bunsenhoneydew
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 4 months ago
DuckDB is a fantastic piece of tech. One of the best, if not the best, I’ve found in several years.
Comment · 5 months ago
It’s going to have a very big hill to climb if it’s playing in a space where duckdb already has a hold. Duck has probably been my favourite technology find in the last few years. Awesome tech.
I’ll still check this out though.
Comment · 10 months ago
Sorry, not a question, just wanted to say congrats on putting this together. I am so the target market for a nice terminal interface. I can’t wait to try this out!
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been looking for a more friendly GUI for working with Dynamo for ages. I had Dynobase but found some of it a bit frustrating. This looks very promising!
Very keen to try this out and congrats on launching!
Comment · 1 year ago
A team I work very closely with as an architect has ditched React in favour of Svelte and the team love it. Everyone prefers it to React and finds it easier and more productive to use.
Comment · 1 year ago
I used to think Zuckerberg was the worst person in the tech world. Musk has far exceeded him. I wouldn’t spend a cent on a product associated with him.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve previously worked doing technology assessments in the M&A world and copyleft is a big deal there. I’ve had to comb through code (not always automatable) to find any copyleft code and then have had to sit through many meetings with lawyers trying to explain the risk and complexity involved. I’ve seen it tank entire acquisitions.
Comment · 1 year ago
I used to use a system where each interviewer just wrote down two numbers, hidden from others, marks out of ten for attitude and aptitude.
Attitude encapsulated things like humility, willingness and desire to learn and share knowledge, etc.
Aptitude was more around the technical skills required to do this job but also the capability to learn new skills when required.
Those are pretty much the only two attributes I care about when recruiting.
Roughly it was:
6 - not quite there 7 - they have the att/apt required 8 - strong demonstration of att/apt Etc.
Average 7+ across both attributes for all interviewers or they’re a no.
The weighting was slightly different between contractors and FTE but as a starting point for the debrief it worked well.
I’ve also heard, and like: “if they’re not a ‘hell yes’ then they’re a ‘hell no’”, which is a lot simpler.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is one of the features of https://codescene.com/
It looks for knowledge islands and relates those to frequently modified code, to identify hotspot, or areas of high risk due to low knowledge distribution in areas of high change.
Another use is if someone hands in their notice you can easily see all the code that only they know, so your handover planning is mapped out easily.
I’ve never thought of it being used maliciously, it’s for visibility. It would be a shitty manager that would use it that way and if they’re already shitty then this tool won’t change that.
Comment · 2 years ago
As others have said the C4 model is a great way to address a number of these issues.
I can’t find the right video at the moment but Simon Brown (creator of C4) gives a great talk about creating his DSL, Structurizr, for C4, which he developed during COVID lockdown (if memory serves). There are many videos on YouTube of Simon talking about “C4 Models as Code” so I’m sure any one of those will suffice.
The focus is on creating the model of your system architecture, from which the diagrams you extract are a specific projection of that model. Rather than a diagram be the main artifact. It’s a simple but very powerful concept that I’m always surprised isn’t more widely used.
Structurizr models can also be exported to display as ilograph diagrams, mermaid diagrams and more. Also very much worth a mention is icepanel, a lovely tool for architectural model that implements the C4 model heavily.
I saw Simon talk at a conference in Sydney about 10-15 years ago and heard about C4 for the first time in that talk, it’s been one of the most influential talks I’ve been to in my career as it made a lot of fuzzy things in my head all start to come together in a way that just made sense.
Comment · 2 years ago
I gave up on Google a couple of years ago. I used DDG for a while but often had to jump back (!g) to Google for some things.
Now I pay for Kagi (been a year or two) and there’s no going back for me. I hardly ever even need to scroll down to find what I need, it’s just there. Saves me so much time.
Comment · 2 years ago
I use excalidraw for almost everything. Brilliant tool. I already mentioned it in another response in this thread but using excalidraw inside obsidian via https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin has been a game changer for me.
Comment · 2 years ago
You may already do this but if you haven’t, check out the excalidraw plugin in Obsidian: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin
Zslot has put an incredible amount of work into it and it extends excalidraw to have a lot of additional capabilities. You can also use it within Obsidian canvas for some of the flow stuff you mention but you could very likely just use the plugin.
Zslot is constantly updating it too so you get new features and updates almost every other time you open it. Amazing work done there.
And Obsidian is just awesome too :)
Comment · 3 years ago
I really like the C4 model as part of a larger toolset. If you’re also using it then I recommend looking at https://icepanel.io/
Great tooling strongly based on C4, I use it a lot.
Except it’s an initialism