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This post from fly.io [1] has a pretty comprehensive survey of the tech available for running users' code safely. It's a good read. I've been investigating something similar for a …

The daily newsletter (/commentary) from Messari is a great way to stay casually updated on what's happening in crypto: https://messari.io/newsletter If you're looking for something…

One powerful way to deal with these problems is event sourcing. It's a reasonably elegant way to materialize a single application-specific cache based on many different data source…

Makes sense. Why do you think Google and Amazon didn't pursue that approach for services like Cloud Functions and Lambda? Is there a trade-off or is it a matter of complexity?

Makes sense – Google Sheets is a great tool. No problem!

Looks interesting! I’ve been looking at setting up gVisor to enable running users’ code. How does/will Kwarantine compare to gVisor?

I personally love the vibes around Replit. Check out their Twitter as an example: https://twitter.com/replit

Looks like a useful product! I think it's neat how you built it directly on Google Sheets. I'd love to hear more about why you made that decision (versus building an independent to…

Last year I read Masters of Doom by David Kushner after someone mentioned it on Hacker News. It was the best book I had read in a long time. It won't improve your skills, but I thi…

I think you could find some inspiration in cryptocurrency exchanges. Most of them expose public websockets for prices, order books, trades, etc. They're high volume with lots of su…

If you like GraphQL and don't mind managed services: - Fauna ( http://fauna.com ) or Hasura ( https://hasura.io ) for the backend - Vercel ( http://vercel.com ) or Netlify ( https:…

Facebook is one of few online services where programmers are not programmers. Alas, probably not worth it.

Checking for null on every method call certainly sounds nuts to me. Furthermore I would argue that doing so decreases consistence in your program. For example, in Objective-C I can…

Certainly. Hopefully my post will help them judge whether they are part of that minority or not.

Which is exactly why it goes on Hacker News. I would never in a lifetime recommend it to my mother.

I guess I should elaborate on my statement about Wordpress because it came out wrong. I realize Wordpress is powerful, extremely powerful. What I meant was that this comes at an ex…