lenzai's comments

On: Turning the Crank: Design as a Mechanical Process

[lenzai]

I have had great results using https://structurizr.com/ to generate c4model.com

The only tool for diagram as code with which achieved 100% DRY.

Very interesting tool by the inventor of C4

[karmaniverous → lenzai]

I like it, but I like PlantUML better. Shitty documentation but awesome UML support, and also supports GraphML and a bunch of smaller libs like C4.

On: Mock DynamoDB-style query and scan behavior with local JSON data

[lenzai]

I did not realize DynamoDB had a proprietary API. Congrats @karmaniverous !

On: Simple Ways of Reducing the Cognitive Load in Code

[lenzai]

""" Storing the result of long conditionals into a variable or two is a great way to modularize without the overhead of a function call."""

Ridiculous ! Not only caring about overhead is misleading, but introducing local variables is against refactoring principles.

On: Ask HN: Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-competitor?

[lenzai]

With no doubt: wechat

On: J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime

[lenzai]

How much time did it take you to reach the point when you could translate an average project with xmlvm ? e.g 10-30kloc