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The thing that really gets me as a small-time OSS maintainer is that none of us asked for this. The social and technical millieu where most of us started our projects is not the on…

As an HTTP server author, this doesn't surprise me. We've ceded HTTP specification development to the big guys, and in so doing have made it more or less impossible to implement wi…

I'd just mitigated this exact thing in Bandit last month! https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/blob/main/lib/bandit/http2... TBH, from an implementors perspective this is a super obvi…

The fact that a critical piece of the evidence was cell phone photos sent between workers coordinating door re-assembly doesn't exactly instill a whole lot of confidence in their p…

I have this exact kit hosting my house's RPi server! A couple of things: 0. The physical quality of this build is out of the world good. PCB, plastics, switches, it's all amazing 1…

BMath (CS) 2002 here. This description is spot on the way I think about development, and is a bit of a superpower to be able to do well. I'm not totally sure it's a UW-ism though. …

Bandit author here. Correct! The byline of Bandit is ‘a web server for Plug applications’ and being able to focus on that narrowed set of requirements is a large part of where the …

The PR you linked to adds support for generating new phx apps with the relevant change already incorporated; it’s just a generator change. We’re waiting a bit to incorporate this c…

Bandit author here. We’re fully supported on phx 1.7+; it’s a one line change to your existing app, described on the Bandit readme!

I couldn't stop thinking about this, so I went back and dug up an ancient (20yo+) copy of my OS implementation for the trains course (mat(t)OS). Sure enough, we did indeed dispatch…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vKBPk5eA

Fascinating talk. The overall approach here strikes me as being extremely influenced by QNX's design. Send/Receive/Reply as a messaging primitive is too often overlooked, and provi…

Fundamentally, Bandit just does a lot less work than Cowboy does. Particularly with HTTP/1 requests, Bandit uses a single process per connection in contrast with Cowboy's 2 per con…

Bandit is an HTTP server, not a client. It performs the same job in the stack as Cowboy does currently (just up to 5x faster as this post's title alludes to). The Bandit project sh…

Author here. AMA!

A number of the first trans-atlantic cables landed in the tiny village of Heart's Content, Newfoundland. I drove through there on a road trip about a decade ago & stopped at the ex…

My goodness, you're right (well, your example isn't, but the feature I'm talking about has been present since at least 1.8 (the earliest install I have handy): > > = > "abc" > > va…

The use of prior matches in guards is super useful for parsing TLV style payloads where you first match on a size/length field and then match on the value itself as that number of …

As someone who writes Elixir full-time in a product with deeply complex date / time needs (spanning multiple timezones, sources of time, multiple meanings of 'month', etc), I can s…

I did a lot of network work early in my career (high school job at a small town ISP in the early 90's), and have read deeply about / waxed nostalgia for the Arpanet era ever since.…

I designed and installed a complete hydronic heating system in our house last year, replacing a conventional forced air system. It being the first time I'd ever done such a thing (…

For someone who doesn’t follow lower level browser dev that closely, this seems like an optimization pretty specifically for a react style ‘nested redraws’ use case. Is this at all…

When I was in grades ~4-8 I was placed in my school's special education stream, which really just amounted to a day a week of totally unstructured play in an incredibly well kitted…

This is a perennial problem for the handful of Pi's I have deployed around the house (homebrew DAC, weather station, boiler manager (wip), workbench terminal). They're all 'purpose…