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I agree, although having bought a Samsung Tab S9 for this reason, it too seems to be very limiting. Samsung Dex is cool and all, but the app selection on Android is worse than iOS and I couldn’t find a way to run Linux since Linux on Dex was killed off.

There’s a project called typeid which implements an ID scheme similar to Stripe.

https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid

Yeah they really should be using Stripe to authorise the card payment and then capture it when the app is successfully installed

I feel sorry for your students. PS Canva can export PDFs with vector graphics

Does anyone here have any experience using https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter ?

I build a lot of Docker images using Nix, and while yes it’s generally more pleasant than using Dockerfiles, the 128 layer limit is really annoying and easy to hit when you start building images with Nix. The workaround of grouping store paths makes poor use of storage and bandwidth.

I got the M1 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM for £730 second hand off eBay as a backup laptop shortly after buying an M1 Pro 14”.

Then when I travelled for a few months I only took the Air with me, and it’s incredible how I could pretty much do all of my day to day development on it. The single core performance being pretty much the same is such a huge win.

After having a £3000 Surface Book 2 for a few years which is truly one of the worst devices I’ve ever owned, the M1 Air is by far the laptop I’ve got the most value out of.

To clarify I meant having /nix/store on some kind of persistent volume rather than copying it at the start and end of every job, that indeed would be painfully slow and extremely inefficient. I don't know if this is possible with CircleCI.

I don’t know about CircleCI but if you can persist the /nix/store then that will give you the performance improvements you’re looking for.

I use Gitlab CI and with self hosted runners I can make sure the /nix/store is persistent across CI jobs and then my builds take ~5 seconds if no code has changed, 5 seconds of which is just nix build evaluating all my nix files and realising no work needs to be done.

There's also https://github.com/tomhicks/react-audible-debug which has been around for some time, I think it has a clearer sound for identifying excessive re-renders, but it's definitely a little more annoying :)

https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-9vb6xn?file=src%2FApp.js

True I guess, although one would perhaps expect a fibre network to be more reliable and stable than a cellular network.

Why would a large ISP allow customers to bring their own ONT if it means higher chance of problems on the PON? It doesn't seem worth the reputational risk. Allowing customers to bring their own router doesn't affect other customers.

Ah ok, in the UK our only widespread DOCSIS network strictly forbids 3rd party modems for the same reasons I mentioned.

A good fibre ISP will have a separate ONT and router, so you can still pick your own router.

The ONT should be considered part of the ISPs network and not tampered with or replaced. Fibre with an ONT (PON) is a shared medium with other customers, and trying to use your own equipment has the possibility of degrading service for other customers.

This looks very similar to Vanilla Extract, the API of Panda is exactly the same DX I had using it with React, but I still ended up jumping on the Tailwind bandwagon because I find it just gives me a slight extra boost in productivity and speed, especially when prototyping.

This looks pretty cool, thanks for the pointer! It would be nice if there was a way to create a stream using this where the materialized data doesn't actually get stored on disk in a materialized table, instead it just streams changes to e.g kafka.

One thing that I think would be awesome is if there was a Postgres extension for streaming queries, where you could join tables with millions of rows and when any of the upstream data is changed you’ll be notified of the delta changes.

I tried Materialize but it seemed incredibly wasteful to duplicate terabytes of data and was also extremely slow compared to the same query running in Postgres.

For now I’ve rolled my own using Debezium CDC and simply reevaluating entire queries with joins when any data changes, but having something more smart would be ideal.

Yeah similarly I'm using Nix to template K8s templates and I've never looked back. Helm is great for deploying 3rd party applications easily but I've never seen the appeal for using it for in house services, templating YAML is gross indeed.

Moving /nix to another location would require a lot of package authors that make the assumption of /nix/store being a constant to rewrite their packages, an effort that doesn’t really seem worth it.

Maybe you’re thinking of something else, because Podman is mostly a replacement for Docker and shares most of the same command line, not k8s

Are there any better apps for learning a foreign language?

Last time I used Game Maker was just before they got acquired by YoYoGames, it actually inspired me to learn programming along with Roblox (early 2007).

It’s cool to see how it’s still going!

Hah, reminds me of when they tried to justify having a max of 16GB of memory

Yep our current marketing site is NextJS hosted on Hetzner fronted by Cloudflare, fortunately that's still up and never has any problems.

We've moved to next-on-pages for our new marketing site and I've spent the whole day on finishing touches ready for switch over at 20:00 UTC, and now this :((

And just 30 minutes ago we were about to flip the switch on a months long migration to Cloudflare Pages for our new website, I guess some things weren't meant to be :')

Wow so much negativity here, I just can’t imagine not having Yarn PnP for my project with 15+ packages all in a monorepo. It’s super easy to patch 3rd party packages, fast at installing and adding new dependencies, and it plays so nicely with Nix which is great for CI/CD, as with a bit of tooling all of your packages will be cached between builds.

Even some “heavyweight” frameworks which I didn’t expect to work, work fine, such as NextJS.

I’m a very happy Yarn Berry user.

If I wanted to build a home server with very good single core performance but very low power consumption (storage and upgradability aside), what are the best options right now? Probably a Mac Mini M2 haha

But RSC is how you do server based apps with React, and they’re clearly sticking with React.

Sure you can render to static markup without RSC but then you have to do a lot of work to mix server/interactive client components, RSC makes it a lot easier to achieve “server based apps”.

It’s not a deceptive headline at all.

I was using Yarn 1 before, and it was a nightmare. Slow and painful to package applications with lots of dependencies and to deploy.

So yes I did migrate to Yarn 2+, and it made CI/CD much easier and faster.

I’ve found Temporal and Xstate are helpful at building a reliable billing system

For me I can’t imagine using anything other than Yarn 3 for Javascript dependency management

Well it works pretty well for me via NFC using a YK 5 and 5C.