docandrew

We still use leaded gasoline (100LL) in prop airplanes today, for what it’s worth.

So it’s not clearly a net-negative technology.

I use it for many of my side projects. I just like the language, the strong typing fits well with my work.

Hype aside, if you can get an answer to a computing problem with error bars in significantly less time, where precision just isn’t that important (such as LLMs) this could be a game changer.

I had a Palm Pre and really enjoyed this, shame it didn’t make it.

My favorite diagramming tool hands-down! It’s the only one that’s ever “clicked” for me, I use it all the time.

Maybe other folks’ vibe coding experiences are a lot richer than mine have been, but I read the article and reached the opposite conclusion of the author.

I was actually pretty impressed that it did as well as it did in a largely forgotten language and outdated platform. Looks like a vibe coding win to me.

nginx and Roblox and redis and nmap and neovim and cryengine … the list goes on

There are a LOT of tools with embedded Lua scripting capabilities.

Not having to put length-1 everywhere is a good thing, actually.

I think his point is that ORMs (and maybe DBs in general) are used for data persistence by folks who just don’t know any alternative.

Fun side projects mostly, my GH username is the same as here if you’re (morbidly) curious.

It’s a little like go in that it compiles quickly enough to replace scripts while still yielding good enough performance for a lot of systems tasks. It predates go and I wish Google had just supported D, it’s a much nicer language IMO

Ada for bigger projects, D for quick one-offs and more “scripty” work.

Move to EKS and you still need a k8s engineer, but one who also knows AWS, and you also pay the AWS premium for the hosting, egress, etc. It might make sense for your use case but I definitely wouldn’t consider it a cost-saving measure.

“etcd, apiserver, and controllers.”

…and containerd and csi plugins and kubelet and cni plugins and kubectl and kube-proxy and ingresses and load balancers…