Runtime Arguments

Runtime Arguments

Conversations about technology between two friends who disagree on plenty, and agree on plenty more.

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June 14, 2025 28 mins

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  1. Functional programing isn't academic.  It isn't overwhelming.  It isn't impossible to use.  It isn't inapplicable to ordinary problems like the ones you're solving right now.
  2. You can use functional techniques in almost any modern programming language.  In fact, you probably already are.
  3. Main pillars of FP:
    1. Pure functions (no side-effects)
    2. Functions are first-class ob...
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  1. If you have a compute intensive part of your web application, it may make sense to implement that bit of code in a compiled language like C, C++ or Rust and then compile them to WASM so they can be executed in the browser.
  2. Security and Portability. WASM code is secure as it utilizes the browsers' sandbox and portable as all browsers are supporting the W3C Standard WASM.
  3. You ar...
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  • Crypto is not really anonymous
  • Crypto is both regulated and taxed (at least here in the US)
  • Legal uses of crypto outweigh illegal uses.  This stuff is legitimate.  There are dangers, but crypto is something you might legitimately possess
  • There are scammers everywhere.  Protecting the private key in your wallet is vital to keeping your money: don’t lose it, don’t let it be stolen, don’t give i...
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Have you thought about moving your computing into the Cloud?

This episode takes a look at a real-world adventure that Jim went through when moving his computing infrastructure from purchased servers in a rented rack in a datacenter to a VM Running in a cloud service provider using Docker, Linux, managed PostgreSQL. He covers the steps he took to get there, how it's going, the good stuff and the challenges in making i...

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