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New comment by aarpmcgee in "Triplit: Open-source DB that syncs data between server and browser in real-time"

aarpmcgee — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:59:33 +0000

Interesting! So with this configuration, would there be any sqlite instance running in the browser, or does triplit only sync with sqlite on the server?

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Triplit: Open-source DB that syncs data between server and browser in real-time"

aarpmcgee — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:36:46 +0000

This looks so cool and might use it for my project. Are there any examples showing how to use Sqlite? I dug around the docs for some time but only found mention of sqlite in passing. I'm developing a notes app and will be using sqlite's full text search extension a lot—wondering if anyone knows if the react bindings/hooks will properly update the UI if the UI is showing data from virtual tables.

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Svelte 5: Runes"

aarpmcgee — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:54:33 +0000

For me, in both Firefox and Chrome (but not Safari), all the code samples look like this:

https://imgur.com/yGXHb1h

Anyone know what's going on here?

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors"

aarpmcgee — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:09:20 +0000

I wouldn't say no to first-party integration with crsqlite! [1]

[1] https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Simone Weil’s Great Awakening"

aarpmcgee — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:47:18 +0000

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an article on Simone Weil [1]. I haven't read it yet, but now I plan to.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simone-weil/

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Next.js App Router Update"

aarpmcgee — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 01:30:12 +0000

It has been primarily related to web search and Github. It has been a month or two since I last tried the Next.js app router and I don't remember specifics, but I do recall that my workflow often involved searching for an issue, article, or guide related to how to accomplish something or fix something in relation to the router, but with the distinction between routing mechanisms being represented by these relatively generic nouns (app/pages), I found it difficult/cumbersome to identify if the information I was looking at was pertinent to the routing mechanism I was using. I wouldn't be surprised if the situation has improved by now.

I'd also like to mention that I regret my uncharitable phrasing in my original comment "…the most ungooglable and generic name they could have chosen…". While I do think more specific names might have helped in some ways, I can appreciate the difficulty in coming up with names for this kind of thing.

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Next.js App Router Update"

aarpmcgee — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 01:01:52 +0000

I have found that it is pretty difficult to find what I'm looking for when searching for articles/issues that relate in any way to the Next router. "App router" and "pages router" were two of the most ungooglable and generic name they could have chosen. Suddenly it is much more difficult to find what I'm looking for in the ecosystem.

New comment by aarpmcgee in "UnsuckJS: Progressively enhance HTML with lightweight JavaScript libraries"

aarpmcgee — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:22:58 +0000

Perhaps Crank.js[1] would belong on this list

[1]: https://crank.js.org/

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Why SQLite is so great for the edge"

aarpmcgee — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:29:18 +0000

more at https://localfirstweb.dev/

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Speed running Monkey Island"

aarpmcgee — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 23:07:12 +0000

I loved the ending too. I found it very emotionally resonant and I teared up a bit.

New comment by aarpmcgee in "JavaScript state machines and statecharts"

aarpmcgee — Mon, 15 May 2023 04:07:29 +0000

I didn't know about this. Thanks a bunch.

New comment by aarpmcgee in "JavaScript state machines and statecharts"

aarpmcgee — Mon, 15 May 2023 04:05:11 +0000

Thanks for all your valuable contributions to this space! I have been curious if development on Lucy is continuing? I might like to port some of my existing machines over if the project is still active.

New comment by aarpmcgee in "JavaScript state machines and statecharts"

aarpmcgee — Sun, 14 May 2023 23:42:08 +0000

All I know is, the parts of my app that I implemented with state machines are by far the most stable, least buggy.

fwiw, if xstate feels like too much for whatever reason, https://thisrobot.life has seemed like a decent alternative to me.

New comment by aarpmcgee in "We Need To Talk About Vercel"

aarpmcgee — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:38:13 +0000

Nice. I was going to use Next for my current project, but may give your solution a try instead!

New comment by aarpmcgee in "OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google"

aarpmcgee — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:45:35 +0000

Perhaps it was a matter of me not paying enough attention, but it seemed like Google degraded slowly over time, and then suddenly all-at-once. Or in other words, it seems like its become unusable for me entirely within the past year.

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system, is now open source"

aarpmcgee — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:25:28 +0000

If any of the project maintainers are seeing this — I am trying to sign up for the public beta, but the verification email never arrives. I've confirmed that I have submitted the correct email address. Any ideas?

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Introducing react.dev"

aarpmcgee — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 03:45:36 +0000

mobx demise? Did something happen to mobx?

New comment by aarpmcgee in "People with ADHD claim Adderall is ‘different’ now"

aarpmcgee — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 02:40:30 +0000

My point was more an attempt to point at an empathetic response as a possibility. "don't start abusing the drug in the first place", to me, felt like a way to dismiss the reality that it can be really easy to fall into addiction, because most of us are broken in our own peculiar ways and have our own vulnerabilities. What if someone else's response to one's own brokenness was "just don't do that"? It doesn't really help much, because the reasons for it are valid, and the need itself needs to be seen.

My own comment was a knee-jerk reactive comment in reply to what I felt in your post, which may or may not have been a real thing.

Idk. My hunch is that we are all addicted to something, and if you don't see what it is yet, then either you or society (or both) must not have much of a problem with that particular addiction, and that can always change.

New comment by aarpmcgee in "People with ADHD claim Adderall is ‘different’ now"

aarpmcgee — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 02:14:28 +0000

We all have addictions. For some it is substances, other relationships, power, sex, gambling, food, etc. What if yours suddenly became really difficult to manage within the societal-framework-du-jour? Just don't start doing it?

New comment by aarpmcgee in "Cabel Sasser: Untitled Goose Game rejected from the Mac App Store twice"

aarpmcgee — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:53:23 +0000

Now I think you may be underselling it a bit. :)