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Intelligible Babble
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Intelligible Babble is a personal blog at intelligiblebabble.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Compose from First Principles (Android's New UI Runtime)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on query language design, including a proposed SQL-compatible superset called BQL, and on composing code from first principles as an alternative to React hooks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A personal blog about technology, programming, and other interesting things.
Most-linked posts?
- Compose from First Principles (Android's New UI Runtime)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-28
What Hacker News says?
I also saw a proposal for a better syntax for SQL, called BQL, that was a strict superset but allowed for better modularity http://intelligiblebabble.com/a-better-query-language-bql-la... It had this github repo https://github.com/lelandrichardson/BQL but never went anywhere I hope PRQL has a better fate! unfortunately, by deviating from SQL lexical conventions (using :, using [], etc) we lose the ability to copy-pa…
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on “PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL”Submitted A Better Query Language: BQL Language Specification (2014) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat I really wanted was something compatible with SQL, but that augmented it (and compiled to plain sql). Like typescript is for javascript, but instead of adding a type system, adding constructs for better composability. Something like.. BQL http://intelligiblebabble.com/a-better-query-language-bql-la... which went nowhere https://github.com/lelandrichardson/BQL
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on “Against SQL”Submitted Compose from First Principles (Android's New UI Runtime) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> The only problem with hooks is that people don't get them. But once you get them, every other approach looks like a complicated pile of shit. No, some people actually get them and there are way much better alternatives[1]. 1. http://intelligiblebabble.com/compose-from-first-principles/
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on “The self-fulfilling prophecy of React”Submitted How To Write Maintainable jQuery Applications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jetpack Compose from first principles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clever Way to “demethodize” Native JavaScript Methods as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making React.js and Knockout.js Play Nice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extending Markdown/MarkdownSharp for jsFiddle embedding as a story · 1 points
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