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New comment by blauditore in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

blauditore — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:28:15 +0000

1. What if the browser gets closed/killed? 2. Error messages around syncing issues are notoriously worse than those of a sync request to the backend that failed. So the UX in the end is worse.

More generally: You can't circument the trade-offs of a distributed database, which such products are, conceptually.

New comment by blauditore in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

blauditore — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:01:28 +0000

TL;DR: Background syncing instead of synchronous updates to the cloud.

This is basically a thick client, and comes with according trade-offs. It's interesting and there are some best practices, but I can't help but feeling that either the author is a huge fan or the post is an ad (or "sponsored").

New comment by blauditore in "Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant"

blauditore — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:31:04 +0000

Shit, that was 10 years ago already? Feels more recent, also in terms of technology.

New comment by blauditore in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

blauditore — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:24:47 +0000

Huh, people use the mouse with vim? Or am I missing something?

New comment by blauditore in "Restartable Sequences"

blauditore — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:01:18 +0000

I was wondering if the author is joking, but after reading a bit more about the attribution drama, it seems rather a lack of reality check and reflection. If you plagiarize work, get called out on it, and then call this "harrassment", I don't know...

New comment by blauditore in "Restartable Sequences"

blauditore — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:15:21 +0000

Do you have a link?

New comment by blauditore in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

blauditore — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:39:52 +0000

Programming competitions are not the same as real-world engineering, plus these countries have way more people trying to use these competitions as a gateway to good jobs. Also, many good engineers emigrate to higher-income countries given the chance, and almost none will imigrate to low-income regions. The consequence is some sort of brain drain.

New comment by blauditore in "Laws of Software Engineering"

blauditore — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:45:23 +0000

Many of the "teams" laws are BS, especially the ones about promotions and management. I've never been a manager or high-level executive, but it's not that all of them are either non-technical or bad managers. It's just that the combination of both skills is rare.

New comment by blauditore in "The Slow Death of the Power User"

blauditore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:30:25 +0000

That's... Normal. Technology has always been moving towards higher-level abstractions. In terms of software, many engineers nowadays know how to code in high-level languages like JS or Java, while maybe 30-40 years ago many folks probably knew C, assembly, and all the low-level stuff like e.g. explicit memory management that most modern devs never deal with.

New comment by blauditore in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

blauditore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:17:05 +0000

It's the same in Europe. There are many car drivers who would never admit that, but they just don't want to leave their comfort zone and learn how to use public transport. But when asked they will say stuff like "well, we live a bit outside the city", or "now with kids you basically need a car".

New comment by blauditore in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

blauditore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:03:16 +0000

Not sure of it's a class thing, but rather the fact that software engineers often make good money, especially at places like Meta. It'st the same for me: If I lost my job tomorrow, I'd have enough savings to take some time before needing another job. Not sure if this would have been true for my parents.

New comment by blauditore in "LLM=True"

blauditore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:57:23 +0000

Software folks love over-engineering things. If you look at the web coding craze of a few years ago, people started piling up tooling on top of tooling (frameworks, build pipelines, linting, generators etc.) for something that could also be zero-config, and just a handful of files for simple projects.

I guess this happens when you're too deep in a topic and forget that eventually the overhead of maintaining the tooling outweights the benefits. It's a curse of our profession. We build and automate things, so we naturally want to build and automate tooling for doing the things we do.

New comment by blauditore in "Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue"

blauditore — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:44:45 +0000

Translating this page to English is quite funny

New comment by blauditore in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

blauditore — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:55:41 +0000

Ah yes, like no-code programming in the past, or what was it called again?

New comment by blauditore in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

blauditore — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:52:26 +0000

The SO copy-pasting is actually quite accurate. The same folks are now just blindly generating code. That's why most software in the world is shit, and will continue to be in the future. There might just be more of it.

New comment by blauditore in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"

blauditore — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:39:02 +0000

Completely disagree. That's like saying that user manuals and driving assistances (e.g. alerts about approaching an object) in cars are only for bad drivers.

New comment by blauditore in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"

blauditore — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:15:47 +0000

I can't help but keep finding it ridiculous how everyone now discovers basic best practices (linting, documentation, small incremental changes) that have been known for ages. It's not needed because of AI, you should have been doing it like this before as well.

New comment by blauditore in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

blauditore — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:05:25 +0000

The Kessler syndrome is mentioned, satellites colliding, causing a cascade of follow-up collisions. This gets brought up a lot, but people have a poor intuition on how large the orbit space is. Think of it this way: It's obviously larger that Earth's surface, and placing, say, a million objects on Earth still leaves a lot of space between them (there are thousands as many humans). Yes, satellites move in certain orbits, not in random places, but space is large, and humans are bad with imagining large numbers and things. The illustrations with fat dots on tiny earth images are misleading too IMO.

Apart of that, I do agree that space data centers are probably just a marketing stunt at this point, although some things could obviously be done to increase their chances, like more lightweight designs on GPUs, something that was never a big topic before.

New comment by blauditore in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

blauditore — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:42:40 +0000

What hotkey-driven and fast-paced workflows are you referring to? I used to be an Office user, now G Docs, and I hardly miss anything. Hotkeys do exist, and more complex stuff can be automated quite well with AppsScript.

Maybe I'm not enough of a power user, but these things often sound to me like the 0.1% productivity boosts that are nice to have, but often hardly relevant in the grand scheme of things.

New comment by blauditore in "The hidden engineering of runways"

blauditore — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:46:50 +0000

Not sure if that's a serious question, but your driveway might lack a proper foundation, so the surface is moving and cracks. Also, it's likely not concrete, but tarmac (which is much softer).