KyleGalvin

I saw the title and thought "Hey, an old friend of mine would love this!"

Then I opened it and realized it was him who had written it. Small world.

A little tongue-in-cheek call out of the irony isn't necessarily an attack.

Bullshit jobs are an interesting phenomenon and I enjoyed the article. I also chuckled at the parent comment.

It doesn't have to be taken very seriously.

That's an interesting thought. I didn't mean to suggest anyone code in WASM, but I think I see what you mean.

I have experience embedding lua applications within mobile apps, and it required a fair deal of wiring in C to marshal between java and lua (android) or swift and lua (ios).

To do the same in WASM sounds rather undesirable.

Edit: to finish my thought, I dont see the problem with using a compiler toolchain to create web applications. Can you elaborate on why that isn't a good thing?

WASM will pave the way for other 'easier to write' languages to occupy the same space as JS. Rust is pushing heavy for native browser support and will likely be an early adopter in this space. It's only a matter of time until <your language of choice> will support compiling to WASM and run in the browser

The quote at the end “don’t even consider microservices unless you have a system that’s too complex to manage as a monolith.” causes me to laugh.

I have never fundamentally disagreed with a well-known domain expert as much as I have with Martin Fowler, and I have had a fairly successful career despite my attitude of "do things the way M.F. wouldn't".

On one hand I find it frustrating how people take his ideas as gospel. On the other hand I'm humbled to think there isn't necessarily "one right way" and other schools of thought can find success.

Not OP but I use feedly which has hackerNews as a source. Minimal digging and I found this third party HN feed provider:

https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

At one point I had a makefile to build large latex documents. The use case was still essentially compilation, but it got me thinking outside the box with make which was neat.

The extreme of the bottom end is couchsurfing.com which might chew into the niche you describe.

There is still some room in the middle, but success isn't guaranteed in that sort of market.

This is awesome. I did exactly this for a course project in 2012. While the travelling salesman problem code seems to have been refactored out, I have a C++ library for SOMs and hierarchical SOMs that are attatched to some openGL code that demonstrates the categorization of RGB colors by label.

If you can excuse the embarassing mess of file structure, the core lib is here, buried among a dozen other pet projects from my student days: https://github.com/KyleGalvin/Typhoon/blob/master/Cpp/SOM.cp...

Edit: it seems (on second glance) the above link is exactly the TSP problem, wired up with SDL. The core library is here: https://github.com/KyleGalvin/Typhoon/blob/master/Cpp/src/so...