#reinventingthewheel — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reinventingthewheel, aggregated by home.social.
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🔧🤖 Ah, what a noble quest: #coding a web server in #aarch64 #assembly to fill the existential void left by modern conveniences. Because, clearly, the best way to achieve enlightenment is by manually handling #syscalls and discarding decades of progress. 🌐🚀 Enjoy reinventing the wheel, one byte at a time!
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #techhumor #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🔧🤖 Ah, what a noble quest: #coding a web server in #aarch64 #assembly to fill the existential void left by modern conveniences. Because, clearly, the best way to achieve enlightenment is by manually handling #syscalls and discarding decades of progress. 🌐🚀 Enjoy reinventing the wheel, one byte at a time!
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #techhumor #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🔧🤖 Ah, what a noble quest: #coding a web server in #aarch64 #assembly to fill the existential void left by modern conveniences. Because, clearly, the best way to achieve enlightenment is by manually handling #syscalls and discarding decades of progress. 🌐🚀 Enjoy reinventing the wheel, one byte at a time!
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #techhumor #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🔧🤖 Ah, what a noble quest: #coding a web server in #aarch64 #assembly to fill the existential void left by modern conveniences. Because, clearly, the best way to achieve enlightenment is by manually handling #syscalls and discarding decades of progress. 🌐🚀 Enjoy reinventing the wheel, one byte at a time!
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #techhumor #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🔧🤖 Ah, what a noble quest: #coding a web server in #aarch64 #assembly to fill the existential void left by modern conveniences. Because, clearly, the best way to achieve enlightenment is by manually handling #syscalls and discarding decades of progress. 🌐🚀 Enjoy reinventing the wheel, one byte at a time!
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #techhumor #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🤦♂️ Oh, look! Someone decided to revive the 1980s by writing a web server in #ARM64 assembly—because obviously, the world was clamoring for that. 🙄 Instead of using anything remotely practical like #Nginx, let's waste time reinventing the wheel with raw syscalls, because, why not? 🚀
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #assembly #retrocoding #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🤦♂️ Oh, look! Someone decided to revive the 1980s by writing a web server in #ARM64 assembly—because obviously, the world was clamoring for that. 🙄 Instead of using anything remotely practical like #Nginx, let's waste time reinventing the wheel with raw syscalls, because, why not? 🚀
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #assembly #retrocoding #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🤦♂️ Oh, look! Someone decided to revive the 1980s by writing a web server in #ARM64 assembly—because obviously, the world was clamoring for that. 🙄 Instead of using anything remotely practical like #Nginx, let's waste time reinventing the wheel with raw syscalls, because, why not? 🚀
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #assembly #retrocoding #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🤦♂️ Oh, look! Someone decided to revive the 1980s by writing a web server in #ARM64 assembly—because obviously, the world was clamoring for that. 🙄 Instead of using anything remotely practical like #Nginx, let's waste time reinventing the wheel with raw syscalls, because, why not? 🚀
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #assembly #retrocoding #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🤦♂️ Oh, look! Someone decided to revive the 1980s by writing a web server in #ARM64 assembly—because obviously, the world was clamoring for that. 🙄 Instead of using anything remotely practical like #Nginx, let's waste time reinventing the wheel with raw syscalls, because, why not? 🚀
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #assembly #retrocoding #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh no, OpenAI's in trouble with WebRTC! 😱 Apparently, rewriting everything in #Rust is the only way to prove you're a real engineer. 🙄 Because clearly, the solution to every problem is to reinvent the wheel—preferably in a more obscure language. 🚀
https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/ #OpenAI #WebRTC #ReinventingTheWheel #EngineeringDrama #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh no, OpenAI's in trouble with WebRTC! 😱 Apparently, rewriting everything in #Rust is the only way to prove you're a real engineer. 🙄 Because clearly, the solution to every problem is to reinvent the wheel—preferably in a more obscure language. 🚀
