maga
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Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you!
> The trick then is a sliding scope context window: with a high-level design doc in context, iterate to produce an architecture document.
Absolutely, I will be stealing this!
> It's a very exciting time, it feels like having worked by hand for decades, only to now have access to power tools and heavy machinery.
Very well put, captures my feeling precisely.
Comment · 1 year ago
Apologies, no offence to New Yorkers (or the New Yorker) meant.
If you find my handle, "maga", interesting..., I'll have you know that it's been around long before it was appropriated by some movements in US and has nothing to do with them ;)
Comment · 1 year ago
> It’s unclear whether the suggestions and techniques mentioned in the article came from personal experience or have otherwise been verified or experimented with with a real team and a real project.
Since it's not a New Yorker article, I was hoping to spare the audience a long personal life story and deliver a somewhat succinct list of suggestions that others might find useful.
However, the question is valid, and yes, this is the result of personal experience of following and incorporating AI tools into my own development over the last couple of years, as well as watching my colleagues of various experience levels (in a team of 10 engineers) do the same. These are the practices that we collected, adopted, and trying to codify and develop further.
Comment · 3 years ago
What was the reason behind not clearing outdated flows automatically?
Comment · 4 years ago
Code splitting is supported just fine for ESM bundles[1] (and there is little reason to use other formats nowadays), CSS handling works ok as well. I have been using ESBuild since forever and the only instability that I experienced was around sourcemap generation early on.
Comment · 4 years ago
That's why we introduced the strict mode ("use strict" pragma)[1]. Among other things, it prevents from accidentally declaring a global variable this way, throwing a ReferenceError.
Actually, at this point, with the prolifiration of strict mode and linters, I'd say that these old gotchas mostly belong to quizzes and spec discussions, since personally I have not seen new code written this way even in vanilla JS for years by now.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Comment · 4 years ago
Great to see dprint on the front page! While here it's speeding up prettier with caching/wasm, it can replace prettier altogether and be even faster (for example, with `dprint-plugin-typescript` for TS/JS dev). So, if you are doing web dev and not yet ready to switch to Deno, you can at least speed up formatting by using `dprint`.
David, I already owe you guys more beer than I can buy for all the great work on the Deno toolchain, but if we could get this issue[1] with HTML template tags going, it would be easier for me to convince the Lit crowd to chip in. Tanks again for the great work!
[1] https://github.com/dprint/dprint-plugin-typescript/issues/9
Comment · 4 years ago
Leo, your comments save me a lot of typing on threads like this, and since I recently wrote[1] what beeandapenguin wrote above almost to a point (sans security), I feel obliged to expand a bit.
You are right about incompatibility being a major issue; Deno recognizes that as well, hence, they are working on a compatibility mode that allows using Node specific libraries in Deno[2].
> migrating to Deno is, charitably, likely a monumental task that nobody would ever undertake, even considering the upsides.
This is, of course, contingent on the architecture used: for code tightly coupled to frameworks/runtimes it is indeed a monumental task. I have two small to mid size SaaS apps happily running on Node.js, but I'm looking forward to replacing it with Deno solely for the streamlined DX. The apps follow DDD architecture, thus, framework specific stuff is decoupled into a service/adapter and changing it is a day's work. The major technical road-block for now is indeed incompatibility of third-party libraries/SDKs written for Node.js (google sdk, mongdbo driver, etc.).
[1] https://itnext.io/moving-libraries-to-deno-the-whys-and-hows...
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, TS code is compiled to run in browsers. You can compile and bundle using `deno bundle` if your project is developed in Deno. Since I'm using Deno for library development, I use the `dnt`[1] tool to compile them into ESM modules later consumed by esbuild in my Node-based projects/toolchains.
Comment · 4 years ago
Good catch, thanks!
Comment · 4 years ago
I have moved all my library development to Deno and described the experience in a blog post[1].
To summarize, the two killer features for me are Web APIs and the built-in toolchain.
I understand the skepticism other Node devs have when faced with Deno. I have been using Node since 2010, and there is hardly anything I cannot do with it (or didn't do at one point), yet Deno makes a lot of these things much simpler. My last straw was trying to run Jest tests on TS code compiled into a Node.js ESM module. I believe I spent more time figuring out workarounds for a myriad of issues in Jest+ Node+TSC chain, than it took me to switch to Deno where all of it came out of the box.
[1] https://itnext.io/moving-libraries-to-deno-the-whys-and-hows...
edit: spelling
Comment · 4 years ago
By any chance, are you aware of any good surveys comparing the open models to the cloud providers for other NLP tasks like speech recognition or POS tagging?
Comment · 4 years ago
If it's speed you are looking for, give dprint (https://github.com/dprint/dprint) a try, it has a vscode plugin too.
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