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Neon – Serverless Postgres
Original EnglishWe used firestore before.. got a bit tired of some of the limitations (latency, indexing).
Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
Original EnglishYes, we use continuous deployment (cron) to rebuild as needed.
Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
Original EnglishIt is built on a Phoenix/Elixir setup I wrote from scratch and has been serving my client well without hiccups for the last 5 years.
Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
Original EnglishHonestly, better hardware support is one of the reasons that I have started using Linux more and more than proprietary options.
Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients
Original EnglishWe never got calls, we never had claims, 99.999% of the customers had completely forgotten the policies even existed, diligently insuring their Nokia 3210's.
Sqlite3 WebAssembly
Original EnglishI think since I started my Go/wazero effort, WASI+SQLite improved a bunch.
Why modern software is slow
Original EnglishI preferred using it instead of the X terminals because it was faster.
Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
Original EnglishI was an ATT UVerse customer (standard, not business) before switching to Comcast Business about 4-5 years ago, but their max speed offering was only …
Choose GitLab for your next open source project
Original EnglishI also use gitlab's nginx configuration combined with cipherli.st ciphers as a template because it uses best practices.