pbowyer

21 ms·

241.
by pbowyer 5y ago
> Another advantage is there are some cool no-code solutions where you can build internal admin tooling on top of your API Which tools are you thinking of? I know of react-admin, are there others?
242.
by pbowyer 5y ago
That's a great framing of it. I'm a good example, interested in many things so my tweets are about multiple topics. It must drive my followers nuts. And the accounts I like to follow are focused on a single topic. I've though
243.
by pbowyer 5y ago
If you enjoyed this you might like https://github.com/VictimOfMaths/COVID-19 :)
244.
by pbowyer 5y ago
It's a good question, and motion should never be used without careful thought. In my case I've written an article about request coalescing, and the animations are to go alongside the text rather than in place of it. It'll hel
245.
by pbowyer 5y ago
Thanks, I hadn't thought of using Figma for this. That might be enough...
246.
Ask HN: How to quickly animate system sketches and 2D diagrams?
142 points by pbowyer 5y ago|62 comments
247.
by pbowyer 5y ago
That sounds amazing, can you share any more details - of your WYSIWYG editor and how you use QuickJS?
248.
by pbowyer 5y ago
Yes please - in my case because fonts look different on Windows and Mac (and Linux?) and I've been caught a few times after buying fonts that looked great only to discover all screenshots were from Macs and on Windows it was nothing li
249.
by pbowyer 5y ago
Aha thank you! Much for me to think about.
250.
by pbowyer 5y ago
Interesting, for larger contracts the way you bid at Matasano is how mine come out. Scoping engagement, then costs broken down as a guide. My reading though is what you were doing was still time and materials. Sure you're billing in un
251.
by pbowyer 5y ago
> Neither retainer freelancers nor subscription services should be charging hourly; hourly is a consulting anti-pattern. It's easy to say that but hard to avoid hourly. I say that as somebody who's read your threads and those o
252.
by pbowyer 5y ago
> Why does everyone want it to be a silver bullet? I agree with this sentiment. But mnot spells out well in his article why adding it to HTTP would be pragmatic (CDNs, standardised, caching)
253.
by pbowyer 5y ago
This makes seeing the rivers and catchment areas easier than other maps I'm used to. It also easily highlights features that the sea has cut away in the past. For example if you search "Isle of Wight" and scroll west, you can
254.
by pbowyer 5y ago
They're bad. I've only compiled one small Haskell program and even after stripping had to resort to upx to compress the binary and make it easy to distribute. https://dixonary.co.uk/blog/haskell/small wa
255.
by pbowyer 5y ago
I've already moved most of my servers from Linode to UpCloud. I did this as the disk IO speed at UpCloud is insane and made some intensive apps measurably faster. The downside is price as UpCloud bundle less and charge for everything.
256.
by pbowyer 5y ago
There's also the Mercure protocol, built on top of Server-Sent Events: https://mercure.rocks/
257.
by pbowyer 5y ago
Nice work! Anything that helps visualise state I'm happy to see. Reading the linked article I'm unclear: does Stately generate output that we run with XState? Or is it a SaaS where we design and run the state machine (a bit like C
258.
by pbowyer 5y ago
Does anyone know where to find these kinds of illustration online, to use for my own purposes? I assume they've been scanned from old books, and I'd like to see what others are available.
259.
by pbowyer 5y ago
> There's also a performance team (for general WP performance, but also covering the editor/JS) that meets regularly and posts minutes. Rant incoming... I would love to be involved with the performance team (it's what i&
260.
by pbowyer 5y ago
I recently took over maintaining https://github.com/capacitor-community/camera-preview , an MIT licensed Ionic and Capacitor camera plugin written in Swift, Java and Typescript. I stepped up because I needed it, and lot
261.
by pbowyer 5y ago
There's now a free Varnish VMOD to run ESI requests in parallel: https://code.uplex.de/uplex-varnish/libvdp-pesi
262.
by pbowyer 5y ago
> CDNs are an architectural misfeature that only exist because Fly.io wasn't around 20 years ago. I'm being extreme, but I think that's fundamentally true. ;) Spicy take :) Although building for a dynamic CDN (I'm thi
263.
by pbowyer 5y ago
Nice work, this looks like something I need.
264.
by pbowyer 5y ago
> I think that someone who doesn't want to give their real email address to try out a service is even less likely to trust an unknown service with their credit card number. And that's OK. The problem as I understand it is that
265.
by pbowyer 5y ago
Your free trial is too generous. Suggest using the Standard plan but with significant rate limiting. Like 5/day. If they want to remove that, enter credit card details which you verify. You can still have the trial expire and the credi
266.
by pbowyer 5y ago
It looks like I didn't put it on Arxiv, so I need to find a copy and then put it back online :) Will reply here when I do, but likely to be a week+ before I do
267.
by pbowyer 5y ago
I agree with you, having been on both sides of the divide and researched & written my masters thesis on teaching programming to undergrad science students. Are you aware of https://software-carpentry.org/ ? It started af
268.
by pbowyer 5y ago
> I wonder if we need a middle-class of open source contributor [...] I wish somebody would do the time-consuming and boring-but-valuable work of polishing these contributions into something merge-worthy... We need a valuing of non-codi
269.
by pbowyer 5y ago
This "too many comments" argument comes up every time, and I say it's a straw man argument. Apart from new programmers who put those comments in to remind themselves what each line does, I haven't seen "comment-nois
270.
by pbowyer 5y ago
I wanted to stop by and say thanks for cyberciti.biz! I've been using it since 2001-2002 when I got my first Verio Freebsd VPS and had to figure out what was going on. When I see your site pop up in my search results I know the content

More ›