WingNews logo WingNews GitHub [2]

jmarchello's comments

jmarchello | 5 months ago | on: Zoxide: A Better CD Command

Fair point. I don't disagree. I personally just like to stay as close to default GNU/Linux tooling as is practical. It's a matter of personal taste.

For me, this makes it so my expectations and muscle memory transfer cleanly between my workstation and other servers, devices, etc. I find the default tools are much more powerful than is often understood, and you can replicate most third party functionality fairly easily. That's not always the case mind you, and I happily use those tools.

jmarchello | 5 months ago | on: Zoxide: A Better CD Command

I love shell tools, and by no means disparage the use of zoxide, z, etc. But I find I get 90% of the usefulness of these tools using the native cd command and adding my most used directories to CDPATH.

This additionally is consistent and works without needing to “train” it first.

jmarchello | 9 months ago | on: Teachers Are Not OK

I think AI is simply exposing problems with academia that have always been there. In my personal experience with both high school and a completed bachelor's degree, 20% of the process is actual learning while 80% is proving what one has learned for the sake of grading and measuring.

As soon as one graduates and enters the real world, the ability to learn is paramount, but the ability to grade said learning is never used again. We need to re-think the system from the ground up so that a student can leverage all available tools, AI included, and still develop a core ability to learn.

What's more, the current focus on grading has been shown to stunt the love of learning, because we're not stupid and we know when we're doing something that does not gain us anything beyond a grade.

If academia responds to this change properly we can eventually see a system that actually serves our students better than what we currently have.

jmarchello | 1 year ago | on: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)

Every time I see news about cities discovered in south america I look to see if the dates line up with the Nephite/Lamanite civilizations of the Book of Mormon (roughly 600 BC to 400 AD). This is the closest yet that I've seen. I'm eager to see what they discover in the coming years about their culture and government. Will we find traces of their Judge-based government? Signs that they worshiped Christ and practiced Jewish rituals? It will be interesting to watch this investigation unfold.

jmarchello | 1 year ago | on: A Vanilla Rails Stack Is Plenty

Rails has so much to offer these days, going vanilla really is a viable (and enjoyable) option. Here at Swivel we use the ENTIRE rails stack from Hotwire to Kamal and it is so simple and easy to maintain and deploy. I do think there are use cases where adding a React frontend is good though. But you don't have to, Rails has everything you need so you can focus on creating value for customers instead of plumbing.

jmarchello | 1 year ago | on: What's New in Ruby 3.4

> Array#each, Array#map, and Array#select have been rewritten in Ruby.

> A microbenchmark made on Array#each, for instance, shows it is 7x faster.

This is awesome. I can’t wait to see further improvements as they continue to optimize for the JIT.

jmarchello | 2 years ago | on: White House urges developers to dump C and C++

Would Ruby, Java, Go, and other gc’ed languages really be considered memory safe? I’d think you have to re-write the Ruby interpreter and the JVM in rust in order to achieve their stated goal here. Someone with deeper system’s knowledge please correct me if I’m wrong.

jmarchello | 2 years ago

Seems like an affective way to keep bots/trolls out.

jmarchello | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?

As unfair as this may seem, your problem may be UX, rather than content. There is no focal point and ironically the shear volume of experience makes it hard to get a quick picture of who you are. I’d recommend a punchy executive summary at the top.

In my experience the 1 page constraint is less important so long as it’s easy to get a good picture of you on the first page.

jmarchello | 2 years ago | on: How to get your first ten customers

> One of the beautiful things about bootstrapping a business is that it's default-alive.

This is such an effective and concise way to explain the difference between bootstrapping and vc funding.

jmarchello | 2 years ago | on: Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta

A fair question. For Me I use use of their spaces feature to divide my tabs/bookmarks into different areas of concern. So when I'm working on my day job, I can have a running "session" of bookmarks, such as the webapp I'm building, figma, and chatGPT open. It just _feels_ less cluttered and less distracting. Their 'developer mode' adds a nice little tool bar accross localhost and other sites for which you enable it. It's just the compound effect of many small improvements. This the first real innovation I've seen the chrome of a browser in a long time.

jmarchello | 2 years ago | on: Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta

I’ve been using Arc for a couple days now and love it. It’s been a while since I’ve adopted a tool (besides developer tools) that I felt truly increased my productivity and enjoyment in my day-to-day activities.
page 1
more