Chris Chua

Bear Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown note taking app to capture, write, and organize your life.

Bear.app

Lol I thought I was so original with sirh.cc 😆

Like this pattern for networking 📌

Anyone has been using @getgrist.bsky.social ? How do you like it?
It looks like what I've been looking for with Coda.

Anyone use zero-instrumentation profiling tools for Python? How’s your experience with them?

E.g. perforator.tech

Add excludeLangs for syntax highlighting · withastro roadmap · Discussion #1124 Body Summary Add an option to exclude certain languages from syntax highlighting. Background & Motivation Syntax highlighting adds markup to code blocks. The default Mermaids integration fails and ...

Created an RFC: github.com/withastro/ro...

Dug into the source, looks like exclusions are managed here github.com/withastro/as...

Will contribute an excludeLangs option when I get a chance.

Diagrams Use fenced code blocks and Markdown render hooks to include diagrams in your content.

Ah glad to know that the defaults on Hugo support it. I see gohugo.io/content-mana...

Ran into this issue.
Syntax highlighting breaks the default way of rendering it via code blocks.
I haven’t found a way to turn off syntax highlighting only for mermaid while leaving it on for other languages.

This is frustrating given I’d think this is a common use case since they support GFM.

What is the best solution for using mermaid diagrams in Astro? I've failed a couple of times at implementing it now.

@webpro.nl @ssp.sh @cassidoo.co in case you’ve taken a stab at mermaid rendering on your blog, curious what you’ve came up with.

I haven’t dug into the syntax highlighting internals but perhaps I should.

…and GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) supports mermaid rendering.

Ran into this issue.
Syntax highlighting breaks the default way of rendering it via code blocks.
I haven’t found a way to turn off syntax highlighting only for mermaid while leaving it on for other languages.

This is frustrating given I’d think this is a common use case since they support GFM.

Was wondering who else heard that…

Future LinkedIn skill:
* Able to persuade diverse set of LLM models.

Debugging an error coming from an AI agent:
`Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)`

As I step through the code, I see why.

The LLM (llama3.2:1b) is refusing to provide a response, as it thinks it could be used maliciously.

Guess the next step is to persuade this model that I'm 😇...

Interesting:

Meta created React Native. It’s used (with components at least) in their flagship apps: Facebook (iOS, Android), Instagram (Meta Quest), Messenger (desktop).

Google created Flutter. And yet none of their flagship apps use it (Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Calendar).

I meant that typically two modes (mocks, real endpoints) are kept available in the test code.
If the test strictly requires mocks and will never run without mocks (i.e. a mode that records new mocks such as when API endpoints have updated) then I typically regard it less of an integration test.

It’s okay to do so but there’s still a way to run it without the mocked APIs to hit real endpoints.
It’s not that they must rely on mocks being available.

Book that comes to mind is: Non-violent communication.

Not exactly about empathy directly but a tool to help with it.

Using a Precompiled gRPC Compiler in Bazel for Python How to use a precompiled gRPC compiler for Python in Bazel

Wrote on how to use a precompiled gRPC Compiler in Bazel for Python.

Used ChatGPT as an editor, and published it. Done is better than perfect, heh.

Ah, just saw this. You beat me to it.

const DATE_FORMAT = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { weekday: 'long', }); export function newYearsDay(year: number): string { const date = Date.UTC(year, 0, 1); return DATE_FORMAT.format(date); }

github.com/chrisirhc/ca...

Fleshed it out, added some detail and code snippets to it.

New blog Welcome to my new blog

Working on a new blog.
Here goes, the first post, so I can test comments.

blog.sirh.cc/post/new-blog/

The 70% problem - hard truths about AI-Assisted Coding

✍️ "Hard truths about AI-assisted coding" tips & tricks in my latest article: bit.ly/ai-assisted

While AI-Assisted coding can get you 70% of the way there (great for prototypes or MVPs), the final 30% requires significant human intervention for quality and maintainability.

WIP Pre-compiled gRPC plugin article by chrisirhc · Pull Request #3 · chrisirhc/blog.sirh.cc See Files Changed to review: https://github.com/chrisirhc/blog.sirh.cc/pull/3/files

I’m working on a blog post on some recent work I did with a monorepo.

github.com/chrisirhc/bl...

Anyone has comments on the outline or tools to recommend for improving the post?

Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping. In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy, I’ve finally reached the point where I need to transition “Wardley Mapping” from a topic to consider including into a topic that I either...

Finally took some time over past month to learn Wardley mapping. Still a technique I’ve rarely seen “in real life”, but glad that @mipsytipsy.bsky.social mentioned it a few times online in ~2018 and I’ve finally caught up 😂

lethain.com/learning-war...