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Why this instead of Gherkin+Cucumber and having an agent write the step definitions?
Re:You need a webring on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:15PM (#48798018)
Serverless is just a server that has been abstracted away enough by magical APIs to let you (partially) ignore the underlying physical machines.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @09:26AM (#45876338)
I am building a FaaS runtime for Lua on top of Elixir.

Why? I want a fun/meaty Elixir project.

Will anyone use it? Who knows.

Could you expand on "and are forced to load all data at once"?
Re:Implementing Forth in Go and C on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @12:18PM (#45041682)
Noooo, I wanted to post this
Re:Figma's Multiplayer Technology (2019) on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:37AM (#44960913)
A sync engine plus the always online nature of LiveView feels at odds with offline-first (which is often associated with sync engines). I wish LiveView had a better offline story.
Re:Writing HTML by Hand on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @08:10AM (#37583202)
You might like my tiny library: https://hdot.dev/

It is a bit terser:

h.div.class('box)(...)

Re:The Truth about Svelte on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @12:22AM (#36690450)
I much prefer keeping everything XML-ish:

https://www.solidjs.com/docs/latest/api#switchmatch