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holler
5y ago
So I'm planning to start a blog for my project and decided I'm going to go with Medium. The reasons are: - allows custom domain, e.g. blog.site.com - very little hassle to get up and running; created the account and set it all up
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5y ago
Nice, I'm using Starlette on it's own and it's been really nice to work with.
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5y ago
> Instead of complex QoS for message delivery, a Broker may provide message history. A Subscriber is responsible to handle overlaps (duplicates) when it wants "exactly-once" message processing across restarts. The Broker may al
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5y ago
> There's no fall back to a different protocol in a practical sense (yes, the specification does not state it has to be websockets, it just defaults to web sockets). Its for all practical purposes, web sockets or bust. Why this matt
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5y ago
When I set out to build a new realtime chat app, I explored various options and landed on wamp/crossbar.io as a potential choice. This was a few years ago but at the time it seemed promising, reasonably well-documented, and had both py
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5y ago
> So it's not about restricting access, as that assumes an imaginary level of demand. It's about leveraging a core group to attract a larger crowd who you then selectively elevate into an in-group, typically based on competence
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5y ago
Appreciate the thoughtful commentary. I'm curious if you're suggesting that the only way for a new social network to overcome the "cold start" problem is to restrict access along some strata at the right ratio to incenti
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5y ago
I played Starcraft 1 and 2 for the past ~20 years and a few months ago I decided to call it quits. I permanently deleted my account and haven't looked back. I really hope Blizzard doesn't give up on the franchise and creates a Sta
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5y ago
Yeah this site requires javascript to use and it uses cookies... It may load slowly if there's no traffic, see below.
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5y ago
> This is why you should avoid making a SPA unless you know what you're doing The site doesn't have much traffic right now and is running entirely on serverless lambda, it's likely you arrived while it was idle and had to
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5y ago
Wow, was picturing a perfectly ripe avocado reading this :) One place I know has great avocados are fruit stands in San Diego, particularly North County during summer. They grow them all over the hillsides and sell for cheap by the roadside
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5y ago
For https://sqwok.im , I explicitly placed the login/signup prominently at top right for all users on mobile and desktop because I want it to be clearly visible always. I could see some value in detecting whether the user ha
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5y ago
> Ember has never accepted this. I love that! Totally! It's really impressive how they've adapted, evolved, and kept the framework going, so much that one of the most popular websites on the net has trusted it for their core si
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5y ago
Good question, and of course the difference between 445kb & 345kb may not be noticeable, but it would be if you compared it against 1/2/10mb etc. The competitive angle is really delivering a fast/snappy/responsive ex
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Experimental build tool mHo can run near instant rebuilds with minimal overhead
(youtube.com)
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In the Ember.js ecosystem there's a really exciting new build tool project called "mho", that replaces webpack and uses a novel strategy running in a service worker to interpret native javascript modules with minimal overhead
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5y ago
I wonder if that's by design? without careful curation it could be an abomination
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I'm working on a new realtime discussion site https://sqwok.im and one of my goals is to keep it as lean/fast as possible, both as a competitive angle & because I find it interesting. So far I get ~445kb transferre
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6y ago
> ...to be the arbiter of what you should or should not see instead. I can understand the tendency if there's a business behind it, maybe they don't want the homepage to be filled with polarizing, divisive, or nsfw content etc.
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6y ago
what stops a "centralized" network from implementing the same thing?
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What about electric cars or a constellation of low orbit satellites to bring internet to many more people? I think it’s important for us to continue to push the bounds of exploration for practical and emotional reasons. It gives humanity so
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6y ago
That would be great! the site & my email are in my profile
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Building a realtime chat application with AWS IoT on Twitch featuring Sqwok.im
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Interesting insight! Do you use Stocktwits? I see a lot of the same issues you describe with people abusing the cashtag & spamming their discord channels. Working on a new discussion site and I'd like to attract a community of peop
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6y ago
didn't Square purchase $50million of bitcoin recently?
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6y ago
thank you! let me know if you have any questions
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6y ago
thank you! appreciate the comment
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Certainly agree! but it's still limited in use by design.. with Sqwok I'm trying to build something that anyone can use without any technical knowledge at all - Just open the url. I'm on freenode daily :D
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Totally... If you enjoy the text/irc aspect, I welcome you to check out https://sqwok.im , a new realtime public discussion site very much inspired by growing up using aol chat/irc/icq/aim and others. I think
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6y ago
ok but how much would a sandwich cost?
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