What are your programming "hunches" you haven't yet investigated?

kept by eddie apr 10

Lobsters commenters share uninvestigated programming hunches, including accessibility-first GUI toolkits, 32-bit pointers on 64-bit systems, property-based infrastructure, MUD-style chat, and user-controlled theming.

Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
JavaScript's Temporal API reached Stage 4 after nine years of collaboration among Bloomberg, Igalia, and TC39, providing immutable datetime types with time zone and calendar support.
also on V8, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
Lobsters successfully moved from MariaDB to SQLite, cutting CPU and memory use, halving VPS costs, and keeping the site responsive after migration.
also on Lobsters, #developer-tools
Company as Code
The author proposes defining a company's structure, roles, and processes as declarative code, enabling versioning, testing, and automation.
also on Terraform, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
How I think about Kubernetes
Kubernetes is best understood as a runtime for declarative infrastructure with a type system, rather than just a container orchestrator.
also on Kubernetes, #infrastructure, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
The 6-Stage AI Infrastructure Journey: Navigating the Three FinOps & Hardware Crises with ACE Gateway — ACE Blog
The piece outlines a six‑stage AI infrastructure journey, maps three predictable cost/latency crises, and demonstrates how ACE Gateway’s control‑plane features cut spend and prevent hardware failures at each stage.
also on Kubernetes, #infrastructure, #developer-tools