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Yeah, it does lose something in the more realistic performances. Was still fun to play with though!

FWIW I actually agree that the original is funnier in its delivery!

Fair, but the person who coins a term generally doesn't ultimately decide how it's going to be used, see vibe coding for a more recent example. REST API became colloquially defined…

Heh, the problem with having a half drafted post on your machine for a few weeks is the industry moves fast! I had the post pretty much done, went on vacation for a week, and Claud…

Totally agree, the web itself is absolutely HATEOAS, but there was a type of person in the 2000s era who insisted that APIs were not truly RESTful if they weren't also hypermedia A…

TL;DR GraphQL isn't really the problem, untrusted clients executing arbitrarily complex queries is the problem. This is why authz is hard, why rate-limiting is necessary, why "quer…

FWIW providing access logs is something we're exploring (though it's still a ways out). I certainly hope that you don't feel the need to move to something else when your applicatio…

Founder of Divshot here, and engineering manager of the Firebase Hosting team. Thanks for the shoutout! :)

Yeah, unfortunately this is pretty much an unsolvable problem. Roadmaps are subject to change and even more subject to be delayed, publishing them tends to disappoint more than rea…

We announced the product, that's a loud public commitment. Once it reaches general availability, it will be covered by the Cloud deprecation policy requiring a minimum of one year …

The Firebase Realtime Database has been around for ~5 years (and is still fully supported after this launch). Cloud Datastore has been around in some form (started as App Engine Da…

I'm surprised the FAQ doesn't answer the question that immediately came to mind: why should I risk my data with an untested startup when the only benefit is claimed performance/pri…

If you need to ask them these questions that's an employee, not a cofounder. Maybe it's an employee with a big chunk of equity, but in general you should have a pre-existing profes…

This author seems to be afflicted by a crippling short-sightedness. I stopped reading when I hit the sentence about autonomous cars being "just a new type of car".

What effect does a transfer protocol have on the average user? If they knew, why would they care? Genuinely curious.

TypeScript isn't higher level than JavaScript. It is JavaScript, just with a lightweight type system. It doesn't make things "easier" than JS, it makes the process of building larg…

I (barely) tolerate the bay area to get to do the work I love. It's a permanent game of weighing pros and cons and doesn't feel sustainable long-term even working at one of the bes…

Is it possible things will change? Of course. I was just trying to illustrate that, unlike Parse and Facebook, Firebase has a clear relationship with core Google businesses. We wil…

Firebase engineer here. We recognize the anxiety that comes with a hosted solution. That being said, Firebase has seen enormous and growing investment from Google (see e.g. Fabric …

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