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AMP is not about fast websites, better user experience for either users or publishers, nor a trusted platform. It's about google hosting your site and capturing data from it. It's …

this was beautiful: Every step in a software project is solving problems. You don't know how long it will take to solve the problem. You don't know how many new problems you might …

I like the idea of a tool like this, but I'm not sure it's a better process than having migration scripts. And I dislike migration scripts. To me, the perfect process would be, usi…

Like it or not, that enforces the beauty of GPL. I'm positively sure, if it wasn't it, linux wouldn't be in its position today. I actually prefer the LGPL, as it doesnt spread thro…

I've asked myself that many times before and I'd say it's because it's not an easy task and often you need to get things done to meet deadlines, instead of developing a general sol…

Regarding the last point, yes, that's what I'm saying. And it's not a matter of opinion, but of decades of computer engineering best practices. Your app's UX will depend on how muc…

Why use GraphQL? Why not simply expose one endpoint that takes a sql data parameter, queries the db and return the result set as json? Yes, you'd have to setup db security to allow…

Hype and lack of critical thinking abolutely had their role, but mostly because it's so much easier than a relational db. Relational db's are hard. You have schemas and query plann…

react is crap and js devs are lemmings

GitLab's CI runs on every branch push, which I dislike, since you can push a branch that isn't ready yet for backup purposes. Although, it can be configured to automatically deploy…

We use GitLab at my job (goread.com) and I've been taking a look at its continuous integration feature. I wanted to see if we could automate our deployments, specially to our stagi…

I love it! I owned an Atrix with a lapdock, which was the first device to embrace this concept. Unfortunately, it was poorly handled by Motorola in the sense that you had to hack i…

Build tests against your app`s public interface. On a web app, that would be your controllers or API. That will give you good coverage, while avoiding too simple to be useful unit …

I've said it before here, but the best web app I've built was basically Django, with bare minimum js to handle in-page effects. I've been working on a project which is being ported…

I've been a web developer for 15 years now. Building the UI is always hard and where the waste of time is felt the most. That's why i prefer to work on the backend as much as i can…

Amen! React might be the best tool for building hybrid mobile or even cross platform electron apps, but the truth is, it suck balls for web development​. Bundling the entire websit…

...but the end result is just cover fire. The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can't spend writing new features. Look cl…

The point of having it in a repository is not managing it through apt, but updating it without having to manually download deb files...

Am I the only one who misses an apt repository?

promising. it even has a clock widget :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuDS0ntaJY

Best web app I've developed was basically Django, with bare minimum JavaScript to handle some in-page effects. People been trying to shoehorn desktop concepts in the web since fore…

really? and how's that? to my understanding, data integrity is not a feature on any of them. but I asked that because I've been using redis a lot lately. I built a real-time analyt…