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New comment by bobuk in "Show HN: I made Confetti: a configuration language file format"

bobuk — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:01:04 +0000

I've been a long-time fan of KDL format, so I liked Confetti even more.

I spent a couple hours writing a fully complaint parser in pure Python. It passes all tests, and among other things has a separate "mapper" mode for more pythonic usage.

https://github.com/bobuk/pyconfetti

New comment by bobuk in "Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model"

bobuk — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:14:33 +0000

I agree with your irritation, perhaps this link will help https://github.com/deevus/zed-windows-builds

New comment by bobuk in "Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects"

bobuk — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:21:17 +0000

Looks like a fancy version of good old icecream. https://github.com/gruns/icecream

If you never heard about it, scroll to the bottom to https://github.com/gruns/icecream#icecream-in-other-language...

New comment by bobuk in "Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration"

bobuk — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 11:47:30 +0000

it's very brave to release a new configuration language with no Python support today.

New comment by bobuk in "Ruff: A fast Python linter, written in Rust"

bobuk — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:43:09 +0000

I'm a big fan but be careful, Ruff doesn't support current versions of python >=3.11 yet. Instead of direct python parsing ruff uses RustPython, that is still lack of match operator support and other modern 3.10+ stuff. If you're ok with that - go ahead and switch to ruff, you will never get back.

New comment by bobuk in "CoWasm: An alternative to Emscripten, based on Zig (demo: Python in the browser)"

bobuk — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 20:31:37 +0000

no questions, but please keep working on that. I'm very impressed with how smoothly the current cowasm implementation is working.

For the future do your have a plans to support WASI and other modern WebAssembly stuff (like WebAssembly Component Model support f.e)?

New comment by bobuk in "I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To"

bobuk — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 10:02:16 +0000

Internet (as ARPANET) has started at 1969. And before 1982 it wasn’t widely adopted. It’s pretty normal to be biased but fact checking is a must for this type of conversation.

Internet “invented” а 1969 and never was used widely till 1982. Neural networks was developed at 1980 but real applications started at 2011. Speech recognition showed at 1962 and still looks like “pretty new piece of tech” for humanity.

We have to admit, we are really slow in adopting tech.

New comment by bobuk in "Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions"

bobuk — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:47:07 +0000

Just for clarification: it's illegal to build news aggregator in Russia if you use any sources that is not certified by Russian government. So technically you're right, "source is state_approved_media", and pretty the same for all Russian news aggregation services.

New comment by bobuk in "Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions"

bobuk — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:35:15 +0000

I understand the idea of sanctions but didn't get how it works in this case. He is not in Russia. He lived and pay taxes in Israel for last 3 years. He is even not a Russian citizen (changed his passport to Malta and Israel 4 years ago).

I have nothing to say about sanctions against Tigran Khudaverdyan (who is COO and really in charge of Yandex actually), it's pretty logical.

New comment by bobuk in "Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions"

bobuk — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:20:00 +0000

That's the difference between us: you're believe in possibility to save the country, I believe that "Carthage must be destroyed" before people can build the new country on top of that. 20 years of dictatorship for Russia, even more for Belarus - it's not something that can be easily fixed.

New comment by bobuk in "Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions"

bobuk — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:00:46 +0000

Disclosure: I've worked for Yandex as deputy CTO till 2015, and one of the reasons i've left the company was increased pressure from Russian government. Since then I have lived in Ukraine, now in Kyiv.

We're nervously joking about "ID of Good Russian" inside the Russian community. It's like "somebody from Russia who proves he/she is against Putin's regime." At least a third of them are now in Israel, trying to do something to stop this war. Arkady, who was the founder and CEO of Yandex since the beginning for me, is one of these "good Russians." He's helping to run from Russia for many people who's against the war now, trying to build a startup-asylium for russians with jewish roots in Tel-Aviv. I do not believe that Russia as a country will change soon, so one of the best ways to accelerate the process is to help intelligent people to leave the country, as Arkady does.

Honestly, I think everybody at Yandex, including me is guilty because, indirectly, we helped to build this regime. It is not fair to penalty for Volozh this hard. We all have to be penalized somehow, but give us a chance to fix at least something.

New comment by bobuk in "Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions"

bobuk — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:26:15 +0000

That's not true, he's living in Israel since the war has begun.

New comment by bobuk in "Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions"

bobuk — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:24:38 +0000

You've meant ex-CEO of Yandex Russia, i.e. subsidiary of Yandex N.V. But yeah, both of them now in Israel, trying to build a new company without Russian money. And it will be problematic because of sanctions now.

New comment by bobuk in "Inkdrop: Organizing your Markdown notes made simple"

bobuk — Sat, 07 May 2022 19:01:18 +0000

Inkdrop and Obsidian both have the same issue for me - electron. I will not tire of recommending people FSnotes [1]. Native (mac/ios only), opensource, one time payment (if you want it), sync with iCloud, git and TextBundle support.

Not affiliated, just a big fan.

[1]: https://fsnot.es/

New comment by bobuk in "Horrible edge cases when dealing with music"

bobuk — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 13:27:54 +0000

quick upvote for examples from Yanka. I thought that I'm the only one who still listening her.

New comment by bobuk in "Phantom OS"

bobuk — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:09:01 +0000

The author of the concept is a pro-government-minded Russian dude who actively supports Russia in this war against Ukraine, Dmitry Zavalishin.

It is sounds not so important, but I think there's no way to build something new for the whole world (like new OS) with a founder who supports Putin.

New comment by bobuk in "Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory"

bobuk — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 12:35:45 +0000

it depends on the Japan's proposition. If they will propose to guarantee jobs for every new citizen with typical for Japan salary - it will be enough because the exchange rate of Russian ruble is dropped by more than 100% in the last 5 days.

New comment by bobuk in "Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory"

bobuk — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 12:25:25 +0000

I heard that in Russia they consider it's natural to separate parts of the country by people's referendum...

New comment by bobuk in "I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions"

bobuk — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:03:42 +0000

And now we need to do a contest and compare how humans will answer on this questions, and whose answer is closer to the truth. Take my bet - humans will lose or will be on the same level of guessing.

New comment by bobuk in "Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories"

bobuk — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:18:10 +0000

Perhaps you will find it interesting: in Russian, the abbreviated word “dural” is often used for duralumin.