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We probably have max 50 commits a day in our team spread across many areas in the application. So when breakages occur it's typically easy to tell which commit caused it.
But I agree, if you have a large team or a large monorepo you probably want to know about breaking changes already at the PR stage.
Thanks for the example of a Playwright report page. I agree that getting browser tests (not even just visual tests) to work reliably is considerable work. I built out a suite at work for a rather complex web application and it certainly looks easier than it is. A couple of notes:
- I disagree that you need a powerful VPS to run these tests, we run our suite once a day at midnight instead of on every commit. You still get most of the benefit for much cheaper this way.
- We used BrowserStack initially but stopped due to flakiness. The key to getting a stable suite was to run tests against a local nginx image serving the web app and wiremock serving the API. This way you have short, predictable latency and can really isolate what you're trying to test.
Ah forgot to mention it in the post. This comes built in by Playwright. Normally, you invoke the test suite by running `npx playwright test`. This fails your test if a screenshot is missing or if it differs. By running `npx playwright test --update-snapshots` you tell Playwright to just overwrite the snapshots and not fail tests.
I only use the built-in diffing by Playwright. It comes with a nice overview page [0] that shows all the failed tests including traces and screenshots. There you have a pixel diff. If you have some notion of irrelevant changes that shouldn't warrant a test failure, I wouldn't know of a way to pull that off.
[0] https://playwright.dev/docs/trace-viewer-intro#opening-the-h...
Direct link for anyone interested: https://go.rest.quest/
updown.io also has a relatively new feature called cron monitoring[0] that allows you to regularly check in to signal success. If there has been no check-in in a configured time it will alert you. For backups you could add a simple curl somewhere into your backup process to do just that.
I know, but I prefer fair pricing over free in situations like this. There are plenty of stories going around of CF forcing users to upgrade to an enterprise plan due to their usage. When there is a price tag, at least I know that won't happen to me (not that my usage would be on CFs radar anyway, it's the principle of it).
1€ / TB egress is extremely attractive, though. Most other "budget" providers charge at least 10 - 20$.
I've been eyeing DuckDB for a metric collection hobby project. Quick benchmark showed promising query performance over SQLite (unsurprising considering DuckDB is column oriented), but quite a bit slower for inserts. Does anyone have experience using it as an "online" backend DB as opposed to a data analytics engine for interactive use? From what I gather they are trying to position themselves more in the latter use case.
I built it for myself primarily, some coworkers also started using it. No one has used it without my guidance at this point so I'm not surprised ;)
Regardless what you pressed, you should always get back to the help / start screen by pressing 'h'. (Make sure not to have focus on an input field)
I built my own tool: https://go.rest.quest
It's a simple flat list of links that you annotate with a description for better search. The killer feature is that it works with Firefox's keyword search. I can enter `go gith prof` in the url bar and hit enter. Since there is only one entry that matches (with description 'github profile'), I'm immediately redirect to that link.
I really enjoy using Observable Plot (https://observablehq.com/plot/). Made by the author of D3 but way simpler to use.
I think you have to be careful not to stretch your learning budget too thin. Coincidentally, I recently started tinkering with embedded as well and decided against using Rust (not new to me) for it because I prefer the well trodden path when first getting started in something. There is plenty of opportunity to venture out later.
I've only started load testing my applications until after I switched to Caddy, so I don't have a comparison. But I'm easily seeing ~7'000 r/s when serving a static frontend (don't have reverse proxy numbers on hand) on a small hetzner machine. That's without looking into what the bottleneck is. Against localhost I've seen ~50'000 r/s. Good enough for me.
Caddy [0] has been an absolute joy to work with. I switched this year from nginx for my sideproject-hosting VPS. Just letting it handle the SSL certs and configuring a static site or a reverse proxied route in literally 3 lines of config is really nice.
I'm planning on adding Authelia [1], Prometheus and Grafana Loki to the mix soon, which should all integrate nicely :)
In a moment of weakness I bought a soldering iron and this kyria kit [0] and soldered my own. I promise it sounds more crazy than it is and I've been very happy with it.
