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DuckDB is a fantastic piece of tech. One of the best, if not the best, I’ve found in several years.

It’s going to have a very big hill to climb if it’s playing in a space where duckdb already has a hold. Duck has probably been my favourite technology find in the last few years. Awesome tech.

I’ll still check this out though.

Sorry, not a question, just wanted to say congrats on putting this together. I am so the target market for a nice terminal interface. I can’t wait to try this out!

I've been looking for a more friendly GUI for working with Dynamo for ages. I had Dynobase but found some of it a bit frustrating. This looks very promising!

Very keen to try this out and congrats on launching!

A team I work very closely with as an architect has ditched React in favour of Svelte and the team love it. Everyone prefers it to React and finds it easier and more productive to use.

I used to think Zuckerberg was the worst person in the tech world. Musk has far exceeded him. I wouldn’t spend a cent on a product associated with him.

I’ve previously worked doing technology assessments in the M&A world and copyleft is a big deal there. I’ve had to comb through code (not always automatable) to find any copyleft code and then have had to sit through many meetings with lawyers trying to explain the risk and complexity involved. I’ve seen it tank entire acquisitions.

I used to use a system where each interviewer just wrote down two numbers, hidden from others, marks out of ten for attitude and aptitude. Attitude encapsulated things like humility, willingness and desire to learn and share knowledge, etc. Aptitude was more around the technical skills required to do this job but also the capability to learn new skills when required. Those are pretty much the only two attributes I care about when recruiting.

Roughly it was:

6 - not quite there 7 - they have the att/apt required 8 - strong demonstration of att/apt Etc.

Average 7+ across both attributes for all interviewers or they’re a no.

The weighting was slightly different between contractors and FTE but as a starting point for the debrief it worked well.

I’ve also heard, and like: “if they’re not a ‘hell yes’ then they’re a ‘hell no’”, which is a lot simpler.

This is one of the features of https://codescene.com/

It looks for knowledge islands and relates those to frequently modified code, to identify hotspot, or areas of high risk due to low knowledge distribution in areas of high change.

Another use is if someone hands in their notice you can easily see all the code that only they know, so your handover planning is mapped out easily.

I’ve never thought of it being used maliciously, it’s for visibility. It would be a shitty manager that would use it that way and if they’re already shitty then this tool won’t change that.

As others have said the C4 model is a great way to address a number of these issues.

I can’t find the right video at the moment but Simon Brown (creator of C4) gives a great talk about creating his DSL, Structurizr, for C4, which he developed during COVID lockdown (if memory serves). There are many videos on YouTube of Simon talking about “C4 Models as Code” so I’m sure any one of those will suffice.

The focus is on creating the model of your system architecture, from which the diagrams you extract are a specific projection of that model. Rather than a diagram be the main artifact. It’s a simple but very powerful concept that I’m always surprised isn’t more widely used.

Structurizr models can also be exported to display as ilograph diagrams, mermaid diagrams and more. Also very much worth a mention is icepanel, a lovely tool for architectural model that implements the C4 model heavily.

I saw Simon talk at a conference in Sydney about 10-15 years ago and heard about C4 for the first time in that talk, it’s been one of the most influential talks I’ve been to in my career as it made a lot of fuzzy things in my head all start to come together in a way that just made sense.

https://c4model.com/

https://structurizr.com/

https://www.ilograph.com/

https://mermaid.js.org/

https://icepanel.io/

I gave up on Google a couple of years ago. I used DDG for a while but often had to jump back (!g) to Google for some things. Now I pay for Kagi (been a year or two) and there’s no going back for me. I hardly ever even need to scroll down to find what I need, it’s just there. Saves me so much time.

I use excalidraw for almost everything. Brilliant tool. I already mentioned it in another response in this thread but using excalidraw inside obsidian via https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin has been a game changer for me.

You may already do this but if you haven’t, check out the excalidraw plugin in Obsidian: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

Zslot has put an incredible amount of work into it and it extends excalidraw to have a lot of additional capabilities. You can also use it within Obsidian canvas for some of the flow stuff you mention but you could very likely just use the plugin.

Zslot is constantly updating it too so you get new features and updates almost every other time you open it. Amazing work done there.

And Obsidian is just awesome too :)

I really like the C4 model as part of a larger toolset. If you’re also using it then I recommend looking at https://icepanel.io/

Great tooling strongly based on C4, I use it a lot.

I remember seeing a demo of this kind of robot (theoretical at time I think) when I was at university. One of my lecturers was trying to develop them for use in things like brain surgery. That was 25 years ago and I do occasionally wonder what happened in that field. Will have to dig into this a bit more…

The UK tabloid rhetoric serves as a strong reminder to me why I left the country and have no desire to ever live there again. Brexit was a resounding sledgehammer driven nail in that coffin. Every single day I am happy I left and all this does is reinforce why. UK journalism has a weird mixture of some of the best and some of the most toxic in the world.

I couldn’t agree more with “Don’t let your CFO drive”. I’ve worked at several companies that turned to absolute shit as a result of exactly this.

Looks like it will, just not yet:

INFO: It's currently in alpha. During this time, it's only housed on Terrastruct, which provides the most well-supported interface (IDE) for it. Once we have a stable v1, we'll release and continue development of it in open source and make local options available.

Love it!

I first played the version of this with squares on a Palm Pilot and that was a long time ago. I was even looking for that version for my iPhone the other day but was drowning in other random games (and little network tools) until I gave up.

It shouldn’t take much effort to turn it into a PWA, so then people can use it just like an app. I already saved it to my Home Screen and would certainly play this as a daily puzzle, just like Wordle. Keep up the great work.

I love numberphile and see it mentioned by a few people.

Very surprised that (admittedly only skimming through the responses) I didn’t see the lock picking lawyer. Love that channel…. “Little click on one…”

I’ve had too many managers that thought this and none of them knew the first thing about software. They weren’t very successful.

It’s a huge red flag for me if I realise someone at an organisation has this mindset.

Certainly not all tech firms do this

I used Raindrop.io for a while after moving off Pocket, it’s much better. Now I’m trying out mymind but it’s costly so I may revert back if I don’t find it overly better.

I really love obsidian. Sure it has a couple of wrinkles, the mobile app is new still and has a couple more wrinkles, but it scratches so many itches I have around note taking. Currently using it alongside https://get.mem.ai/ and love the pairing for knowledge base and real time notes. I’m working on combining the two to come up with my ideal set up.

When I first started building applications back in the 90’s, I did it using the only thing I could get my hands on at the time, Access 95. Many of these low-code tools just feel like a web version of that. Form builders, drag and drop, define data types, hook up queries to forms and fields to text boxes and grids. I guess I just got old enough to see the approach come full circle.

Not just that but they are genetically closer to animals than to plants.

One that I’ve used a few times is “you can’t polish a turd… but you can roll it in glitter”

Me too

“You are lost in the misty mountains” seemed to be the only thing on my dad’s computer screen for a large part of my childhood

I’m using AWS Amplify Console and am very happy with it. All pay as you go so it’s super cheap. You can also hook into other AWS services if you want to start expanding capabilities.