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by zknill 3y ago
I am here for it too. Java's release cycle is now 6 months (matching Go's), and Java is introducing more of the features that make the 'newer' languages pleasant to use. Features like Pattern Matching for switch[1], Virt
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Product ideation is dysfunctional (2021)(zknill.io)
1 points by zknill 3y ago|0 comments
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by zknill 3y ago
> excepting those poor, sad professionals who have to write languages that can only be written with a special, hyper-bloated text editor [1]. > 1. I'm talking about C# and Java I write Java in vim, and it's pretty usable. Co
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Go structured logging log/slog middleware(github.com)
2 points by zknill 3y ago|0 comments
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Patterns for adpoting Realtime updates in your app(zknill.io)
1 points by zknill 3y ago|0 comments
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by zknill 3y ago
It reminds me of every trucking company that aren't trucking, they are "Delivering innovative supply-chain logistics solutions"
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by zknill 3y ago
I regularly share this with teams that I work with. I think it's the clearest explanation of how to write docs that I've seen. I see "explanation" and "how-to" conflated so regularly, as a quickstart how-to gui
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How to adpot Realtime updates in your app(zknill.io)
1 points by zknill 3y ago|0 comments
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by zknill 3y ago
The promo video has a perfectly flat body of water. I'd be interested to know what impact waves have on a hydrofoil.
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by zknill 3y ago
When you search for usage of Differential Sync you'll find lots of news reports about it being included as technology in file sync and file backup solutions. I've not directly worked on it, but I get the impression that it's
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by zknill 3y ago
> But this doesn't mean we should just give up on ux It's a little unfair to describe locking as "[giving] up on UX", especially given some well known collaboration products use it quite successfully; Google Sheets ce
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by zknill 3y ago
> So use the CRDT library when building your indices? Yeah, sure, you can build a secondary index over the data. But you're still having to decode the blob and index it. There's no version where you can index the data without u
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by zknill 3y ago
How do you handle getting the changes that one client makes onto the other clients? Are you pushing it from the server to the clients with websockets, or waiting for the clients to ask for new info, or waiting for the conflict to happen whe
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by zknill 3y ago
So Last-Write-Wins (LWW) basically _is_ a CRDT, but not in the sense that anyone really expects, because they aren't that useful or intention preserving. Especially if the two writes happen in very quick succession / concurrently.
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by zknill 3y ago
You're absolutely right, locking is a hard problem. Especially when you get into the edge cases of clients not disconnecting cleanly. If you've ever used one of those awful early-2000s Microsoft word collaboration systems where yo
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You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience(zknill.io)
236 points by zknill 3y ago|65 comments
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by zknill 3y ago
I think time is a terrible proxy for effort or substance or scope. Take the example from the article: > Please look into this for me. Do not, DO NOT, spend more than 20 minutes on this. Please come back with whatever you have after 20 mi
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Giving up my smartphone for a dumbphone(zknill.io)
3 points by zknill 3y ago|0 comments
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Do developers really want to give over their data?(zknill.io)
1 points by zknill 3y ago|0 comments
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So you want to build Miro and Figma style collaboration?(zknill.io)
2 points by zknill 3y ago|0 comments
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So you want to build Miro and Figma style collaboration?(zknill.io)
1 points by zknill 3y ago|1 comments
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So you want to build Miro and Figma style collaboration?(zknill.io)
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by zknill 3y ago
I work for Ably, a realtime messaging platform. I'm also the author of SQLEdge (a replication tool mentioned in the article). One of our teams at Ably just launched "spaces"[1] to make it easy to build collaborative experienc
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Streaming Data Aggregation(zknill.io)
1 points by zknill 3y ago|0 comments
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by zknill 3y ago
log/slog package essentially delegates writing log messages to some "handler" interface. The key method is: Handle(context.Context, Record) error This method has access to the context, which means you can get the log
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by zknill 3y ago
Assuming you are logging from some package that's shared over a CLI app and some webservice app; log/slog expects you to setup the slog logger with a specific handler. This handler controls _how_ events are written out, the format
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by zknill 3y ago
The new structured logging library is a great addition, its nice to have structured logging in the standard lib. It's easy to get started with log/slog and one of the built in handlers, but as soon as you want to change something
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by zknill 3y ago
The new structured logging library is a great addition, its nice to have structured logging in the standard lib. It's easy to get started with log/slog and one of the built in handlers, but as soon as you want to change something
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by zknill 3y ago
Seems like there's 3 groups of opinions on ORMs: Firstly (1); "I want to use the ORM for everything (table definitions, indexes, and queries)" Then second (2), on the other extreme: "I don't want an ORM, I want to d
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Middelware to make Go 1.21's new structured logger easier(github.com)
1 points by zknill 3y ago|0 comments

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