https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/ #OpenAI #WebRTC #ReinventingTheWheel #EngineeringDrama #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh no, OpenAI's in trouble with WebRTC! 😱 Apparently, rewriting everything in #Rust is the only way to prove you're a real engineer. 🙄 Because clearly, the solution to every problem is to reinvent the wheel—preferably in a more obscure language. 🚀
https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/ #OpenAI #WebRTC #ReinventingTheWheel #EngineeringDrama #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh no, OpenAI's in trouble with WebRTC! 😱 Apparently, rewriting everything in #Rust is the only way to prove you're a real engineer. 🙄 Because clearly, the solution to every problem is to reinvent the wheel—preferably in a more obscure language. 🚀
https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/ #OpenAI #WebRTC #ReinventingTheWheel #EngineeringDrama #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh no, OpenAI's in trouble with WebRTC! 😱 Apparently, rewriting everything in #Rust is the only way to prove you're a real engineer. 🙄 Because clearly, the solution to every problem is to reinvent the wheel—preferably in a more obscure language. 🚀
https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/ #OpenAI #WebRTC #ReinventingTheWheel #EngineeringDrama #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, bravo! 🙄 Another developer decides to reinvent the wheel with yet another open-source email builder. Because, clearly, we don't have enough half-baked #alternatives to Beefree/Unlayer cluttering #GitHub. 🚀 Next up: an open-source coffee mug alternative.💡
https://play.templatical.com #openSource #emailBuilder #reinventingTheWheel #developerHumor #coffeeMug #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh joy, another dev thinks they're a genius for shoving their #GitHub into Postgres—because nothing screams cutting-edge like reinventing the wheel with extra steps. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, they drown us in #buzzwords and #AI name-dropping like a toddler who's just discovered their parents' thesaurus. 📚💥
https://github.com/calebwin/gitgres #Postgres #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh joy, another dev thinks they're a genius for shoving their #GitHub into Postgres—because nothing screams cutting-edge like reinventing the wheel with extra steps. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, they drown us in #buzzwords and #AI name-dropping like a toddler who's just discovered their parents' thesaurus. 📚💥
https://github.com/calebwin/gitgres #Postgres #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh joy, another dev thinks they're a genius for shoving their #GitHub into Postgres—because nothing screams cutting-edge like reinventing the wheel with extra steps. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, they drown us in #buzzwords and #AI name-dropping like a toddler who's just discovered their parents' thesaurus. 📚💥
https://github.com/calebwin/gitgres #Postgres #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh joy, another dev thinks they're a genius for shoving their #GitHub into Postgres—because nothing screams cutting-edge like reinventing the wheel with extra steps. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, they drown us in #buzzwords and #AI name-dropping like a toddler who's just discovered their parents' thesaurus. 📚💥
https://github.com/calebwin/gitgres #Postgres #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh joy, another dev thinks they're a genius for shoving their #GitHub into Postgres—because nothing screams cutting-edge like reinventing the wheel with extra steps. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, they drown us in #buzzwords and #AI name-dropping like a toddler who's just discovered their parents' thesaurus. 📚💥
https://github.com/calebwin/gitgres #Postgres #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, yes, because the world desperately needed a deep dive into crafting the Usain Bolt of #Linux #timestamps 🏃♂️⏰ for the three people who plan to rewrite their system clocks 🤓. Congrats on discovering how to reinvent the wheel with extra steps, all while no one cares 🤦♂️.
https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/04/26/the-fastest-linux-timestamps/ #UsainBolt #SystemClocks #TechHumor #ReinventingTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, yes, because the world desperately needed a deep dive into crafting the Usain Bolt of #Linux #timestamps 🏃♂️⏰ for the three people who plan to rewrite their system clocks 🤓. Congrats on discovering how to reinvent the wheel with extra steps, all while no one cares 🤦♂️.
