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I liked the idea of Facebook's watchman. Cross-platform and it would only add a watcher on each dir once, regardless of how many apps needed watcher functionality. But it's currently uninstallable for weeks on macOS…

There are so many config files that are read in a particular order for each shell, interactive vs login, and for each platform. They all configure themselves using env vars and shell functions. Then every dev tool…

I want to build a cross-platform native app that starts up as fast as possible and responds as fast as possible, and has minimal memory use. Something that when the rest of someone's computer is slowing down, this can…

Every service government offers today could be thought of as a subscription service which we are forced to pay for. Every service exists to offer a benefit (direct or indirect) to the taxpayer. Why don't we let…

I have watched so many YouTube videos on this and no one seems to be able to explain it properly. Each explanation is so dramatically different from one another as well. I feel like its another infamously difficult to…

I want to build big projects like Chromium, WebKit and LLVM as fast as possible. I think it would be nice to have a rig to just be building code and running tests all the time. Thoughts?

I'm sick of going to YouTube for a tech talk, and then it trying to recommend me all this click-bait content. And you can't turn off YouTube Shorts for example. I would love to have a single event listener for…

I hate having to organize code. It's annoying to move functions into their own files and then decide on a hierarchy to group them in folders. What are my options?

Say I'm writing a handler for an http server. function handleRequest(req) const url = new URL(req.url) if (url.pathname === '/foo') { // do a thing } if (url.pathname === '/bar') { // do a thing } if (url.pathname ==…

I feel like the core data structure of everything is the graph. Yet the lay-person will usually associate it with a _chart_, and then you've lost them. I'm looking for a way to help them completely understand what I…

I'm building a CLI and want to allow commands to be scoped to a project. I'm trying to decide between: A. `blah edit foo` (familiar...like brew) B. `blah foo edit` (least typing...but project name could clash with…

There are so many tools we reach for by default as software developers without thinking. I've come to realize that each of them are extremely complicated and I only ever need a fraction of the functionality, which would…

I run an M1 MacBook Pro as my main development machine and have used MacBooks for a long time. I run a lot of heavy C++ compilation tasks. I recently thought about augmenting my setup with a Mac M2 Studio Ultra, and…

Something where you think "if only people did this reasonable thing". Something people debate endlessly and try hundreds of different things but seem to avoid an obvious thing.

I have a lot of thoughts and ideas on things throughout the day. Usually I would post on Medium but it always feels like I should publish polished stuff. I don't want to spam my audience either. Whenever I start one of…