to benchmark them.

Will this be the bottleneck of your app? Nah, most likely not, but it was a fun exploration nonetheless.

(Oh, and the name... I might come back and benchmark some values other than just UUIDs... so I kept it generic enough... whatever.)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40121097

Points: 1

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New comment by Rican7 in "ULIDs and Primary Keys (2022)"

Rican7 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:21:33 +0000

Ironically, the information and link that you've shared is incorrect / outdated.

The newer draft proposal allows for multiple different options of time information to be added to a UUIDv7 encoding, beyond the typical 48-bits of Unix epoch millisecond data.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc...

Show HN: Lieut – An opinionated, zero dependency, framework for CLI apps in Go

Rican7 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:31:22 +0000

Lieut, short for lieutenant, or "second-in-command" to a commander.

An opinionated, feature-limited, no external dependency, "micro-framework" for building command line applications in Go.

I just published a tagged version of this project that I created after pulling it out of another project I'm working on.

I basically standardized some of the ways that I create CLI apps. If you're curious why I created it, I mention why in the project README.

Let me know what you think. Thanks! :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37116120

Points: 3

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New comment by Rican7 in "Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal"

Rican7 — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 02:33:29 +0000

Oof, the timing on this comment is pretty terrible.

They literally just launched (in preview) a settings GUI: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v1.6.1027...

Show HN: Conjson – A simple, functional way to transform JSON, consistently

Rican7 — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:08:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Rican7/conjson

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18922574

Points: 2

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New comment by Rican7 in "Show HN: Define – A command-line dictionary app written in Go"

Rican7 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 05:50:19 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by Rican7 in "Show HN: Define – A command-line dictionary app written in Go"

Rican7 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 05:49:40 +0000

Haha. Nice!

New comment by Rican7 in "Show HN: Define – A command-line dictionary app written in Go"

Rican7 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:41:59 +0000

Absolutely I would! Any contributions would be greatly appreciated!

New comment by Rican7 in "Show HN: Define – A command-line dictionary app written in Go"

Rican7 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:39:14 +0000

I'd personally love that too.

Unfortunately, though, its a bit complex to even try to use the local dictionary: https://github.com/Rican7/define/issues/1

New comment by Rican7 in "Show HN: Define – A command-line dictionary app written in Go"

Rican7 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:37:25 +0000

Ha, that's such a classic HN comment.

I appreciate you taking the time to look at the source. I used this, like I do most of my side projects, as an opportunity to learn a few things.

I wanted a generic abstraction so that multiple sources could be used. Originally I didn't want or think of the need to support multiple sources, but it quickly became apparent how necessary that was when looking at the quality of free vs paid vs personal-key-required sources.

In any case, thanks for checking it out!

Show HN: Define – A command-line dictionary app written in Go

Rican7 — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:26:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Rican7/define

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16651854

Points: 22

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New comment by Rican7 in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

Rican7 — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:46:55 +0000

Yeaaaaa, this isn't good.

This is what CloudBleed looks like, in the wild: https://gfycat.com/ElatedJoyousDanishswedishfarmdog

A random HTTP request's data and other data injected into an HTTP response from Cloudflare.

Sick.

Uber's Cherami Server Is Open Sourced

Rican7 — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:23:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/uber/cherami-server

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311492

Points: 2

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Protocol Buffers v3.0.0 released

Rican7 — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:59:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/tag/v3.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12186832

Points: 278

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New comment by Rican7 in "Show HN: Retry – A stateless, functional way to perform actions until successful"

Rican7 — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 04:37:45 +0000

I was looking for a well made and reusable "retry" library, but all I could find were libraries with awkward interfaces/APIs, overuses of state/pointers, a lack of extensibility, or they'd somehow opinionate themselves towards a specific purpose (HTTP retry libraries are in a major abundance).

So, I figured I'd take a stab at creating a retry library that worked in a simple loop with functional composition that would allow for easy extensibility. I ended up writing an API that somewhat heavily used the functional option pattern described so well by Dave Cheney in his blog post: "Functional options for friendly APIs" (http://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-fri...).

Ideally, the library's packages can be used separately, so you could use the `jitter` transformations even if you don't want to use the actual `retry` mechanism. That is why the library is split into a few packages.

Anyway, I'm curious as to what HN thinks about this library. Anything that I could definitely improve? Is there anything awkward about the API in particular? Something that I missed?

I appreciate the feedback! Thanks!

Show HN: Retry – A stateless, functional way to perform actions until successful

Rican7 — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 04:37:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Rican7/retry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12076759

Points: 4

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Show HN: Schemabuf – Generate a protobuf schema from a MySQL database schema

Rican7 — Fri, 13 May 2016 16:18:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mcos/schemabuf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11691255

Points: 10

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AWS Database Migration Service Is Now Generally Available

Rican7 — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:06:29 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/03/aws-database-migration-service-is-now-generally-available/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11300678

Points: 1

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