(webdev Tory) 
@worldsendless@qoto.org
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
@heikkiket ah! Thanks.
@101101000 @icedquinn oh . I've never invested money into a database , and don't expect to ever. A guilty confession .
@101101000 @icedquinn I don't know about marketing, but I know that in my pilot usage it has been fun and fast, plus Datalog is an interesting change from MySQL. Don't get me wrong -- PostGres is absolutely awesome and we have used it in production for years with no real regrets. But being in the development circles for XTDB and giving it some simple usage, and things have been impressive for my simple use cases.
@heikkiket is Python actually implemented in C?
@heikkiket no idea. Why not?
RT @WellPaidGeek
Open source software is one of the most important things in the world, as open source software can’t effectively be stopped by any government.
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R
What would we do without c++? https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor/comments/sx0y96
@icedquinn @101101000 which website now?
@101101000 yes, XTDB is a slick bitemporal document database backed by Postgres or RocksDB (or some other options). Bitemporal meaning every entry has a transaction time and a effective time, so things like soft deletes and rich update logs are built in, and queries can specify state-at-time
@icedquinn The selector I shared, trying to override that, is from Bootstrap. I'm using a library which uses un-targetted hrefs to do on-click things. (should be buttons not anchors, I know...)
RT @the_lazy_folder
I tend to think that you only get one chance at something and if you blow it, you're done, which is a recipe for bad anxiety and stress.
But this was a good reminder that life does give you second chances.
It's not always the end. https://twitter.com/RwoltX/status/1494523716323188739
I can't seem to find the #css precedence rules that explain the specificity of `a:not([href]):not([tabindex])`. Apparently the :not there override having a more specific class and parents?
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@worldsendless the main win is just async dispatch, really. anything that implements fibers/green threads on top of an async dispatcher to wake them up is going to outperform anything that uses the old blocking threads model. on the plus side fibers look nicer than the callback hell of nodejs.
a long time ago there was much screaming about how the BSDs had things like kpoll and kqueue which let you pause a program until any one of a collection of file descriptors had something to read, which was instrumental in solving the c10k problem.
apple had grand central, BSDs had kpoll/kqueue. erlang channels already worked like this but most people are allergic to erlang. libuv+nodejs basically pushed async to the forefront because webshit bootcampers could use it by default (in java it's not default; you have to specifically use newio/netty/etc.)
I forget if Go does async networking. there is some machinery where a goroutine sometimes occupies a thread and sometimes doesn't, i think it may try to if it can (and fall back to multithreading if it can't) but i've been out of that game.
a long time ago there was much screaming about how the BSDs had things like kpoll and kqueue which let you pause a program until any one of a collection of file descriptors had something to read, which was instrumental in solving the c10k problem.
apple had grand central, BSDs had kpoll/kqueue. erlang channels already worked like this but most people are allergic to erlang. libuv+nodejs basically pushed async to the forefront because webshit bootcampers could use it by default (in java it's not default; you have to specifically use newio/netty/etc.)
I forget if Go does async networking. there is some machinery where a goroutine sometimes occupies a thread and sometimes doesn't, i think it may try to if it can (and fall back to multithreading if it can't) but i've been out of that game.
RT @the_lazy_folder
*Humanity needs #clojure. https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/1494126474969767940
@icedquinn Thanks! I hadn't heard of libuv. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it, but I see things like vert.x that might be the JVM contender in the same space? Here is some OLD (2012) news that seemed to relate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3948727
TL;DR : #node is good and convenient with same language (JavaScript). All great reasons to code in Clojure(script) and CLJC, when you are using the same (excellent) language everywhere but also with the benefits of incomparable JVM and Java ecosystem on the backend, and JS ecosystem for the front. We can throw in a REPL for good measure, too.
Or maybe you just use Azure or AWS and spin up a dedicated server for each app, so don't feel you need JVM. Then it's only the superior language factor.
@icedquinn as in person who draws, or person like my toddler who wants to get in to my clothing drawers?
Native apps vs web apps. For some things they say, "native app for better security." It depends upon whether you trust the app creators more than the browser creators (I trust #Firefox). It's really all a lark, though; how many banks do you know who insist you use the app over the web thing? Only for mobile deposit with your phone camera, right? Unless there are offline needs, or maybe hardware integration for games, the reasons for a native app can be counted on one hand. My 2¢.
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Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Parimal Satyal: https://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/
@alcinnz Thanks for sharing! It puts words to my feelings very well
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
