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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10qowKUW82U [19:14] why not C#? Dimitri: Was C# considered? Anders: It was, but I will say that I think Go definitely is -- it's, I'd say, the lowes…

https://twitter.com/edgedatabase/status/1620582614703964160 EdgeQL: select Child {name} filter . SQL: select child.name from child join parent_child_rel using (child_id) join paren…

I want to stress that for anyone looking to use Neovim as an IDE (lite), all you need is something that speaks the Language Server Protocol (LSP). You don't really need to download…

> I didn't see anything to help me build back graphs Hmm you've certainly given me something to think about. Thanks. BTW joins are not challenging, but you made me realize I didn't…

> at the same time, they provide little (or nothing) utilities to map the data coming from a complex query, back to objects Example of a query builder with built-in mapping capabil…

> I assume that the cascading done on GitHub would be done on a FK constraint GitHub doesn’t use foreign keys, the cascade delete must have been manually implemented. https://news.…

By far the most important feature that ngrok provides, I’ve never used ngrok for its ability to replay requests

hi I was the one who made that comment. The JSON incompatibilities I was referring to at that time was for an older version of the JSON proposal. The current version of the JSON op…

I've seen a very good article on this: https://www.trek10.com/blog/dynamodb-single-table-relational... . It's an insightful dive into how KV stores can model relational data. Howev…

For modelling trees, I much prefer using a list of ancestors compared to the parent-child adjacency list because it doesn't require recursion to answer basic questions. I had thoug…

Given that the author also wrote https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/ , I don't think he knows nothing about inner joins. I think he was just using that equi…

You're not supposed to use `super` or specialization with factory functions, call the functions you need instead. OOP inheritance does not belong in this pattern, even if you could…

Could you explain what you mean by things start getting hard? Why did the languages you mentioned stop using their HTTP interfaces?

Don't query builders already let you do that? By making the WHERE clause map to a data structure, you can just duplicate the data structure to duplicate the WHERE clause e.g. https…

heh, you seem to have messed up the bracket order for the markdown links. I memorise it as the mnemonic "square bracket": first the square [], then the bracket ().

> The other killer „feature“ of webapps is that you can have a single one for multiple platforms. That's a feature for developers, not consumers. Consumers will be unhappy if you t…

Ha, I used to have a shirt draped around the neck of the fan for this exact reason. Didn't work too well, some of the light still bled through

> I did some things in Alaska before where I used yoga techniques to very slowly fall asleep, and I was able to stay awake while my sense of hearing and sense of touch went away I …

My use case is simple enough. Git provides a list of checkpoints I can rollback to. I generally squash over merge, and I use vimdiff to resolve conflicts. I know every command I ne…

One of my favourite abstraction advice comes from this article: https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2020/go-cli-how-to-and-ad... . "You want one layer to handle user input and get i…

In Go you use the pattern of prefixing enum constants with the enum category to indicate that the enums are related to each other (e.g. StatusOk, StatusNotFound instead of status.O…