evanwpm | 7 months ago | on: Running TypeScript Natively in Node.js
It sounds like Bun and Deno might have been a huge success! Could have had the effect of lighting a fire under node to innovate
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evanwpm | 11 months ago | on: 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself
Highly recommend that anyone interested in this company listens to the episode of the Freakonomics Radio podcast about 23andMe:
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-23andme-going-under-...
Seems like they struggled to turn a one-off purchase model into recurring revenue. At some point everyone in the world who cares enough about their DNA has already bought your product.
evanwpm | 1 year ago | on: Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust
I also really like:
https://github.com/eza-community/eza (modern ls replacement)
https://github.com/BurntSushi/erd (modern tree replacement)
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (modern cat(1) replacement)
my .zshrc for every system now uses these as drop in replacements
evanwpm | 1 year ago | on: A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
uv has been a complete game changer for me in Python, everyone who develops with me knows I won't shut up about it.
Astral is a great team, they built the ruff linter and are currently working on a static type checker called red-knot: https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/1884651482009477368
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