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Comment · 7 years ago
This isn’t your main point, but FWIW, there is a draft in the IETF for JMAP over websockets. It was approaching trivial to implement; I think our (Fastmail’s) main Cyrus developer wrote it from scratch over a weekend.
Comment · 7 years ago
(I also work at Fastmail, on the server side.)
It does describe APIs in general, and that is one of the reasons I like it so much. All of our internal APIs are JMAP: when you need to do something with a user, you call User/set; with a rule, call Rule/set, and so on.
JMAP makes it super easy to build new APIs because you can reuse most of the code; the only things you need to define are the data types (and any custom implementation for access controls, etc.).
Although Fastmail itself has much more legacy code (we’ve been around a while!), new things can start with a framework called Ix, which is available at https://github.com/fastmail/Ix. Ix is the basis for Topicbox (www.topicbox.com), which is built ground-up on top of JMAP.
Comment · 7 years ago
It’s less the risk of them getting stuck together than it is the fact that they sound better if you don’t create that partial vacuum.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yep; this was in Pennsylvania, which is apparently one of the more onerous states.
The stated purpose is so that you can't change your name in order to (for example) escape debt. So the way to do this is to pay to put an announcement in a legal periodical. She had to do it in two separate places: one was mandated (The Legal Intelligencer, which sounds like something out of Harry Potter), and she had the choice of a few others, of which she picked the cheapest one.
The ads themselves didn't cost $1000, but the whole process (including changing the name on her passport, etc.) came close to that.
Comment · 7 years ago
Depending on where you live, changing your name can be much more of a hassle than this. My wife did it recently, and the whole process took several months and cost nearly $1000 all told. It involved filling out a bunch of paperwork, taking ads out in two legal newspapers, and a court date.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hey, thanks! We've updated that to link to both the relevant blog posts.
Comment · 8 years ago
We (FastMail) use it in production, and all backend development is in Perl for all the products. Booking.com, cPanel, Craigslist, and ZipRecruiter all have sizable Perl codebases, as do many others.
Comment · 8 years ago
Perl has logical xor, which is occasionally useful. I usually reach for it when argument checking, where it makes sense to have either this param or that but not both.
Comment · 8 years ago
All of FastMail is in Perl5 (minus the Cyrus parts, which are in C).
Comment · 9 years ago
But this doesn't really need to be responsibly disclosed: it's not something someone can use to get into your machine, but rather a way you could accidentally broadcast your credentials somewhere unexpected.
Announcing on Twitter seems more like "hey be careful, make sure your password field is focused."
Comment · 9 years ago
AucTeX in Emacs can do this, and it’s really nice.
Comment · 9 years ago
They also removed your username/display name from your default highlight strings. We often just use names with no @, and this week we noticed that other people were no longer getting pinged for those. Now you have to go to your preferences and explicitly add your display name to the list of strings you want to be notified about.
Comment · 9 years ago
You could use https://metacpan.org/pod/Amazon::Dash::Button, and write your own handler in Perl using an ordinary Dash button.
Comment · 9 years ago
I've recently started watching woodworking videos on YouTube. I read somewhere that Matthias was one of the early employees of RIM (Blackberry) and as it turns out, he has a bunch of those patents in his name: https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininvent....
Comment · 9 years ago
My local taxes (county) do this. Whenever you pay property (house, car) taxes, it tells you $x goes to the county schools, $y to roads, and so on. (Usually including something like $0.67 to the county library!) It's really nice...sure, paying tax on my car every year isn't great, but I'm happy to give $150 (or whatever it is) to the public schools.