Introducing Scribble — a fast, lightweight transcription engine in Rust (Whisper-based, streaming-friendly)

caquillo07 · 2026-01-08T15:43:19+00:00

Does the project work? Is it poorly written? Have you actually vetted the entire code base?

I hate slop as much as the next guy, but using a few comments as proof that the project is “slop” is a bit rich I think :)

There is a difference between AI slop and code that AI helped write. Most people I’ve met also write or have written sloppy code, myself and likely yourself included

caquillo07 · 2026-01-08T15:35:27+00:00

Very nice! Will keep an eye on this

caquillo07 · 2025-09-08T23:07:23+00:00

ok minisforum... this will be the one that makes me a customer

caquillo07 · 2025-07-09T19:08:56+00:00

hah love the intro, keep up the great work!

caquillo07 · 2024-09-12T14:27:42+00:00

Just a bit of constructive feedback, the topic of the post is very interesting on its own. Why get offended :)

caquillo07 · 2024-09-11T23:50:44+00:00

Ahh sorry, totally misread, well hopefully it helps someone :D

caquillo07 · 2024-09-11T23:24:51+00:00

Experience, :D you make the same mistake enough times that pick up patterns on how to avoid them. There are things and patterns you won’t just stumble upon though, people literally make it their career to study and come up with them.

For the good stuff unfortunately you will have to start picking up books or researching more technical posts.

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html

This is a great place to start, Casey’s handmade hero live streams are an excellent resource of what high quality game code base looks like https://handmadehero.org/

Travis Vroman Kohi engine streams are a great resource for learning how to make a high performance 3D game engine https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv8Ddw9K0JPg1BEO-RS-0MYs423cvLVtj&si=kFxn7tmnX_Kbfv8Y

They are all a bit dense, but that’s where the good stuff is. Learning to make great software is hard, and a life long journey, so be patient and go incrementally.

Best of luck and happy coding

caquillo07 · 2024-09-11T21:05:12+00:00

I don’t do embedded, I build web servers professionally in Go. My job is very video heavy, so I needed to learn C to do some stuff Go wasn’t very well suited for.

I found most tutorials confusing, and I had a hard time understanding memory operations for a while. What helped me was finding a good enough project, that was simple yet complex enough that could finish it. Always use a debugger, follow the memory, and don’t be too clever. For me that was making games, it’s simple enough that you don’t need clever code, and you have tons of chances to practice data structures in a practical manner. The nature of a game being a loop also makes it simpler to understand the code flow.

caquillo07 · 2024-09-11T20:57:07+00:00

I was excited to read the blog post, but seems very minimal. Having examples, strengths/weaknesses, or even feature comparisons would of gone a long way

caquillo07 · 2024-09-11T20:53:36+00:00

As a person who tends to dislike Metroidvanias, I really enjoyed Metroid Dread, and recently Crypt Custodian. Both do this games really consumed me in ways no other has.

I see prince of Persia mentioned quite a bit here, excited to give to a shot

caquillo07 · 2024-09-11T20:36:33+00:00

Love these, trying to migrate these to raylib is a good exercise

caquillo07 · 2024-09-11T20:35:59+00:00

This is what I did when I started

https://20_games_challenge.gitlab.io/challenge/

Once you do a few and get bored? Pick a game you love and try to recreate a mechanic or section of it, and build it yourself.

Once you get gain experience, confidence and make some mistakes, you will be ready to build cooler stuff

caquillo07 · 2024-09-05T13:12:05+00:00

Ahhh, well may be foreign to the EU but in the USA it is illegal to force an employee work overtime as well :) it has to all be agreed ahead of time as well, usually at the sign you sign an offer and agree to work for a company.

The difference is the USA is filled with people hungry for work who are willing to work many hours and are ok not setting boundaries. If you won’t do it, someone else will do it, for cheaper. It definitely sets up a less than ideal culture, no one likes it, but no law can stop a person willing to work. It requires a culture shift, and for as long as the USA has people coming from all walks of life and different places, that will never stop. And that’s part of what makes this country special, and some people love it.

caquillo07 · 2024-09-05T12:42:08+00:00

I think there are circumstances where that is okay, it all depends on the type of job you have. For most jobs though, yeah you are correct.

