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Comment · 10 months ago
I really hoped the author would discuss alternatives for distributed databases that writes in parallel. Sequential key would be atrocious in such circumstance this could kill the whole gain of distributed database as hotspots would inevitably appear.

I would like to hear from others using, for example, Google Spanner, do you have issues with UUID. I don't for now, most optimizations happen at the Controller level, data transformation can be slow due to validations. Try to keep service logic as straightforward as possible.

Comment · 1 year ago
Update iOS to 18.6
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for asking this. I have always had Adguard on iOS with no issues wondering if there is any extra benefit to switching to uBlock Origin Lite on Safari.
Comment · 1 year ago
Congrats team!

I was a speaker in a local Supabase event just few weeks ago, https://shorturl.at/JwWMk. We had a local event in Abuja, Nigeria. There we promoted their Launch Week 14 series, highlighting new features from Supabase. In reality, it became an event to show people how to bootstrap a quick backend for their SME business in a weekend.

Comment · 1 year ago
A heated debated after an author claims:

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Comment · 2 years ago
Even though I am not sure I believe the story but in smaller companies, HR, doubles as recruiters and human resource managers.
Comment · 2 years ago
Since you mentioned that you have FireFox installed, I would encourage you to sign in and use FF Sync. You can even send tabs across and all sorts of things.

As soon as you mentioned that you moved to FF, I was expecting you to say that the problem was solved. I've been using it for many years now, it is so smooth that I just take it for granted now.

Comment · 2 years ago
+1

"...premature optimization is the root of all evil."

Sometimes you just wanna get stuff out there, other times you're winning and you wanna give users the best experience. Many people have had to do both. You start with an ORM, eventually your queries are slow and all, you gradually reap them out. Almost every Engineer I know has had to do that at some POINT. Nonetheless, I am not about writing SQL for a simple barbing saloon booking app that I am not sure anybody will eventually use.

Comment · 2 years ago
I love that it is snappy. I didn't read the article but I spent time examining the browser network calls, not much css and js downloads. I truly love the feel of it.

Not sure I care about another SM platform but I was very happy to see a snappy site on a Monday morning. A good reminder to put care in my work this week.

During the weekend, I had to fight the urge not to implement a tiny client for interacting with my bank. A company making loads of profit but can't fix their online banking platform. Every page takes not less than a minute to open. No form of caching user details, API calls are made and take same response time not matter how many times you navigate to a screen.

Comment · 2 years ago
This is very nice I was nerd-snipped by it. Just kept drilling down and exploring adjacent trees in Java.

Thanks for making it authentication-free and free of charge.

Comment · 2 years ago
I don't know if this is irony or you've been in Apple ecosystem way too long.

I had to do a very simple macOS app for my personal consumption recently and XCode dx is nothing to write home about. The only reason I finished the project there was that I couldn't set up vs code quickly for Swift/Cocoa project. I had to endure the slow compilation time, slow reaction time of the IDE UI. You make a change you keep seeing squiggly lines for a while, it's as though the UI is booting up each time. It was a horrible experience coming from IntelliJ and VS Code daily experience.

Computer is 32Gb Apple M1 Pro. Imagine what will happen on some 8Gb i5 macbook.

Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for posting. A very interesting read. This is my first time seeing this well written piece. Written in a text file, sign of his distrust for software that mangle your ASCII :)
Comment · 2 years ago

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