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I think we're at the point where the people who are going to throw trash are going to throw trash, and I don't believe something like the ocean cleanup will increase how much trash…

I don't understand why people (Greenpeace) are so against The Ocean Cleanup - complaining that we need to fix the problem at the root instead of cleaning up the mess afterwards. Wh…

Kicking and screaming, I finally succumbed to TypeScript on the server. I used to do everything with Phoenix or Rails, but nowadays its hard to fight the full-stack type safety (ev…

Storing the data directly inside the application still means you need to store it somewhere, likely a SQL database (such as PostgreSQL). These databases are insanely well engineere…

As someone who upgraded from an Intel Mac to an M1 mac, the memory is a non-issue. Three years ago I would have laughed if you said I would be happy with "only" 8GB, but now I am.

React is * old * (in the frontend world), stable and very very well known. It is a solid, responsible choice to build your framework on top of React in 2022. You can upgrade a 7 ye…

I found this[1] on the documentation. But in general staging environments, continuous integration and continuous delivery are not built into frameworks (Rails, Phoenix, etc). [1] -…

Alright, that is a very good point. If the possibility of other nodes interacting with your service is high (ie “you’re gonna need an API eventually”), this might well be the best …

Congrats! I've been keeping up with Redwood since the original announcement, and the progress they've made has been incredible. The generators and command line utilities are top no…

Fly is compelling enough to use without all the global deployment options they offer[1] but it's assuring to know if you ever do need to deploy globally, they can support that bett…

Fantastic. I did not expect to enjoy using the custom widgets or "Kinos" this much.

You nailed it. I work with Ruby, TypeScript (React, Node) and Elixir. While Elixir has more than enough uses and I love it dearly, nothing comes close to the productivity and expre…

I’m genuinely curious, how would that solve the problem? The real world event - say, delivery a purchased good - would still have to be flagged by both parties as “delivered” befor…

Fair enough :) Growing up there you never consider it like that.

Cool. I've only been to London once, but I distinctly remember being disturbed by how dead everything was. I'm not sure how accurate the stat, but I recall Table Mountain having mo…

The 20% is (according to the IPO atleast) worth 20 billion dollars, not 20% of 20 billion dollars.

While advice like this might have been alright if it was in a self-help book where the OP was looking for ways to approach the situation, it is completely uncalled for and inapprop…

Upgraded M1. No issues, super snappy, looks great.

I've always found that when people say they dislike SPAs they actually mean they dislike APIs and the whole circus of how to handle building, consuming, validating, error handling,…

I have high hopes that Rails 7 will be much saner. Importmaps are such a Railsy solution, and if you need anything more jsbundling-rails will provide easy starters for ESbuild, Rol…

Yes 100% - I’m actually using Vite Ruby in a project as I really wanted to use Inertia + React and that was by far the easiest way to get everything up and running. I’d go so far a…

I think it’s a fantastic default. I’d argue most server rendered applications can get away with it. And if you ever need ESBuild you can install the js-bundling gem or pass “-j esb…

1. It does a few things and does them really well (not taking on the complexity of ie Webpack) 2. It’s written in Go

ESbuild is getting fantastic traction. It’s the default in Phoenix from 1.6 and comes as a default option in the current alpha of Rails 7, which you can get with a simple rails new…

I’m sorry but no. The future costs of nuclear are comparatively irrelevant if you consider the immediate doom our climate and thousands and thousands of species are facing because …