solatic

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by solatic 2y ago
This. If you're not a small startup, the number of stakeholders who need to get aligned is the #1 bottleneck. The only way to get velocity while avoiding the meetings is getting as many stakeholders as possible to put their concerns in
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by solatic 2y ago
> That is about as simple as librebooting gets. I had a nice chuckle at this. Buying chip clips? A separate Raspberry Pi to wire everything together and perform the flashing process? Is there really no chance of some kind of click-and-re
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by solatic 2y ago
I completely understand the need for a higher-level language above SQL, but straight JSON is a deal-breaker. It's not just comments, it's also that editors won't understand that JSON should have syntax-highlighting to help pe
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by solatic 2y ago
Ideally, you have a flow where you ask the user to input their password to confirm ownership, then merge. Otherwise, you're allowing the OAuth provider to back-door into established accounts.
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by solatic 2y ago
At the end of the day, people need to do two things: write code that powers the solution, and write code that proves that the first code was correct. There are so many different ways to write the second - not just automated tests (be they u
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by solatic 2y ago
Database-as-the-API can scale surprisingly far, particularly if you sell a single-tenant shard to each customer and therefore a separate database to each customer. Drawing logical software boundaries before Product even knows what the domai
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by solatic 2y ago
How does a paywalled full-text RSS feed even work? Yeah, I get it, RSS itself can work with auth tokens. But I use a service like Feedly to maintain my RSS subscriptions, and managed RSS services will cache the response to a single RSS feed
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by solatic 2y ago
Type-safe query builders sound great in theory, but it seems there are always edge cases that are not supported by the query builder. For example, the issue asking for deferrable constraint support for Postgres in drizzle has been open for
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by solatic 2y ago
> In these situations your "egoless domain experts" might actually need the authority to force these things to stop, or might get burnt out spending all their time firefighting or playing hero. The broader approach here is to e
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by solatic 2y ago
> With a blockchain, you simply go back, "fork", apply a fixed transaction, and replay all the rest. You're handwaving away a LOT of complexity there. How are users supposed to trust that you only fixed the transaction at
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by solatic 2y ago
They exist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette
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by solatic 2y ago
Nice, I didn't know about this, it wasn't available last time I checked. With that said... there are so many limitations on that list, that seriously, I can't imagine it would really be so much easier than Kubernetes.
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by solatic 2y ago
> This causes all kinds of issues with different workloads with different performance characteristics and requirements. Most of these issues can be fixed by setting resource requests equal to limits and using integer CPU values to guaran
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by solatic 2y ago
Cloud Run is fine if you're a small startup and you're thinking about your monthly bill in three-figure or even four-figure terms. Like most serverless solutions, it does not permit you to control egress traffic. There are no fire
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by solatic 2y ago
> the most useful goal is to make money fast in a way that doesn't drain your life energy There's a couple issues with your assertion. Even if you go the VP route, people rarely make VP in under, say, seven years, and usually m
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by solatic 2y ago
When dependencies don't deliver 100% of what you want, you should be able to work with upstream to get what you want added. If upstream won't cooperate with you, then fork. It's still usually better to start from a battle-har
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by solatic 2y ago
Author started with throwing the results of JSON.stringify into a cookie, and I was surprised that his issue wasn't just that someone had thrown a semicolon into the JSON that was being stringified. Most of the headaches around cookies
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by solatic 2y ago
You can't really compare the depth of resources that exists for something like React versus something like Three, which has a bunch of toy examples but no fully coherent experiences. Companies like Figma have shown that there is a hug
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by solatic 2y ago
Any chance this could get open-sourced? This seems like a great example of a lot of stuff for which there are few tutorials currently.
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by solatic 2y ago
> Tools, languages and technology take their place after a significant share of people have adopted them, not before. Trying to steer industry towards certain tools and away from others, ignores the irrational choices that belie them, an
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by solatic 2y ago
Not really a new technique. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I needed to get libraries from the internet onto an air-gapped network, and the supported way was to burn them to a disk and bring the disk to be scanned. The scanner nev
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by solatic 2y ago
There's two alternate visions: anybody can work with anybody they trust, and Only BigCo Can Protect You. We know the first falls apart because the Web of Trust fell apart. When the UI asks people "hey, this is new, here's the
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by solatic 2y ago
> I see I may be biased, but I wouldn't be the only one :) There are so many great new projects getting started in South America, Middle East, Asia, Africa being built by people from non-traditional backgrounds who see software as a
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by solatic 2y ago
Like https://sst.dev/docs/ ? I wouldn't begrudge professional tooling companies trying to use consumer marketing to reach early-stage projects, when most early-stage projects are built by hobbyists, side-project-i
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by solatic 2y ago
Readers who are unfamiliar with SST would do well to read a bit about the project, the backing company, and the work they've been doing. Things have come around full-bore from serverless-only on AWS via CDK, putting huge effort into tr
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by solatic 2y ago
That doesn't sound like an argument against the right to try, that sounds like an argument for requiring specific, intentionally frightening language around informed consent. The thing is, probability is a bitch, and emotionally filter
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by solatic 2y ago
The conclusion I took away from this piece is just how heartless it is to depend on a promotion committee. I know Google put them in place because they wanted an Engineering-driven culture where people could do great Engineering work and st
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by solatic 2y ago
There isn't really a solution that preserves the vision and advantages of a monorepo. If infra, config, and code are stored in the same repository, then rolling back one necessarily means that the others are supposed to have been rol
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by solatic 2y ago
Hard disagree. I've found that the best setup is two monorepos - one with feature/app code, and one with operations configuration. The fundamental mismatch is the feature/app code will have longer testing times, stuff like Pu
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by solatic 2y ago
Unions are about more than compensation, they can also fight for working conditions, like the ability to work from home and the processes involved in termination, which are both at issue in this strike. Contrary to perhaps popular misconcep

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