mattbessey

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by mattbessey 1mo ago
Is there any intent to make polytoken or its core open source in the long term?
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by mattbessey 6mo ago
Please oh please let GCP add this to the supported managed Postgres extensions...
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by mattbessey 11mo ago
The UK government has announced very little about the plan and in fact made it clear that the details are yet to be decided https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-id-scheme... Yet plenty of people incl
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by mattbessey 1y ago
I would recommend doing more than gaussian blurring. Blurring makes it harder but not impossible to recover, especially if you know the exact font and font size in an image (which is easily recovered when the attacker can visit the website
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by mattbessey 1y ago
I'm not sure that's a particularly fair conclusion to make Mike. 1bn a day is order 10k/s. if you the creator of Sidekiq know "dozens" of people hitting that rates, if anything you're supporting arcticfox'
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by mattbessey 1y ago
This was a really compelling article Dan, and I say that as a long time l advocate of "traditional" server side rendering like Rails of old. I think your checklist of characteristics frames things well. it reminds me of Remix&#x27
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GitHub Releases are no match for CHANGELOG.md(bessey.dev)
2 points by mattbessey 2y ago|0 comments
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After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL(bessey.dev)
1259 points by mattbessey 2y ago|698 comments
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by mattbessey 2y ago
try ruby. there are several ways to call commands but the simplest is simply the command string in backticks
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by mattbessey 2y ago
> This layout creates uniformly-sized columns, without any rows I find it amusing that they've decided to refer to this as masonry layout. If you actually built a wall like this (as opposed to uniformly-sized rows , without any co
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by mattbessey 3y ago
Isn't that exactly what this article is advocating for? Its just getting to Least Privilege in a much less painful way than is common.
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by mattbessey 4y ago
> at the end of someones weeks of work That sounds like more of a criticism of large PRs and long feedback cycles than of code review itself.
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by mattbessey 4y ago
> It's just a combination of plant oils Sounds plenty plant-based to me. Why conflate plant-based with healthy? Plenty of people, myself included, have turned to meat-alternatives to reduce our environmental impact. I am under no il
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by mattbessey 6y ago
can't afford it? in the UK ibuprofen and paracetamol are like, 20p for a pack of 16! though I do miss the giant packs you get in the US, all pills come in small blister packs with purchase limits in all shops, to make overdosing more d
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by mattbessey 6y ago
I had a read through your docs but was unable to find any info on how you handle the sync of hard deletions from sources. We use Stitch at the moment and have found this to be a surprisingly hard problem to solve without binary log replicat
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by mattbessey 7y ago
is that a bad thing? I don't think anyone is against a reporting monolith. to me, being able to silo data in the appropriate stores for their read / write patterns, and still query it all in a single columnar lake seems like a fea
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by mattbessey 7y ago
See https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/help-and-advice/e-cigarettes which cites > Public Health England's 2015 independent evidence review found that, based on the available evidence, vaping is around 95% less h
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by mattbessey 7y ago
Does this really count as using boring technology? they're choosing the younger of the two DBs and to use some of the latest features e.g lateral joins
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by mattbessey 7y ago
Caring.com | Full-time | REMOTE > Senior Engineer | ONSITE > VP of Engineering Tech stack: Ruby, Rails, React, GraphQL, MySQL, Postgres, AWS Caring.com, based in San Mateo, CA, helps customers around the US navigate senior care option
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by mattbessey 7y ago
The solution to the bottled water epidemic is (to return to) reusing water bottles, not to manufacture yet more millions out of a different material. Reduce, reuse, recycle. In that order
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by mattbessey 8y ago
Not to mention that it doesn't take a genius to see that a solid object folded in half is not going to be less than twice as thick!
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by mattbessey 8y ago
I can just about understand this attitude with services that do not have an ad-free subscription option, but Spotify does! How do you reconcile that you deserve to be able to use Spotify both without paying them money and without them mon
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How we prepared our systems for our £20M crowdfunding round(monzo.com)
1 points by mattbessey 8y ago|0 comments
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by mattbessey 8y ago
> this safety doesn't even cost more; it's actually cheaper than the alternative when you net out all the costs. You can't just drop an argument destroying bomb like this with no citation
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Night Sight for Pixel phones(theverge.com)
455 points by mattbessey 8y ago|131 comments
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by mattbessey 8y ago
Absolutism is unnecessary, two people eating half as much beef is just as impactful as one of two people going vegan. I don't think eating less meat is impractical, certainly not specifically just eating less beef, by far the most envi
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by mattbessey 8y ago
I punched those numbers into the bank of England's inflation calculator and half that difference can be explained by inflation alone https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
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by mattbessey 8y ago
Hey all, I realise that neither Webpacker nor Hypernova are brand spanking new tools, but when I went to find a "getting started" tutorial, I found nothing up to date. Even the official Hypernova docs are written for Rails ~3.2 er
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Rails and React Server Side Rendering, with Webpacker and Hypernova(bessey.io)
1 points by mattbessey 8y ago|1 comments
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by mattbessey 8y ago
While that may be the case for urine, the article pretty clearly states that fecal matter is a significant risk factor.

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