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New comment by dochne in "Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce""

dochne — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:56:17 +0000

I like it, but it is by far the most ungainly of the three with the most footguns in it's usage.

While not as functionally pure, I always appreciate the Ruby each_with_object https://ruby-doc.org/3.4.1/Enumerable.html#method-i-each_wit... as a more pleasant interface for it.

New comment by dochne in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"

dochne — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:19:47 +0000

All of my EU friends living in the UK have now applied for citizenship.

The risk profile for "I have indefinite leave to remain" has moved from "this won't be an issue at all" to "we have no trust in the government on this" in a few short years.

Profoundly depressing

New comment by dochne in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

dochne — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:00:52 +0000

I've never quite forgiven python for the time I tried to update it using yum, it failed which is then broke yum - not a fun place to end up.

Treating python as a project level dependency rather than a system level dependency is just an excellent design choice.

New comment by dochne in "PHP Almost Generics: Guided Journey Through the Official Compile-Time Proposal"

dochne — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:25:41 +0000

The foundation is a very recent affair.

The real improvements all came from the hard work of the developers who were around during the 7.* releases who did excellent work.

Most importantly at that time we had Nikita Popov who was incredibly helpful.

Hack/HHVM definitely gave it a nice kick of motivation though.

New comment by dochne in "Stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria recovered from seafloor"

dochne — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:52:17 +0000

One place I would love to visit is the Tower of Hercules which was built in the first century and based on the original plans of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hercules

New comment by dochne in "What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like"

dochne — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:58:16 +0000

My main beef with HCL is a hatred for how it implemented for loops.

Absolutely loathsome syntax IMO

New comment by dochne in "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids"

dochne — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:42:06 +0000

I mean, it's asking kids if they want a ball of sugar - that does feel like a pretty sure thing.

New comment by dochne in "'Mainlined into UK's veins': Labour announces public rollout of AI"

dochne — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:36:01 +0000

It's a farsicle example as the bottleneck is getting the council to fix the potholes.

New comment by dochne in "Ruby 3.4.0"

dochne — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:49:37 +0000

Experienced teams know to be careful and sparing with its use.

New comment by dochne in "We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency Bug at Netflix"

dochne — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:59:07 +0000

AWS charges instances in 1 hour increments - so you're paying 150% the EC2 costs if you're doing this every 2 hours

New comment by dochne in "FreeWP Is Here to Shake Up the WordPress Ecosystem"

dochne — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 01:10:32 +0000

It must be horrible working for Automattic at the moment having to deal with this seemingly never ending farce.

New comment by dochne in "Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)"

dochne — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:24:14 +0000

The Insites GDPR checker[1] does this.

[1] https://insites.com/free-website-gdpr-check/

New comment by dochne in "Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone"

dochne — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:30:52 +0000

I had one of the predecessors to this (the Jelly 2) as one of my strategies to cut down on smart phone usage.

It was a nice idea (as it introduced pain points of using it as a distraction device), but the battery life ended up being abysmal to the point that I couldn't trust it to complete a day. Having a tiny smart phone and then having to take a battery pack for it was absurdity.

It also led me to appreciate how much I'd come to rely on always having a good camera in my pocket. The picture quality was poor enough that the photos would leave me feeling genuinely quite sad.

New comment by dochne in "Why is Prettier rock solid?"

dochne — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 06:30:27 +0000

If you're reading a PR diff on GitHub you can get it to ignore whitespace diffs by adding ?w=1 to the url - complete lifesaver in this kind of situation.

New comment by dochne in "Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists"

dochne — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:49:39 +0000

MSN Spaces had this feature back in 2006! Makes me feel nostalgic!

New comment by dochne in "The browser's biggest TLS mistake"

dochne — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:45:06 +0000

It still remains a mystery to me why browsers felt they should "fix" this server misconfiguration.

It's particularly vexing to me as the main reason that people end up with misconfigured servers at all is because after they've configured their new cert (incorrectly) their web browser gives them a tick and they think they've done it right - after all, why wouldn't they?

New comment by dochne in "Insomnia REST client now requires an account"

dochne — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:12:13 +0000

My understanding is that Postman unfortunately pulled the same thing lately, so that's unfortunately a no-go for you.

I've previously had good experiences with Paw (now RapidAPI) - https://paw.cloud/, but given that they are closed source and have started giving away the software rather than charging for it, I'm not filled with optimism they won't do a similar rug pull.

New comment by dochne in "Wappalyzer no longer open source?"

dochne — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:53:46 +0000

Thanks here go to the work done by the awesome-archive[0] project without whom this day would have been much more frustrating.

[0] https://github.com/awesome-archive/Wappalyzer/pull/1