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New comment by scop in "Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc."

scop — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:32:03 +0000

I’m a new Ruby user. Been a dev for more than a decade and I picked it up for various things over the last year or two. These were not legacy projects, this was purely my curiosity to explore new tools. Have really enjoyed it!

New comment by scop in "Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo"

scop — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:38:47 +0000

Tangential question: is it common for frameworks to use the same name as a package from another framework? I had never heard of Django LiveView, but have used Phoenix’s Liveview and assumed that’s what it was. Not sure if I like that? I.e. does it imply some sort of endorsement or partnership? I do like that Laravel went with Livewire to distinguish it.

New comment by scop in "Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title"

scop — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:54:36 +0000

You know what they say about the Irish and spreadsheets…

New comment by scop in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"

scop — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 02:43:23 +0000

Man that hits hard

New comment by scop in "Ask HN: Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth?"

scop — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:24:04 +0000

I believe UFOs are mostly an op to intimidate foreign governments, i.e. US trying to say to China “hey we got some stuff you’ve never heard seen” so as to introduce uncertainty into their war games. They aren’t to demonstrate power; they are to introduce a mix of confusion and intimidation. I’m also not saying that all the reports are fake: i believe most of the witness and testimony are being honest. But just because you’re being honest doesn’t mean what you saw or were told are not the cogs of an intelligence operation.

New comment by scop in "From VS Code to Helix"

scop — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:47:54 +0000

That keyboard layout is a great analogy. Maybe I would have tried Helix in my early twenties, but I’m too old for that now (30s lol).

New comment by scop in "Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent"

scop — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:58:46 +0000

I have a huge disdain for artists who do not bleed and sweat like the rest of us doing jobs we don’t necessarily enjoy. Especially in this age of opulence. Welcome to life. Art should capture truth, the essence of things, and how can you do so without your feet planted firmly on the ground? Perhaps I could make exceptions for those on whom skill is truly refined in a dedicated way (think YoYo Ma practicing 10 hours a day), but I suspect your avg artist spends more time navel gazing than putting in the work. (And I say this as a huge supporter and fan of the arts)

New comment by scop in "Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability"

scop — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:06:55 +0000

Can you expand on this? Was your site pretty static or did it have a lot of interactivity? What were the best things you observed in Astro vs Laravel?

New comment by scop in "Grug Design"

scop — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:24:59 +0000

TIL grug needs a trademark

New comment by scop in "PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator"

scop — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:05:12 +0000

This is great! Hat tip to PHP. I first came across pipes in Elixir and have ever since missed it in every other language. Two observations:

- pipes make you realize how much song and dance you do for something quite simple. Nesting, interstitial variables, etc all obscuring what is in effect and very orderly set of operations.

- pipes really do have to be a first class operator of the language. I’ve tried using some pipe-like syntactic sugar in languages without pipes and while it does the job, a lot of elegance and simplicity is lost. It feels like you are using a roundabout thing and thus, in the end, doesn’t really achieve the same level of simplicity. Things can get very deranged if you are using a language in a way it wasn’t designed for and even though I love pipes I’ve seen “fake pipes” make things more complicated in languages without them.

New comment by scop in "Arvo Pärt at 90"

scop — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:46:08 +0000

Bach and Part are the two composers who make music not just of man but of the glory of God Himself. IYKYK.

New comment by scop in "Hulk Hogan Has Died"

scop — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:31:36 +0000

His in ring performance will always give me goosebumps, every time. I’ve seen him start puffing his cheeks, shaking his head, no-selling punches, and finger pointing a million and every…single…time it gets me excited and pumped. And all for a silly leg drop at the end. Goes to show that the story can communicate so much more than the moves.

What a an amazing talent and performer.

New comment by scop in "Ozzy Osbourne has died"

scop — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:45:37 +0000

God bless you Ozzy. Thank you for everything.

New comment by scop in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"

scop — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:25:17 +0000

Had never heard this take. What a great write up. Thank you!

New comment by scop in "I deleted my second brain"

scop — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:39:54 +0000

I did the same thing recently, excluding quotes from books. Every other note, How To, and To Do gone. It provided tremendous relief. The vast majority of the stuff may as well have been written by a complete stranger. But, again, I kept my book quotes and notes as that is something I reference regularly. I guess the main thing was the realization that I literally don’t access 90% of my notes and they were of no value other than making me feel something about myself.

New comment by scop in "A Blacklisted American Magician Became a Hero in Brazil"

scop — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:52:34 +0000

Exactly. It is just like professional wrestling. It’s not a matter of thinking it’s real, magic is all about being so damn entertained that you don’t care whether it’s real.

New comment by scop in "Brian Wilson has died"

scop — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:50:55 +0000

Wouldnt it be nice is such an amazing piece of art. Grew up hearing it, never listening to the lyrics. Thought it was fun. As an adult finally paid attention to the lyrics one day and they knocked me off my feet. The happiest most upbeat song is really singing about something not quite there, an ideal, but real, something to be grasped and lost…or let go…

What a genius to be able to pull that song off.

New comment by scop in "A Blacklisted American Magician Became a Hero in Brazil"

scop — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:43:06 +0000

I loved his shows when I was a kid. I was pretty into magic (e.g. going to the local shop and buying tricks) and this show was the most exciting thing I had ever seen. I get that it broke many rules, but I think it was well timed. If it had been earlier I think it would have been a true rule-breaking, “we’re exposing secrets cuz we just don’t care” type of thing. But in the 90s/00s it was a moment in which a new generation of TV kids. Whenever I would watch magic on TV I thought it was pretty lame because, after all, how do you know it was just special effects BS? This guy revealed that even though it was on TV it was still an execution of skill/engineering/performance. Super fascinating. Thanks Val!

New comment by scop in "California has got good at building giant batteries"

scop — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:43:31 +0000

> has got really good

For whatever reason that turn of phrase seems very amateur/lazy coming from the Economist.

New comment by scop in "How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school"

scop — Thu, 15 May 2025 12:09:07 +0000

Haven’t read Dickens, but Melville was a revelation for me. His short stories are great, but Moby Dick is a work of glory. It’s hard to explain why, but Moby Dick basically bifurcated my life: there was the time before I read it and the time after. That being said, I would have hated it in high school and am glad it wasn’t assigned. It was something I could only appreciate in my 30s.