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It is absolutely bonkers to me that there still isn't a standard way to just see which functions a python module exposes. I know it's dynamic enough to generate new ones at runtime, but like, I'm just tryin' to look at docs!

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

I'm officially adding Notification Systems to my list of inherently hard problems. I've got: * Cache invalidation * Authorization * Notification Systems What's on your list?

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

🤝 We've just added collaborator support to Unison Share! You can now add fellow Unison devs to your projects with these roles: 👁️ View – Read & download 🔧 Maintain – Read, download, merge & write 🔑 Admin – Full admin permissions Try it out here: share.unison-lang.org/

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

P.s. thank you to whoever maintains HTTP.Cat, I unironically reach for it to look up the more obscure http status codes and it adds a bit of whimsy to my day. http.cat/418

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Today's programmer annoyance: Cyclic import errors. _Sometimes_ it reflects a bad design, but I think more often it's just a limitation of the compiler, let me organize my code how I want please :) Golang lets a package span many files, Unison compiles at the definition level, any other solutions?

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

I am once again urging news organizations to learn the difference between questions and answers

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submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

HELP PRESERVE OUR LIMITED SUPPLY OF UUIDS! instead of generating a new UUID, try to reuse one you already have!

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

Pro tip, don't use emoji represented by multiple codepoints in an text you're trying to align, it'll show up differently between terminals (e.g. iterm2 vs Terminal app) and will ultimately just cause a bunch of headaches.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I'm giving a `jj` (#jujutsu) version control primer in the @unison-lang.org discord in 25 minutes! Come join up and ask some questions :) unison-lang.org/discord

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

On a completely unrelated note, I really love this query plan visualizer www.pgexplain.dev

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Just got a new #Postgres query cost high score of 142,086,037.85 😅, what's your high score?

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Haters will say this approach doesn't work at scale or w/e, but what if I told you that Unison Share, a production-grade code-hosting and package management platform, doesn't have a SINGLE unit test? It's all integration tests using this transcript-test method. bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Hot take, I don't make assertions in my tests anymore. I write tests which record what happened as files on disk, then in CI when we run the tests again we assert there are no changes from the test artifacts that are checked in. This transcript-driven testing approach provides a bunch of benefits 👇

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Many devs write SQL embedded in some other language, ORM, Interpolator, something like that, but would benefit from getting even basic SQL syntax checking in that environment. Is there any lax SQL LSP I can configure with my lang's interpolation syntax? Or do I need to write my own?

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

I really can't overstate how much I actually _enjoy_ writing parallel and concurrent code in #Haskell. It has the abstractions for this dialled in perfectly, and amazingly, can be pretty easily adapted to fit any style. Structured concurrency? No prob. Actor model? Gotchu boss. CSP? Done.

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submitted 55 days ago • 323 comments

Funny story: we decided not to buy a Subaru Outback almost purely because when I looked down to adjust the AC on the big dumb touchscreen, the car beeped loudly at me for taking my eyes off the road… but I had to bc touch screen 🙃 Analog is the way 💯

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

HYTRADBOI is tomorrow! Feb 28 0900 PDT. The chat will run for days, so it's worth joining even if you can't make the early hours. Bring all your friends too! Re-skeet, share on your favorite forum, put flyers under your neighbours doors etc. See you tomorrow! www.hytradboi.com/2025/#tickets

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

New review scoring method; just say how much you'd be willing to pay for it. Or to account for salary differences, how long you'd be willing to work for it "It was SICK, worth a day's work" "Terrible, I want the hour I spent on it back" "Solid value, I'd work an hour for it"

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone have a good FM synthesis playlist?

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Do DB triggers feel like cheating to anyone else? Like, you're just hiding a little script away somewhere cuz you couldn't express the invariants any other way... and you just kinda hope no-one else finds your sneaky code hiding under the rug with all the other triggers...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I've set up a periodic web scraper that takes screenshots of certain federal websites every morning to see what has changed: github.com/gtfierro/eo-...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

> i've been reading up on type theory > ooh, what have you been reading > well so far water beats fire and ground beats poison > ...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

I don't like that Apple is taking flak for this; they're definitely not above reproach, but they shouldn't be blamed for UK's stupidity. Curious to see if they, or other companies, pull out of the UK to put some consumer pressure on legislators over this.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Kinda crazy to me that there isn't like, an html tag for times which will display that time in the viewer's local time zone... You can do it in JS, but really shouldn't have to.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments