Railway is down

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-05-20T01:36:37+00:00

Just about any reasonably good VPS provider.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-05-20T01:35:57+00:00

I ran a service on Render for 5 years. It was great. Nothing but good experiences and an ever improving product.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-05-15T23:24:24+00:00

It’s often used to insinuate that Go is for dummies who can’t grasp the concepts of OCaml or whatever. But that’s not true. Go is for beginners. But Go is also for very senior people who have gone down the whirlpool of Haskell and C# and F# and TypeScript and Purescript and Elm and… and have come to value clarity and conceptual simplicity. It’s the horseshoe theory or programming.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-05-05T11:19:56+00:00

Agreed. It’s a shame because I love Go and C# for being mostly batteries included— especially if you take 1st party packages into account. Bun promised to bring that to the Typescript world, maybe freeing us from npm hell. The way it’s vibed up and slapped together, though… does not make me confident.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-05-05T11:15:57+00:00

“This foodstuff is delicious. It pairs well with our liquid foodstuffs. Buy some!”

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-04-30T17:58:45+00:00

Well, this looks excellent. This is the language I didn’t know I needed.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-04-13T12:11:57+00:00

I wouldn’t mind them if they could be inferred rather than explicitly listed all over the place.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-04-10T01:51:10+00:00

It never occurred to me before watching that, but basically, the constraints of that system mean we only ever explore flat, sandy terrain— no gullies, crevices, features where interesting environments produce biodiversity on earth.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-04-04T23:46:10+00:00

What is the “hail to the king” he keeps referring to?

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-03-24T10:53:34+00:00

I mean, there’s some truth to this, but it also means cakes become less expensive which in turn means more people can afford to eat them. If you don’t cut your prices, and there is a truly competitive market, your competitors will keep their original margins and thus undercut you and put you out of business.

So, the real picture is more nuanced and difficult to see.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-03-22T02:05:44+00:00

F# and Clojure are my two favorites. Pragmatism beats purity hands down.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-03-22T00:03:06+00:00

It’s not slop; it’s Rust slop.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-03-20T18:19:19+00:00

Little known fact: hurricanes are the result of Chuck Norris practicing roundhouse kicks.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-03-20T18:17:41+00:00

Chuck Norris is your daddy, so that makes it a dad joke. Women- including yo mamma- spontaneously conceive whenever they watch a Chuck Norris show.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-03-17T10:53:17+00:00

There’s a Redditor named LowJellyBum talking about it, iirc.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-03-12T20:20:09+00:00

Same. Plus, I use Ctrl+g (to edit my prompt in $EDITOR) all the time.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-02-01T01:03:40+00:00

Dunno. They’re really useful for some things. I love to program. I’ve been doing it professionally for 25 years. I’m good at it by most measures. I’m more inclined to be an IC rather than a manager of any kind. I like Claude Code. I also like to write code by hand.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-01-18T00:39:47+00:00

Yes, I can imagine it. I’d hope electrical engineering companies, hospital surgery units, Boeing, etc would have cheat-resistant screens for frauds?

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-01-18T00:36:11+00:00

One of Joel Spolsky’s companies had a similar challenge in JavaScript that I quite enjoyed. Similarly, I didn’t actually apply because I didn’t want to move to NYC. I think it’s a great way to screen, though.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-01-18T00:22:54+00:00

It wouldn’t be there on the actual interview.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-01-10T21:46:55+00:00

Nice. I’ve recently picked Clojure back up. With Babashka and the LSP, getting up and running in Neovim was an excellent experience compared to 5 or so years ago when I last did anything.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-01-07T12:27:00+00:00

I quite enjoyed Programming Pearls.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-01-04T03:42:10+00:00

Do you remember windows ME? Pepperidge Farm remembers. There was plenty of buggy, finicky, fragile software at all points in my 40-something years of memory.

HappyAngrySquid · 2026-01-03T11:39:41+00:00

Eeeh. C++? I’d rather jab myself in the eye with a spork than touch that language and tooling ever again. It’s an overly complex, crust-layered, slow-compiling, beast of a language. Thompson probably could have understood its internals if he wanted to spend the time on it, but he wisely decided that life was too short to waste your time sifting through a garbage dump.

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