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Function instances should stay alive for a certain amount of time. But you will pay the cold start price one way or another, so naively using Spring Boot is probably not a good idea. Spring Boot Native might help here, but I haven't tried it yet.

renke1

há 2 anosdiscuss

We had a small course in university on esoteric programming language. Each of us had to select a language (Brainfuck, Piet and a few others) and play around with it. I chose Piet and had a lot of fun with it, but to be honest, my small example application was not really aesthetically pleasing. I guess you have to be a Piet expert to make art with it.

renke1

há 2 anosdiscuss

Looks interesting. Does anyone have a good example that uses Client Components?

renke1

há 2 anosdiscuss

The best thing is that it does not seem to hard to extend KOReader to your liking (e.g. by writing plugins). On the other hand, I've had a hard time understanding the the actual Lua code (most likely because of my lack of experience using Lua though!).

What's really missing is a good way to browser by metadata (e.g. author, series or even your own custom tags). However, there seem to be some progress here [0].

[0]: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/8472

renke1

há 2 anosdiscuss

I do often use this feature but sometimes fear I missing out because of some deliberate decisions by the author. Not sure if that worry is really warranted.

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

Seveneves was really good. Almost feeling the urge to read it again!

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

Designing Data Intensive Applications is really good, because it gives you an good overview of data systems. I had the feeling I don't have to understand all the details yet I would learn a lot.

Are there other books like this?

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

My own name is actually only used in the very country I live in. Unexpectedly, my daughter's name is apparently also used in Arabic countries, it means something like "Gift from Allah".

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

Although I had absolute no idea what I was doing when we played around with Agda in university, it was kind of fun constructing a few very basic proofs. It kind of felt like smashing some buttons until it worked. The Emacs integration with all the Unicode goodness was really something.

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

The worst thing is how often developers almost fatalistically accept that testing sucks. I don't blame them though because improving the test infrastructure has little short-term business value or so they say.

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

I'd love to try all those ergonomic keyboards, but the most ergonomic thing for me still is a Thinkpad-style trackpoint.

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

Thanks! I was only aware of a Zones proposal which was withdrawn I think.

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

A few of my colleagues and I had the silly (?) idea that you don't really need logs anymore. Instead of log messages you just attach span events [0]. You then just log the span title and a link to that span in Jaeger; something like [1]. I've only really tried that in my private project, but it felt pretty good. The UI of Jaeger could be a bit better to support that usage, though.

Edit: Actually, those colleagues are doing a talk about that topic. So, if you are in Germany and Hannover area, have a look at [2] and search for "Nie wieder Log-Files!".

[0]: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/ruby/manual/#a...

[1]:

    tracing.ts:38 Usecase: Handle Auth 
    tracing.ts:47 http://localhost:16686/trace/ec7ffb1e23ddbb8dd770a3f08028666b
    tracing.ts:38 Adapter: Find Personal Board 
    tracing.ts:47 http://localhost:16686/trace/e22d342316ab0d7d23230864008e27bc
    tracing.ts:38 Adapter: Find Starred Board List 
    tracing.ts:47 http://localhost:16686/trace/129f89cee26d54cfdc38abea368d9b4e
    tracing.ts:38 Adapter: Find Personal Board List 
    tracing.ts:47 http://localhost:16686/trace/97948127d77501ff0c65a5db21b21b5a

[2]: https://javaforumnord.de/2023/programm/

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

I think with native Promises (and async/await?) there is currently no way to implement something like Zone.js properly. I've tried to instrument my code manually, but it's really error-prone and verbose. We really need something like https://nodejs.org/api/async_context.html#class-asynclocalst... to be implemented in the browser.

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

Notes never really worked for me previously, but somehow I got it working with logseq [1] (it doesn't really matter which Roam-like tool you use). I feels like some kind of super power to be able to quickly access all sort of information. What helped me was thinking in projects (prepare conference talk XYZ, write article for tech magazine ABC and of course actual projects). Also I always link persons I interact with when I create notes for a meeting or similar situations. That way you can quickly show all relevant information about a person. Most important though is the ability to write down TODOs anywhere and later see them in an aggregated manner.

[1]: https://logseq.com/

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

Yeah, that always works, of course, even though you might want to externalize certain dependencies still. In this case I don't want to bundle the code (although I might end up doing that, anyway)

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

That's correct. However, I've tried to use prune now, not sure if I am using it correctly, but that's why I do:

I build my packages regularly (not pruned), then I prune with scope "backend". Apparently the pruned directory contains node_modules with empty packages, not sure what reason is for that; I just ignored it. In the resulting directory I then run `pnpm install --prod`. Only the regular dependencies will be installed. I think this is enough for my usecase. I am not sure if prune is supposed to be used for this approach though.

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

Can Prune be used to build a bundle (as in a zip) for, say AWS Lambda, which includes only the dependencies (and not dev dependencies)? I've played around with pnpm's deploy but it felt a bit lackluster. Especially talking about situation where one has a backend package and some shared package. The bundle should contain all dependencies (but not dev dependencies) of the backend package and shared package and of course the built shared package should also be include in the bundle's node_modules.

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

Having navigational keys on the home row is something every software developer should use (but almost no one does). Unlike Vim-style keybindings it just works everywhere.

Personally I am using an unused key on my keyboard (layout) as modifier to access them. My particular mapping is based on the Neo Layout [0]. Basically FPS-style WASD but shifted by one key to the right.

As tool to change keyboard layout I use Interception Tools [1] and a personal C program. The advantage of interception tools is that it works everywhere (even outside a desktop environment).

[0]: https://www.neo-layout.org/ – It's a German page, but you can look at "Ebene 4" on the keyboard thingy to see the layout.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools

renke1

há 3 anosdiscuss

I am currently using yjs. What would be the equivalent way as described here [0] for yjs to sync docs in Automerge? I don't need any WebSockets or real time stuff. It always seemed so complicated in Automerge compared to yjs. I just want to roll my own simple sync mechanism via HTTP.

[0]: https://docs.yjs.dev/api/document-updates#syncing-clients

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