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Dedicated servers for cheaper: https://www.kimsufi.com

I used Rockbox a lot, I even made my own build so I can configure some buttons to tigger specific actions. Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox has been my music player for a long time.

The problem now is that mobile phones have killed multimedia players and it's hard to find new players with Rockbox support :-(

Would you allow ascii characters under 32? Or would you considere it a dumb rule to disallow them?

Indeed. And I would argue that 80% of the websites out there do not need anything complicated.

Now if you have a very rich client side desktop-like application, such as:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer

or if you are Facebook, then maybe a SPA is required.

(by the way, I picked those two examples because I'm pretty sure they do not use a SPA!)

I use server side generated HTML pages with progressive enhancement using JQuery (I prefere it to plain Javascript). Not complicated and works very well.

Of course this is not popular/cool, though.

Now let's see something similar but for a private coin such as Monero! :-P

I wonder: why does everybody say it's a "Facebook currency", a Facebook project, if there are +/- 30 corporations in the association?

Does Facebook have more decision power than Visa, MasterCard or any other participating corporation?

Or is Facebook simply the main vector Libra will be promoted with?

Would Libra still be a project if Facebook was (hypothetically) shut down?

This should be part of some philosophy course: how can one become evil, even when starting with good intentions.

Right-Click + "Customize..." FTW!

Still no real MERGE, sadly?

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/21/1446/

At one point, you have to stop "looking for the next magical/better thing".

You pick something mature enough, that works well, and you ignore new cool trends (anyway there will be cooler things soon enough).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc

What I am trying to do with my framework, https://www.spincast.org , is to ignore new cool trends as much as possible and focus on real use cases. Comments welcome.

My opinion is to stick to plain SQL, but to use tools around if you like: query builders, transactions utilities, mappers.

But no ORM for me, thank you. I have already given.

I've used ConEmu a lot, now I use ConsoleZ on Windows. It's simple and it just works.

https://github.com/cbucher/console

Newbie question: why can't they just renew the certificate, like in 5 minutes?

Are you one of those online (unclear)?

Internet, you're not as free, wild and fun as you were 20 years ago, but I still love you.

Make a RealWorld.io implementation or it doesn't exist!

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

I'm curious on why the upgrade mecanism to tell the server you understand and prefere HTTP3 is different from the one used to upgrade to a Websocket connection? It doesn't seem to use the "Connection: Upgrade" and "Upgrade: XXX" headers but rather "Alt-Svc"...

I'm a total newbie on the topic, so I'm curious about this.

I use Dbeaver everyday. Thanks for it.

I learned CSS Grids, and I like it!

GraphQL is really nice for the client. But I have an hard time believing that this flexibility given to the client (over well defined REST endpoints for example) doesn't hardly impact the complexity of the queries to make to the database!

How it is possible for a product like Prisma/Hasura to be able to generate the complex logic of the queries required to handle real world logic and support that extra client flexibility? In my experience even regular SQL ORMs are often a bottleneck in a REST application and you need to fallback to (or only use) plain SQL.

And even if you can fallback to hand written SQL in those GraphQL backends (I hope so!), the extra complexity of the queries to make is still there because of GraphQL.

Amen

CSS Grids are a game changer in my opinion.

Using some "grid-template-areas" + media queries is so cool... It gives you so much control over the layout!

An interesting thing about AdoptOpenJDK is that it seems they may provide builds with DCEVM + HotswapAgent integrated, in the future [0]! And maybe become a very good and easy to use alternative to the way too expensive JRebel.

[0] https://github.com/HotswapProjects/HotswapAgent/issues/218#i...

And there are currently heat warnings... Won't be fun!

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/alerts/high-alert/quebe...

Even in safe mode, with all add-ons disabled, it still doesn't work... I should try a clean install maybe.

It's not a problem on your side. It happens on all sites with material icons... But thanks.

I'm just trying to use the smart people on Hacker News to help me with my issue! :-P

I'm using Firefox and the "Material Icons" icons are never displayed properly... Any idea why?

https://i.imgur.com/Y06PbsL.png

I'm not an expert, but what is the difference between a plain old ESB and what we now call an "API Gateway" or "API Manager" (such as Kong or WSO2) in the world of microservices?

I know of some architectures where the API Gateway has a lot of logic put into it... And you have to go through it to reach any of the microservices in the network.

Isn't this a single point of failure and similar to an ESB?