https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/04/26/the-fastest-linux-timestamps/ #UsainBolt #SystemClocks #TechHumor #ReinventingTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, yes, because the world desperately needed a deep dive into crafting the Usain Bolt of #Linux #timestamps 🏃♂️⏰ for the three people who plan to rewrite their system clocks 🤓. Congrats on discovering how to reinvent the wheel with extra steps, all while no one cares 🤦♂️.
https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/04/26/the-fastest-linux-timestamps/ #UsainBolt #SystemClocks #TechHumor #ReinventingTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, yes, because the world desperately needed a deep dive into crafting the Usain Bolt of #Linux #timestamps 🏃♂️⏰ for the three people who plan to rewrite their system clocks 🤓. Congrats on discovering how to reinvent the wheel with extra steps, all while no one cares 🤦♂️.
https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/04/26/the-fastest-linux-timestamps/ #UsainBolt #SystemClocks #TechHumor #ReinventingTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, yes, because the world desperately needed a deep dive into crafting the Usain Bolt of #Linux #timestamps 🏃♂️⏰ for the three people who plan to rewrite their system clocks 🤓. Congrats on discovering how to reinvent the wheel with extra steps, all while no one cares 🤦♂️.
https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/04/26/the-fastest-linux-timestamps/ #UsainBolt #SystemClocks #TechHumor #ReinventingTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated -
John Andrzej Odrzywolek has bravely reinvented the wheel by declaring that you can derive math's most basic operations using... math's most basic operations! 🚀🤔 Apparently, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is a single function and the number 1. Who knew? 🤷♂️
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/13/the-smallest-math-library/ #reinventingthewheel #mathoperations #ultimatequestion #mathfun #innovation #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀🎩 Oh, look! Someone reinvented the wheel by creating a "lightweight" build tool for C/C++ that nobody asked for, just to give GitHub's AI something to do. Somehow, it's supposed to be revolutionary despite being yet another addition to the endless sea of build tools. 🤦♂️🔧
https://github.com/randerson112/craft #reinventingthewheel #lightweightbuildtools #C #C++ #GitHubAI #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
Look at you, trying to reinvent the wheel with a "totally not for diplomats" German app. 🌍📱 Congratulations on discovering the FSI course, something the government has been using since the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. But hey, charge $5 a month for a 60-year-old curriculum and you're golden! 💸💼
https://detawk.com/ #reinventingthewheel #FSIcourse #techcritique #appdevelopment #governmentinnovation #digitaldiplomacy #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 BREAKING: Two mediocre note-taking apps decided to "collaborate" and give birth to yet another #open-source monstrosity, 'Cushion.' Because what the world desperately needed was a software hybrid that does absolutely nothing new. 🙄👶✨ Welcome to the endless cycle of reinventing the wheel—this time with a slightly different shade of gray. 🌀💻
https://cushionmd.com/ #mediocreapps #Cushion #collaboration #softwaredevelopment #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the disillusioned coder's dream: reinventing the wheel in a language nobody asked for, all for the glory of a few lines of Rust! 🚀🦀 Who knew we needed yet another Gzip decompressor to remind us that sometimes, just sometimes, #learning can masquerade as productivity. 😆
https://iev.ee/blog/gzip-decompression-in-250-lines-of-rust/ #disillusionedcoder #reinventingthewheel #Rust #Gzipdecompressor #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated -
TECH HOUR: Warehousing Your Data: A No-Nonsense Guide to the Right DBMS in 2026
In 2026, the guide evaluates top database management systems for effective data warehousing, focusing on backfilling dimensional tables. Snowflake is praised for its ease of use and innovative features, while Oracle excels in reliability for enterprises. PostgreSQL appeals to budget-conscious users seeking straightforward functionality, making it a solid choice for mid-sized warehouses. -
TECH HOUR: Snowflake’s Cortex Code: The Agentic Reckoning
