Navin Pai

Memory usage on #osx is so weird sometimes. Why is tmux taking up ~2Gigs of memory? WTAF? I'm muxing my terminal not running Slack ffs

#TIL (the hard way): When you run .dump on a corrupt SQLite database, it outputs a ROLLBACK command right at the end (for safety). And if you try to create a fresh DB from this multi-GB dump, it'll take over half an hour, and finally output an empty file 🫠 #fml #sqlite

Football "pundits": @premierleague is the best football league in Europe!

Meanwhile, teams in semis of either @ChampionsLeague and
@EuropaLeague:

🇩🇪 Germany - 3
🇮🇹 Italy - 2
🇫🇷 F̶a̶r̶m̶e̶r̶s̶ France - 2
🇪🇸 Spain - 1

Watched the interview with Klopp. I'm from tech, where the high-performer burning out is almost a stereotype, & it's weird how Jurgen shows all the same symptoms I've seen w/ multiple friends who pushed a bit too far

Nothing but support, and all the best for what's next Jurgen 💗

Leslie Lamport has put up the preliminary version of his new book "A Science of Concurrent Programs" online: lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science....

Weekend reading sorted. The introduction itself has a few gems!

What a day.. Completed a game I've spent 70 hours playing since Nov, Finished a 1000+ page book that I've been reading since Dec 2, Built an MVP for a side-project I've procrastinated on since Jun, Baked after 3+ months, Watched 2 Oscar IFF Nom movies. Merry Xmas indeed!🧑‍🎄🎄🤗

Local-only projects are coming back in mid October (Insomnia v8.3) · Kong/insomnia · Discussion #6... Update (Oct 5th): 8.2 has been released today, we are now working towards 8.3 which reintroduces this capability. Believe it or not, when we released Insomnia 8.0 we wanted to actually do good. We ...

Sure, they'll now walk back on this after the public outcry (& THANKFULLY the loss of data was agonizing but reversible), but I'll be looking up @use_bruno /
@httpie / some other non-dev-hostile option

Anytime an OSS project gets acquired/raise $$$ I worry

github.com/Kong/insomni...

Changes in Insomnia 8.0+ regarding needing an account and local/cloud data migration. · Kong/insomn... Expected Behavior I would like to be able to use insomnia without an account or be warned BEFORE an update that you'll lock me out of my stuff. Actual Behavior you just locked me out Reproduction S...

When @getpostman raised $$$ and started jamming in random "cloud" features into a nifty API client, I moved to & recco-ed @GetInsomnia to everyone, as it filled the void. The latest login-locking scam that @thekonginc has pulled undoes ALL the goodwill 🤬

github.com/Kong/insomni...

Had a great time talking about #eBPF + #python at #pyconindia yesterday. Thanks to folks who came to listen to me geek out about interfacing with the kernel from userspace 👾 🤓

Extra points to the dude who came over to tell me he ROFL-ed at the "nouveau" comment! #iykyk 😂

- A friend's co is struggling to find PMF 2 years into the journey
- Another is getting acquired at a firesale after a longer run & leaving everyone empty-handed
- A third has slashed salaries by 50% since 3 months and has founders taking no salary

Startups are fun, they said 😞

All in all, bun is EXTREMELY interesting, and my first experience with it was very positive. And not even gotten into CJS/ESM interop usecases. Honestly, more bullish on Bun, than on deno which takes a different approach.

Definitely play with it this weekend! ✌️🤗

Things I'm unsure of:
- bun is EVERYTHING. Node replacement? npm replacement? Toolchain? Testrunner? sdk? Yes. Hope it doesn't spread too thin
- Another lockfile! bun.lockb is interesting format, but _feels_ redundant 🫥

Things that didn't work:
- Metrics scripts didn't work with `PerformanceObserver is not yet implemented in Bun.`
- Had to disable Pyroscope script with error: "Cannot find module "[]/pprof/build/node-v108-darwin-arm64-unknown/pprof.node" from "[]/pprof/out/src/heap-profiler-bindings.js"

Things that worked OOTB:
- bun install vs npm install is not even a race - bun install is 🔥🔥🔥
- Truly drop-in replacement* (see below) - Literally had 8 lines of code changed to run Bun
- Everything feels more "zippy" than regular nodejs/npm - Not sure of tradeoffs

With the v1.0 launch of bunjs, thought I'd try it out with an app we use at @OpsVerse. Quite straightforward @nestframework TS app with a few bells and whistles.

Migration was as simple as replacing "npm" commands with "bun" and "node" in package.json with, well, "bun" 😅

Went to Bellandur-Marathahalli-Sarjapur area 2 days in a row and now have enough dust in my lungs and eyes to shoot a sequel to Mad Max. How the highest (?) taxpaying junta of this city live in such squalor will be something I'll never be able to wrap my head around 🫥

So inspiring to hear from the heroes whose work over the last decade has made this possible.. and so cool to share in their sheer euphoria! Truly hope events like this inspire the next generation of Space Explorers #Chandrayaan3Landing

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi We can use m to move lines around, and j to join lines. For example if you have a list and you want to separate all the stuff matching (or conversely NOT matching some pattern) without deleting them,

For folks who think vi(m) is hard, I strongly suggest reading this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72498282/your-problem-with-vim-is-that-you-dont-grok-vi

Even though IDEs like IntelliJ/VSC are excellent, I still find myself on vim for most of my slicing/dicing/searching of data!

Like many, I started vim by copying random .vimrc from the internet. Struggled to get the right "feel", went back to basics and built my own vim config from scratch over the decade, which went from a blank file to a few hundred lines. The emacs flamewars helped 🙃

RIP Bram 🙏

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Is programming closer to ‘classical’ engineering or to novel writing?

This is an interesting question: and in The Art if Science and Engineering, Richard W Hamming suggests that in his experience it’s closer to novel writing:

Writing your first eBPF program: https://www.lifeofnav.in/2023/08/writing-your-first-ebpf-program.html

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I feel personally attacked. 🙈

Just setting up my bsky