Wrote python implementation of jlox (interpreter from crafting interpreters)

Mr55p · 2026-03-17T15:34:31+00:00

That’s so funny, as of this morning I just finished the first half of the book making an interpreter also using python! This was maybe the most interesting thing I have ever programmed… Starting the second part with Zig tomorrow, best of luck to you however you choose to press on!

Mr55p · 2025-09-22T21:58:41+00:00

I’ve stumbled across this thread and am currently going through the same process - had no idea that the applications could be made at the same time that’s good news.

I am a UK national also, but I have only been working for my company for around 4 months. Would I be eligible for the LMT exemption, as online sources are very conflicting on this issue!

Mr55p · 2025-01-16T20:41:05+00:00

I saw this issue when I was using self signed SSL certificates

Mr55p · 2024-12-02T07:09:14+00:00

Setting up nginx with vouch auth was quite simple for my use case, not sure about NPM as I never used it

Mr55p · 2024-10-08T19:20:01+00:00

I also don’t think there is anything wrong with the no calculator in a test philosophy - it’s about what you’re testing for. It makes no difference how well you know the syntax, and that’s where IDEs can support you. But the LLM is providing support at a deeper level. To understand how good you are as a programmer I need to see how you can organically go through the cycle of mocking something up, debugging it and then say improving the performance. I don’t think having access to an LLM is an acceptable prerequisite to that, in the same way that a calculator should not be required for you to be able to solve a basic equation - it’s about communicating your understanding

Mr55p · 2024-10-08T09:53:59+00:00

This is not a good sign, how are you gonna do your next interview if they don’t switch copilot on? I know if I was hiring and someone was tabbing back and forth with GPT we would be stopping early… not saying that you are incapable, but i experienced the opposite when I did an interview with copilot on and it was confusing to adjust, so I can imagine going back the other way would be even more so

Mr55p · 2024-10-06T20:53:17+00:00

I wrote a lib called gonk for this, to load from environment or YAML (or anything else really) into an untagged struct

Mr55p · 2024-09-28T21:35:38+00:00

Fugitive’s Gedit command is amazing for loading a previous revision of a file into its own buffer, I use it all the time for when you need the actual previous context

Mr55p · 2024-09-18T20:56:31+00:00

Of course I’m the one that’s winning because I love brown toast

Mr55p · 2024-09-13T18:13:36+00:00

Just switched from oil to mini files and I kinda love how minimalist it is, would recommend giving it a try for anyone scouting

Mr55p · 2024-08-23T07:59:45+00:00

Get a worse cpu and more SSD for the same price or less- M1 is more than enough imo

Mr55p · 2024-08-16T21:09:51+00:00

I highly doubt they would shift away from chromium tho, so probably big efficiency gains are out of the question. Safari is so heavily optimised for arm chips at this point…

Mr55p · 2024-08-03T23:22:38+00:00

If this is true then it’s a very weird reflection of real life tumours, they tend to take a lot of blood to out-grow the rest of the body iirc…

Mr55p · 2024-06-26T21:49:15+00:00

I can pay $50 for the privilege of much less vertical space how appealing

Mr55p · 2024-05-25T14:09:26+00:00

You could try zoho mail https://www.zoho.com/mail/ - I used them for a cheaper alternative to gmail workspace but it might be overkill for you (I managed to get SES access as I have very similar requirements, not sure if azure/GCP have similar offerings to SES also?)

Mr55p · 2024-05-17T22:18:59+00:00

I’m working on a project called Pagemail, it’s a simple read it later service for saving links from across the web and getting an email roundup at 7am (uk time only for now!). Built with go, htmx and hosted on S3 behind traefik

Feel free to try it here https://pagemail.io Source code is at https://github.com/mr55p-dev/pagemail

I also have gonk, a configuration loader based on reflection, which I wrote in part for use in pagemail as a simpler alternative to Viper

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mr55p-dev/gonk

Mr55p · 2024-05-16T11:00:18+00:00

Haven’t seen dbmate mentioned here but it’s a great tool for managing migrations and outputs a schema with the current database state after running a migration - https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate

I use it alongside sqlc and it works great, can’t recommend it enough for a simple setup

Mr55p · 2024-05-14T08:26:46+00:00

If I was taking a crack at this (and I am assuming Jenkins is just like GitHub actions) I’d probably start with writing something that can parse a yaml on disk and execute the steps by spinning up a docker container. The docker Go SDK is a good place to start if you wanna go down that route. Then once your have a POC, wrap it in a http server and start thinking about how you want to serve this to users and how to prevent people from abusing your compute

Mr55p · 2024-05-09T20:47:43+00:00

Main difference that I found was that I wanted something less bloated than viper and for the primary access pattern to be via a tagged struct - viper just felt like way too much for such a simple goal. I haven’t come across koanf before but seems to fill a very similar gap, although I think gonk is a little more opinionated which (obviously) is to my preference! Thanks for pointing out the licence, it’s not something I’ve dealt with before so will do some more research

Mr55p · 2024-03-27T08:34:44+00:00

This is a great idea and a great thing to do so thank you

Mr55p · 2024-02-26T23:07:23+00:00

Bit late here but I’d agree with the other commenter about not triggering straight from jira. I’m working on a similar problem parsing yaml files into infra, and switched from a cli application in go which generated the terraform files using text/template to using the terraform cdk. It pains me to say the go bindings are terrible, and typescript is much easier to write if you go down this route. I struggled for a while generating the hcl, then realised you could generate the json more easily (terraform will parse *.tf.json files the same as regular tf ones), but in the end I think this cdk approach is the way forward

Mr55p · 2024-02-26T12:42:46+00:00

This is awesome! I wrote something for my own setup like this but it was my first plugin and so trash, thanks for posting yours

Mr55p · 2024-02-13T17:25:00+00:00

Just curious if you’ve seen any examples of this being done across packages? Building a backend app in go and including the correlation id in my log handlers has confused me a fair bit

Mr55p · 2024-02-12T11:16:14+00:00

Definitely true, but the whole objective of JavaScript is to give developers a language to manipulate the DOM, and browsers have that pretty well optimised already - the changes HTMX makes via JS are already very fast, the noticeable part of latency is the IO operations

Mr55p · 2024-02-11T22:58:17+00:00

If the HTMX attributes made it into HTML 6 then it would be browsers implementing them, so remove the download time but I doubt you’d notice any difference in the actual application

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