Cortex Code: The Agentic Reckoning, Or, How Snowflake Finally Gave Data Engineers a Break from Their Existential Crisis (Now With 300% More Technical Guts) Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Madrid, Thursday 26th March 2026 Yesterday I attended Snowflake's breakfast date in Madrid, and here are some of the great things I learned. So, without more ado... Listen up, you glorious data martyrs, you noble sufferers who’ve spent years knee-deep in the festering swamp of undocumented ETL pipelines, chasing lineage graphs that resemble a deranged spider on acid after a three-day bender, and muttering dark incantations at 3 a.m. because some crusty Python script decided “customer churn” meant “every table that vaguely smells like a customer, plus that one VIEW nobody documented since 2019.” I stand before you today, your erudite, slightly unhinged technical prophet (with a heavy dose of stand-up bile and a side order of schema diagrams), to deliver the good news: Snowflake has unleashed Cortex Code, the AI coding agent that doesn’t just autocomplete your misery, it inhales it, digests the entire governed data estate, and burps back production-grade, hallucination-free SQL, Python, and dbt YAML while respecting your PII tags and warehouse economics like a paranoid compliance officer on Red Bull. This isn’t your garden-variety Copilot having another existential meltdown over a missing import. This is Code Context incarnate, an agentic beast that has swallowed the Horizon Catalogue whole, metadata, lineage graphs, semantic layers, role-based access controls, Dynamic Table lag policies, and the soul-crushing reality of your credit burn rate. […]https://goodstrat.com/2026/03/26/tech-hour-snowflakes-cortex-code-the-agentic-reckoning/
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🤪 Oh joyous day! Yet another "revolutionary" runtime promises to finally #sandbox your Node.js app for dainty little #AI tasks, because that's been the burning issue all along. 🚀 Let's all pretend to be shocked when it turns out to be just another way to run JavaScript—this century's version of reinventing the wheel. 🔄
https://wasmer.io/posts/edgejs-safe-nodejs-using-wasm-sandbox #NodeJS #JavaScript #Innovation #ReinventingTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated -
Looking at https://www.youtube.com/@htme it apparently takes a very small group of people only about 10 years to make it from scratch to quite a surprising amount of todays technology.
I kinda expected them to not even make it half the way in that time. But apparently if you know what you're building it is millennia faster than when you don't...
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Oh boy, someone spent an entire weekend reinventing the wheel 🛞 just to find an "OK" color for an image background! 🎨 Because resizing an image to 1x1 pixel and getting mud was too avant-garde for their taste. But fear not, they heroically named their groundbreaking library "Okmain," because apparently "MediocreMain" was too on the nose. 😂
https://dgroshev.com/blog/okmain/ #reinventingthewheel #imageprocessing #colorpicker #Okmain #techhumor #weekendproject #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Wow, setting up a REST API to relay #XMPP messages via HTTP—because why use a direct, efficient method when you can complicate everything for the sake of "integration"? 🤦♂️ Just what the world needed: a #tutorial on how to reinvent the wheel by adding a few extra hoops! 🙄📡
https://gultsch.de/posts/xmpp-via-http/ #RESTAPI #integration #reinventingthewheel #techhumor #developmentchallenges #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Wow, setting up a REST API to relay #XMPP messages via HTTP—because why use a direct, efficient method when you can complicate everything for the sake of "integration"? 🤦♂️ Just what the world needed: a #tutorial on how to reinvent the wheel by adding a few extra hoops! 🙄📡
https://gultsch.de/posts/xmpp-via-http/ #RESTAPI #integration #reinventingthewheel #techhumor #developmentchallenges #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Wow, setting up a REST API to relay #XMPP messages via HTTP—because why use a direct, efficient method when you can complicate everything for the sake of "integration"? 🤦♂️ Just what the world needed: a #tutorial on how to reinvent the wheel by adding a few extra hoops! 🙄📡
https://gultsch.de/posts/xmpp-via-http/ #RESTAPI #integration #reinventingthewheel #techhumor #developmentchallenges #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Wow, setting up a REST API to relay #XMPP messages via HTTP—because why use a direct, efficient method when you can complicate everything for the sake of "integration"? 🤦♂️ Just what the world needed: a #tutorial on how to reinvent the wheel by adding a few extra hoops! 🙄📡
