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Comment · 10 months ago
I do not agree fully with this article, but it does give food for thought and have some valid points:

- don't blindly jump into a new architecture because it's cool

- choose wisely the size of your services. It's not binary, and often it makes sense to group responsibilities into larger services.

- microservices have some benefits, moduliths (though not mentioned in the article) and monoliths have theirs. They all also have their set of disadvantages.

- etc

But anyway, the key lesson (which does not seem like a conclusion the author made) is:

Don't put a halt to your product/business development to do technician only work.

I.e if you can't make a technical change while still shipping customer value, that change may not be worth it.

There are of course exceptions, but in general you can manage technical debt, archtectural work, bug fixing, performance improvements, dx improvements, etc, while still shipping new features.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's an interesting and fun experiment, but what are real usecases for such a cluster?
Comment · 1 year ago
Isnt the author confusing "alphabetical sorting" with "ASCII sorting"?

Afaik there is no universal way to handle numbers in alphabetical lists. Sometimes numbers some before letters, sometimes after, etc.

A digit is not a part of the alphabet, right?

Comment · 1 year ago
> Those who need a full fledged jira with sso? they won't self host and won't care if it's open source.

Not necessarily true. Id like to replace jira in an enterprise environment and we do need sso and prefer to self host.

Comment · 1 year ago
That i dont know yet, and id love to hear suggestions.
Comment · 1 year ago
Why? It seems to go along well with the rest of their services. Slow, feature incomplete.. Just look at Jira, Confluence, etc.

We use the atlassian products at work and are planning to replace Bitbucket with Gitlab within short.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Any initiative to make a fast powerful UI is a good one imo.

Some features, like clipboard history and window management (i.e "tabs") are better left to the desktop environment though. Every app shouldn't need to reimplement this logic.

Comment · 2 years ago
I remember only one lecture from university, one in presentation technique.

The idea of the (guest) speaker was that when you hold a presentation, say the most important things first.

If anyone gets up and leaves, or the presentation is cut short, you should've gotten the most possible value out if the time.

Then dig into details as the presentation progresses and answer questions or concerns right away.

Answering right away does not mean side track the whole presentation, give the major response and take details later.

I.e "TL;DR" your presentations, oral or written alike.

A simple example is: you've been given the task of estimating the cost and work involved in developing a new feature.

When you present your result, don't start by listing all the things needed to be done and all the investments needed to be bought.

Start by giving the receiver what's on her mind: what is the price, when can we deliver, how many persons do need.

Then dig into the overall details of how you ended up in that, perhaps that the tools needed to be purchased are X, Y and Z.

Then dig into why we need those tools, and so on.

If you have to interupt early, or if you have a big trust from the receiver, the main point has been delivered and the the remaining 80% of the time can be invested in more important things.

I've applied this in my life, privately and professionally, and it's been working out well. I also hope this response was a good example of what I tried to pass on.

Comment · 2 years ago
Haven't used bitwarden so not sure about it's festureset, but I'm looking into passbolt which seems nice and with self hosting options.
Comment · 2 years ago
Anyone know how it compares to mouseflow?
Comment · 2 years ago
Nice work

It would be neat if there was an option to make input and textarea use the script font as well and an image component that made a sketch of the image provided.

And maybe charts, and...

Comment · 2 years ago
I asked who i am, being the only person with my name. Turned out i was a professional fotboll player :-)
Comment · 2 years ago
I think it's a great idea if it's done right. I miss freshmeat.net :-)

A database of open source software would help when looking for suitable products, personally I tend to scout for open source options before looking into closed options.

If it contained easily searchable/filterable information on license, "activity" (i.e how alive the project is), hosting/deployment options, development language, operating system, it would be great.

Also if it has info on how it accepts contributions, it'd be nice.

Probably you could scrape I formation from GitHub, gitlab and similar sites and you could also let projects supply information for you in a "oss-info.yaml/json" in the root dir of the project.

Comment · 2 years ago
Would you mind elaborating?

I still find Firefox superior to safari.

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