martin-adams

The important thing here is that the British Library has a copy of all the published books, magazines, etc from the UK.

When I self published my book with a physical print, I was required to submit a copy to them free of charge. Which I’m proud to have contributed to. Naturally I don’t want it accessible to all, hence the reading room requirement.

I remember them launching the web archive as an extension of this as a lot of human knowledge has moved online. So yes it feels weird you can only retrieve it from their reading room, but in the context of them having access to physical copyrighted material, it does make more sense.

I like this. There's a lot of history hidden in codebases that definitely should be considered. I wonder if in code design docs and LLM to review it will make it easier to manage.

Very cool. I do feel there is something to this to have a grasp on these large codebases and have a sense that they are structured the right way.

Thank you :)

Oooh, nice catch, I'll feed that back to get fixed.

Yes, and if they keep dumbing it down, you’ll have it soon

I am using iTerm2 with multiple tabs. Sometimes I put different projects on different spaces on macOS. The trick seems to have a special place of them in my head.

But I do feel there must be a better way.

This feels like the image of the plane that returns from battle with bullet holes, and the engineer being asked to path up where the holes to make it stronger. Only to be told to patch where there weren't holes as those planes didn't make it home.

While not an exact fit of an analogy, those tests patch what was a problem with Postgres in the wild. What it doesn't cover are the things that worked in Postgres without tests, but may fail in port and go undetected.

About 15 years ago I used to have a Silhouette cutter printer. You could get a cutting blade and it would cut shapes out of paper and card. I remember putting a pen in there and using it to write with it on paper. It was cool.

Very fun. I can only imagine building this with Claude and testing needed a bit of mental concentration.

React was one of those ways of building software that gave me back the giddy excitement I had learning Visual Basic as a kid.

It’s hard to explain, but the way everything was encapsulated as a component just clicked for me and suddenly the whole app could be composed.

I think it was when they introduced functional components. And when it comes to hooks, I love them.

Not to say other frameworks didn’t do the same, there was something special about React.