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You are also running sidewaysdata.com with DEBUG turned on in production, apparently ;)

Nah, statements like the above are a sign of lack of experience, missing business understanding and/or hubris.

It seems once a year somebody writes a library to do this. It never takes off, because the main difficulty in developing web applications is not “learning JavaScript“.

I have 3 questions for the team. Who is the target audience exactly? How is this different from Anvil, Toga, Streamlit or the previous 36 attempts? And if learning JavaScript is too difficult, what exactly makes shoving the DOM API into another language easier? You still need to learn all the same things but now there’s about 9 orders of magnitude less working examples to copy from.

If it’s like my 2019 polo, a long (30sec or so) press on the power button on the infotainment console will reboot it.

But yeah, just traded that car in for a Mercedes, and the infotainment is night and day. I basically don’t use CarPlay anymore because the built in stuff actually works better.

While I agree with you the grandparent was unnecessarily patronizing, they do have a point. “Built-in functions” is the first chapter of the documentation following the introduction, there’s no way to miss it. If you don’t even skim the introductory documentation, I’m not exactly sure what you expect to happen. Python is not Ruby nor is it Java, and it predates both. Why would it follow the idioms of those languages?

I guess being better than a random third-world country (yes, that’s what median means here) is seen as a great accomplishment? Not sure why you would choose to comment this, it’s like a grown adult bragging about being able to beat up a toddler.

What PII

That is not what I asked though. Every experience is subjective. I’m asking how they envision this being a good business model. Every bootcamp grad who can whip up a database backed web app can build a note-taking application that covers the major features. There is literally no defensible moat here and the incumbent is giving away theirs for free. What feature will you compete on? There are limits to how much innovation you can add to “storing rich text in the cloud”.

Not to take a dump on this product in particular but at this point I feel like there are more note-taking apps out there than people willing to pay for a note taking app.

Why does everybody and their dog think that competing with the thing that comes with all my devices for free (Apple Notes, Google Keep) is a great business opportunity? I can’t seem to wrap my mind around this.

Bad developers will write bad code no matter the pattern - styled components has never been a source of issues for us. Why would we move to a new “trend”? I think this is unique to the JS ecosystem.

I’d just like to take a moment to compliment the author on repeatedly producing content that is deeply technical yet very entertaining. As someone who has used both Rust and Go in anger, I enjoyed this one and it’s predecessors a lot. A big step up from a lot of the typical blogspam.

Knowing clippy I wouldn’t be surprised if that compiled, but resulted in a warning that you can simplify the double negative.

It abstracts away underlying hardware, leaving you with a convenient set of abstractions for deploying containerized networked services. Sort of an OS for a cluster of distributed machines. Unfortunately this involves lots of YAML. How’d I do?

What do you mean for no reason? The authors run a consulting shop and give trainings on this library. They are clearly incentivized to break things regularly.

Lovefield is essentially unmaintained. Something something Google projects.

Thanks for the reply, mholt!

I would have expected way higher numbers there, but going by that ratio you’re absolutely right. Regardless, thanks for the great work on Caddy, it’s rock solid.

Caddy is the best. I use it as the static file server and reverse proxy for several side projects running in docker-compose.

What I like most about it is how little config you need for reasonable defaults that would require 300 lines of nginx boilerplate.

If I could wish for one thing though, I’d really like the functionality to get let’s encrypt certs while being proxied through cloudflare to be built in. Right now it requires building a custom caddy with a plug-in, which is a lot of hassle for such a vanilla setup.

Nope, sorry. Maintainers are not above criticism just like anyone else, and this post did so in a respectful way. It’s a real problem and e.g. the reason we have stopped trying to upstream any fixes to OSS libraries at work - it’s in no way worth the effort to jump through these hoops, take our bugfix or leave it.

Long ago someone taught me this memory trick for tar: imagine an angry German stereotype saying “eXtract Ze Vucking File”, thus -xzvf. No idea what it stands for but it does what I need most of the time.

The scenario you describe gives me nasty flashbacks of fighting with broken Ansible configs. I wouldn’t wish that upon anyone who’s just trying to dim the lights.

I don’t think that’s an opinion held by someone who actually worked with/had to manage the combination of “slightly unfriendly + extreme confidence” before. That is how you get Prima Donnas, temper tantrums during technical discussions and other fun stuff.

You hit the nail on the head I think. A few years into my career I was enamored by learning new programming languages, in particular functional ones. I was fully drinking the koolaid, too - pure functions and immutability would surely make writing web crud a blissful experience, right?

At some point I realized that the nice examples from the books never mapped to the real world as cleanly. Exceptions were pretty useful, local mutability made lots of things easier, and category theory has no place in calling JSON apis over http.

I think a great number of talented programmers never learn that lesson, and continue futzing about with theoretical purity for its own sake.

One thing I admire about the Clojure community is audacious projects like this. While a ton of these seem to run out of steam, they certainly shoot for the stars and tend to come pretty dang close for a while.

For those working in Typescript, Blitz.js seems to do a great job at drastically decreasing the plumbing you have to write to shuttle data between Postgres and React. There’s also a ton of goodies like auth built in. From my first impression it’s the closest the JS community has ever come to a Django, and that’s very high praise in my book.

There’s political directions and there’s literal fascism. My grandparents gave their lives in the fight against this rotten ideology, and anyone who supports it and gives it credibility can go right to hell in my book.

For anyone missing the required context here:

The “Renaissance institute” that sponsored this “research” is a far-right think tank associated with the FvD, which can be charitably described as far right nationalists, or less charitably as a bunch of actual racists and fascists.

It’s a low effort article rehashing old and tired arguments. Exactly as one would expect from the title indeed.

Now look at which races are overrepresented in which classes and you will understand systemic racism. Intent of the landlord is irrelevant.

Huh, pretty incredible how Elastic took a classic David vs Goliath scenario and managed to get people rooting for Goliath.

How many distributed stream processing engines is the Apache foundation planning to collect? At this point it seems like there’s more projects that do this (if you squint a bit), than companies with a serious usecase for that type of architecture.

I’m truly sorry you had this experience. I must say it doesn’t match mine at all: code review was a major thing since my first day working as a dev, up to this day as an eng manager. My engineers are highly encouraged to write blog posts, it’s a great way to market the company and help with hiring. All of these companies I worked for have been fairly ordinary startups/corporates in the Netherlands too.