malthejorgensen

11 mesi fadiscuss

Don’t you have to manually “refresh” Postgres materialized views, essentially making it an easier to implement cache (the Redis example in the blog post) rather than the type always-auto-updating materialized view the blog post author is actually touting?

malthejorgensen

anno scorsodiscuss

In the ancient times there was a startup called The Grid. Very hyped. They implemented the Cassowary layout algorithm for the web and called it GSS.

I loved the idea of GSS but it never caught on: https://gss.github.io/

malthejorgensen

2 anni fadiscuss

sourcehut isn’t weird at all.

It’s made by Drew Devault who is mostly well-respected in the hacker community, and it’s made exactly to be an alternative to BigCo-owned source hosts like GitHub, Gitlab and Bitbucket.

malthejorgensen

2 anni fadiscuss

Feels similar to `sd` (https://github.com/chmln/sd)

which in my mind was the first “replace” version of ripgrep

grep -> ripgrep

sed -> sd

malthejorgensen

5 anni fadiscuss

My impression is that most editors already use this or similar optimized data structures for representing the text internally.

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