Just one more… I think the difference between simple and complex systems for me is that Django/ActiveRecord love pretending that mutations happen in a single table.

Once they don’t, you get the question of where does that stuff live. And another small orchestration layer was our answer to that.

I replied in another thread but this sounds like exactly what we do too! Simple functions that orchestrate.

Codebases definitely over complicate this layer from past experience.

It really is just functions for us and I believe we’re better for it.

We do this even with Django, just a simple layer of functions that control common complex queries and another for mutations.

Because otherwise differences everywhere proliferate like bacteria and it’s impossible keeping the various interfaces synced in behaviour.

Prompt:

Analyse our Python code and write a Cursor rule to ensure that future LLM usage sticks to Python guidelines and style in our codebase. Look at what version of Python we use for instance, and pick up other common style and usage. Stick to language features itself.

Cheers. I’m going to have to see, I might be away.

What about dots and boxes? That game where you draw a point grid and then each person takes turns putting horizontal or vertical lines between the dots until they claim a box.

it’s so good

I believe positioning and clarity of message. Substack led creator-first and never positioned itself as a free to read platform.

Medium instead stumbled with direction over monetisation.

The wider ecosystem was also very different in 2012 vs 2017, the creator economy is very much a thing now.

this is it for me. i love this place but that effect is certainly worse here. at least “show me less like this” seems to work more here.

Ding ding. I had to follow the light, literally.

Very ready.