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by kennu 9y ago
I found the article confusing at first, because they said they discarded HTML5 as an option but in fact ended up using Haxe to generate HTML5. The explanation is that they wanted a desktop-first, multi-platform solution that is able to gene
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Introducing the New GDPR Center and Navigating GDPR Compliance on AWS Whitepaper(aws.amazon.com)
22 points by kennu 9y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 9y ago
In my view the user-specific parts and frequently updating data should be rendered on the client side. The pre-rendered HTML should contain the less-frequently changing information that is important for SEO.
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by kennu 9y ago
Isn't the whole point of server-side rendered React to render it just once, when building the website, and then serve it as static HTML/JS/CSS assets using a static webserver?
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by kennu 9y ago
Well, yes, you can run your own server to provide yourself a serverless platform, but it kind of defeats the purpose... Since then you end up having to maintain your server anyway. I suppose there may be a point to it if the serverless plat
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by kennu 9y ago
Even the README says you need to start a server. So it’s not quite serverless. (“Serverless”, at least to me, means a platform where I don’t have to worry about running servers.)
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by kennu 9y ago
It's interesting that the curve shown in the article started to grow right after Steve Jobs died in 2011. (Too bad the previous years are not shown.)
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by kennu 9y ago
Amazon Lightsail instances can provide cheaper bandwidth. The $5/month subscription includes 1TB, while 1TB of outgoing data on EC2 would cost $90 ($0.09 per GB). (This is such a big difference that I don't really understand it.)
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by kennu 9y ago
I had lots of DNS zones in Route 53 that didn't really need to be there. So I moved a bunch of them to ClouDNS, which supports ALIAS records to have apex domains point to CloudFront distributions. Seems to work. Also I realized that Dy
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by kennu 9y ago
Biggest problem with F.lux used to be that it was tied to geo-location. As a Finnish person (with sometimes only a few hours of sunlight per day), you had to fake your location to something that would approximate the desired circadian rhyth
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by kennu 9y ago
I think AWS X-Ray deserves to be mentioned here - it tracks requests through different services using tagging and provides visualization. AWS also has other useful tools like SNS and SQS for building loosely coupled microservice systems. In
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by kennu 9y ago
I used to use Debian unstable because it had all the packages regular Debian was missing, but it was a bit, well, unstable. Then Ubuntu came out about 12 years ago and it was exactly what I had always wanted: a stable distribution of everyt
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How to Achieve Perfection by Sweating the Details(medium.com)
3 points by kennu 9y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 9y ago
I think the author is somewhat missing the point that the whole Serverless paradigm is not so much about emulating past architectures without servers. It is more about building completely new kind of architectures, where applications are no
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by kennu 9y ago
Tip for people using AWS: It's nowadays very easy to create and manage multiple accounts using AWS Organizations. It helps you get into the habit of grouping your services across different Amazon accounts. (I'm not sure what happe
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by kennu 9y ago
The iOS app is not available in the Finnish App Store, only US :-( We have hotdogs here, too! (And not hotdogs.)
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by kennu 9y ago
Amazon API Gateway + Lambda, managed by Serverless Framework. Practically free to use for small purposes. For static content that can be (re)published as needed, I'd use S3 + CloudFront and a scheduled or triggered Lambda that handles
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by kennu 9y ago
Serverless Framework + Phenomic (React static site). No servers to worry about, no OS maintenance, out-of-the-box scalability (using AWS API Gateway / Lambda / S3). All development in JavaScript, so no need to context-switch for c
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by kennu 9y ago
Just spent an hour debugging why development scripts work but production doesn't.. Good reminder to configure some kind of notifications from AWS Lambda also when the execution times out, not just on errors.
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by kennu 9y ago
I think you are right and that the same applies to many other things, too: wanting to be a developer vs. wanting to develop things, wanting to be a manager vs. wanting to manage things, and so on.
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by kennu 9y ago
I think JavaScript is an excellent choice. This is about getting people started, and you can start making your own apps in the browser right away with very little overhead. You can also ignore boring stuff like static types and only learn t
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by kennu 9y ago
From my perspective, a devops person (in the context of AWS) is someone who, in addition to coding, knows how to monitor and configure all the AWS services. E.g. they know how to provision right amount of DynamoDB capacity for the applicati
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by kennu 10y ago
Interesting project considering that AWS also provides Rekognition ( https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ ), which recognizes faces as a service. I wonder how it compares to AWSLambdaFace?
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by kennu 10y ago
My solution to this was to choose a higher level framework (Phenomic) and treat all the included tooling as opaque. I was able to start writing and deploying React/Redux apps right away and only get deeper into all the tool details lat
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by kennu 10y ago
I would argue that by using CONSTANT == variable, you are reducing the cognitive load of the compiler, but increasing the cognitive load of the human reading the code (who has to mentally flip the expression around). I think the original ar
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by kennu 10y ago
Did you put a lot of effort in writing original text content for the website? My experience has been that, even if a website might be useful for other reasons, it needs to have lots of original text e.g. to be approved for Google ads.
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by kennu 10y ago
I think we are taking about websites that can be hosted on a static file server like Amazon S3/CloudFront, but which also have all the dynamic features of React available for building a rich and complex UX. For instance, when working w
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by kennu 10y ago
Stopped reading half-way because an ad popped up over the text. I've made it a habit to just close pages like that instead of bothering with dismissing obtrusive ads.
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by kennu 10y ago
I thought the article would be about replacing CTOs with AIs, based on the title.
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by kennu 10y ago
There appear to be two Telegram apps on Mac App Store: Telegram Desktop 0.10.20 and Telegram 2.30. I guess neither is the same as this one?

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