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RT @the_lazy_folder
Y'all need to listen to this.

SO serves about 2 billion page views a month and 6k RPS

they don't use what the cool kids use. No micro services, no kubernetes.

Lot of fun to listen to. twitter.com/alexcwatt/status/1

Github: we won't do your branch protection rules anymore. You aren't secure... unless you pay us! 🤌

RT @FakeUnicode
@Endless_WebDev Remember, citizen, if your FONT lacks a character, YOU lack character.

Always keep your fonts updated and registered.

Whoa! Just learned about Asymptote for vector graphic generation. It can produce SVG and is apparently great for web. This could be very useful! asymptote.sourceforge.io/index

@lina oh, no unicode involved. I don't know. I'll have to try it on my wife 😘

RT @a4w_m6h
I have just reached the point at which I am so consistently grumpy about how complex it is to build and deploy secure, high-quality software that it is interfering w/ my ability to build and deploy said software.

We do soft deletes in PostGres with auto-generated views that permanently encode "undeleted" vs the raw table. But article's point of referential integrity is a big one.

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Of course the first thing that came to mind on this is xtdb @xtdb_com bitemporal database, where built in soft-deletes are part of bitemporality (first class). It is mentioned exactly once in the HS comments so far.
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RT @refset
A discussion about 'soft deletion' is currently #1 on HN! On reflection, "making soft deletes a first-class concept" feels like a useful way to frame 'bitemporality' for the uninitiated 💡

I'm looking forward to…
twitter.com/refset/status/1549

RT @refset
A discussion about 'soft deletion' is currently #1 on HN! On reflection, "making soft deletes a first-class concept" feels like a useful way to frame 'bitemporality' for the uninitiated 💡

I'm looking forward to studying all the comments in the morning 😁 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3 twitter.com/newsycombinator/st

RT @YugSTAR
Does anyone use Microsoft Teams because they actually think it's the best communication platform, or is it just because your company policy forces you to?

RT @Amit_T18
"JavaScript`s global scope is like a public toilet. You can`t avoid going in there, but try to limit your contact with surfaces when you do." - Dmitry Baranovskiy

What do you think!? 😂

REST may have originally been meant to respond with HTML, but I disagree strongly with that intention. orys.us/up

My morning regexp usage: reformatting pgn chess format into latex format. Bonus: using multi-cursors for incrementing numbers.

@veer66 It's commercial and by FaceBook, so I assume that if anything is non-free, that one is. Am I wrong?

On the JVM we are used to strings as collections of chars. Not so in JS. But you can still traverse them with codepoints!
orys.us/uo

@souldessin Neither does Metager. DuckDuckGo and WordPress, hovewer, do.

@souldessin Google, for instance, does NOT use the slash in its searches

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