inmysocks (version: awoo) @inmysocks@awoo.space

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WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE ANY SITUATION WHERE A FUNCTION CAN HAVE AN INTERNAL STATE YOU FLAMING DOUCHE BISCUIT???

In case you are wondering:

Setting a default function parameter to a mutable value means that the default parameter changes for every function call if the parameter gets changed inside the function.

I remember reading that before, but it was still 2 hours of my life

I think that a lot of the privacy and security problems with DHTs are made much simpler if you just don't assume a global DHT.

There are plenty of uses for resilient meshes with a distributed data store.

The more I look at how the back-end works the more I want to make a c++ version of pouchdb so bindings into other languages like python work better.

LevelDB already does most of the heavy lifting.

Some npm modules really confuse me.

One is a wrapper on the core crypto library. In the sense of:

module.exports = require('crypto')

and one is a wrapper on a single one-line function that just calls a function in another library with the same arguments it is passed.

This seems gratuitous.

I should post on this account about tech stuff more than I do.

I don't mind when people don't understand how to use something I made, it just means I need to either make better documentation or make it simpler.

when someone describes their problem in terms of something on the backend, is completely wrong about it and they actually have some interface problem then ignore me when I explain what the problem actually is and continues to refer to it that way and tells other people that is the problem, that means they are a jackass.

On our walk today javert was making faces at me.

Also I finally saw one of the neighbor kittens, they will come into the courtyard but they run away as soon as they hear anyone so I only ever saw tails running away before.

#Mastodogs #cats

We have cut aluminium.

It turns out it was easier to just use the dht-rpc node module, which is a lower level module that hyperswarm is build on top of, than to use hyperswarm directly.

It was still very useful because it gave a working example of how to use the more basic dht, but I think that my goals and the goals of the developers of hyperswarm are too different in this case.

Well, the connection part is DHT based, it is also going to be a big part of the privacy and security aspects of it.

After the connections are made the DHT doesn't really matter for the p2p stuff.

The revamp of Dodo may actually be doing something! I may have a DHT based chat room type thing that doesn't completely not work.

PouchDB has replaced SQLite as my go to lightweight database, at least for node projects.

The brain keeps wanting to pick up a new language to write dodo in.

But it is going to continue to be Node because a bunch of people know it. We can write a version on elixir or whatever when I actually have time to learn a new language.

One of the best decisions I made for development stuff was to have a small raspberry pi server running gitea that mirrors the repos of all of the open source libraries I use.

Well that took longer than I had hoped, but now Dodo uses hyperswarm at least on a local network.

I am trying to figure out the relative merits of using websockets vs using a combination of server sent events and normal http requests.

So far I have nothing useful, other than for some reason I like websockets.