Hacker News: krisajenkins

New comment by krisajenkins in "Ok, but does it scale?"

krisajenkins — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:23:47 +0000

I totally agree. The thing that's drawing me to Spacetime is that it blends the processing model of actors and the data model of relational databases really neatly.

Data comes in, do something with it, store your state in a principled way, repeat. Add in subscriptions to data and it becomes reactive. Simple.

Vibe Management

krisajenkins — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:49:12 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jenkster.com/2026/06/vibe-management/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628001

Points: 2

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Will Turso Be the Better SQLite?

krisajenkins — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:07:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JHOY0zqNBY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46237901

Points: 4

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New comment by krisajenkins in "[dead]"

krisajenkins — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:57:42 +0000

A coding video that walks you through building a Neovim plugin that can do some interesting Docker actions.

New comment by krisajenkins in "Proton, a fast and lightweight alternative to Apache Flink"

krisajenkins — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:24:43 +0000

We ran out of good names years ago. Then Java came along and we used up all the words beginning with J. Then the dotcom years scooped up all the domain names and all the twsted up wrds like flickr. Then npm took all the variationsofpunctuation, varations-of-punctuation and variations_of_punctuation. Now there are no virgin words left in the English speaking world.

TBH, I'm amazed that Proton wasn't already taken.

New comment by krisajenkins in "[dead]"

krisajenkins — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:25:19 +0000

An in-depth interview about Zig with Loris Cro of the Zig Foundation.

New comment by krisajenkins in "[dead]"

krisajenkins — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:55:48 +0000

An interview with the creator of Gren, a new functional, fullstack programming language that branches off from Elm.

Bitemporal Databases: What They Are and Why They Matter

krisajenkins — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sRKQg9-In8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36233050

Points: 3

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Building a YouTube Alerts System with Python, Kafka and Telegram

krisajenkins — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:26:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jItIQ-UvFI4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32940217

Points: 2

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Building Real-Time Data Systems the Hard Way

krisajenkins — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:41:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.confluent.io/en-gb/blog/real-time-systems-what-you-need-to-know/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30686693

Points: 15

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Communicating in Types [video]

krisajenkins — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:39:00 +0000

Article URL: https://vimeo.com/302682323

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569819

Points: 6

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Functional Mumbo Jumbo – ADTs

krisajenkins — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:56:59 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.jenkster.com/2016/06/functional-mumbo-jumbo-adts.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11876003

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

How Elm Slays a UI Antipattern

krisajenkins — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:56:55 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.jenkster.com/2016/06/how-elm-slays-a-ui-antipattern.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11862272

Points: 7

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New comment by krisajenkins in "A Farewell to FRP"

krisajenkins — Tue, 10 May 2016 15:03:36 +0000

This is marvellous. IMO Functional has always been a bigger deal than Reactive. Great to see more of that pursuit of simplicity paying off.

New comment by krisajenkins in "Tell HN: I spend so much time solving problems I feel like giving up"

krisajenkins — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:53:02 +0000

Leading questions, I'm afraid. Yes, equality is still broken, maps are broken (and in new & interesting ways in EMCAScript 6), and the language is occasionally whitespace-sensitive.

JavaScript was hastily designed, has never recovered, and shows no sign of ever fixing the fundamental problems. :-(

New comment by krisajenkins in "Tell HN: I spend so much time solving problems I feel like giving up"

krisajenkins — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:05:50 +0000

Is equality still broken? Are maps still broken? Is it still a sporadically whitespace-sensitive language?

New comment by krisajenkins in "Tell HN: I spend so much time solving problems I feel like giving up"

krisajenkins — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:53:03 +0000

Writing JavaScript and feeling you're surrounded by errors is pretty normal. It's a hastily-designed language. There's no getting away from the fact that everything is going to feel a little bit fragile. Just accept it and don't expect perfection.

New comment by krisajenkins in "Frege: A Haskell-Like Language for the JVM"

krisajenkins — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 17:00:48 +0000

"locally stateful, globally pure-functional"

Can you expand on that, please? Because it seems to me that state fulness propagates up through the system. I can't imagine a system that was pure in the large but side-effecting in the small. I'd be interested to hear how that works...

Extending Esqueleto for Type-Safe Postgresql Queries

krisajenkins — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:35:48 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.jenkster.com/2015/07/extending-esqueleto-for-type-safe-postgresql-queries.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982705

Points: 1

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A Brief and Partial Review of Haskell in the Browser

krisajenkins — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:52:32 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.jenkster.com/2015/02/a-brief-and-partial-review-of-haskell-in-the-browser.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990261

Points: 4

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