vindin's comments

On: Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system

[vindin]

Neat idea but you could build this with a fraction of the complexity by ditching sqlite and duckdb for your native file system and rg/grep/gawk with equivalent performance

[avtar → vindin]

There’s also notmuch with various frontends which will let you index and search colossal mail accounts

https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/

On: Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library

[vindin]

Why are people using rust to build web apps

[airstrike → vindin]

Why wouldn't we? It's a fantastic language with great tooling, top tier performance and minimal footprint

[kredd22 → airstrike]

That's neat. Just sucks that Rust proponents apparently tried to assassinate Rust critic Rene Rebe through swatting.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FIEwcTKUFCA

Vile, wretched and despicable Rust proponents will censor and downplay this.

[airstrike → kredd22]

Some Rust proponents, but certainly it's obvious not all of them, or not even a meaningful majority.

Which is to say this despicable act has absolutely no bearing on the language and its ecosystem, so bringing it up is irrelevant, and therefore those downplaying it are not necessarily in favor of the act.

I hope that logic is self-evident.

[rumatoest → vindin]

First of all, this is not a web app.

Second, what should I use if I want a small binary with no dependencies and low CPU/RAM usage?

I could’ve used Go, but once you know Rust Go’s existence almost stops making sense :)

[petcat → vindin]

Rust + Axum + SQLx has been a total game-changer for me in terms of productivity developing web-based Postgres apps. I like the tooling and the libraries are great.

On: Muse: Cursor for Composing MIDI

[vindin]

Looks really cool, will definitely be trying it out. Do you have any screenshares or demo midi you can share? And is there any way to use a text based notation rather than a piano roll?

On: Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”

[vindin]

Why? Just because it’s in rust doesn’t make it a better product

On: Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings

[vindin]

Heartbreaking. They were a pioneer and laid the foundation for countless artists over the last 20 years. Especially in the early 2010s, their products like Massive played a key role in shaping what modern electronic music would eventually sound like. Ever since they got acquired and merged with izotope, they’ve been spiraling. Another textbook example of how private equity destroys innovative companies.

On: CLI command history tracker – never forget a command again

[vindin]

Someone never read their shell’s manpages

[danebalia → vindin]

I certainly did and do. Not interested in having endless configurations every time I being a new OS.

On: Feed me up, Scotty – custom RSS feed generation using CSS selectors

[vindin]

Love the powerful simplicity, nice work

On: Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in terminals and browsers

[vindin]

Really clever, nice work. Love the minimal but polished approach you’ve taken

[clav88 → vindin]

Thanks very much! A minimal approach is indeed one of the goals.

On: Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide

[vindin]

I really think we need to take a good look at Tux, and consider a redesign. For something as symbolic as him, I really think that we need to adjust his shading, such that he is at least 50% black. His current appearance is a literal example of white supremacy, and this should never be tolerated.

On: Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide

[vindin]

This also makes me think of blackbodies, which are literal black bodied objects in physical space that absorb radiation in larger quantities than non black bodies