pbhowmic's comments

On: Diagram as Code

[pbhowmic]

I would push back against DSLs. It means year another language to learn and that is a barrier to adoption.

[benatkin → pbhowmic]

The concepts of internal DSLs and external DSLs is relevant here. The article is an internal, to Python, DSL. It runs in the language the tool is written in. Mermaid is an external DSL. You can’t build a Mermaid renderer in Mermaid. For diagrams I’d rather have an external DSL or a macro system than an internal DSL because it looks cleaner IMO. But it’s nice to have syntax highlighting already working in internal DSLs.

On: Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and s...

[pbhowmic]

Vault. Save to Vault and make it so that team members can sync to/from Vault.

On: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

[pbhowmic]

I am developing a Pythonic alternative to ArgoCD and FluxCD that uses no CRDs or in-cluster controllers for continuous delivery of applications to Kubernetes clusters

On: Moments in Chromecast's history

[pbhowmic]

I still have one. A few years old but still works, rock-solid and what I love best is the form-factor: unobtrusive, in fact, totally hidden from view.

[lxgr → pbhowmic]

Hang on to it.

Google inexplicably killed the Chromecast Audio as well, and it was an absolutely perfect device for a very particular niche (streaming audio to an old stereo/amplifier without needing a permanently connected phone as is the case for Bluetooth).

I hope mine still lasts for a long time (I believe there are some Google-signed certs on it that might expire some day?).

[empyrrhicist → lxgr]

And they came with optical out. I have a couple as well and am hoping to get many more years out of them.

On: Show HN: Use Go's HTML/template to write React-lik...

[pbhowmic]

OMG! No! Having dealt with Go templates in the context of writing Helm charts, I would say this is not a a great idea. Please, invent a better templating language for Go, and then perhaps go down this path. That being said, I am not a great fan of templates in any language. Jinja2 might be a heck of a lot better than Go templates but it can still be hard to get right.

[Philip-J-Fry → pbhowmic]

What is so wrong with this approach that makes you exclaim "OMG! No!"? This is practically no different to any basic server side rendering framework in any other language. This is a very basic pattern used all the time.

On: Pandoc

[pbhowmic]

In a world where most READMEs and the like are in Markdown format I like to use Asciidoc and I like to keep the two in sync using pandoc

On: Python types have an expectations problem

[pbhowmic]

There is no protecting against pre conceived notions. If a Typescript programmer, for example, expects Python to behave like Typescript then that is on them. Typescript has types. Python has type hints. RTFM for God’s sake.

On: Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the fi...

[pbhowmic]

They have been saying recession is 6 months away for two years now.

On: Wayfair lays off 13% of its workforce – CNN Busine...

[pbhowmic]

I contracted for Wayfair - I left around September 2022 - and this has impacted some fine engineers with whom I had worked

On: Who makes the most reliable new cars?

[pbhowmic]

I find it remarkable that Mercedes-Benz is near the bottom of the list.

[chubs → pbhowmic]

My mechanic who specialises in Euro cars told me to avoid buying one, for one piece of anecdata.