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New comment by tvink in "Neki – Sharded Postgres"

tvink — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:02:10 +0000

I've never known in a shorter time that a CEO is too defensive to be a business partner faster.

New comment by tvink in "Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type"

tvink — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:56:01 +0000

You're gonna be shocked how many input fields do this for various UX features :)

New comment by tvink in "Programming is Art"

tvink — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:52:33 +0000

>still write bad code unless my colleagues and the people who submit PRs

It's interesting you feel comfortable to comment with such authority on the capability of a tool you don't even use... Lisp is a bad programming language because my 10 year old brother wrote some really bad stuff, btw!

New comment by tvink in "Squeak 6.1"

tvink — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:55:56 +0000

A big influence for modern js is chained enumeration, like forEach

New comment by tvink in "Squeak 6.1"

tvink — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:54:10 +0000

Wouldn't you just do elixir now? It's like erlang but even wilder.

I think smalltalk and erlang are so interesting because they model the idea of small computers so differently.

Lisp just feels like the purest way to understand what the units of a programming language really is.

New comment by tvink in "Software for One"

tvink — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:41:19 +0000

Don't think it has to be, if you are mindful of it. Ai uses fewer dependencies usually, as it doesn't mind rewriting things, and you can easily add scans and sanity checks to your sdlc

New comment by tvink in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

tvink — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:49:02 +0000

I think calling opencode the trend is naive. This not what is being run on company time.

New comment by tvink in "In Emacs, everything looks like a service"

tvink — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:31:54 +0000

Idunno. I think you end up teaching them nothing and just doing it for them. I mentor plenty folks without learning more than basics of vscode/cursor, and the most important lesson for them is always how to figure out how to do stuff (which has never been easier than today).

New comment by tvink in "In Emacs, everything looks like a service"

tvink — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:27:24 +0000

I'm unsure why you point this out. It's also a non issue if you're trying to drive a unicycle. Isn't it more interesting to talk about the cases where it applies? Or do you reckon all programs should be microservices?

New comment by tvink in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

tvink — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:43:29 +0000

There truly is not. Software engineering is not different in any meaningful way. Sure 30 years ago in waterfall land we were emulating the project management of engineering, with miserably expensive results. But it's all the same now. It's like differentiation between coding and programming, it's different in everyone's head.

New comment by tvink in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

tvink — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:50:31 +0000

You don't think the rest of the world is doing funded research?

New comment by tvink in "MCP is dead?"

tvink — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:24:41 +0000

Yeah this is copium. Everyone is sprinting to adopt everything that is useful, and it just haven't happened with MCP.

Also, what's the hold up? If they all are building one, presumably using AI, shouldn't they all be done already?

New comment by tvink in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

tvink — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:49:25 +0000

If it is verifiable, please show us. What if clear to you reeks delusion to me.

New comment by tvink in "Claude Code Routines"

tvink — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:47:42 +0000

That is what too expensive to be an option for most.

New comment by tvink in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

tvink — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:26:36 +0000

You're on to something. It's the lisp machine of it all. Hot reloading is nothing that requires anything special, so you can redefine a callback or dependency with ease in the repl and the system chugs along. You can theoretically do something similar in ruby, but it's the opposite of elegant, you'd be forced to re implement methods with different dependencies etc. It's also a function of being "functional" in the lisp sense, that things are lists, and lists can be replaced, functions or otherwise.

The fun way to get a feel for lisp machines is emacs, it's so easy to fall of a language and especially hand-coding in a language if you don't have to.

New comment by tvink in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

tvink — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:42:15 +0000

Looks cool, but the phrase 'build applications with the flexibility and power of go' made me chuckle. Least damn flexible language in this whole space.

New comment by tvink in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

tvink — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:29:03 +0000

You're not wrong, for sufficient simple cases it's at a disadvantage. But once things get complicated, it wins by being the only thing that you can get to work without going insane.

And yeah, any serious use completely assumes a Max sub.

New comment by tvink in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

tvink — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:24:05 +0000

You'll be back :)

New comment by tvink in "A simple web we own"

tvink — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:15:47 +0000

Honestly if we could have we would have, we can't even tax the people destroying our world, how are we going to create utopia

New comment by tvink in "A simple web we own"

tvink — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:20:27 +0000

It's definitely an approach. I do think in true democratization of the internet, teaching people some tech is inevitable. We just can't have equal access if we retain the classes of user and maker as completely distinct.