mattewong

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  1. Wanted an updater for a CLI utility so that a user could run "my-utility update" and have it self-updated. Did not want to go through package managers, in order to have better distribution control. Looked into Sparkle…

  2. The mythical single source of truth (counting.substack.com)
  3. Certain open-source licenses such as LGPL allow the licensed code to be compiled into a library, dynamically linked against a work compiled from closed-source code, and distributed together as a combined work, to allow…

  4. By "modern" I mean, started programming around a time when emacs, vim AND other (e.g. Visual Studio) were available to choose from

  5. Big Data Is Dead (motherduck.com)
  6. “How DBT Fails” (benn.substack.com)
  7. Am looking for one-time help creating documentation (e.g. man pages, tutorials) for open source project (e.g. https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv) as well as product documentation for commercial products, but not enough…

  8. How Fivetran Fails (benn.substack.com)
  9. "How Snowflake Fails" (benn.substack.com)
  10. I've been on the hunt for some time for a workflow solution that: 1. bifurcates administrator vs user experiences. So for example, an admin defines a universe of possible actions, and a user defines a workflow…