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Are there Zed fans? Name a killing feature compared to VSCode, Sublime Text or any IDE. I just don't get the excitement around Zed. Collab edit maybe but feels like nothing revolutionary.

Easily build SQL queries in Go with builq (TBH, this should be a post on olegk.dev, but meh) Less than two years ago, I had to write a bunch of SQL queries. The worst part was that all of them were custom/dynamic/configurable/you name it. Guess what? I didn't find a good library that looked good for me. As a result, I wrote one: https://github.com/cristalhq/builq Basically, it's just 1 Builder type (in a few forms due to API evolution), a few formatting directives (%s, %$, and %?), and nothing else. There is nothing like db.Select("foo") from ("bar") or other stuff. It is better to scroll through examples and the GUIDE.md file to get the idea. I am not sure what features lib misses, but feel free to submit a request 🤷

LOL https://newsroom.ibm.com/2024-04-24-IBM-to-Acquire-HashiCorp-Inc-Creating-a-Comprehensive-End-to-End-Hybrid-Cloud-Platform

Borrow checking, RC, GC, and the Eleven (!) Other Memory Safety Approaches. That’s a very good read. As mentioned in outro some of the types can be merged. Anyway, cool stuff. We mentioned this language a few times in our podcast, good to see language is still alive. https://verdagon.dev/grimoire/grimoire

> I’d argue Raghavan (and, by extension, Google CEO Sundar Pichai) deserve as much criticism, if not more, for the damage they’ve done to society. Because Google is the ultimate essential piece of online infrastructure https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Again about deps and security. What the hell, why ffmpeg requires libssh? There should be a feature that processes remote data. I can even say that this might be useful for someone. The only question I have is why it can't be achieved by the composition of tools. Yeah, this unix-philosophy and | operator. ffmpeg <3kb of flags> | ssh-upload [email protected] (you get the idea) pros: - less code - less backdoors - less stuff to document cons: - less code - less backdoors - more stuff to document Still, ffmpeg is the beast, and in xkcd2347 is a 1st or 2nd block from below. (ffmpeg also requires zeromq, wen kafka and hadoop?)

WDYT about modern decentralized social networks? Mastodon, BlueSky, etc (if any?)

Time to confess: I still don't get the idea of LLM for devs. I have used GPT4/Gemini like 8 times during the past year. Probably 1 or 2 times I really tried to get the answer, not just chatting to see how good it is. LLM as a search engine - sounds ok. LLM as an active assistant - nope, don't get it. So, the questions: why and how do you use it? What stuff you cannot do by yourself and only(?) via LLM ?

Hm, all this 'IT sucks', 'coding is a horrible thing to do in life', 'i hate my life because of programming' yada yada yada. Is this just a CIS thing or also popular in a western culture? (EU and USA as you can guess) (CIS == Commonwealth of Independent States)