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Written by matzipan on 2025-01-23 at 22:53

That time of the year when I feel the urge to write my own build/integration system again.

[#]Bazel is a pain to extend and has many idiosyncracies. Also code base is way too complex and hard to penetreate. It feels generally stuck in a local maximum.

[#]Buildstream is pretty cool and extensible but variation support is not very elegant. It also still needs an inner build system. Also yaml 😒

[#]Pants seemed to be a step in the right direction. Amazingly simple extensibility. But still felt like the the build variation capabilites were not that strong.

I like starlark itself.

Does anybody know of any build system "framework" which I can just plug an play on a build tree so that I don't have to write the ugly parts of dealing with the compiler and focus on building the nice constructs for describing that build tree?

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Written by matzipan on 2025-01-20 at 21:36

I can’t wait to see what justification the ultra centrist cope machine will come up with next just to deny reality 😒

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Written by matzipan on 2025-01-19 at 22:56

Found an new favorite https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets

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Written by matzipan on 2025-01-13 at 23:31

I have a #rust crate which is reliably building in the stable channel releases of the last 4 months and has been reliably not building in the nightly channel release of the last 4 months. I am not enabling any unstable features.

What could be the problem?

I only arbitrarily stopped at 4 months ago to go to bed. I did not check yet how far back I can see this issue. But my understanding of the rustc release model tells me this shouldn’t happen…

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Written by matzipan on 2025-01-10 at 10:51

[#]Fediverse apps need a “subscribe to thread” functionality. There are so many interesting threads and questions that I see that I would like to see the future responses to.

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Written by matzipan on 2025-01-06 at 14:07

AI content detectors will likely not be developed to help humans weed out the slop, but by AI companies because so they can remove AI generated content from the training set.

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Written by matzipan on 2024-10-01 at 14:35

I like to think of myself as an exact person. Given enough information, I can find a solution.

I have been struggling with taking decisions in uncertain envirionments with incomplete information. It's something that is not fully in my nature, so it's easy to fall into crippling self-doubt.

I am making small steps towards being comfortablw with this.

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Written by matzipan on 2024-10-01 at 14:35

But right now there is nothing that compares to the confirmation that you get that a decision you took 2 years ago with incomplete information turned out to be the right bet.

I need to prepare myself for the moment when a decision taken by me 2 years ago turned out to be the wrong one too. It will.it's invariably come. That is the true test.

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Written by matzipan on 2024-09-24 at 14:47

The social web used to mean adding open graph data to your page so facebook can display it correctly. Not very social.

Activity pub gives this a rightful new meaning.

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Written by matzipan on 2024-09-22 at 20:48

Pet peeve: people who say "I have a theory" instead of "I have a hypothesis"

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Written by matzipan on 2024-09-22 at 08:18