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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
Wow, this is such an impressive launch/reveal in so many ways... landing pages, documentation, philosophy, sheer scope. Congrats to everyone on the team for the quality of execution!
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by ianstormtaylor 5y ago
That's a really nice mental model for it. I learned a similar concept in Typography class... for an assignment to design a new number. I was a little indecisive and apologized when I showed up to critique with two different number draw
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by ianstormtaylor 5y ago
I love this concept. For anyone who’s interested in doing this, but doesn’t want to manage the infrastructure you should check out Supabase. (I’m not affiliated, just a fan.)
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by ianstormtaylor 5y ago
Absolutely love the idea of combining regular note taking with the power of an infinite canvas. Congrats on the launch!
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by ianstormtaylor 5y ago
Just read “LaserWriter II” and it was a surprisingly fun read. All about the characters in an old Apple repair shop in the ‘90s. The writing style is really unique, and the nostalgia was high. Discovered it while eavesdropping on someone re
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by ianstormtaylor 5y ago
Wow, it's really refreshing to see authorization explained in a way that dives into the fine details. Most articles I've seen introduce global role-based restrictions and leave it at that which is super frustrating. Oso looks real
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by ianstormtaylor 6y ago
Extremely good idea. I've had to implement webhooks in the past and it was a huge pain (and my implementation likely had tons of bugs anyways). Turning into a well architected service seems like a perfect fit. Congrats on the launch an
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by ianstormtaylor 6y ago
Wow, this is really well put together! Anyone know an equally good guide for Python?
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by ianstormtaylor 6y ago
It depends on what type of accounting is being used. If it’s a production-based accounting then they’ll be attributed to China. But if it’s a bottom-up, consumption-based accounting then they’ll be attributed to the consumer in the United S
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by ianstormtaylor 6y ago
It's not hard to think of examples... 1. HTTPS everywhere has zero impact on the usability of a website, but makes visiting those sites much more secure. 2. Apple's App Store model for installing applications improves security and
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
Not exactly. I'm not sure where you're getting the 3% number from. If you read the New York Times maps page data[1] and just divide the total deaths by total cases you get 3.7%, but that isn't the death rate because it doesn&
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
> Finix has told TechCrunch before that, unlike Stripe, it doesn’t think of itself as a payments company but rather a payment infrastructure company. Most notably, it likes to note that it doesn’t take a percentage of transaction fees bu
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
Not sure if you’re joking or not, but that is not how it works at all. https://ensia.com/features/methane-landfills/
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
Prepare for it to not work in Edge in ~1 month when they switch to being Chromium-based.
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
In case anyone's interested, here's the Chromium bug(s) that's one of the main reasons the WYSIWYG editor has such issues in Chrome(/Electron): - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues&#x2F
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
"In many of the descriptions below, two communicating parties will be referred to as Alice and Bob; this is the common nomenclature in the crypto field and literature to make it easier to identify the communicating parties. If there is
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
If anyone is interested, I think part of the issue with why inline code formatting is so hard is related to these two Chromium bugs: - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608393 - https:&#x
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
Great article! I always love hearing Stripe talking about their internals. I've been using this practice and I agree that it's incredibly useful. I think because people tend to think in terms of "logs", they end up overl
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
When I see things like this: setcfg({'framework': 'React'}) I immediately think to myself that the designer of the API either (a) values tiny function names over understandable ones, or (b) hasn't given nam
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by ianstormtaylor 7y ago
The most useful thing Cloudflare could do is allow us to disable the `__cfduid` cookie. That's one of the big reasons I stopped using Cloudflare on a public-facing API/CDN.
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by ianstormtaylor 8y ago
Fun article to read, and has some interesting ideas! In case anyone else is interested I wrote a similar style of article about refactoring GitHub’s interface a few years ago too: https://ianstormtaylor.com/refactoring-githu
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by ianstormtaylor 8y ago
Are there any big differences to this compared to Heroku’s Postgres? (Not that there need to be, just curious if there’s reason to prefer one.) I’m still waiting for one of these providers to crack infinite scaling (similar to Aurora). Seam
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by ianstormtaylor 8y ago
Thank you for the detailed answer! That makes sense. Although I still find it strange... Now markets itself as preventing lock-in because it can deploy to any cloud, but to realistically use any database with it you have to lock yourself in
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by ianstormtaylor 8y ago
So to use serverless, you need to setup an extra non-serverless instance in front of your database?
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by ianstormtaylor 8y ago
Potentially noob question... but how does having a lambda function per route work with connection pooling for something like Postgres? Also, does ZEIT have any plans to offer hosted databases like Heroku and others do? That's one the b
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by ianstormtaylor 8y ago
How do you keep track of the nodes in the "graveyard"? Does that mean that each node has to have some sort of UUID across clients?
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by ianstormtaylor 8y ago
If you look at the career trajectory of frontend developers, I'd bet that more of them learned HTML, CSS or JS before they learned many (if not all) of the things listed under "General Development Skills". Not that those skil
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by ianstormtaylor 8y ago
Thanks for the response! I agree, having queries live in the client is a great goal for DX on the frontend. The ideal being to have them co-located right with the components that need the data. But the issue is that these kinds of solutions
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by ianstormtaylor 8y ago
+1 to this. These kinds of benchmarks of the actual execution of a server are almost never useful for actual production loads—it's always going to be the database or external services. It's the same kind of thing as Express.js com

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