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Let Postgres Do the Work (2013)
Original Englishbecause I worked many years in large ISPs where Network Engineering folks designed everything, built it in test labs, verified everything, documented how to deploy …
PostgreSQL is enough
Original EnglishPostGraphile didn't have any first-class migration solution back when we started using it.
Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?
Original EnglishCost wise, I am down from about $24 to $8 with a much better performance.
Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
Original EnglishThe prototype in a standard MVC stack I'd made to demo to the client took 2 days.
Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright
Original EnglishThat said, I wouldn't recommend record/replay for Gmail, for example, so I do believe they meant smaller and simpler ones.
Tell HN: I used the same computer since 2007 (with minor upgrades)
Original EnglishBecause I am sure user experience will decrease massively because of the increased Windows 10 requirements.
Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
Original Englishbut for me Reeder is just a lot cleaner and faster, having said that I could be a bit stuck in my comfort zone with …
Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
Original EnglishI tested it with Unity and the C# support is fantastic.
Two years of Rust
Original EnglishI branched but _before_ I deployed that still has an invocation of the old name. …