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Proactively Lazy
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Proactively Lazy is a personal blog at flukus.github.io about programming and productivity. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Rediscovering Make”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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- Rediscovering Make2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2016-11-30
- Building a Blog Engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-11
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Thanks. I took the "making this pretty is the web clients job" approach, it looks nice in firefox reader mode. The two biggest issues are: 1. Syntax higlighting doesn't exist in reader. 2. The index page ( http://flukus.github.io/ ) can't render in reader mode, it didn't hit the "must have a paragraph with at least 68 characters" or whatever the arbitrary limitation is. For the later I'm hoping the add some sort of…
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on “Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be”Submitted Rediscovering Make as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPersonal blog spam, I learned make recently too and discovered it was good for high level languages as well, here is an example of building a c# project: http://flukus.github.io/rediscovering-make.html . Now the blog itself is built with make: http://flukus.github.io/building-a-blog-engine.html
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on “Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be”Submitted Rediscovering Make as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe problem I had with it was all the crap google would do automagically, not really an ant problem, but building android software is a mess: http://flukus.github.io/2014/08/19/2014_08_19_Android-Take-b...
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on “It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android”Submitted Building a Blog Engine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've got an example of powershell getting verbose here: http://flukus.github.io/2015/03/13/2015_03_13_Powershell-is-... . Ignore the rest and look at the example where I'm trying to copy a directory recursively and with a filter. In bash the same task is a relatively simple one liner: find . -type f -name '*.html' -exec cp {} /home/new_dir/{} \; If you know a simpler way in powershell please post it though.
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on “Visual Studio Code 1.9”> I dunno, I've never seen a readable Makefile in any system above say 300 files. The build complexity should be a reflection of the project complexity, not the number of source files. Having to run in multiple environments and separating things into libraries would add complexity for instance, adding a new source file shouldn't. When you start adding calls and loops however, that complexity grows exponentially inst…
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on “Don't remove the $(nop) command below”Here's a slightly more involved but still incredibly simple one I put together: https://flukus.github.io/building-a-blog-engine.html Turned out a hell of a lot faster than any static site generator I've used.
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on “Top Open-Source Static Site Generators”With android it's not just boilerplate code but the undocumented tooling involved as well. It might be to late for you now, but I broke some of it down into something more understandable a while ago: http://flukus.github.io/2014/08/19/2014_08_19_Android-Take-b...
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on “Unexecute”This is my experience too, anything non-trivial quickly becomes an absolute mess, even the trivial things often have bad defaults. A few years ago I looked into using it as a build system for .net projects but ended up tearing my hair out on even the simplest things like removing directories or recursively copying html files: http://flukus.github.io/powershell-is-a-joke.html
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on “PowerShell 7.0”From what I remember Include will only match items from the base directory and powershell gets stupidly complicated very quickly: http://flukus.github.io/2015/03/13/2015_03_13_Powershell-is-...
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on “Using Rust for 'Scripting'”Reader view is a good start but it needs to be extended. As a user I want to be able to turn it on universally and opt out for certain sites, or at least make it the default on some sites. When I rebuilt my blog ( http://flukus.github.io/ ) I tried to build it with reader mode in mind but it's hard, there are some hidden heuristics to trigger it's availability, you need a paragraph with at least 67 characters or som…
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on “How the Web Became Unreadable (2016)”> some variant of Make without the C obsession Make doesn't have a C obsession (although the docs do), make works anywhere you have a dependency graph that can be expressed as a file timestamp. Here's an example compiling a c# project: http://flukus.github.io/rediscovering-make.html . It's much simpler than any .net build tool (and I've tried them all).
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on “Why I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven”I did the same, makefile and accompanying blog entry is here: http://flukus.github.io/building-a-blog-engine.html Turned out much simpler (if less feature full), much faster (it's finished in the time it takes node to start) and much more stable than other's I've used.
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on “Ask HN: In what creative ways are you using Makefiles?”That looks handy. I got bored one day and built a fluent interface: http://flukus.github.io/fluent-interfaces-for-c.html
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on “Generics in C without void* or macros – enabled by psychec”Here is a post I made (and generated) about my generator: http://flukus.github.io/building-a-blog-engine.html It's pretty similar to your shell script but builds are incremental with no extra work. I went with awk for index generation and metadata. There's still plenty of room for improvement but it does most of what I want.
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on “Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?”Mine is playing with errorformat (personal blogspam: http://flukus.github.io/vim-errorformat-demystified.html ) and combining this with :cf (read errors from file) or :cb (read errors from buffer) to parse a file/buffer into the quicklist. Great for dealing with log files.
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on “Ask HN: What is one Vim trick most people don't know?”Links broken. > But I figured out that if all you have is a title and it's a one-line string, you can just use the `head` and `tail` command line utils to extract either the title string or the markdown body depending on which operation you're in the middle of, and you can still just use bash I took a similar approach with mine ( http://flukus.github.io/building-a-blog-engine.html ) but it get's messy pretty quickly…
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on “Saait: a boring HTML page generator”I wrote a couple of months ago about using make with .net (the focus is on make): http://flukus.github.io/2016/11/30/2016_11_30_Rediscovering-... The problem is that I still need VS for debugging, which means build via msbuild. I've heard .net comes with a cmd line debugger (that's compatible with gdb even), though I've never used it.
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on “The Lazy Developer's Guide to Command Line Building with C#”It's much faster ( http://flukus.github.io/2016/11/30/2016_11_30_Rediscovering-... ), so is nant or just about any build tool. The problem is visual studio (and other developers) only know about .csproj files.
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on “Ask HN: What do you do while your code compiles?”This predates nodejs, every ecosystem has been re-implementing make, poorly. Java has ant/maven/gradle, .net has nant/msbuild/psake. Ruby and python have their own. I wrote a post recently about using make with higher level languages (TLDR- it's much more simpler and more concise than it's "successors"): http://flukus.github.io/2016/11/30/2016_11_30_Rediscovering-...
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on “Ask HN: What Unix tools are unfarily ignored, in your opinion?”The author should try some desktop tools as well, like gtk/qt and xaml with c#. Short of direct win32/xlib programming android is probably the most convoluted environment around and always has been. Here ( http://flukus.github.io/2014/08/19/2014_08_19_Android-Take-b... - personal blogspam) I delved into some of the tooling that the IDE has to do to make it somewhat passable, it's obvious why some devs see the appeal…
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on “5 things I learned as an Android developer after doing some Web development”Seems over complicated, here is the same thing with make and older csc tasks (taken from my blog here: http://flukus.github.io/2016/11/30/2016_11_30_Rediscovering-... ): Version ?= 2.0.0.1 $(version): $(init) sed s'/$${Version}/$(Version)/g' src/Version.template.cs > build/Version.cs Not to mention it's doing a lot of other things I would call anti-patterns, like running differently if it's on the CI server ("if(bam…
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on “How we use Cake to build .NET Core apps and version assemblies – Stackify”