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I got tired of scrolling through endless WhatsApp group chats, so I built a browser extension that does the scrolling for me. You can tag contacts as "important" to scroll slower w…

Cool, I thought I was the only one who has uttered Endeca and Algolia in the same sentence. I wrote up some tips/impressions on configuring Algolia for ecomm: https://www.avikamine…

Baymard is the gold standard for ecomm UX.

Endeca was killed by Oracle. I recently completed an Endeca to Algolia migration. I spent quite a bit of time auditing the Endeca implementation, from the XML files to the Windows …

I use this feature in VSCode (free version), with this Microsoft extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

> The big difference is that duplicate index entries can still occur in B-tree indexes. GIN indexes have to integrate new entries into the posting list every time, which makes data…

This article in the Atlantic mentions possible herd immunity at https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/herd-immu...

I would be very hesitant to turn an ORM into a "smart" SQL generator. Depending on the type/distribution of data, there are sometimes very different paths to optimizing a query. Th…

I'm in a one bedroom Brooklyn apt. Any time I open up my laptop, my 2yr old daughter climbs onto my lap and repetitively hits the caps lock key (it lights up on my laptop). Luckily…

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is down too.

Some tweeters think it might be.

Digital ocean is down together with https://status.digitalocean.com/

Why work for 6 days and rest for 1, when you can rest for 6 and work for 1?

Does the linter check all or only newly pushed code? Is this configurable at all?

I usually read good technical books twice. Recently did that for: Designing Data-Intensive Applications, DynamoDB Book.

And presumably query the replicas until an up-to-date one is found (based off the LSN of the user).

IIUC they need to query replicas until they find one that is up to date. "We have to query Elasticache and replicas, which adds latency."

That is exactly what the article negates.

That book does cover many implemention details of a database. However, sometimes at a high level, and as you mention, specifically in the context of distributed systems.

How would you compare Database Internals to Designing Data Intensive Applications? [1] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...

How important is the programming section for a professional developer?