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by ggregoire 2y ago
Crazy how big his channel has become. I used to install bare metal servers with Jeff's Ansible scripts almost a decade ago!
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by ggregoire 2y ago
I think it's more about avoiding downtime (I just upgraded a pg with 1TB of data from v11 to v16 and I didn't notice any breaking changes). In an ideal world, every client of the DB should be able to handle the case where the DB i
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by ggregoire 2y ago
Postgres and mysql usually have changes in each new version that are important enough to motivate an upgrade, whatever it is new features or better performance or both. Although it really depends if your are using the features they are impr
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by ggregoire 2y ago
> Is anyone actually using FastAPI in a commercial, large scale app? Would you prefer using...say Django or Flask + Gevent (since they're more mature) over FastAPI? Django and FastAPI are two different things. The former is a huge a
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by ggregoire 2y ago
Literally the second sentence of the article: > We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom
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by ggregoire 2y ago
> I'm unsure why this article is so upvoted given how vapid the content is, but it does have a snappy title, I guess. rust, sqlite, htmx... there is a small list of techs that always get massively upvoted on hn, whatever the content
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by ggregoire 2y ago
Reading/watching random tutorials and asking basic questions on SO __instead of reading the official docs__ is a trend I've observed for the last 10 years. Even for stuff pretty well documented like Python, Postgres, React, etc.
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by ggregoire 2y ago
They disclosed the vulnerability directly to the co-founder CTO. > the timeline for the vulnerability: > aug 25 5:48pm: got initial contact over signal (encrypted) with arc co-founder hursh > aug 25 6:02pm: vulnerability poc execut
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by ggregoire 2y ago
> If you're starting a project today and considering Django, I highly recommend you go with Nestjs and Prisma instead. I recommend you to take a look at PostgREST. I replaced all our Django, Flask, Falcon, FastAPI and custom Python
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by ggregoire 2y ago
In this case is it not faster to just code the component yourself?
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by ggregoire 2y ago
Wouldn't be easier to have a shared dev database? So that each developer doesn't have to apply the migrations and import the dumps in their local db, and figure out why the local db for dev A is different than the local db for dev
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by ggregoire 2y ago
I was gonna ask what do people use to sync their local pg with their remote pg, but turns out, that's exactly what the authors are building. Cool stuff, and gratz on pglite!
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by ggregoire 2y ago
jQuery is fine to add some client side interactivity on websites, but it doesn't provide enough structure, automation and reusability tools when it comes to building SPAs. You will eventually have to write your own framework on top of
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by ggregoire 2y ago
Not interested in changing techs just for the sake of it to be honest. “If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”
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by ggregoire 2y ago
> React (and specifically Next.js) is the new IBM[0]: You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and it’s going to be joyless implementing it every step of the way. Can't
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by ggregoire 2y ago
I don't get the "reinventing JSX" part, it's not what's happening here. JSX allows you to render a list by iterating over the elements of a JS array, using directly the .map method of the Array object. It's one
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by ggregoire 2y ago
web programming is probably on the 3rd or 4th rank of what python is used for nowadays Also, you don't really need to "learn" python. I mean, if you have been in this industry for long enough, it's the kind of languages
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by ggregoire 2y ago
> Using SQLite improved page navigation times by 20 percent in all modern browsers. Couldn't you cache the data in LocalStorage and get similar speed improvements? I mean, how to run SQLite in the browser is a great topic and surely
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by ggregoire 2y ago
Indeed. Docker solved distributing and running python programs like 10 years ago. You can even run CUDA and pytorch in docker nowadays. And the usual answers you see on HN every time someone brings up "just use docker" on those th
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by ggregoire 2y ago
I read this comment on one of the threads on reddit: > It broke because of /r/politics. When a discussion thread gets meaningfully past 30,000 comments, it starts to lag subsequent submissions to that thread, and then lag the e
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by ggregoire 2y ago
> react-window I'm confused, I read everyday on hacker news that react is the slowest JS framework ever made. Seems fine to me.
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by ggregoire 2y ago
> Operating System: [...] I already use Linux, so the Framework 13 wins. Should probably start the review with this. I'm not gonna buy a Framework 13 if I want to use macOS, and vice versa.
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by ggregoire 2y ago
> there is definitely "resume-driven development" where people pick something they want to put on their resume to solve a problem regardless of its suitability to the task in hand. Or people in this industry are geeks and curio
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by ggregoire 2y ago
I just tried nivo in my last react project and eventually had to reinstall echarts-for-react since most of my charts have 2+ vertical axises with different scales and it's not supported in nivo (I read there is a hack with stacking mul
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by ggregoire 3y ago
Can Apple win?
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by ggregoire 3y ago
VSCode handles this very well too: select the lines you want to commit and do "Git: Stage selected ranges"
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by ggregoire 3y ago
That's what Twitch has become too. The most popular Twitch streamers do nothing other than watching YouTube videos and providing a fake relationship to their 50,000 live viewers.
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by ggregoire 3y ago
> In the adjacent pie chart, try to figure out which group is the biggest one [...]. You will probably struggle to do so and this is why pie charts must be avoided. It's not that bad when the purpose of the pie is not to figure out
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by ggregoire 3y ago
From the example it seems like it's to make HTTP APIs? You declare a route "/" and it returns the content "Hello Hono!" for this route. The word "API" appears twice on the landing page and github READ
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by ggregoire 3y ago
Slightly related but it's so interesting to me all those new small tech companies that basically provides value on top of Postgres! They usually blog about some obscure stuff about Postgres and one of their articles gets on the frontpa

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