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by jacobr 6y ago
I found it interesting that 48 year old Anders Povlsen is using his fortune buying up estates, trading with the state to get large adjacent areas to rewild - to the point where he’s now the largest private land owner https://en.m
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by jacobr 6y ago
API routes is what they refer to with the Next.js BFF approach: https://nextjs.org/docs/api-routes/introduction It’s useful if you need to call an API from the client in a Next.js application but modify the data f
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by jacobr 6y ago
Is ESI in Service Workers anything you’ve tried? A bit mind blown, never thought of that. Been putting of SW due to all horror stories of people bricking their sites basically
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When Network is Faster than Cache(simonhearne.com)
1 points by jacobr 6y ago|0 comments
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by jacobr 6y ago
Even more food for thought - what if the cache is slower than the network? https://simonhearne.com/2020/network-faster-than-cache/
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Islands Architecture(jasonformat.com)
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by jacobr 6y ago
Some people seem to be able to shrug off bullshit at work, just go home and think about things that “matter”. If I see bullshit, things that are wrong, or just legitimately hard problems I have a very hard time not working hard to fix it ev
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by jacobr 6y ago
What do you think would happen if everyone stopped using tobacco and alcohol over night? Would poverty disappear? It’s of course tragic when parents make a bad position even worse, but addiction is a symptom of poverty and not the cause.
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by jacobr 6y ago
> As more and more sites join, cache hits become more likely, making all sites load faster as a result. This was not really true back when browsers allowed sharing caches between domains because of different versions and fragmentation of
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by jacobr 6y ago
> They also were exposed and survived just fine Most people also survived driving without a seatbelt before it became illegal. Just because something is not dangerous or damaging in 100% of cases does not mean it’s not problematic or sho
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by jacobr 6y ago
You would do new Intl.DateTimeFormat(siteLocale) and not new Intl.DateTimeFormat(browserLocale) to get consistent formatting.
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by jacobr 6y ago
You can already use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... for quite a few of moment’s use cases.
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by jacobr 6y ago
If I only evaluated our tech stack on a pure “what’s the most efficient way to deliver HTML to the user” I’d not choose React, but I don’t know of any other framework that ticks the other boxes required in a large organization. - Code shari
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by jacobr 6y ago
That’s horrific and amazing
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by jacobr 6y ago
Haven’t tried it yet, but https://www.npmjs.com/package/msw looks very interesting. It uses Service Workers in the browser to intercept requests to the APIs, instead of running a real mock server. There’s support for m
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by jacobr 6y ago
I am sure there are plenty of cases where this approach works just fine. I assure you that those of us who work on projects where this would not work are not simply bad at naming things and that’s the only reason we picked component based
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by jacobr 6y ago
How are the training resources for editors using Strapi? One selling point of the more commonly used CMSs is that you can hire editors that already know it and there are companies that can help you train editors.
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by jacobr 6y ago
Until you’re senior enough that most of your job is communication, then remote becomes difficult again. WFH now and maintaining Work/Life balance is really difficult when most of your time is spent sending emails, reviewing code and pr
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by jacobr 6y ago
Define “codebase”? You can have multiple services, user facing apps or modules inside a single repository, but if there are no boundaries coordination will be difficult of course.
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by jacobr 7y ago
Instead of running build_entire_site when updating content, you can run invalidate_cache
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by jacobr 7y ago
> If you change the header component, and that header component is shown on every page in the site, you will have to give it some time. To me this invalidates SSG for any busy site with a somewhat large menu. Any time you change the orde
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by jacobr 7y ago
Many problems are not suitable to be addressed by individual’s consumption choices. For instance, I think governments and international trade organizations should make sure there is no slavery involved in producing goods - it should simply
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by jacobr 7y ago
I know first hand small employers that had employees go on parental leave, hired replacements, and then without too much hassle could keep the replacements and fire the one on leave, because there are many exceptions you can do as a small e
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by jacobr 7y ago
Parental leave pay is 79% or something, not “full salary”
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by jacobr 7y ago
Sort of did this at my previous job by being senior and in a good position and communicating that I’d be working from home first 1, then 2, then 3 days a week. Other team members with long commutes followed (it made sense to avoid in-person
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by jacobr 7y ago
How is the repo size doing, if you check in your dependencies? I’m handling a monorepo with around 20 devs and we will be adding teams up to maybe 100 devs at year’s end, a bit worried that zero-install would explode the repo size.
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by jacobr 7y ago
Sounds like a reasonable solution for some systems in 1999. How many of the systems that were fixed properly died the following years anyway, and the millions invested were overkill and unnecessary? In some cases “kicking the ball down the
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ONiO.zero offers a RISC-V Microcontroller that runs without battery(cnx-software.com)
19 points by jacobr 7y ago|7 comments
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Long-term stays are a growing part of Airbnb’s business(npr.org)
1 points by jacobr 7y ago|0 comments
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by jacobr 7y ago
And with just a tiny bit of effort in corporate politics your technical (or whatever you aim for) impact can become so much larger.

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