markl42

8 ms·

31.
by markl42 5y ago
Maybe only kinda sorta relevant, but I interned at RefME for a summer - basically a Zotero competitor. There was a lot of value (for users) in scraping web pages to autofill to author, title, date etc so it could generate the references, so
32.
by markl42 5y ago
So you know how we were talking about Dostoevsky earlier
33.
by markl42 5y ago
GraphQL makes a lot more sense at the scale of a big company where every team rewrites the same AJAX endpoint logic to fetch the same set of core entities (except in delightfully subtly different ways). Having “the one true” representation
34.
Give a reason when using suppression statements(programming.protips.wiki)
2 points by markl42 5y ago|0 comments
35.
by markl42 5y ago
how did they um...."defuel" their bodies and such in the air?
36.
JavaScript: Chain custom errors to preserve stack traces(programming.protips.wiki)
1 points by markl42 5y ago|0 comments
37.
by markl42 5y ago
More security layers doesn’t always == better security The “nth nth and nth” character of your password means they’re storing your password in plaintext, and Auntie Nora is more likely to have it written on a postit cos she can’t use a pass
38.
by markl42 5y ago
Good. When I moved to the US from the UK, I already had British HSBC accounts, so thought it made sense to open up an HSBC account and credit card. Got a $200 credit limit (thanks?), awful app, terrible customer service...eventually got fed
39.
Teaching People to Fish(blog.larah.me)
2 points by markl42 5y ago|0 comments
40.
Jest: How do I mock x? (Runnable examples for common mocking scenarios)(github.com)
1 points by markl42 5y ago|0 comments
41.
You can debug or understand anything. Keep popping the hood(blog.larah.me)
2 points by markl42 5y ago|0 comments
42.
by markl42 5y ago
Big fan of sourcegraph, we use it at work. super excited to see this happen. (I've been using grep.app until now which is awesome too!)
43.
by markl42 5y ago
Cool! Similar project I maintain: https://programming.protips.wiki/
44.
by markl42 5y ago
Might be worth checking the code but > tree shaking eliminates unused functions from across the bundle by starting at the entry point and only including functions that may be executed Is what this code (tries to!) do
45.
Tiny Treeshaker: JavaScript tree shaking in 200 lines of code(github.com)
62 points by markl42 5y ago|54 comments
46.
Show HN: Programming.protips.wiki – A Collection of Programming Protips(programming.protips.wiki)
5 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
47.
Techwriting.styles.wiki – a wiki of styleguide tips for writing documentation(techwriting.styles.wiki)
2 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
48.
The Dream Query: How we scope projects with GraphQL(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
4 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
49.
Show HN: Techwriting.styles.wiki – Tips for improving project docs, RFCs etc.(techwriting.styles.wiki)
4 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
50.
Write explicit type guards(blog.larah.me)
1 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
51.
by markl42 6y ago
It's undeniable that there's a learning curve to GraphQL - but at the end of the day, it's just adding another investment that developers may choose to make their lives easier in the long run. As in industry, we're okay
52.
by markl42 6y ago
I'll throw a shoutout for a top tier project - https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter Using it for some personal stuff, and does absolutely everything I need it to, and then some. I love the ethos of the project, an
53.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
54.
Prefer having technical discussions in public(blog.larah.me)
2 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
55.
Composerize.com – convert Docker run commands into Docker compose files(composerize.com)
2 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
56.
Don't rethrow `new Error(error)` in JavaScript(blog.larah.me)
1 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
57.
by markl42 6y ago
Shameless plug opportunity! On the topic of "more complication on top of cloudformation", I made a tool that lets you split up cloudformation files with import syntax. https://github.com/magicmark/cf-merge
58.
by markl42 6y ago
Shameless plug time! I made https://composerize.com/ for exactly this - converting all the docker run commands from tutorials and such into reusable compose files :)
59.
Dataloader-codegen: How to manage and autogenerate DataLoaders for GraphQL(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
5 points by markl42 6y ago|0 comments
60.
by markl42 6y ago
Nice! I wonder if there will be a mapping between compose and the cli maintained as part of this? (Disclaimer, I maintain https://composerize.com/ , hoping this helps us track parity)

More ›