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What's really missing is a good way to browser by metadata (e.g. author, series or even your own custom tags). However, there seem to be some progress here [0].

[0]: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/8472

Comment · 2 years ago

I do often use this feature but sometimes fear I missing out because of some deliberate decisions by the author. Not sure if that worry is really warranted.

Comment · 3 years ago

Seveneves was really good. Almost feeling the urge to read it again!

Comment · 3 years ago

Designing Data Intensive Applications is really good, because it gives you an good overview of data systems. I had the feeling I don't have to understand all the details yet I would learn a lot.

Are there other books like this?

Comment · 3 years ago

My own name is actually only used in the very country I live in. Unexpectedly, my daughter's name is apparently also used in Arabic countries, it means something like "Gift from Allah".

Comment · 3 years ago

Although I had absolute no idea what I was doing when we played around with Agda in university, it was kind of fun constructing a few very basic proofs. It kind of felt like smashing some buttons until it worked. The Emacs integration with all the Unicode goodness was really something.

Comment · 3 years ago

The worst thing is how often developers almost fatalistically accept that testing sucks. I don't blame them though because improving the test infrastructure has little short-term business value or so they say.

Comment · 3 years ago

I'd love to try all those ergonomic keyboards, but the most ergonomic thing for me still is a Thinkpad-style trackpoint.

Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks! I was only aware of a Zones proposal which was withdrawn I think.

Comment · 3 years ago

A few of my colleagues and I had the silly (?) idea that you don't really need logs anymore. Instead of log messages you just attach span events [0]. You then just log the span title and a link to that span in Jaeger; something like [1]. I've only really tried that in my private project, but it felt pretty good. The UI of Jaeger could be a bit better to support that usage, though.

Edit: Actually, those colleagues are doing a talk about that topic. So, if you are in Germany and Hannover area, have a look at [2] and search for "Nie wieder Log-Files!".

[0]: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/ruby/manual/#a...

[1]:

    tracing.ts:38 Usecase: Handle Auth 
    tracing.ts:47 http://localhost:16686/trace/ec7ffb1e23ddbb8dd770a3f08028666b
    tracing.ts:38 Adapter: Find Personal Board 
    tracing.ts:47 http://localhost:16686/trace/e22d342316ab0d7d23230864008e27bc
    tracing.ts:38 Adapter: Find Starred Board List 
    tracing.ts:47 http://localhost:16686/trace/129f89cee26d54cfdc38abea368d9b4e
    tracing.ts:38 Adapter: Find Personal Board List 
    tracing.ts:47 http://localhost:16686/trace/97948127d77501ff0c65a5db21b21b5a

[2]: https://javaforumnord.de/2023/programm/

Comment · 3 years ago

I think with native Promises (and async/await?) there is currently no way to implement something like Zone.js properly. I've tried to instrument my code manually, but it's really error-prone and verbose. We really need something like https://nodejs.org/api/async_context.html#class-asynclocalst... to be implemented in the browser.