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Shiver, the perfect add-on for Twitch.tv
(shiverapp.com)
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toastdriven
13y ago
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Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over
(mintchaos.github.io)
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toastdriven
13y ago
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toastdriven
14y ago
Partially due to familiarity, partially due to other projects. Django will be handling the standard webapp things (registration, serving archives, etc). To be clear, there will be a lot of plain Python code handling the other aspects, with
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toastdriven
14y ago
That's in the video (~1m0s mark). The prototype is present, but ugly/unfinished. We could put it up publicly, but it wouldn't represent the final product anyhow.
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toastdriven
14y ago
Sounds interesting, though I wouldn't trust MongoDB with my (or anyone else's) data. The problem is that, while building the core of this is easy-ish, the end result should be something very complete & easy to stand up. Our prototype fu
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toastdriven
14y ago
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I see it more as crowd-funding (I feel dirty using that term) a useful service with the added benefit of being able to run it yourself. The goal was to spur more/better discussions (than what private chat or crappy
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14y ago
Understandable. For us, if it were just a library or an extraction, we wouldn't be trying to fund it. However, what we're trying to build is more like an open-source product , essentially an entire service made public so anyone can use it.
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Gevent, Long-Polling & You
(toastdriven.com)
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15y ago
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15y ago
Using it to power the activity stream of a small site (+ Postgres & Redis). <3
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toastdriven
16y ago
We do most of our development in Django, so Postgres is a natural fit. Every tool has its sweet spots, so you should use the tool that best fits the task. For instance, Postgres is great for highly structured data (say, photos on a website)
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toastdriven
16y ago
I was tempted to do some comparison, especially to Couch/Mongo/Cassandra, but ran out of time. I'll consider a follow up that compares them. In short, Riak wins out to me against all three: * Faster than Couch & easier clustering * Bett