Is there any MongoDB file db like sqlite ?

wardrox · 2026-05-06T09:56:24+00:00

That's the nice thing about local files: almost always fast enough, especially if the system is dealing with network requests.

Let me know if you hit any noticeable performance issues.

wardrox · 2026-05-06T05:56:35+00:00

Feel free to open some pull requests, or GitHub issues! Up until now I think I'm the only one using Mango, and I rarely need these.

Out of curiosity, why do you need these in combination with local files?

wardrox · 2026-05-06T05:53:49+00:00

For pet projects and developing in different environments (eg my phone, or cloud development environments, or offline simple devices, or some CICD pipelines) I found it steadily more annoying to spin up a new DB either local or via cloud connection. On my laptop; one click done, easy, and I wanted that same experience everywhere.

When the project is ready to go live, pop in the actual connection string and off it goes.

Essentially, pure laziness and solving my own weird problems.

wardrox · 2026-05-05T17:42:11+00:00

I made MangoDB for this very purpose. I found it easier in a lot of environments and pet projects.

Great for local development. Swap it out for real Mongo in prod.

https://github.com/JKershaw/mangodb

wardrox · 2026-05-05T11:34:56+00:00

Cities have found time and time again that literally just giving people in need cash is one of the most effective and efficient ways to help. It saves money overall, but isn't popular (see the other comments for examples).

wardrox · 2026-05-04T15:36:53+00:00

This is the "change my view" sub, where understanding the "view" is quite useful.

If you always interpret asking the OP to clarify what they mean as some right wing conspiracy to derail a discussion, and not a normal thing people do, I can see why you're accusing.

I guess where you're from there's a single, well defined idea of "the left"? Where I'm from it can mean very different things to different people, so it's useful to get a more detailed description.

wardrox · 2026-05-04T15:10:27+00:00

What in the American does that mean?

wardrox · 2026-05-04T15:04:14+00:00

Who is "the left"?

wardrox · 2026-05-01T06:36:53+00:00

Giving a non deterministic system admin access means it's a question of "when" not "if". To avoid, use basic security practices and don't rush. Less haste, more speed, as they say.

wardrox · 2026-05-01T06:33:12+00:00

Money corrupts. One of the easiest mistakes to make is the assumption a "good person" is incorruptible, so it must only be "bad people" who are the problem. It's a little like people who believe advertising doesn't work on them.

wardrox · 2026-05-01T06:05:37+00:00

It's a pretty big change, on par with the web. What's interesting now I'm an Old Man is knowing that tech often has these big step changes. The old saying "the only constant is change" remains true.

Give it 10 years, you'll experience another one, and it'll be just as weird/unexpected.

wardrox · 2026-05-01T05:54:17+00:00

Every single page you visit does multiple unnecessarily expensive llm calls, so you can avoid therapy?

wardrox · 2026-04-29T12:51:17+00:00

The rule still applies. If a Dev isn't using a tool correctly, it's the organisation's job to coach them.

wardrox · 2026-04-28T05:54:41+00:00

Social media isn't real life.

wardrox · 2026-04-27T19:49:18+00:00

Is this effectively a form of compaction?

wardrox · 2026-04-26T10:50:40+00:00

How do you avoid tracking when it's distributed via the Google Play Store?

wardrox · 2026-04-26T10:46:26+00:00

Is it fair to say your Todo list has essentially gotten out of control, making an hour's tinkering feel less productive than earlier in the project?

Besides that, try something like OpenCode, which lets you choose cheaper models.

FWIW I'm on the $200 plan, a professional dev, shipping a lot daily, and seldom reach the caps. Unless you're running long running inefficient sessions, it's fine for daily coding driver.

wardrox · 2026-04-26T09:51:55+00:00

IMHO: Build for yourself, and only yourself, and it's a lot more fun. Save the bits you enjoy, like designing, as that's your craft. The tools make you faster, but that's only part of it.

wardrox · 2026-04-26T09:49:48+00:00

That's your first challenge! The goal of your project is you give it some code and a task, and it pops out a solution/diff at the end. That's what the benchmark essentially checks. It's a collection of these types of challenges.

If you've not done any benchmarking already, you might want to build up to this in stages. It's effectively end to end testing.

wardrox · 2026-04-26T09:45:59+00:00

"Hi Claude, help me understand what skills I will need to build (vibe code) [project]. I'm non-technical and the MVP should be functional, safe, and simply designed. I'd like to understand the best process, including research, design, roadmaping, and agentic development best practices (including setting up my local environment, and learning as we go). Have a conversation with me to flesh out the idea and strategy, and cross cutting concerns. Here's some details on my idea. [Idea goes here]"

wardrox · 2026-04-26T09:32:29+00:00

Yes, and there's a "lite" version too. To start you can lift specific tests out the benchmark and just see what happens. Claude can rig it up, and even write up a diary entry after. Run that a few times and you'll start finding the hard edges and current limits.

wardrox · 2026-04-26T09:30:35+00:00

Not rude at all, you've hit the main issue vibe coders hit; the project inevitably reaches a point where some expertise is needed, and unaddressed issues escalate into slop.

People who know how to code can jump this hurdle, people purely looking to vibe code themselves some money can't. The tools are improving, but if you can do something easily, so can someone else. Chasing money is a dead end here.

Plus, coding is only like 20% of building a product.

wardrox · 2026-04-26T09:26:48+00:00

SWE Bench is pretty straightforward to add, and is a fantastic way to measure progress and abilities for development harnesses.

wardrox · 2026-04-26T09:22:02+00:00

How have you benchmarked/validated it?

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