cutler

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by cutler 5y ago
JAMstack isn't really serverless at all. It's a myth.
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by cutler 5y ago
It's been available for a long time but when I tried I forget which but one of the 6 url formats didn't work, ie. http://domain.com http://www.domain.com https://domain.com https:&#x
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by cutler 5y ago
The thing is I only picked on forms off the top of my head. There's a ton of functionality in your average client site which I can't imagine JAMstack catering for without it costing a lot more than hosting it on a VPS. JAMstack se
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by cutler 5y ago
When you say "kid" do you mean teenage or younger? I was 39 when I started-out with Perl and server-side programming.
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by cutler 5y ago
The appeal of Perl when I chose my first "real" programming language, after using Javascript for browser compatibility hacks, was that it was designed by a linguist with regular expressions built into the language as first class c
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by cutler 5y ago
I think you're overplaying the "static" card. If you're using the JAMstack the static bit is only half of the equation. Need a contact form? Now you need a form-processing service and it's no longer static. If you&#
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by cutler 5y ago
Fine if you can make do with static sites but that's hardly a common use case. Most of us who use a VPS are hosting Nginx with a reverse proxy to Rails, Django, Express or Laravel + PostgreSQL or MySQL where the memory costs are a frac
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by cutler 5y ago
No True Scotsman would dream of doing such a thing.
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by cutler 5y ago
The others being Impatience and Hubris.
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by cutler 5y ago
"Deliverables" just makes me wanna puke.
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by cutler 5y ago
Sadly true but Clojure doesn't change much so it still works.
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by cutler 5y ago
Overtone ( https://github.com/overtone/overtone ), for me, is by far the most elegantly designed music software.
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by cutler 5y ago
"Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl. While reading Dreamweaver 3 Bible I became intrigued by the Find And Replace options which included regular expressions. At the end of the chapter was a reference to Friel's
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by cutler 5y ago
Is this an issue with dynamic languages in general? Are Java/Kotlin and Golang, for example, not affected?
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by cutler 5y ago
On the contrary, I think Rails continues to sustain the Ruby ecosystem. It's not like there aren't alternatives such as Sinatra and Grape for microservices. There are also plenty of non-Rails Ruby jobs. If you search for `ruby -ra
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by cutler 5y ago
Compared with what? Spring? ASP.Net?
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by cutler 5y ago
Yes. Indeed.co.uk has had more Django than Rails jobs for a long time now but recently the gap has dropped from 70% to 30% so maybe Ruby 3/Rails 7/Hotwire has generated more interest.
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by cutler 5y ago
I think the crucial factor is async/concurrency. With the explosion of mobile sudden growth is a bigger possibility and the microservice architetcure caters for that. Languages like Node and Go have an advantage over Ruby here. Ruby 3
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by cutler 5y ago
Here in the UK most Ruby jobs pay a lot more than .Net. In fact .Net, for some some reason, is second only to PHP in terms of low-pay.
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by cutler 5y ago
Yes, I read the whole article but as you were going for Google Trends as your opener I thought I'd counter with job stats which you didn't really dwell on much in the rest of the article. Point taken, however, that a lot of Rails
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by cutler 5y ago
Google Trends is not the place to be looking. Programming Language adoption is best gauged by the number of jobs which require skill in the language. Ruby and Rails adoption according to Indeed.com/co.uk has been steady for many years,
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by cutler 5y ago
Anti-Putin Russians leaving the country only plays into Putin's hands. It would be like a Stalinist purge without the bloodshed.
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by cutler 5y ago
.... and stop being ageist while pretending to support equal opportunities.
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by cutler 5y ago
Just use Perl.
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by cutler 5y ago
Still up to their old tricks. So much for the caring, sharing, Linux-friendly, open-source M$. I remember the Microsoft of the 90s and they haven't changed much in 30 years if you dig below the hype. Anyone remember SCO and Suse being
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by cutler 5y ago
Ruby is a much better option than Python for expat Perl geeks.
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by cutler 5y ago
The Damian was a phenomenon of pure inspiration. In fact Perl community in general had a pantheon of acolytes I've never seen in any other programming community. Ruby has a few but nowhere near as many as Perl. Perl in the early 2000s
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by cutler 5y ago
Moose, Mouse, Moo, Mo ... bah! Just give me The Damian's simple blessed hashref.
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by cutler 5y ago
Mason was supposed to be Perl's answer to PHP. Trouble is you could only get it to anywhere the speed of PHP by hosting it on mod_perl which wasn't an option with shared hosting deals. Same with Perl's heavyweight framework C

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