thomasballinger
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ballingt.com, [email protected], @ballingt
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Comment · 1 year ago
Codex remote environments seem to do this, we had to add support (via two lines of code) for these proxy environment variables to our CLI to support talking to GitHub from these environments.
Comment · 1 year ago
There's a change history in the spec at https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/appendix/changes.htm... and I see a 3.0 branch with updates for 3 https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/1e8f1dad8ca35ef3941...
Comment · 1 year ago
My favorite talk (although I haven't gotten through them all yet) was Alex Miller's Enough with all the Raft https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/2016d6c4-b08d-40b3-af2f-67926...
Comment · 2 years ago
HTTP handlers for requests can be defined, many Convex apps define these to handle webhook notifications and some apps consist primarily of these endpoints or app-specific REST APIs. (I work at Convex)
Edit: simultaneous post with my manager
Comment · 3 years ago
I figure compilation is a big tent and this counts, but imagine
--rename-properties WARNING: renaming properties requires deeper analysis, considered compilation in the US
Comment · 4 years ago
I so appreciate these being public, see also Steve's Compose readme[1] and post-mortem[2].
I got to sit in for a day during prototyping for user 2 and was impressed but intimidated: reinventing the web stack is a lot of work! The team won me over though. If you have the chance to pair program with JP I highly recommend it, and I expect to be impressed by this team again in the future.
[1]https://github.com/compose-run/client [2]https://composerun.notion.site/Jan-2022-17761ede06f94e2abc42...
Comment · 4 years ago
Note that this sentence was about browser-based integration tests. Browser automation has come a long way, but even on very frontend-fluent teams I've been on we had a few flakey tests, and browser-based integration tests are sometimes flakey in ways that are difficult and tedious to debug! Not understanding why doesn't necessarily indicate any lack of understanding of DNS.
But maybe it increases the odds of a "Let's understand Playwright!" post in the future!
Comment · 5 years ago
A nice surprise to see this here! I did a web port of this game with Emscripten which much help from janisozaur: https://play-endless-web.com
There's an outdated post about what was hard about the port at http://ballingt.com/porting-endless-sky/ – with Emscripten as good as it is, it really wasn't bad!
Comment · 5 years ago
Here's another implementation of what's described above, it forks on each invocation of readline to provide undo for interactive interpreters. https://github.com/thomasballinger/rlundo
Comment · 6 years ago
A related project is fatcat.wiki
Comment · 6 years ago
Minecraft Education Edition provides in-game coding tools for Python, JavaScript, and a MakeCode-style visual block editor! This would be a great activity to do with some children I know.
But it's only available for Office 365 Education accounts, which is a product it seems I can't purchase as an individual.
Are there any educational institutions that I can pay to give me a accounts I could use for this? Or does anyone know what's involved in spinning up your own educational institution that Microsoft will sell Office 365 for education to?