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New comment by wooly_bully in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

wooly_bully — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:32:25 +0000

Two requests!

1. unique urls per channel so I can send it to a friend and say "check this out" 2. up + down keys for changing channels

New comment by wooly_bully in "Data Fetching for Single-Page Apps"

wooly_bully — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:20:30 +0000

The sensible route to this today is to use a query client, IMO: tanstack, rtk query, apollo, etc.

It prevents the umpteenth reinvention of an incomplete fetch state machine, which is probably the number one most consistent frontend bug I encounter.

New comment by wooly_bully in "Welcome to Canva, Affinity"

wooly_bully — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:52:04 +0000

The wording virtually guarantees that it’s changing to subscription. I give it a year and a half.

New comment by wooly_bully in "Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO"

wooly_bully — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:09:43 +0000

Guess I'm one of the annoying users who complained when armin's Lektor (https://github.com/lektor/lektor) started going dormant back when, but I loved it for a while. I'm on Astro now, but a big thanks for helping a younger version for me.

New comment by wooly_bully in "A distributed systems reading list"

wooly_bully — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:32:03 +0000

The book that Dominik Tornow is writing “Thinking in Distributed Systems” has been an excellent next read after DDIA for me (it’s not yet finished I believe).

Really shows the experience of someone who understands this stuff inside and out (was one of the main people behind Temporal).

New comment by wooly_bully in "It will never be a good time to buy a house"

wooly_bully — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:43:50 +0000

I don’t think this would help if your goal is not rapidly increase housing costs. If covid proved anything about the housing market, it’s that theres a housing shortage everywhere. Plenty of LCoL areas still have disproportionately high housing costs compared to median income now. When remote work was required, people fled cities and led to housing crises in areas that aren’t just major cities.

Great piece from M. Nolan Grey, who is an excellent twitter follow: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/housing-cr...

New comment by wooly_bully in "Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer"

wooly_bully — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:46:49 +0000

Talent board link: https://coda.io/d/Talent-Board-2-16_dpUo3fTL8Ev/Candidates_s...

New comment by wooly_bully in "Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer"

wooly_bully — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:34:13 +0000

(Ex-)Convoy engineer here. No mystery as to why this happened, sudden tight market and low available capital demolished us. External reasons given in the article were the same we knew and couldn't do anything about considering that none of the M&A options materialized.

Detailed the shutdown on a call at 8:30am Pacific this morning. CEO said there'll be no severance or healthcare.

Lot of talented folks in Seattle and beyond who'll be looking for new gigs.

New comment by wooly_bully in "Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything"

wooly_bully — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 14:54:57 +0000

This is what Svelte does, React has a runtime even when bundled

New comment by wooly_bully in "Functional Programming with TypeScript's Type System"

wooly_bully — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:44:13 +0000

It’s good for reference but not for discovery. If I already know the general concept (let’s say Template Literal Types) I can get good info on it, but if I start with a question like ‘Is there a way to make sure this string literal starts with “id_”?’ then I find it very hard to know.

Random but this is what I’m finding GPT-4 best at: translating random questions into domain terminology + providing examples.

New comment by wooly_bully in "Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza"

wooly_bully — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:52:39 +0000

I just am about halfway thru. Absolutely stands up, doesnt even feel dated almost 20 years after the revised edition.

New comment by wooly_bully in "Life across the water: exploring London Bridge and its houses"

wooly_bully — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:35:06 +0000

On a similar note - If you’ve not seen it, the galata bridge in Istanbul has a boardwalk full of shops on its underside. Very cool.

New comment by wooly_bully in "A new career in software development: advice for non-youngsters"

wooly_bully — Wed, 18 May 2022 20:10:23 +0000

Not sure if I agree with some of the specifics of this, but the overall sentiment is still valuable. There's a lot of work out there for non-youngsters looking to get into software development. Lots of hiring companies will value your experience even if it's not directly related to coding.

Wrote these just after I switch careers ~4 years ago:

1. https://zmsy.co/blog/career-switch/ 2. https://zmsy.co/blog/switching-careers-to-software-engineeri...

New comment by wooly_bully in "Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book?"

wooly_bully — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 17:48:08 +0000

Not a book, but the History of Science series from Crash Course on youtube is very entertaining.

New comment by wooly_bully in "Exploring performance differences between Amazon Aurora and vanilla MySQL"

wooly_bully — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:28:01 +0000

H3 tags on this could really use a bump in size and contrast from the regular text.

New comment by wooly_bully in "Why bugs might feel “impossible”"

wooly_bully — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:16:56 +0000

Your last point on the correct code running, ugh. I haven't gotten better at it even thought I'm aware of it more now. Had an incredibly persistent linting config issue just last week, turns out I had the wrong config open for editing in vim.

New comment by wooly_bully in "Bakeware: Compile any Elixir application into a single binary"

wooly_bully — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 19:22:01 +0000

WSL is not 'native' per se, but it's very well-integrated with Windows. I'd give it a look, even if it's just writing a script to run a build command in WSL from the same directory you're developing locally in.

New comment by wooly_bully in "Terraform 0.15 General Availability"

wooly_bully — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:11:50 +0000

That's good to know at least; will give the go API a look. The latter option you're recommending is essentially what I went with (Node bin script that shells out to run cdktf commands).

New comment by wooly_bully in "Terraform 0.15 General Availability"

wooly_bully — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 21:55:13 +0000

The 'not using HCL' bit is really the only positive I've found so far because everything else has been more difficult than just using TF directly. I think my goals were slightly off from the beginning, because this is really just replacing one CLI with another for me at this point.

What I want: Use Terraform programmatically, i.e. call "cdktf deploy" or similar FROM node or python and give users some scripts they can use where I can abstract away some of the difficulties of learning to use Terraform natively for simple use cases (i.e. deploy an S3-based frontend host). Ideally, I had intended to distribute some npm-installable packages which would run this stuff.

New comment by wooly_bully in "I made a simple geolocation service"

wooly_bully — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:05:05 +0000

There's TONS of use cases for Lambdas where the operational costs (both in terms of time/energy/expertise and to lesser extent monetary) of running something persistent are much higher.

In my last gig, we ran plenty of services that would never need to scale and would likely never hit the point where Lambda became too expensive. Low-utilization services (Example for order submit, because we only ever got a couple hundred orders per day), Cron-type jobs (Admins could use Cloudwatch to monitor), Temporary fan-outs using queues. Anything that won't ever hit the millions-per-day level is a good candidate for something along these lines. Most of those services cost <$5/month.