mattbessey
Joined 14 years ago
Karma
783
Submissions
63
Member since
Jun 7
http://bessey.dev
View on Hacker NewsRecent submissions
Comment · 2 months ago
Is there any intent to make polytoken or its core open source in the long term?
Comment · 7 months ago
Please oh please let GCP add this to the supported managed Postgres extensions...
Comment · 1 year ago
The UK government has announced very little about the plan and in fact made it clear that the details are yet to be decided
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-id-scheme...
Yet plenty of people including in this thread have lept to criticising details of a non existent specification.
I find it perplexing. I agree with Tim. This could be done well. The UK Govs Digital Services Department have done fine work in recent years. I have faith in them to pull something like this off well.
Next though, we need an actual tech spec and public technical consultation. Then perhaps we can have a meaningful debate on it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would recommend doing more than gaussian blurring. Blurring makes it harder but not impossible to recover, especially if you know the exact font and font size in an image (which is easily recovered when the attacker can visit the website to work it out!).
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not sure that's a particularly fair conclusion to make Mike.
1bn a day is order 10k/s. if you the creator of Sidekiq know "dozens" of people hitting that rates, if anything you're supporting arcticfox's point that these systems are quite rare.
No shade intended. I have been a very grateful Sidekiq Enterprise customer in past Ruby jobs.
Comment · 1 year ago
This was a really compelling article Dan, and I say that as a long time l advocate of "traditional" server side rendering like Rails of old.
I think your checklist of characteristics frames things well. it reminds me of Remix's introduction to the library
https://remix.run/docs/en/main/discussion/introduction > Building a plain HTML form and server-side handler in a back-end heavy web framework is just as easy to do as it is in Remix. But as soon as you want to cross over into an experience with animated validation messages, focus management, and pending UI, it requires a fundamental change in the code. Typically, people build an API route and then bring in a splash of client-side JavaScript to connect the two. With Remix, you simply add some code around the existing "server side view" without changing how it works fundamentally
it was this argument (and a lot of playing around with challengers like htmx and JSX like syntax for Python / Go) that has brought me round to the idea that RSCs or something similar might well be the way to go.
Bit of a shame seeing how poor some of the engagement has been on here and Reddit though. I thought the structure and length of the article was justified and helpful. Concerning how many peoples' responses are quite clearly covered in TFA they didn't read...
Comment · 2 years ago
try ruby. there are several ways to call commands but the simplest is simply the command string in backticks
Comment · 2 years ago
> This layout creates uniformly-sized columns, without any rows
I find it amusing that they've decided to refer to this as masonry layout. If you actually built a wall like this (as opposed to uniformly-sized rows, without any columns) it would be a structural engineering disaster.
Comment · 2 years ago
Isn't that exactly what this article is advocating for? Its just getting to Least Privilege in a much less painful way than is common.
Comment · 3 years ago
> at the end of someones weeks of work
That sounds like more of a criticism of large PRs and long feedback cycles than of code review itself.
Comment · 4 years ago
> It's just a combination of plant oils
Sounds plenty plant-based to me. Why conflate plant-based with healthy? Plenty of people, myself included, have turned to meat-alternatives to reduce our environmental impact. I am under no illusions that it is healthy for me!
You can fry potatoes in a vat of vegetable oil, or you can cook skinless chicken breast in boiling water. Using plant content as a proxy for health makes no sense.
Comment · 5 years ago
can't afford it? in the UK ibuprofen and paracetamol are like, 20p for a pack of 16!
though I do miss the giant packs you get in the US, all pills come in small blister packs with purchase limits in all shops, to make overdosing more difficult
Comment · 5 years ago
I had a read through your docs but was unable to find any info on how you handle the sync of hard deletions from sources.
We use Stitch at the moment and have found this to be a surprisingly hard problem to solve without binary log replication, and without full refreshes. For the moment we've ruled out binlogs as we use Aurora MySQL which requires you to binlog from the master, and tying my data warehouse replication to the master node concerns me.
In incremental mode, for common DBs e.g. MySQL / Postgres, will Airbyte pick up hard deletions ever?