I'm glad they did this! I've always thought VFS was a better fit for the objectives of Litestream than the original design.

SQLite VFS is really cool tech, and pretty easy to work with (IMO easier than FUSE).

I had made a _somewhat similar_ VFS [1] (with a totally different set of guarantees), and it felt pretty magical how it "just worked" with normal SQLite

[1] https://github.com/danthegoodman1/gRPSQLite

Half-expected tbh, but didn’t expect to be this bad.

Just use redpanda.

This. Using RP was like a breath of fresh air compared to the dread of Kafka (both local dev, and running a prod cluster)

This, I was shocked when I read the first version. I get it if you’re an influencer, but as a programming language people need to expect you can manage your emotions and be objective

except for losing money?

Wtf is happening in the zig world this week

The slight side scrolling on mobile, and overriding the link alt-click behavior… why

As the author mentions, the problem right now is that electron is just too mature. It has solved most of the issues that non-desktop developers encounter when building a desktop app like a smooth(ish) build process, different kinds of build targets, working linux, etc.

> … the model is less likely to inappropriately change or overwrite JSON files compared to Markdown files.

Very interesting.

yeah this, there's much better open weights models out there...