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coolgoose

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A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.
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coolgoose··on SQL as API
Or use graphql? :)
coolgoose··on We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning. But considering how hostile Google has been lately to the 'open' web I am not surprized.
coolgoose··on My $500M Mars rover mistake
+1 on this, every place or project I have touched has a backlog of tens if not hundreds of nice to haves but never enough time to touch them, and some of them are really not complicated.
coolgoose··on 15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps
I am happy it's not just grumpy man sindrom for me regarding this change.

I do find the new map colors distracting for no reason

coolgoose··on Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
Sure, hence why I said entropy, but it's not like you can't use it :)
coolgoose··on Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
I am confused how this is new. UUIDv1 is time based, you just need to be careful about entropy, and in MySQL 8 you can for a longish time use it as an ordered field.
coolgoose··on XML is better than YAML – Hear me out
Imho, people should always remember that the only good "type" in yaml is to quote everything.
coolgoose··on Organic Maps
The amount of mistakes Google makes in the Netherlands when it comes to bikes is mind-blowing. If you don't know the area or manually check the maps it takes you trough a lot more car places that it should do.
coolgoose··on Tailwind and the death of web craftsmanship
I am not necessarily a fan of tailwind, but the author is explicitly writing how to not use a design system.

Not knowing what m-3 is is the whole point. You use it across the website to have some consistency in your spacing, and not just slap around another 8px.

Yes, you can also do that with CSS variables, and Imho at times I do think that bootstrap for all it's faults is a better base design system, especially for internal admin interfaces.

coolgoose··on Stopping at 90%
I always knew it as the 80/20 rule :D
coolgoose··on EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling
But it's not going to do anything about Google pushing Chat and Spaces down your throat :D
coolgoose··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
If they do a photo app, would it be called Xzibit ? :P
coolgoose··on WhatsApp had a major disruption
I noticed it since I can't send messages to any of my contacts :D
coolgoose··on Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go
But technically Goland isn't 'on a subscription model' but a 'you want updates you need to pay for it model' , nothing stops you for just paying 1 year and having that license for life :)
coolgoose··on The Liberty Phone
I can only say lol. And most likely it's going to be shipped in 2042
coolgoose··on AlmaLinux – Our Value Is Our Values
Even if it's years, it does get into RHEL, so it is value by itself, since I do assume they don't plan to shut down RHEL in 1 year.
coolgoose··on Gitlab’s AI-assisted code suggestions
So whos code is used for training?
coolgoose··on Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?
Playing it on Android VS bots or doing a campaign is still pretty nice. It's still being developed so can't complain :)
coolgoose··on Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1
I maybe feel nostalgic, but the old ui is so much... Better :)
coolgoose··on Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?
Battle for wesnoth :)
coolgoose··on Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3B requests later
Nope, that's my feeling too. Somehow for a news site mvp in 2023 we still reinvent the wheel.
coolgoose··on How is Apache APISIX Fast?
I am still happy with KrakenD and it's completely stateless approach to things, although I didn't do any high volume scaling on it so far :)
coolgoose··on Moderation strike
On one hand I simpatise with the problem, on another Stackoverflow is one of those platforms where the close random hammer for seemingly random reasons was always used.
coolgoose··on Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io
Going to beat a dead horse, but 30 days to migrate your database over ? I hope nobody was seriously using it in production, otherwise it's going to be a fun month for them.
coolgoose··on Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
If it's a snarky comment in a review, they're the problem, not you. If it's an honest review, then that's life, it's about the code, not about yourself.

Can you look 2-3 years back at your original code and not find any problems? Then that's a problem :P We all learn, evolve, and improve, so at the end of the day, any feedback is better than no feedback.

coolgoose··on UUIDs are obsolete in the age of Docker
Sometimes, I am amazed about what gets on the front page of ycombinator.

TLDR: Don't use UUID v1, since its entropy is based on the Mac address, if your cloud provider is generating the same mac addresses for all your containers.

To say not use UUID's it makes no sense. Use UUIDv7, use them in postgres https://github.com/fboulnois/pg_uuidv7 have fun :)

coolgoose··on Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
The same Apple in which you had be careful which USB C port you used to not overheat?
coolgoose··on Curl 8.0.0
In before somebody is going to say they can rewrite curl in a weekend hackaton.
coolgoose··on GraphQL vs. REST APIs: a complete guide
Well, seems somebody doesn't care about jsonapi/openapi and the rest of the family.

Sparse field sets / compound documents are nothing new and I'd argue its easy to overlook that there's no magic in the backend for graphql either.

coolgoose··on Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops
Wasted the opportunity to call it Konnect :p
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