Clojure hacker. Emacs enthusiast. Game jamer.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Two way data bindings when you need them makes #datastar an absolute joy to work with.
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This is so untrue it hurts. You can only possibly have this position if you don't measure
I should link my 2022 article talking about this. The challenge isn't the capabilities of the language but the value of having the same runtime across both sides for the handoff. There are possible other off-ramps, but right now we are stuck.
dev.to/playfulprogramming/th…
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You never really know how your open source work effects others... Thanks again for all that @TheGingerBill has given!
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Small update on things I've worked on recently.
A small utility dashboard that I'm using to just peek into how my vm is doing.
All on Stario & Datastar!
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Great intro to Datastar by Matthew Tolman at @utjs piped.video/watch?v=MhJ2UgJe…
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Why does Alex Russell have < 200 views after almost a year on @redmonk but @theo's garbage still has an audience? Y'all are crazy
piped.video/zoo4G6WMPAU?t=1856
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Biff 2 released and Datastar by default biffweb.com/p/biff2-released…
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In the world I see, open source is dead.
We’ll go back to Usenet and IRC, hiding in little federated servers whose names are passed around by hand. You’ll keep a local mirror of the software you need because there’s no guarantee it will still exist tomorrow.
Got that same feeling, as a maintainer is tiring and demoralizing those "perfectly"-md issues/PRs descriptions, as if the person sending it mastered the problem/solution, not considering that there is an human behind it, reading and really trying hard to understand 😞
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How to drive your frontend from the backend.
packagemain.tech/p/golang-da…
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Having a Jan 1st clear out. This Emacs elisp manual is from Dec 1990.
35 years old.
Everything in it still works today.
The impact of your software isn't just in the value it can produce today, but it's multiplied over the future time dimension.
Put that in your CLAUDE.md file!
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Why isn't Datastar the default approach to web apps? Stupid fast and super small.
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Until you can measure the actual times to interact with others this isn't anything beyond a toy sadly. Clients are not independent of the true owner of state. If you are gonna do that then just have a native app or build it completely in WASM.
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The question in my mind is not “why switch to streaming”? The question is, “why isn’t streaming the default?”
We know the consequences of the current batched approach. Even though the effects seem minuscule on small data sets, it adds up across requests. To the point where you can see orders of magnitude difference in performance between a batched app and a streaming app.
Streaming is also a natural fit for a key/value approach that we know opens up the reduced SQL requests you mentioned, and enables entire classes of problem.
If you examine Convirgance examples, you’ll find that there is no productivity cost to adopting streaming. Quite the opposite. Streaming + Key/Value radically reduces the amount of code and skyrockets productivity.
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Totally agree with this mindset. It's very easy to fall into the trap of using abstraction as a mental organisation tool like putting a document in a folder, rather than the correct purpose: enforcing single source of truth in logic & creating boundaries for system communication
A good way to evaluate one axis of quality of an abstraction is to inline every function call, and see how much duplicate work you can either deduplicate or turn into a loop (rather than several independent function calls). This also restructures the code such that you can consider work as batches of identically shaped work, rather than either (a) being in shallow callstack code and dealing with a list of abstract, opaque function calls, or (b) being in deep callstack code and not understanding the context you're being called within.
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I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers.
As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can.
I don’t get it, at ALL. Don’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine?
You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?
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Automatic vs Manual Programming is a deceiving framing. Nobody does it manually. We have compilers that code for you in assembly. Thousands lines codegens are a thing in many serious projects for ages. It all has been solved long time ago. You just don't know what programming is.
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Noting the nature of the 2x throughput fix is directly inspired from hanging out in the Datastar discord with @anders_murphy ..
"Each [actor] now runs on its own thread and evaluates its closure inline, instead of bouncing every frame to a worker thread and back. A trivial actor goes from 40K to 90K frames/s"
a new cross-stream release: v0.13.4
- Actors are ~2x faster, a trivial actor goes from 40K to 90K frames/s
- reads can now filter on multiple topic patterns at once by merging their indexes (a MergeAppend), and
- embedders can supply a base Nushell engine so their own commands reach actors/services/actions
github.com/cablehead/xs/rele…
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