Posts by s3thi@fantastic.earth
(DIR) Post #AUOZnwot96IjOoOKfY by s3thi@fantastic.earth
2023-04-07T02:55:22Z
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@simon i've had a "Quotes" category on my blog for a while. i really enjoy collecting these!though a lot of my quotes are from books/games i enjoy, and therefore mostly said by fictional people.https://ankursethi.in/categories/quotes/
(DIR) Post #Aa3zYAW1AGO72jTxmC by s3thi@fantastic.earth
2023-09-23T04:00:54Z
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i really love #Mastodon. the community here is so much nicer, there are no ads, nobody trying to manipulate me, and no "trends" that i don't want to see.but there are, like, seven people from #India on this whole entire network, out of which there are probably only two who live in #Bangalore.i lost a whole community of developers, writers, artists, journalists, and other creative folk from India when #Twitter died. that community hasn't managed to come together again in the same way.i hope the melon man bankrupts Twitter as quickly as possible so that people can either finally leave, or Microsoft can buy it up and make it boring again.
(DIR) Post #Aa81ppXGsmP5jESRUm by s3thi@fantastic.earth
2023-09-25T05:38:14Z
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i had an odd realization this weekend.when it comes to building software, i love the *process* of building it, but care very little about the product. as long as another human being finds it useful, and it doesn't harm anybody, i don't really care *what* i'm building. i just enjoy the act of writing code.but when it comes to my other creative endeavors -- mostly writing these days -- i care *very much* about the product. if i don't believe completely in the end result i’m hoping for, i find it hard to go on. and i have specific results in mind that i want to achieve with my writing (which i don't have the skills to achieve yet).i should maybe learn to enjoy the process of writing?#writing #programming #creativity
(DIR) Post #AcnisXWxQHSiFuIYYi by s3thi@fantastic.earth
2023-12-14T12:56:32Z
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why do people like to mock their dependencies when doing TDD?dependencies have feelings, too.
(DIR) Post #Aczlo045eN4wYP9tRI by s3thi@fantastic.earth
2023-12-18T08:56:47Z
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so i was super sick last month and had too much free time, so i picked up Alex Edwards' excellent book *Let's Go* and learned me some #golang.i was put off from learning Go for so many years because of That Blog Post From Three Years Ago -- you know the one -- but turns out a lot of complaints in that blog post are just not relevant to what people do with the language.also, you can build an entire web application with Go using just the standard library and one or two third-party libraries for crypto and DB connectivity. that's very cool! you can't even do that with #nodejs.and that web app will continue to work for like 10+ years, because Go never breaks backwards compatibility. also very cool!
(DIR) Post #Aczlo11I6GQxW0rAiO by s3thi@fantastic.earth
2023-12-18T09:03:51Z
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what i like most about Go is its general philosophy.it's good for a narrow set of use cases, and it doesn't care about being good at anything anything that falls outside its wheelhouse.you can use it for exactly two things: (a) building command line apps on UNIX-like systems and (b) building network services on UNIX-like systems. that's it. if you try to use it for anything outside of that, good luck.this allows it to be *very* good at those two narrow use cases. you can spin up APIs and little CLI tools with surprising ease in Go. and there's a huge ecosystem of third-party libraries designed to make building those two kinds of applications -- and ONLY those two kinds of applications -- super easy and convenient.
(DIR) Post #AczloCMxu1J6iQ58We by s3thi@fantastic.earth
2023-12-18T09:08:05Z
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Go is a great 80% language.it's scary good at solving 80% of your problems, but it doesn't care about the remaining 20%. if you have a Go-shaped problem in your life, you'll have a blast solving it with Go. if you don't, then you will have a rough time with the language.
(DIR) Post #Ahy7KkOZHRiSzAArEO by s3thi@fantastic.earth
2024-05-06T05:26:52Z
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maybe the new iPadOS will finally allow me to add new words to the system dictionary.maybe it will allow me to look at hidden files without having to buy a whole new app.maybe it will even let me run an SSH session in the background so i don’t get kicked out of my server every time i switch to Safari to look something up.it’s good to dream.#apple #ipad #ipados #ios