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Re:How to Run WordPress completely from RAM on Sunday October 12, 2025 @12:32PM (#45559483)
It's always "in most cases". I simply don't see space for WordPress on green field sites anymore. If something is so small it does not require CMS - it's better to use pure HTML. Otherwise "in most cases" it's better to use headless CMS.
Re:How to Run WordPress completely from RAM on Sunday October 12, 2025 @12:24PM (#45559400)
Mandatory reminder - don't use WordPress in 2025.

Use headless CMS plus static site generator. e.g. Strapi plus Astro

Re:Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @04:28AM (#45113469)
Lit is fantastic lib as a way out from legacy web framework (since can be injected in any framework including Vue, Angular, React). I used it as a way out out of old Vue2 project
Re:Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:14PM (#43349437)
Another day, another better battery for consumer product promise. I really hope one day we will get rid of stinking non electric cars from the streets.
Re:Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down? on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:00PM (#43322539)
What are X/twitter alternatives ? I left twitter after recent Musk pro Russian statements.
Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition on Monday December 30, 2024 @07:30PM (#42555162)
This article could be titled what’s wrong with Linux desktop - but current title is plain stupid. Plenty of people are using it as main OS mainly because all other alternatives have either privacy issues or some dumb gold cage limitations and privacy issues. I don’t think author is dumb - it’s catchy title due to hubris issues.
Re:A Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years on Sunday October 27, 2024 @10:55PM (#41967422)
I was going to write ‚Mazurek not mazurka’ but it seems official english name is a wrong noun declination…
Day it will take off and be usable will be the day I leave iOS.
Poland wins World Cup in football goes first in the impossible events department.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Saturday August 24, 2024 @09:58PM (#41343684)
Simple mermaid like tool to do animations visualizing algorithms etc. All enclosed in html web component player (no coding needed).

https://dot-and-box.github.io/dot-and-box/

Re:On finishing projects on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:09PM (#41305018)
Can you post game link ?
1) EU can workaround you - you can't workaround EU. Size is not proportional.

2) It's obvious - fin-tech have virtual companies to have lower taxes in Switzerland, lot of individuals try to get Swiss tax residence to lower taxes. Switzerland knows that and allows that.

5) My point is - if Switzerland want to be secure inside EU it should pay fee to secure external EU borders. That's would be fair deal.

I do consider Switzerland doings as hostile to EU.

1) Switzerland gain on using EU transportation and free market but does not contribute fair fee to maintain and build it.

You can tax EU - we will see who will survive.

2) Switzerland does unfair tax competition

3) Switzerland helped hide EU citizens untaxed money (maybe still does)

4) Switzerland helps Russian oligarchs maintain their wealth and many other criminals all around the world.

5) Last but not least: If Switzerland does not care about Ukraine dying because it is ‘neutral’ and yet still wants safe borders, then I don’t fucking care about Switzerland well being.

Apart from the root issue here someone need to remind that Switzerland is the parasite of EU. Basically they have all EU rights and no obligations. EU should tax them heavily so that they contribute to solve e.g. EU transportation issues.
Re:Official proposal for Type Unions in C# on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @10:54PM (#41187688)
what's is your .NET replacement ?
Re:Official proposal for Type Unions in C# on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @10:37PM (#41187599)
those are two separate questions.

Compared to old VS: First and foremost: feature richness of refactorings, code inspections and plugins - basically in the IntelliJ you have everything Reharper plugin can do for .NET and probably more. Second IntelliJ can run on non-spying operating systems. Third it's much more resource friendly for bigger projects. Last but not least ItelliJ is keyboard user friendly (e.g. you can jump and resize windows using only keyboard).

Can't say much about vscode vs IntelliJ. When I tried it last time Java plugin was not there. I could not use ItelliJ keyboard shortcuts - also code formatting and refactoring options were worse than in the itelliJ. That's to be expected it's paid product after all.

Re:Official proposal for Type Unions in C# on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @09:13PM (#41187148)
I went from C# to JVM/gradle and have the opposite experience.

1) default C# IDE is junk compared to IntelliJ 2) Gradle give you insane level of control over project you can even build dynamic template tasks shown in IntelliJ UI using Kotlin/Groovy 3) JVM ecosystem is much bigger and default framework SpringBoot is ready to use with houndreds of integrations which are either non existent or hards to use in .NET as opposed to SpringBoot where you have batteries included approach e.g. want outbox pattern? Simply use modulith, convention over configuration will give you some nice defaults… 4) There are plenty of widely used langs compared to .NET if you don’t like modern Java (which is on the same level as C# IMHO) you have: Kotlin which is a better lang than C#, Scala, Groovy from the mainstream ones and Clojure and probably many more lesser known. 5) There is nothing as expressive as Groovy Spock for testing in .Net world.

There are issues I see but can be easy mitigated e.g. I don’t like default Java heavy ORM (especially mapping complicated two way relations) but it’s very easy to not use them and simply relay on mapping foreign key.

To sum it up I bet your issues are mostly you don’t know ecosystem well enough.

Re:Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @10:54PM (#41177815)
You can’t trust Microsoft about open source which has de facto monopoly on the desktop market with its closed operating system if you say it’s about ’values’.
Re:Rust for Rustaceans on Sunday July 28, 2024 @11:31PM (#41097728)
Yes you are right - my intention was to show how to get to the point when you are ready for the book.
Re:Rust for Rustaceans on Sunday July 28, 2024 @06:42PM (#41096535)
This book is good but I think it’s too hard for beginners. I would recommend to read ‘zero to production in Rust’ by Luca Palmieri first especially if you like more learning by doing approach
Re:Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014) on Friday July 26, 2024 @11:57AM (#41079669)
Messi for football is same as Gauss for math. Pure genius.
Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:38AM (#41002952)
Industry should move to Linux on desktop - we should not rely on single vendor
That’s why it’s important to demonopolize desktop OS market. Microsoft should be divided long time ago
Re:We need visual programming. No, not like that on Monday July 15, 2024 @01:56AM (#40965594)
I've done my own "try to animate things with mermaid like lang" https://github.com/dot-and-box/dot-and-box

and got one conclusion similar to article's author as I understand it: general purpose visual programming lang is hard or impossible

Re:Windows: A Software Engineering Odyssey on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:45PM (#40555448)
Linux mostly - also I am forced to use Windows but I use it as linux cli shell.

I am just not interested in Windows per se anymore

Re:Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months on Sunday April 28, 2024 @06:05AM (#40187407)
with a little help of this book a created simple parser for my step based animations project: https://github.com/dot-and-box/dot-and-box. Thanks Bob!
Re:Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years on Friday April 26, 2024 @06:02PM (#40174810)
It's C++ replacement just not yet there for game dev (maybe never for game dev)

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