The crazy part about choosing DuckDuckGo, is for tech searches, Google still wins, especially with how it gets latest things from Reddit. But, when looking for things that might be censored, you have to go with DuckDuckGo. The Google algorithm for censorship feels like we might as well be in the CCP.
The last two systems I designed and built where microservices based. One manages 2 million transactions per day, the other is processing millions of dollars worth of transactions a month. While it might be slightly harder to grep microservices, if you do them right, I feel the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks of going monolith. I think the hardest part is trusting that your system can not be digested in just one bottlenecked app standing up. This really goes deeper than microservices as well, into event-driven programming. Too much time seems to be spent on people saying, well my monolith is just fine. It might be, but doing a microservice system works, you just have to be able to ride the wave.
I think the difference is that this form of 'cancel culture' is the attempt to not only boycott establishments, but to 'cancel' people for having differing opinions. You see this, especially in the twitter-verse, where if your opinion differs form the "popular" (read far-left) view of the world, the will attempt to silence you. Goya is one example on the establishment side of things, but you see it also with dox'ing people and things like that.
We have been solving this issue with the app I have built Commandeer. Here is the main S3 dashboard https://imgur.com/gallery/JutGUI3 And here is the view of an individual bucket https://imgur.com/gallery/0OlKY7Q . It let's you completely manage S3 and 25 other AWS and Cloud services from a desktop app. You can easily see permissions and also preview every type of file. We have also done this for DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudWatch Alarms/Logs/Rules. The tool was built out of our frustration that many have.
I believe they also built a in-house main website, so that the entire company was on the same page on things. It seems like what they are very goo dat, and I think this resonates well with developers, is providing a delightful experience. This goes a long way with enjoying using the product, and you can tell they really care about what they present out to the world.
Agree on this times 10! I am on my second "lifestyle" business, not raising money, and just getting the MRR up to pay for everything. I have done the whole VC game (raised about $20 million) and I thought it was going to be much more fun than it was. Turns out, just doing it the "boring" way works.
> It always helped me to do an absolute basic concepts course on a new technology I learn.
Totally agree. I remember reading a CSS book on kindle in Aruba many years back. I find I really need to deep dive into something to understand it. Because at that point, I was like, I can code in everything, I really need to understand what the heck this CSS is doing. Thank goodness for flex box now, saves so much manually work. I code a lot in Vue with Vuetify, so <v-layout row wrap><v-flex shrink>this</v-flex><v-flex grow>that</v-flex></v-layout> is magical.
I have been posting to HN, Reddit, Medium. They all get decent click throughs. We are also a highly technical tool, so we also have done PR's on Github that offer backlinks to our site. That one has actually worked out really well. We are buried at the bottom of the README page for LocalStack, but still get a lot of click through traffic every day from it.
More than opening or not, I would say the real measurement would be states that forced people to be admitted into retirement homes that had tested positive for Covid, vs. states that did not do this. They are the ones that value life the least.