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Crunchy Bridge will help you migrate. They did a great job for us. We had a minute or so of downtime to let the read replica catch up and cut across. The team knows Heroku well, an…

All three of my kids were riding full bikes around 3 years old, having used a balance bike for 12-18 months previous. I don’t think my kids are exceptional - balance bikes work won…

Yes: https://www.newspaperclub.com/ Disclaimer: I was one of the founders of the business, but left a long time ago. It’s still a great service! We print a newspaper for our friend…

I don’t believe it’s ever been accessible for free. It’s just that ownership has moved from the state to a private company and now it’s difficult to make it open.

OS does release a large volume of open data, but yes, the vast majority of the good stuff is not open. https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open

I know Dave personally, and I can assure you he’s read Seeing Like a State! In fact, if you spend more than 30 seconds in his presence he’ll probably give you a copy.

Our experience of moving from Heroku to CrunchyBridge has been very similar - excellent help with the migration including jumping on a call with us during the switchover to resolve…

I refer to Fly.io’s guide to Safe Migrations in Ecto (Elixir’s DB adapter) multiple times a week. It’s a very useful quick reference to check whether you can get away with a basic …

By using client side rendering you’re effectively playing SEO on hard mode. It’s all possible, but you’re making life very difficult for yourself. Google will crawl and render clie…

CrunchyBridge will run you a Citus cluster on any of the major cloud providers.

Chromium is open source and both Google and Microsoft do whatever they want to it as part of developing their browsers. WebKit on iOS is a closed source blob of rendering engine an…

Kielder Forest in the north of England is another spot that’s got Dark Sky status[1]. We stayed in a place with an A frame roof that opens into a V shape so you can lie in bed and …

Did you read the article? It specially argues for unstructured play and freedom, and against structured play, such as organised sports.

I bought an ESPHome smart doorbell board and put it in the existing 8V AC loop with the existing button and bell. It connects to Home Assistant over MQTT and works a treat, includi…

I use this, mostly for the .arpa vibes.

Yep, we process hundreds of thousands and sometimes a few million jobs daily inside Postgres, using Oban in Elixir. Having transactional semantics around background jobs is incredi…

We use Elixir. Everyone we’ve hired, from junior to principal, has had no previous Elixir experience. They’ve mostly come from Ruby/Rails or JavaScript backgrounds. They’ve become …

I have a Sensor Watch, which is an ARM cortex processor and SDK which retrofits into an F91W. It’s really nicely put together and offers a lot of flexibility. https://www.sensorwat…

I run one that hasn’t been blocked and is working as normal. This definitely looks selective to me.

FWIW, William Gibson is on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@GreatDismal

I had one of these. It was a terrible mistake.

As a provider is it possible to defend against this with a Content Security Policy or does this mechanism override the site’s CSP?

Our database is north of 20GB and backups work fine. They made improvements to this in Jan 21, which might have improved this? https://blog.heroku.com/faster-postgres-backups