https://gultsch.de/posts/xmpp-via-http/ #RESTAPI #integration #reinventingthewheel #techhumor #developmentchallenges #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Oh, look, another forked attempt at reinventing the wheel! 🛞 'Blacksky' tosses some #optimizations and caching into the mix, but who are we kidding? GitHub's got more bells and whistles than a parade of clowns, and this app is just another one of them. 🎪🙃
https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/atproto #reinventingthewheel #Blacksky #GitHub #techhumor #appdevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the classic tale of reinventing the wheel 🛞! Behold, the famed network server pattern, dear reader: marvel as it twiddles its thumbs for an event, then dispatches like a waiter at a Michelin-star restaurant 🍽️. Forget progress, let's wrap "epoll" and "kqueue" in redundant libraries and call it #innovation. 🚀
https://geocar.sdf1.org/fast-servers.html #reinventingthewheel #networkserver #epoll #kqueue #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the classic tale of reinventing the wheel 🛞! Behold, the famed network server pattern, dear reader: marvel as it twiddles its thumbs for an event, then dispatches like a waiter at a Michelin-star restaurant 🍽️. Forget progress, let's wrap "epoll" and "kqueue" in redundant libraries and call it #innovation. 🚀
https://geocar.sdf1.org/fast-servers.html #reinventingthewheel #networkserver #epoll #kqueue #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the classic tale of reinventing the wheel 🛞! Behold, the famed network server pattern, dear reader: marvel as it twiddles its thumbs for an event, then dispatches like a waiter at a Michelin-star restaurant 🍽️. Forget progress, let's wrap "epoll" and "kqueue" in redundant libraries and call it #innovation. 🚀
https://geocar.sdf1.org/fast-servers.html #reinventingthewheel #networkserver #epoll #kqueue #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the cutting-edge #innovation of using #tmux and #Markdown to pretend you're managing 48 coding agents 🤣. Who needs fancy orchestration tools when you can just drown in a sea of bash aliases and window naming conventions? 🥴 Clearly, reinventing the wheel is the new black! 🛞✨
https://schipper.ai/posts/parallel-coding-agents/ #codingagents #bashaliases #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 BREAKING NEWS: Someone reinvented the wheel... again! 🎉 Meet #Chorba, the "novel" #CRC32 implementation that nobody asked for. 🤦♂️ Because what the world truly needs is yet another way to hash data. Bonus points for the riveting "Skip to main content" intro. 😂
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16398 #reinventingthewheel #hashingdata #techhumor #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 BREAKING NEWS: Someone reinvented the wheel... again! 🎉 Meet #Chorba, the "novel" #CRC32 implementation that nobody asked for. 🤦♂️ Because what the world truly needs is yet another way to hash data. Bonus points for the riveting "Skip to main content" intro. 😂
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16398 #reinventingthewheel #hashingdata #techhumor #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 BREAKING NEWS: Someone reinvented the wheel... again! 🎉 Meet #Chorba, the "novel" #CRC32 implementation that nobody asked for. 🤦♂️ Because what the world truly needs is yet another way to hash data. Bonus points for the riveting "Skip to main content" intro. 😂
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16398 #reinventingthewheel #hashingdata #techhumor #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 BREAKING NEWS: Someone reinvented the wheel... again! 🎉 Meet #Chorba, the "novel" #CRC32 implementation that nobody asked for. 🤦♂️ Because what the world truly needs is yet another way to hash data. Bonus points for the riveting "Skip to main content" intro. 😂
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16398 #reinventingthewheel #hashingdata #techhumor #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉🎤 Behold, the #Vite plugin that nobody asked for! #Vinext bravely reimplements Next.js, because who doesn't love reinventing the wheel while deploying to the cloud? 🌥️🤖 Now you can have all the complexity of Next.js with none of the convenience! 🚀🔧
https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext #Nextjs #CloudDeployment #WebDevelopment #ReinventingTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated