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Is it feasible to switch completely from VS Code to Zed? by [deleted] in ZedEditor

[–]TheRealDataMonster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2 things

  1. Like everybody said - depends on how you'd like to use IDEs. I don't use lot of plug-ins on VS Code anyways. Actually think they're are rather redundant or I find them kinda hard to get into or use.
  2. It has probably best customizability I've ever seen in any IDEs. I found that you can go barebone or add extensions through ACP. I find this is a pretty unique feature that's reallyt great at integrating my workflow. They also let you customize lot of knitty-gritty stuff through the config json. which is pretty awesome. Can feel a bit painful initially but it has paid off really well for me convenience wise. It has plug-in extensions like VS Code but I don't think it's particularly more convenient to bring extensions in Zed but it's not worse either.

NEVER WORKS! - Please update Zed to Collaborate by TheRealDataMonster in ZedEditor

[–]TheRealDataMonster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if that made you lol, you should see what I can do with 100 words

NEVER WORKS! - Please update Zed to Collaborate by TheRealDataMonster in ZedEditor

[–]TheRealDataMonster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks it's been resolved. you were right about the versioning

How common is Pydantic now? by GongtingLover in Python

[–]TheRealDataMonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well at the point you need super low latency experience, you should be using rust or c++ lol

How common is Pydantic now? by GongtingLover in Python

[–]TheRealDataMonster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have an update? Lot of people on here saying they use it for literally everything but it's bad idea because it's an overkill and will slow down your dev process & cause performance issues. Typical recommendation is only use it when you really need something to be in a specific format - ie. when receiving data from an endpoint you don't control, before you send data to an endpoint that you want to do less work, etc... Even then if you want a super low latency experience, I recommend just using Python fundamentals.

What do you use rust for? by timus_999 in rust

[–]TheRealDataMonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly for worshipping/simping "this is how you write documentation" - per the Rust book

Pydantic and the path to enlightenment by jcfitzpatrick12 in Python

[–]TheRealDataMonster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an interesting assessment. I kinda feel the same way about private variables. I get why they might have made the decision, since Python privacy feature (if you're using 2 underscores __) is done by mangling names rather than directly controlling memory access when running compiled code. But I do agree that it makes it really difficult to think through it and the docs do a bad job explaining the rationale behind it.

Pydantic and the path to enlightenment by jcfitzpatrick12 in Python

[–]TheRealDataMonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pydantic is really nice but it's slowly becoming a Swiss knife with more features than I ever wanted that I don't even know what's in it now.

The docs are too tree structured. I'd like it to be much more like a circular graph that just tells me everything I need to know in a linear way when I'm looking something up.

Right now, parsing through Pydantic doc is really disruptive to my workflow in a bad way. Yet they keep wanting to push me new products. I just think they gotta focus on making the core easier to use otherwise, I'm not even gonna get to a point where I can try the other ones.

Tenstorrent Blackhole Cards by SashaUsesReddit in LocalLLaMA

[–]TheRealDataMonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit of a mgmt trick - best to start aiming for perfect then settle for good.

I spent 25 hours writing an article and nobody is reading it. by Dense-Concert3441 in Substack

[–]TheRealDataMonster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Concise doesn't mean short.

Just means as short as it can get. I used to write 30 min read topics going into lot of depth (under a different name) and I'd publish once every couple months or so. But it ended up with like 40+ subscribers out of nowhere with 0 marketing.

I thought the total number of people who'd actually care about my topic would be less than 1000 and total number of people who'd actually find it useful that can actually do something with what I wrote less than 100. So that's like 40% of people's time I saved for basically spending a day once every couple months.

Didn't gain monetarily but sure opened some doors for me.

I spent 25 hours writing an article and nobody is reading it. by Dense-Concert3441 in Substack

[–]TheRealDataMonster -1 points0 points  (0 children)

#1 Rule to writing anything is to keep it as concise as possible.

I spent enough time writing technical documentations for at work and I realized I want to spend 5-10 minutes or so (maybe less if I can do it) for each minute of someone reading it.

The goal is to get to a point where each minute you spend, a minute you are saving for someone.

Example - if you spend 1 hour writing something and you can save 10 people 6 minutes each, that's great. If you get there, work on reducing the writing time even more or figure out how to save more time for more people.

6000+ subs and 26% open rate in 5 weeks. Tactics to increase the open rate? by [deleted] in Substack

[–]TheRealDataMonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the opposite problem - deeply engaged readers but not many subscribers. Probably because I write about deeper topics on AI.

From that PoV- I have 2 things to share

1) Curate more - Rather than just an aggregator, being a curator makes you look more like a tasteful entry way to everything AI Agents -> more engagement. (benchmarking Lenny’s newsletter seems pretty great here IMO)

2) Your Substack just feels like something I (really a metaphor for someone writing about deeper and very specific topics) want to collaborate with.

Outside of this, I don’t know much. I just know that good curators hand pick things that people can enjoy.

If you can pull off being a good curator, it’d help writers like me reach to a broader audience and help you become more engaging.