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webscalist··on Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
https://news.ycombinator.com/404
webscalist··on The Twelve-Factor App (2011)
I prefer to have known configuration presets (groups) version controlled. Documents known shared environments (db host, ... etc) well.
webscalist··on The most boring number in the world is...
806179 BORIng
webscalist··on Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls
Deplatform Instagram.
webscalist··on Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs, after CEO predicted no more layoffs
Facebook cancels, not posters.
webscalist··on Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
https://peel.fm/e38d7e2

https://peel.fm/61eb568

webscalist··on GPT is all you need for the back end
But is GPT a web scale like MongoDB?
webscalist··on A page with no code
swf is all you need
webscalist··on Ask HN: When to release the first version of an iOS app?
You can release now and do sales pitches on instagram and tiktok and youtube and hackernews. And prepare to webscale because there can be a huge traffic spike.

It doesn't matter what you and your small group of friends think about the app. People will react to your app differently. So, PREPARE. TO. WEBSCALE!

webscalist··on Design the next iPhone
https://i.imgur.com/HqGuK3j.jpg
webscalist··on Infinite Mac
now I can install protools and produce grammy award winning album all in internet explorer
webscalist··on What chords do you need?
and welcome to atonality
webscalist··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
In short: I'm gonna gather your personal info for profit.
webscalist··on [dead]
I like emacs
webscalist··on Covid-19 breakthrough data
- Population is considered fixed (or growing very slowly)

- More people get vaccinated: A

- Less people remain unvaccinated: A' (=1-A)

- More people get infected: B

B/A' will of course grow more rapidly than B/A

webscalist··on Firefox 96
does it still crash your OS if you delete a site (domain) that you frequently visited from history?
webscalist··on Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers
Ditto. BLM and Antifa must be removed from various platforms.
webscalist··on Dark Reader – enable Dark Mode on Wikipedia and many other websites
Yeah scrolling sucks on eink. Only option on Firefox on Android eink tablet was to use uBlock's My Filter feature:

    *##span,a,div,p,li:style(color: #000000 !important; background: #fff !important;)
webscalist··on Dark Reader – enable Dark Mode on Wikipedia and many other websites
It'd be nice if they optimize for eink display as well. Solid black text on solid white background.
webscalist··on Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime
Could've been cheaper to buy/rent another server, put it on the new location, set up redundancy/replication, power off the old server, move it to the new location, return the new server. Or just keep it for sanity.
webscalist··on Local-first software (2019)
TODO: build a local-first livestream remote conference zoom alternative software
webscalist··on NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
This even runs without play services
webscalist··on Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in one week
They were telling him to back off. But the old man still approaches. Whatever motives you have, it's better to comply to law enforcement first.
webscalist··on OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
Where does audio come from? From DSLR? If you need a separate mic, is there a/v sync issue?
webscalist··on An introduction to RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ has huge learning curve if you're trying to build a worker queue.

First, you'll learn about ack/noack and get the worker ack on success.

Then, you'll learn about dead letter queue ... etc for delayed retries.

Now, you'll have a topic exchange and a bit hairy routing in place using wildcards.

And you mistakenly set dead letter routing key so that expired messages end up in multiple queues (retry queues and actual worker queue ... ).

Then you rewrite your service in python and use Celery or something.

It's nearly impossible to get RabbitMQ working correctly within few months.

And I forgot about HA. Paying for hosted RabbitMQ might be better. But CloudAMQP in particular could be tricky as well. It can run out of AWS IOPS and your production gets hosed.

Also setting up monitoring on queue health, shoveling error queues ... etc take time to learn and apply. Be careful about routing keys when you shovel error queue to a topic.

webscalist··on Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
Sure, if you want to drain battery
webscalist··on Do not Draw a Penis
Tough to beat AI. But successfully drew a penis. Good game.
webscalist··on 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=... 100 Points. Mobile First. Better than React Native.
webscalist··on Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file
needs photo and video upload
webscalist··on System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server
if you use Postgres on AWS, you'll easily exhaust IOPS with this and hell breaks
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