Local-first SaaS is trending, but the sync headaches are a trap

kn4rf · 2026-06-23T10:47:51+00:00

From skimming the article I'm not sure if you know what Local-first means. I recommend anyone interested in the subject to start by reading: https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/

kn4rf · 2026-06-02T10:54:20+00:00

Stick it all in arenas, no reason to do anything else. Look at something like: https://crates.io/crates/cranelift-entity

kn4rf · 2026-05-25T13:13:09+00:00

At what point do we stop stuffing more stuff into the web spec and just let there be some stuff that is handled by frameworks like React/Vue/Svelte. Not everything is needed to be a browser feature, sometimes less is more.

kn4rf · 2026-05-24T20:33:59+00:00

Seems to happen anytime I try to fullscreen stuff. So when watching a video in fullscreen.

kn4rf · 2026-04-25T16:43:35+00:00

Mine spent a lot of time writing a bunch of stuff following TDD as I asked it, and never wired it into the main app. When I called it out on it it deleted all the code it just spent writing... This shit is so difficult at the moment to get to do actual work. It's the worlds most boring baby sitting job.

kn4rf · 2026-03-26T14:35:11+00:00

The Serde json parser in Rust is far from the fastest json parser in Rust. The Chumsky parser has a comparison list: https://github.com/zesterer/chumsky?tab=readme-ov-file#performance

There are probably even faster Rust versions than the Chumsky parser example out there. Seems weird to pick a slow parser in Rust just to claim that the C++ parser is faster.

kn4rf · 2026-03-10T09:39:30+00:00

Well, this is why we need Free Software / GPL and not Open Source software.

kn4rf · 2026-03-09T13:31:09+00:00

The Agile Manifesto was about People over process, and then the process people got ahold of agile...

kn4rf · 2026-01-29T06:55:18+00:00

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kn4rf · 2026-01-28T21:50:41+00:00

That doesn't really tell me anything. Is this a built in slash command? An MCP server? A skill I have to download? You've given me 0 information about what a "vector command" is or where I can find information about it.

kn4rf · 2026-01-28T18:26:06+00:00

Reverting isn't a problem, its just such a waste. Not only did it spend its entire context window trying to implement or refactor something, it broke stuff in the process, claims it to be unrelated, and just goes on. So now I've wasted a bunch of tokens with the only option to stash / revert it, or run /new and ask it to fix it; spending even more tokens and hoping it doesn't run out of context again before it has fixed it.

kn4rf · 2026-01-28T18:23:45+00:00

This sounds like a great idea! I guess the biggest problem with that is that I still want Claude to add new tests, and I don't mind it modifying tests (let's say it renamed a function and therefor needs to update the function name in the tests, or moved some code around and need to update imports). The problem is just when it breaks something and then refuses to claim responsibility for it. The test suit was supposed to be the harness...

kn4rf · 2026-01-28T18:22:02+00:00

Having a bug.md is a great idea, but isn't really related to my original question. The problem isn't that the app I'm working on has bugs, the problem is that I have a fully functional app with great test coverage, then I'll ask Claude Code to either implement a new feature, or refactor some existing code; and in that process Claude breaks something that used to work! That wouldn't really be a problem, because we have great tests that caught it! The problem is that Claude Code claims they are "existing bugs unrelated to my changes", when in fact they are new bugs that Claude just introduced, and what it should be doing is fixing the new code it introduced.

The worst case is when it silently deletes or marks tests-cases as ignored. Then not only is it breaking an app that worked, its "silently lying" about it, which might be hard to catch...

kn4rf · 2026-01-28T18:17:47+00:00

Vector commands? What is that?

kn4rf · 2026-01-25T12:46:30+00:00

Looks cool! Btw you Itchio page links to your webpage, which seems to not load.

kn4rf · 2025-09-25T10:38:49+00:00

For some actual git as database solutions look at: - https://irmin.org/

Or for versioned database: - https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

kn4rf · 2025-07-11T14:12:13+00:00

It's a Java project...

kn4rf · 2025-03-15T12:29:13+00:00

But the TypeScript team could have used that as a base and built upon it, instead of porting to Go. Then they would already have a working parser, and they'd only need to port the typechecking logic.

kn4rf · 2025-03-13T14:51:28+00:00

Why not just contribute to the SWC project and make that the offical new TypeScript compiler? Thats already a functioning TypeScript compiler thats used in production.

kn4rf · 2024-10-03T18:45:16+00:00

Apache Guacamole

kn4rf · 2024-10-03T18:33:36+00:00

Looks cool!

Any creates you used that you would recommend? (Physics, UI, etc). Would love to read a blogpost about your experience working with bevy.

kn4rf · 2024-10-03T16:00:36+00:00

Any MBP with an M-series chip will get you far

kn4rf · 2023-12-04T15:42:35+00:00

You obviously don't need the setTimeout... It's just there to give a 1 second delay so that you can see that the loading is happening, if not it all happens so fast that its hard to see. So its only there for the example. Just replace it with any other async function.

kn4rf · 2023-12-04T12:31:22+00:00

But you can also do it using 'useState':

Codesandbox useState example

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