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New comment by Spixel_ in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

Spixel_ — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:41:27 +0000

Some do, but the DX was bad last time I tried, I did not find a way to use it with my setup.

New comment by Spixel_ in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

Spixel_ — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:39:30 +0000

I meant that it doesn't get much love from the community, it's pretty clear it's not used much, that's why things like `dbg` gets added to the language.

New comment by Spixel_ in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

Spixel_ — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:05:24 +0000

Almost nobody uses it though, which is too bad, especially since multi-head functions sometimes make it difficult to follow the execution path.

I'd like to do step by step but I cannot plug the debugger to VScode from inside a docker container.

New comment by Spixel_ in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

Spixel_ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:32:39 +0000

T'es perdu, chaton ?

New comment by Spixel_ in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

Spixel_ — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:04:53 +0000

Notion is nice

New comment by Spixel_ in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

Spixel_ — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:34:05 +0000

They all seem like great features.

New comment by Spixel_ in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

Spixel_ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:05:23 +0000

I agree with them, the French translation is way too casual/aggressive compared to the English text.

I wouldn't trust this website.

It comes across as influencer speech targeted to edgy young people with a touch of "how do you do, fellow kids?".

Pretty sure a modern LLM would yield a better one.

New comment by Spixel_ in "Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL"

Spixel_ — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:48:40 +0000

Maybe consider renaming this since pgTAP [0] exists and has nothing to do with this.

[0]: https://pgtap.org/

New comment by Spixel_ in "SQL needed structure"

Spixel_ — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:50:26 +0000

You are right, but note that the default isolation level is "Read committed" in postgres.

New comment by Spixel_ in "SQL needed structure"

Spixel_ — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:48:58 +0000

Read committed (which is the default), doesn't guarantee that. See "Nonrepeatable Read" and "Phantom Read" which are both possible in your documentation page.

New comment by Spixel_ in "SQL needed structure"

Spixel_ — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:55:10 +0000

I don't get the transaction bit. At least with postgres, a transaction doesn't guarantee that all statements in it see the data at the same point in time (actually, it's not even guaranteed for subqueries).

Also, often, the transactional database servers is more difficult to scale than application servers so from a technical standpoint, it makes sense to do this glue work in app code.

New comment by Spixel_ in "Next.js 14"

Spixel_ — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:47:28 +0000

We migrated to Remix a few months ago, never going back.

New comment by Spixel_ in "Next.js 14"

Spixel_ — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:11:41 +0000

That would be Remix: https://remix.run

See: https://www.epicweb.dev/why-i-wont-use-nextjs

New comment by Spixel_ in "Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (2019)"

Spixel_ — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:46:16 +0000

Comments aren't bad per se, but they should explain Why vs. How.

New comment by Spixel_ in "Crabs evolved at least five times from separate groups of crustaceans (2021)"

Spixel_ — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 05:26:15 +0000

You should play Obra Dinn.

New comment by Spixel_ in "Python Coding Style Compliance on Stack Overflow"

Spixel_ — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:46:00 +0000

> Given how much programming now consists of "copy, paste, and modify," enforcing style conventions on Stack Overflow might do more to improve general coding standards than anything else we could try.

I'm guessing most of developers use a formatter like black [0] nowadays so that will have less and less impact.

[0]: https://github.com/psf/black