[0] https://splitkb.com/collections/keyboard-kits/products/kyria...
Is my understanding correct that Affinity Photo doesn't have any photo management capability? If you want to edit a series of images similarly, do you create a custom preset that you then apply to the other images and just reopen the editor for every image?
I have recently been looking to try some creative coding / generative art. I've found that most libraries focus on interactive or animated applications, whereas I would like to generate a static image for print. Are there any recommendations for this specific use case? E.g. maybe svg-based libraries like Paper.js are more appropriate to generate high quality files instead of canvas-based ones like P5.js?
Full agree. And further I think frontend complexity has grown quite a bit lately. People love to go on about framework churn etc. when it's just a difficult domain in general. As someone who used to have snobbish opinions on frontend work, I've completely come around since diving into it. For modern fullstack applications I believe the frontend often has more complexity to it than the backend.
Hi HN,
I challenged myself to get a small webapp built and launched in 16 hours of work from start to finish. This is the result: A tiny, very opinionated todo list application. The feature set is tiny, but it lends itself to keep track of stuff to do for the day, things to get back to etc.
Since it keeps its state in local storage, you can just visit the website and start using it without any signup.
To keep the state synchronized between work and home, I built a very simple S3 integration. This keeps the state between devices in sync via the S3 bucket.
You can find the code on github: https://github.com/beingflo/rest.quest
Apparently the sdk doesn't play nice with vite. And it's way to heavy for my use case anyway. After looking further I found this library that is perfect for my needs https://github.com/mhart/aws4fetch.
It's only intended for techies (and friends thereof I suppose). It's really a tiny project that I've set out to finish in 16 hours as a challenge. So far the progress is great but those S3 libraries are throwing a wrench in my schedule. Because of that tight time budget I think oauth would be out of scope as I've never done anything like it.
Getting into this I was under the impression that uploading a file to S3 was as simple as chucking the api key into the Autorization header of a post and off we go. That's the type of ease of use I'm looking for. Turns out its not quite as trivial with a whole signature process etc.
Awesome, I love the concept! I've also been working on an encrypted note taking application but it doesn't have a landing page yet. Encryption needs to catch on more!
Then again, some people find math hard, others find it easy. To each their own.
Way to be condescending. The presented opinion is clearly reasonable, as is yours.
As the other comments mentioned it's due to application instead of window switching. I find it frustrating to alt-tab to some application with no windows (because I closed it but on macOS that doesn't close the app), which only makes the top bar change and is not my intention 99.9% of the time. AltTab instead has sane defaults and allows a lot of customization including multiple shortcuts for different purposes.
I use https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
Without it alt-tabbing is near useless for me on macOS.
Nope, there are no restrictions, and we don't intend for there to be in the future. The free plan is 100% fully-featured with no difference versus the paid plan aside from the limit on the size of your team.
Love to hear it! I'll remind myself to give feedback in return.
Absolutely love this! The design language and focus on simplicity is right up my alley. If there isn't any blocker (pun intended) that I'll only come across later this will definitely replace Todoist for me. Are there any restrictions on the free plan? I'd be more than willing to pay a reasonable fee to make the "single-person-plan" sustainable without the need to restrict it in the future. Also, one thing that I notice in the demo is a flurry of requests triggered on just about any user activity. Is this just extra analytics in the demo or is this also present in the full app?
Great stuff, I just got shivers looking at your trailer late at night here.
I've been working on an encrypted note taking web app called 'fieldnotes'. It's designed to remove friction for writing down everything I might want to reference later by having a very clean and uncluttered interface. It started out as just a side project for myself and to learn the full scope of software development: From concept to design, architecture, implementation, deployment and monitoring etc. It's been extremely valuable as a learning tool and has increased my confidence in my own skills quite a bit. Some weeks ago I realized that I was so happy with the result that I will pursue monetizing it. There is still some ways to go but I'm very exited with the whole project :)