Dennis Hackethal
@dennis.hackethal·Joined Jun 2024·Ideas
Founder Veritula.
Author. Software engineer. Ex Apple. Translator of The Beginning of Infinity.
dennishackethal.com
#2635·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months agoI could lazy load ideas: only load the parts of the page that would be visible on the current viewport. Then load more parts as the user scrolls.
Complex, requires non-trivial scroll listeners correlated to deeply nested ideas.
#1954·Lola Trimble, 7 months agoI see the value in having quiet areas to think, I agree that it is important, but I at times find the quiet distracting. I sometimes work better in environments that have some level of noise, nothing like a club, more like a somewhat crowded cafe. So are you talking about “quieter” environments such as a cafe, or are you talking about complete silence in your observation?
Just saw this app that lets you play ambient sounds at home: https://x.com/mirdhaaakanksha/status/1983238682154021218
#2653·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months ago‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to pronounce it. They usually can’t remember it.
Idea: ‘Return to Reason’, ‘RR’
#2653·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months ago‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to pronounce it. They usually can’t remember it.
Idea: ‘The Second Renaissance’, ‘2nd Renaissance’, ‘2R’ for short.
‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to pronounce it. They usually can’t remember it.
#2647·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months agoIncluding that module significantly slows down hot reloads on all pages. I need a tight feedback loop in dev.
Replacing a raw SQL query in Idea.tree with a standard ActiveRecord query solves this issue.
#2650·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months agoAfter resetting my working directory and beginning to implement streams a second time, I can no longer reproduce this issue, despite reasonable attempts to reproduce it.
I’ve since been able to reproduce the issue after all. Running a raw SQL query in Idea.tree in combination with the inclusion of the Live module seems to mess with Rails’s reloader.
#2647·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months agoIncluding that module significantly slows down hot reloads on all pages. I need a tight feedback loop in dev.
After resetting my working directory and beginning to implement streams a second time, I can no longer reproduce this issue, despite reasonable attempts to reproduce it.
A slow developer experience will slow down all further development, including bug fixes and feature rollouts, which hurts UX as well.
#2647·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months agoIncluding that module significantly slows down hot reloads on all pages. I need a tight feedback loop in dev.
Fast UX is more important than fast developer experience.
#2646·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months agoI could use
ActionController::Liveto stream ideas to the page one by one. Instant page load.
Including that module significantly slows down hot reloads on all pages. I need a tight feedback loop in dev.
#2630·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months agoDiscussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).
I could use ActionController::Live to stream ideas to the page one by one. Instant page load.
#2643·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months agoI tried copying the entire quote…
Cannot reproduce. If I triple-click a word in a box quote, then copy/paste, I get the > sign.
Ah, but I can reproduce when I manually make the selection by clicking and dragging to cover the entire quote.
#2642·Benjamin Davies, 6 months agoTo be clear, if you copy the entire box quote and paste it into a textarea, it will start with the > sign. I just double checked.
This doesn't work for me the way it does for you. I tried copying the entire quote, and also in a separate attempt, copying extra stuff above and below the box quote, and neither gave me the > sign.
I have tried on my windows computer and my iPad.
… copying extra stuff above and below the box quote, and neither gave me the > sign.
Cannot reproduce, neither on iPad nor macOS.
#2642·Benjamin Davies, 6 months agoTo be clear, if you copy the entire box quote and paste it into a textarea, it will start with the > sign. I just double checked.
This doesn't work for me the way it does for you. I tried copying the entire quote, and also in a separate attempt, copying extra stuff above and below the box quote, and neither gave me the > sign.
I have tried on my windows computer and my iPad.
I tried copying the entire quote…
Cannot reproduce. If I triple-click a word in a box quote, then copy/paste, I get the > sign.
#2633·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months agoI could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.
A single new idea somewhere down the tree could invalidate the cache and slow things down again.
#2633·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months agoI could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.
Initial page loads would still be slow for users.
#2637·Benjamin Davies, 6 months agoWhen copying a box quote from Veritula, the box quote formatting (>) is lost.
To be clear, if you copy the entire box quote and paste it into a textarea, it will start with the > sign. I just double checked.
You’re saying you’d still want the > if you only copy/pasted part of the box quote, right?
#2633·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months agoI could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.
Cache invalidation for user-based caching sounds like a nightmare.
#2630·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months agoDiscussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).
On initial page load, I could just load the first ten or so top-level ideas and their immediate children, just to reduce wait times and populate the page. Then load the rest asynchronously.
#2630·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months agoDiscussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).
I could lazy load ideas: only load the parts of the page that would be visible on the current viewport. Then load more parts as the user scrolls.
I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.
I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.
#2630·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months agoDiscussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).
I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.
Discussions are getting slower to render as they grow.
Discussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).
Feature idea: a page that shows you a random idea of yours that has pending criticisms and then helps you address them all.
Feature idea: page at /ideas/:id/guide which shows you an idea and helps you address all pending criticisms one by one, if any. At the end, it shows a message ‘You’re all set!’ or something like that.