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wesleytodd
·há 2 anos·discuss
But if you use web scale tech you can scale to infinity on day one right? :eye-roll:
wesleytodd
·há 2 anos·discuss
Oh no not wrongly at all. The project was on life support with only one maintainer who had stalled out all efforts to onboard new people. I burnt out hard in 2020 from trying and quit. Luckily I found some folks willing to help try again, and we were able to achieve a healthy and positive hand-off of the project governance.
wesleytodd
·há 2 anos·discuss
You probably dont have enough context to have clarity here, but this release was to unblock performance and simplicity changes. We first needed to clean up 10 years of stagnant code from the years with a single maintainer, now we can remove the worse old decisions and only support node 18. Those changes could not land prior to this release in any form.

We have spent our time on those code changes, leaving nearly zero time for public relations on this, but I hope to start changing that soon. The main thing to take away here is this is a "boring release". It is to unblock more serious changes in v6 and for node core.
wesleytodd
·há 2 anos·discuss
And now that we finally resurrected the project we can land the perf improvements which were unable to land with one maintainer and still supporting 10y old node versions. We likley will not get it to match fastify, but our goal is likely to make more balanced trade offs. I am excited to see what we can do not that we have broken through the dam which was holding us back.
wesleytodd
·há 2 anos·discuss
In case you are not aware (maybe you are) node has experimental support for http imports. I personally think this feature is a disaster for many reasons, but if you want to use it in your toy apps it is there in node.
wesleytodd
·há 2 anos·discuss
Not my area of work, but pretty sure that is expected behavior to resolve an ever changing set of services being called out to. Better to do dns resolution than for a call to fail and have to re-resolve while you wait on a loading screen right?
wesleytodd
·há 2 anos·discuss
Point number three is critically important and no matter how many nerds complain it is not activity pub or some crypto thing, the company focus on delivering a product which is viable to use by normies is awesome.
wesleytodd
·há 2 anos·discuss
yeah but this one is more official right. It is from one of their team members.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
I full time'd for nearly a year with just three cell devices and the Open Signal app. The only time I had issues was when we watched some shows and used our bandwidth "cap" on our unlimited plan and it throttled me the next morning. I picked up the third device (an att mifi type thing) after that and haven't had a problem since. The only restriction was that we check cell coverage where we were planning to stay before booking if I was going to be working and without easy access to a coffee shop or RV park WIFI.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
We full time'd for a while towing a 40ft trailer with a diesel f250. While it is obviously not "efficient" relative to smaller rigs, it is way more efficient than living in a house and commuting daily even with an EV. This is one of those things I don't think people realize about "low carbon impact living" (or whatever you would want to call it), you likely get 80% there just by not heading/cooling a 2k sqft house all the time.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
Of the past three years we have spent about half of it (full time for the first year and a min of 4 months each year since) traveling with our daughter in a 40ft fifth wheel. The small space has been even more impactful with a small child, it was GREAT! Between waking up and being able to walk her out to the beach, or when it is rainy not having a mess of toys all over a house, lots of things balance out the effort invested in the traveling portion. Especially when you get a rhythm with it like we did while we were full timing.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
yeah I got confused seeing this on the top. in my head said "what is this, 2012?". Am I wrong this existed way before 2017?

edit: I am correct, it is much more old. https://github.com/heroku/12factor/graphs/contributors
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
I dont think this should be considered controversial. This sounds like a well balanced opinion, and is for sure one I share.

JavaScript has many missing features. This is not one of them.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
I hate people who do this, nd it is probably why my wife has such a reaction, it is more about me pestering her too much than her actually wanting to ride in the fast lane. Backseat driving is a bad habit of mine.

But one thing I have learned by driving 50k miles these past few years is that you never actually get there meaningfully faster. So really, everyone is better off if they just slow down and hit that cruise control.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
This is largely a west coast problem. We are doing a trip to the west coast this summer (sitting in the shade of my RV in AZ right now on our way) and we had to book a lot more in advance than other destinations. The past few years in the central and east we can usually find a spot day of unless it is right near a major attraction.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
Hey John!! Wes here, sitting in the shade of my RV right now. Funny to hear the last line, because mine says the same thing about when I am driving. And when she is driving she literally tell me "fuck em, I will drive how I want" lol.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
It depends. If it is a passing lane and the RV is not passing, shame on them. If it is a small pullout you often cannot slow down fast enough to catch it unless you are really paying attention for it. Remember, slowing down a big rig (especially one with all your belongings in it) can be near impossible to do. But mainly the reason is probably that there is no training or licensing required to teach folks how to drive these things.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
It is my understanding that the at protocol has the building blocks for alot of these use cases as well. So while yes bluesky the app is just a micro blogging social media, the protocol should be able to do the rest.
wesleytodd
·há 3 anos·discuss
It is an invite only beta on a staging domain.