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Designing Iterable HTTP JSON APIs(orobinson.co.uk)
3 points by orobinson 4y ago|0 comments
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by orobinson 4y ago
I’ve been working almost exclusively with JVM languages for 6 years but have probably written less than 1000 lines of Java in that time. Almost all my work has been in Kotlin and Scala. Given the clear pattern of Java decline and Kotlin gro
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by orobinson 4y ago
It didn’t really capture me when I first read it but it’s one of those fictional worlds that stays with you in a haunting kind of way. Reading this short story gave me a similar vibe and I wasn’t entirely surprised to discover at the end th
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by orobinson 4y ago
> even if getting the pots and pans sorted out delays dinner by a minute or two Ha I do this too whereas my partner will happily come in and start cooking despite the kitchen being messy already, much to my chagrin.
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The Five Stages of CTO(calbucci.com)
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by orobinson 4y ago
Free/Libre Open Source Software. “Libre” is French for free as in freedom so it’s sometimes added to emphasise the “free” means freedom of use not necessarily free in price.
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by orobinson 4y ago
I’d been wondering (naively) if we’d reached the point where we can’t see any new kinds of music now that electronic synthesis allows us to make any possible sound. Changes in musical styles throughout history tend to have been brought abou
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by orobinson 4y ago
I would imagine the complexities of building and rolling out such a system would not be technical. Imagine trying to get 200+ countries to agree and implement a standard to store healthcare records, blockchain or no blockchain.
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by orobinson 4y ago
The Cyberiad is brilliant. If you haven’t read it already I thoroughly recommend Monday Starts on Saturday by the Strugatsky Brothers. It has a kind of similar vibe, hilarious, fantastical yet still sci-fi.
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by orobinson 4y ago
The iPad is worst for this, I still haven’t got to grips with all the convoluted gesture based multitasking controls.
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by orobinson 4y ago
Recently I've been wondering why my internet seems to be getting so slow. It then dawned on me that webpage bloat has progressed to the point that my 2015 MacBook (the small one with the rubbish processor) really struggles to load a ty
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by orobinson 4y ago
This. The computer science degree I did started off in the first term with us building computers on an FPGA by mapping out the logic gates, then programming it in assembly. Learning how to program in C followed this. It's a good way of
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by orobinson 4y ago
I feel the same. I think it’s because it really represents the end of an era. The 20th and early 21st century ushered in unprecedented improvements to quality of life in Britain but it has felt of late that that has peaked and the country i
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by orobinson 4y ago
I’ve stopped buying most things at Amazon for this reason. Surely they realise that long term this is going to be an existential threat for their retail business? Much like how Netflix is now having issues after pumping out sub-par content
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by orobinson 4y ago
I remember when the smart object removal feature was added to photoshop and it was pretty cool. The fact that you can now get the same functionality working even better in a free browser tool is mind blowing.
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by orobinson 4y ago
They may not live in a city. Even tiny villages in the UK will have a pub and some pubs are literally just on their own in the middle of nowhere. I grew up in a small town in eastern England and people would drive from the surrounding vill
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by orobinson 4y ago
A huge tunnel is being dug under the Thames for sewage overflow to prevent this from happening. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tideway_Scheme
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by orobinson 4y ago
“NASA believes it will need 40 kilowatts of power for the first lunar inhabitants” Sounds like it’ll only need to be a small reactor, something akin to what goes in a submarine. I’m no expert but presumably something like that is significan
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by orobinson 4y ago
Interesting. I was very into PC gaming in my teens and look back on that time quite fondly. Certainly not with any regret or a feeling that I wasted my time.
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by orobinson 4y ago
I wrote an email to Tim Cook in 2018 complaining about the butterfly keyboard on my MacBook and pleading that apple change the design on their future machines. I never got a reply but they did change the design a year later which I’ll take
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by orobinson 5y ago
I’d argue addressing things like fast fashion is focusing on the existential threat that we are all facing. It’s just one of the many things in society that needs to be curtailed if we want to bring our usage of planetary resources back int
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by orobinson 5y ago
Just be careful applying the same technique to squeeze mayonnaise bottles…
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by orobinson 5y ago
Re the last 3% of ketchup, just cut the bottle in half and scrape the rest out with a spoon.
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by orobinson 5y ago
I find TDD is great when you have an interface to some code defined and are changing the behaviour of what happens when interacting with that interface. You can then add some tests to the existing test suite for the interface, watch them fa
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by orobinson 5y ago
I'm planning to read a mixture of classic 20th century novels, sci-fi (which has some intersection with 20th century classics..) and historical non-fiction. So far I've read one from each of those categories: A Clockwork Orange by
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by orobinson 5y ago
Once it’s up and running it’s fine but importing photo libraries into Photos is truely the worst software experience I have ever had. It took me weeks of on and off tinkering to get my partner’s photo library setup correctly and syncing wit
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by orobinson 5y ago
Yup I’ve had to debug an issue exactly like this. An IN statement that when populated with <7 parameters would happily use an index but when populated with >=7 parameters would decide to do a full table scan. I was quite dismayed to
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by orobinson 5y ago
Benefits of playing on mobile - “hey Siri what’s <insert maths here>”
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by orobinson 5y ago
As someone who likes to try new technologies but has zero creativity when it comes to deciding what I should build in order to learn said new technologies, this is extremely helpful advice! I’ve got tonnes of ideas now.
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by orobinson 5y ago
Understandable. Although vaccinations have proven only partially effective at preventing you getting covid so even if he was vaccinated you wouldn’t be in a much better position in that regard.

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