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The author seems to have either misunderstood the API they're referencing or are assuming US only addresses. The specific endpoint they're calling seems to be for US specific zip c…

They're likely trying to retrieve source maps

Code is a specification. You cannot have a program unless you specify how it works.

This is an interesting idea. I wonder if it's more that we have different "levels" of memory instead of generally "poor" memory though. I'm reminded of an article on the front page…

A CRDT is any data structure that meets the definition (associative, commutative, idempotent, etc...) Event Sourcing is not strictly designed to achieve eventual consistency in the…

I think the suggestion is to encapsulate global mutable state behind a strict interface (if you want global mutable state)

100% The only point from the article I agree with strongly would be putting the keyboard away for a bit and picking up a pencil & some paper and trying out some rough sketches (tho…

The API surface of some struct is determined by visibility, not by whether a member of the struct is a method or a field. I can't remember the specifics for why fields cannot be us…

I can't remember where I picked it up from, but nowadays I try to be mindful of when things are "accidentally" repeated and when they are "necessarily" repeated. Abstractions that …

This all strikes me as very similar to promise pipelining and distributed capabilities from an OCap system like E. Any code sending an outbound request in reaction to a write is ca…

CRDTs seem to give the best experience when they correctly model the "intent" of changes. But a diff between two different states of raw text can't convey the intent of a code chan…

This sounds a lot like letting the monkeys bang away on typewriters while you sit back waiting for Shakespeare... TFA seems to present reasonable advice. Yet lots of comments here …

These are called "tagged templates": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

> I don't know why the job postings make the backlog the focus of what they're looking for. I can only imagine that hiring managers and recruiters have a very poor understanding of…

Maybe you're right. If so, I've only ever worked for companies with leadership that sucked at communicating. I don't think it's that simple though. My personal belief is that leade…

You've got more than one app sharing a db when you deploy a new version. Unless you're happy with downtime during deploys as the cost of not having to manage how your schema evolve…

The more I learn about the relational model from a first order logic perspective, the more I wonder what we would have ended up with if more people thought of data/databases in thi…

I'm not convinced. I don't think products necessarily accrete features because the existing users need them to do more "stuff". Additional features tend to target new/different sub…

Oh, hey. That's cool. I hadn't realised Douglas Crawford worked on E. I haven't actually looked but I wonder who else participated? E had some really cool ideas, it's sad that it d…

> "knowledge or lack of knowledge does not differentiate..." I agree wholeheartedly. Knowledge, or even intelligence, shouldn't be the most highly valued skill in a team lead. But …

As someone interested in pursuing similar ideas I would recommend taking a look at Object Capabilities and the E Language if you haven't already. I believe Sandstorm.io (and Cap'n …

I came across this after seeing relic[0] submitted the other day and thought it was pretty interesting. I've been into CRDTs for a while and have started wondering about generic me…