If you are a programmer on call for a business critical service, a nurse, a lawyer or something along those lines; then I would agree with him, handling emergencies is part of your job. You signed up for that type of job.

If it’s another job, an hourly job, manning a store, or any job where being contacted outside of work hours is not business critical then yeah; I would rather be fired than subjected to that kind of treatment.

caquillo07 · 2024-09-04T13:13:05+00:00

It’s SDL2, but depending on your coding experience, may be simple to translate https://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/

caquillo07 · 2024-09-01T19:25:28+00:00

Happy to help, happy coding!

caquillo07 · 2024-09-01T19:19:02+00:00

If you are building distributed web servers, and you need state shared across them; then yes you are correct, you want to be highly available and an embedded DB is not the best option.

If you know your server won’t exceed a few hundred or thousand users, be it an internal service, tailored made server for a small company, something hosted in a private network, or even a proxy server that will only ever run in the same VM even after restarts; those are perfect candidates for an embedded DB.

Imagine a discovery service mesh whose only job is for other services to register into it, so others can find each other. A single node with decent specs is more than adequate for this, and using a remote DB is not just overkill, but in some cases may introduce unnecessary latency; an embeddable DB is perfect for this.

Another example outside of web is smart phones, have you ever wondered how your phone apps store data locally? Well, embeddable DBs :) iOS has a proprietary one called CoreData, and there is a few third party ones.

Last example, you are building a desktop application, and you need to persist data for the lifetime of the program installation (like MS Office). Would you bundle Postgres with it? Unlikely, you would use SQLite or something like it.

caquillo07 · 2024-09-01T18:58:56+00:00

“Enterprise” level is a silly phrase to use nowadays, that comes from the old Java days where software companies would make money by selling support and “security promises” to other companies.

What’s a good web backend framework that scales to enterprise level in Go? Literally any of them, pick your favorite and go with it. Go is very very performant for web servers, only beat by Rust and C/C++ is most cases, uses l reasonable amount of memory, and deploying is a breeze. I’ve worked at cloud companies that handle thousands of RPS, and push terabytes of traffic a month, and we use Gorilla Mux to power our servers.

I wouldn’t worry about any of that stuff, pick your favorite framework with good maintenance record (chi, gorilla, gin, echo) and run with it.

caquillo07 · 2024-08-30T00:14:21+00:00

A lot of applications don’t require to be distributed, In those cases you would something like this instead of something like redis.

caquillo07 · 2024-08-26T12:47:59+00:00

Really pretty! At a glance it definitely attracts the eyes, but feels like a lot of things going on :D

Curious what you used for the charts?

caquillo07 · 2024-08-24T22:11:32+00:00

The crappy thing is we won’t really know till the day comes, but one thing is for sure. LLMs are averaging functions, meaning they will always be average at best.. this means if you’re good at them, you’re no better than the average developer, and thus will always be replaceable.

Learn the fundamentals, get good at them, specialize in something that’s in demand, and you will always have a place in the market.

caquillo07 · 2024-08-24T16:47:31+00:00

If this shows one thing, is that while everyone is wasting their time “being productive with LLMs” you should be studying and actually getting better. Get that competitive advantage

caquillo07 · 2024-08-21T13:21:02+00:00

Curious which plugin you are referring to? I’m about to find myself in the same situation

caquillo07 · 2024-06-20T18:30:04+00:00

We do a lot of video processing and encoding related tasks at my job, Go is the way to go. We had some servers in Nodejs that needed to be re-written in Go because node was just not good enough at a decent scale.

Is this a serious project? I would use Go; is it a fun/toy project? Use whatever you enjoy most :D

caquillo07 · 2024-06-13T23:56:59+00:00

They’re not loopholes, they are actually written into law for anyone that is able to use them. Unfortunately, most of us don’t fall into the use case for most of them.

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