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by porker 5y ago
Gamers. Reddit is not a good measure for what workers who use computers want. Or need.
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by porker 5y ago
This is a well written article, if long. The overviews of tracing/open telemetry and tokio are excellent.
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by porker 5y ago
Beanstalkd? These comments say better than I can why I like it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27483167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714198
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by porker 5y ago
For me burnout comes from imposter syndrome. It's being surrounded by a tech world with people who are so certain about everything, and especially that their way is right. Where there's no nuance or context taken into account. I f
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by porker 5y ago
This. I'm keeping an eye on the newer server side renderings like Remix because most of the time what I want is to be able to write components and have them render to HTML, with a few remaining interactive. If Web components had got th
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by porker 5y ago
In your experience how often did the complex state have to be modelled on the backend as well as the frontend, to provide validation of submitted data? And for personal interest, how did you handle streaming in updates and edits from multip
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by porker 5y ago
> Being able to add inline functionality in Django to select a customer within the quote page, or add / edit a new customer without having to leave that quote felt very 'hackish,' using the same jquery callback method used
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by porker 5y ago
Is this the Wicket you're referring to? https://wicket.apache.org/ What's the best intro you know to how it's components work, and the benefits and tradeoffs over other approaches?
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by porker 5y ago
Me too.
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by porker 5y ago
> In my life, I've never had the quoted problem and I've never heard anyone else say it's a problem. I have the quoted problem. Sitting working at the computer at home. Armpits especially. Groin can be similar. Think about
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by porker 5y ago
Feature wise I like postgresql. Operationally? Mysql. I pick MySQL 8 whenever I can because over the lifetime of a project it's easier. Pragmatically I'm coming to the uncomfortable (as a Foss advocate) idea that Microsoft SQL Ser
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by porker 5y ago
> I have a filesystem with an absurd number of tiny files in it. I host a statically rendered wikipedia mirror. Tens of millions of gzipped html-files with a filesize in the range 1-5 Kb. > ReiserFS is the only filesystem I know that
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by porker 5y ago
Slowloris attacks are the only reason I've switched from Apache to nginx. AFAIK Apache using event/worker still has no protection.
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by porker 5y ago
Portable devices have to come with more internal storage before file size doesn't matter. I'm still converting to MP3 before adding to my phone for that reason (used to be ogg which I remain convinced sounded better, but player co
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by porker 5y ago
Wow! What kind of sites are these to generate $40k MRR and fit on a $5 linode? I can think of one or the other but not put both together
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by porker 5y ago
I stopped filling in this survey last year because of the above, and the data breach [0]. It's a very skewed demographic filling it out. 0. https://dev.to/sachagreif/disclosing-a-state-of-javascriptst...
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by porker 5y ago
I third this. It'd make such a difference for me.
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by porker 5y ago
Am I the only person who thinks Mermaid output is visually unappealing? We tried to use it for flowcharts in our documentation and its layout wasn't right. I'm assuming it uses a force directed layout system. We switched to creati
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by porker 5y ago
It sounds like Doctrine https://www.doctrine-project.org/ is what you need if you want an ORM to handle relatively complex stuff. It's the default in Symfony projects and I don't know if there's a Laravel int
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by porker 5y ago
> not least during the infamous "hey, we built this massive web framework in part around the incorrect assumption that GET requests don't need to be idempotent and then encouraged everyone to use it" time. Tell me more. I
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by porker 5y ago
Facades is the one that comes up every time I ask this question.
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by porker 5y ago
When I looked ~ 2 months ago, PHP via asdf looked buggy and abandoned? I would _love_ to use asdf for everything, but outside a core set of languages/developers it doesn't seem to have the community around it.
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by porker 5y ago
Dreamweaver still exists and does a good job. It requires you to have the expensive Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, but it's still cheaper for organisations who have someone to do the site to go that route than set up and maintain W
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by porker 5y ago
The "missing magic" I'd like to see is a script that knows I started with Debian, installed these packages, and derives the set up script to reproduce this server including my configuration changes. That way I can make the ch
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by porker 5y ago
Congratulations! Q: Does ScrapingBee differ to Browserless.io? Or do they do the same thing? I've been out of the scraping scene for years (BeautifulSoup was new when I was doing it).
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by porker 5y ago
One topic I haven't seen widely discussed in books but happens in the real world is back pressure. I think you're getting to this with "attack your designs", though I find it hard to predict. Have you any thoughts, books
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by porker 5y ago
If Roam grabbed you, why are you looking for a permanent replacement?
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by porker 5y ago
For GMail, why this and not http://gmvault.org/ ? Been meaning to backup my GMail account and had this one bookmarked for ages, but never got round to using it. Edit: or https://github.com/djipko/gbackup
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by porker 5y ago
I discovered the Unipin fine line pens recently and am really digging how dense the black is. Better than the Pilot ones I've used before.
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by porker 5y ago
Because many competitors have taken an "Enterprise focused" approach. The choice of CDNs for more than media hosting and without $$$ commitment is quite small.

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