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New comment by bvrmn in "Type-safe HTML templating in Zig"

bvrmn — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:24:51 +0000

The point is libraries are agnostic. You as a library user provide io transport and loop implementation which supports/not supports cancelation. And you as as library user handle cancelation.

> Libraries swallowing cancelled() or libraries lying that they support cancelled.

For me former is obviously worse.

New comment by bvrmn in "Type-safe HTML templating in Zig"

bvrmn — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:08:32 +0000

The most frustrating part about it for me it's Andrew's argument: just write correct code. I have C at home.

New comment by bvrmn in "Type-safe HTML templating in Zig"

bvrmn — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:55:46 +0000

I think the craze was about "purity" of mustache as presentation-only template engine. Apparently you need some level of logic to be useful.

New comment by bvrmn in "Jev Based Code Review"

bvrmn — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:55:50 +0000

Yey! Let's speedup project downfall to crap abyss even more!

You either care about project and do reviews. Or yolo vibe code. This middle ground has little sense.

New comment by bvrmn in "SAML: A fractal of bad design"

bvrmn — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:06:41 +0000

Oh boy. There were (and are) hordes of enterprises requiring us to support SAML and were quite amazed to know Entra and all big auth providers perfectly support OIDC.

New comment by bvrmn in "Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2"

bvrmn — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:05:38 +0000

Ahah. In my days SOAP libraries were kinda shitty up to the point I had to write my own to handle "non-standard" (actually very standard) WSDL definitions. SOAP consumption in one lang was okeish, especially Java or .NET. But interop — oh boy. The biggest issue were services exposing SOAP interface based on code-first approach, when you write some declarative code with annotations and library transforms it into WSDL and proxy endpoints.

New comment by bvrmn in "Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2"

bvrmn — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:17:12 +0000

Oh gosh. I could only imagine how many apps in chain crafts and parses soap envelopes with adhoc code with mandatory info loss.

New comment by bvrmn in "The Three AI Pills"

bvrmn — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:09:59 +0000

You could take any pills and have any fantasies in your small coding corner. But saying very strong word "better" has very distinctive aftertaste.

New comment by bvrmn in "Measuring the sloppiness of code"

bvrmn — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:40:43 +0000

> could we throw the definition into context and tell the LLM to avoid it?

Every IMPORTANT RULE WHICH MUST BE FOLLOWED STRICTLY to not to do something from my AGENTS.md and skills are violated without any hesitation from LLM. Glorified autocomplete doesn't work this way. Positive rules are more stable on this regard.

New comment by bvrmn in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

bvrmn — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:03:41 +0000

Did your clanker reach 40k CLOC?

New comment by bvrmn in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

bvrmn — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:05:32 +0000

Without tailwind LLMs tend to use inline random colors, random sizes and radiuses. Project becomes an unmaintainable design soup really fast. Even with tailwind first priority is to define dark/light theme with semantic colors. After it's a smooth sail (sort of, routing, forms, state ownership and persistent url state are still an alien concept for clankers).

New comment by bvrmn in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

bvrmn — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:55:20 +0000

I'm quite versed in CSS but tailwind has convenient abstractions on top. It's like "why you need C if you have assembler". I don't remember when I wrote raw CSS last time. Even global styles I tend to express via @apply.

New comment by bvrmn in "Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System"

bvrmn — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:59:22 +0000

Hm it's interesting perspective. The paper adds sorting into the mix. Like sorting moves cells and thus prone to issues with references. For me sorting always moves values in cells and I even can't imagine how you could sort formulas. It doesn't make sense.

New comment by bvrmn in "Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists"

bvrmn — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:37:11 +0000

ArrayList is a very generic (pun not intended) structure and could be stretched quite freely in any direction with useful property of owning underlying slice. Like readonly preallocated ArrayList is a thing.

New comment by bvrmn in "A better SQL in 11 lines of code"

bvrmn — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:49:44 +0000

Examples don't show much more composability comparing to SQL. Even more Prela is heavily based on tuples and has same operation semantics as SQL.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/baverman/sqlbind-t

New comment by bvrmn in "EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality"

bvrmn — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:05:11 +0000

Since pipewire landed in arch all my issues with sound magically vanished. It's a really great piece of software. Maybe it's even worth to change the distro.

New comment by bvrmn in "Stop Making TUIs"

bvrmn — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:31:49 +0000

It's funny I'm currently creating a TUI. A mutt like mail client. I didn't have any second though to consider GUI for the project because it's so ridiculous.

It's inherently cross-platform (msys under windows). It allows to copy any part of UI. It doesn't require dependencies other than curses.

New comment by bvrmn in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

bvrmn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:35:14 +0000

Shameless plug (link to the repo) of your extension :)

New comment by bvrmn in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

bvrmn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:26:17 +0000

People nowdays have no shame and completely forget the art of plug.

New comment by bvrmn in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

bvrmn — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:28:06 +0000

It's by LLMs definition, duh. You are dummy charmed by "reasoning".