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by sroerick 2y ago
I’ve spent a lot of time with Django, and not a lot of time with rails. For me, if I was doing minimalist CRUD and wanted to ship to mobile or a lot of users, I’d reach for Rails. Hotwire and Turbo seem great, and the ecosystem just seems b
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by sroerick 2y ago
I second this 100%
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by sroerick 2y ago
1. Nobody is producing software to the highest standards of the industry. The best quality code I’ve ever seen was from very methodical recent grads who spent way, way too long writing it. Literally everybody else is cutting corners. Try no
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by sroerick 2y ago
It’s always a relief to read stuff articles this, realize I know 90% of it, and I’ve deserved the jobs I’ve had. Great and super useful notes
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> Come on, you can't mean this in good faith as a response to my previous comment. I sincerely do, I don’t know what else to tell you. > It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote, but I'm sure you know that. In many sta
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by sroerick 2y ago
My experience is that in getting a state ID, you need birth certificate or another document. In the case of a state without voter ID, there is no check — you literally just have to bring an electric bill. A non citizen could easily vote. It
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by sroerick 2y ago
It depends on the state but generally just requires proof of address or ID, I registered in Illinois with nothing but a phone bill.
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by sroerick 2y ago
I certainly don’t think we should restrict voting to landowners but maybe having a minimum requirement for citizens to participate in democracy (having an ID) isn’t a bad thing. I think the concern with not requiring ID is that it could all
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by sroerick 2y ago
Does Matrix still sync all metadata with all connected federated instances?
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by sroerick 2y ago
What are the advantages over something like Wordpress? What are the advantages over something like Laravel or Django? My assessment of Drupal is that it really is only for enterprise blogs - it doesn’t offer the things a more robust framewo
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by sroerick 2y ago
Is anybody really doing CRUD with SSGs? I would think surely not… but I’m happy to be corrected
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by sroerick 2y ago
Sure, but you don’t really have read/write capability. As an example, I set up an e-commerce store on Gatsby using server side JS, but I was reliant on the hosted Stripe product CMS API, which ultimately wasn’t a great user or developm
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by sroerick 2y ago
CGI / PHP is really not a bad way to work in 2024, even though I was traumatized by PHP in my early days. I’ve only experimented with it though, I think it would be hard to maintain at scale, and I’ve heard there are not insignificant
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by sroerick 2y ago
In practice, there are a lot of non-technical users who can navigate the Wordpress backend. I’m not saying it’s particularly well designed, just that the large install base has led to a far larger number of experienced users.
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by sroerick 2y ago
I struggled with Drupal when I used it. I was responsible for taking over a crowdfunding site which had been built in Drupal and as an intermediate Wordpress and Django developer, I found Drupal’s learning curve insane and it felt like the
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by sroerick 2y ago
“Extremely minor server-side functionality thing” is where SSGs fail miserably. All of a sudden you’re using SaaS forms or whatever else, or your self hosting some other tremendously inferior CMS and your margins go out the window. Wordpres
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by sroerick 2y ago
Former webdev, so don’t really understand the industry too well, but my sense is that Wordpress is the lowest hanging fruit if you need customer facing CMS, or e-commerce, or any number of other plug and play features. Hugo might be easier
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by sroerick 2y ago
What better alternative is there as a webdev? Genuinely looking for answers from a production perspective. Most successful shops I meet or talk to are all-in on Wordpress and I don’t think this drama has affected this calculation. Big India
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by sroerick 2y ago
People dismiss this type of work as no big deal, but in my experience this is the actual hard work of producing something useful for companies, and what 90% of SaaS resellers will never be able to deliver on.
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by sroerick 2y ago
I haven’t had any luck being able to effectively generate compositions with text to image / text to video. Prompts like “subject in the lower third of the frame” have thus far completely failed me. I’m sure this will change in the futu
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by sroerick 2y ago
Wasn’t this the exact rhetoric used to justify PRISM during the Snowden revelations?
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by sroerick 2y ago
I’m old enough to remember when Signal first implemented cross-device sync using a Chrome plugin. I’d rather developers issue cautionary warnings than give a false sense of perfect security
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by sroerick 2y ago
Assuming an adversarial relationship, what sort of metadata could Google capture simply knowing which app was sending the notifications and who was receiving them?
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by sroerick 2y ago
Sadly, you still have to pipe all messages through Apple’s notification API if you want notifications on iOS
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by sroerick 2y ago
Doesn’t Matrix replicate all chat metadata to any linked federated servers?
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by sroerick 2y ago
Telegram is the only messaging app that I know of which brought attention to the fact that your messages go through Google/Apple notification APIs, which seems like it would utterly defeat any privacy advantage offered by E2EE
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by sroerick 2y ago
Is the implication that they’re training OpenAI on NSA data?
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by sroerick 2y ago
As a guy who has had a 8 year career largely in Django, I generally agree with this sentiment. Even though I prefer and am probably much more functional with Django + htmx, my sense is that for general web applications both Rails and Larave
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by sroerick 3y ago
I used the Light Phone for a while, and really liked it, but texting was such a pain on the tiny touchscreen that I dropped it. I’d buy this
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by sroerick 3y ago
This is very cool!

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