If you set out to build a local-first application that users have complete control and ownership over, you need something to solve data sync.

Dropbox and other file-sync services, while very basic, offer enough to implement it in a simple but working way.

Sure, it won’t be as real-time as a custom solution, but it’s still better for casual syncs. Think Apple Photos: only your own photos, not real-time, but you know they will be everywhere by the end of the day. And that’s good enough!

Imagine if Obsidian Sync was just “put your files in the folder” and it would give you conflict-free sync? For free? Forever? Just bring your own cloud?

I’d say it sounds pretty good.

Кристина обсуждает с гостями их провалы в жизни.

SQL Polyglot is a quick way to see if a particular SQL feature is supported in different database systems. Write a query and see it run anywhere from PostgreSQL to DuckDB without leaving your browser.

In this post I describe a couple of practice that makes the process of writing code faster, more predictable and straightforward

Может, вы сидели и думали, что в Осло нет трамваев. А они есть!

from bouncepaw:

Alex tells us that, for him, baking and cooking are easier than programming and soldering, because the errors there average out. As for me, this is completely inverse.

In programming, an error never fixes itself. You can observe it and fix it, you can write tests. You can run the program multiple times. It's you who fixes it, and you can understand how it's done. It's measurable!

Meanwhile, cooking is a nightmare. Burning something is routine for me. Is that too much or too little oil? For how long do I fry? What do I do with these spices? Do they really affect the taste? And to observe something, I can't rely on symbolic things like text. No, I have to look (is this color good? No idea!), smell (as if I know the difference) and taste (nothing more inaccurate).

I'm happy when something can be cooked with a timer. 15 min for buckwheat? I'm in. I'm more happy when the time is short. 4 min for this thin kind of spaghetti? Already boiling water!

I mean, even boiling water is not simple. My parents told me to wait until the correct bubbles appear. I'm waiting for the scary ones. Also, salt is supposed to make it boil faster. How much salt do I add?

And I didn't even talk about plants, which Alex also considers easy. They're not 😭

Totally agree!

если в процессе обсуждения архитектуры вы пришли у выводу, что в проекте потребуется настоящее горизонтальное масштабирование — вам не обойтись без конечных автоматов (так-то лучше вообще любую бизнес-логику строить именно на конечных автоматах, но в автономной системе можно подкостылить и без них, а вот в кластере — уже никак)

Так или иначе, если вы хотите оказаться готовым отмасштабироваться в горизонталь — стройте критические процессы на конечных автоматах и полностью асинхронно

Зато асинхронные взаимодействия поверх FSM — сделают в дальнейшем масштабирование безболезненным, ведь в такой парадигме не имеет никакого значения, на какой ноде выполнится код, отвечающий на запрос.

A linter for Go that finds nil panics. It found several potential nil panic in Betula and Mycorrhiza codebases that I didn't bother fixing.

• https://github.com/uber-go/nilaway/

This belief is, for me, not some abstruse theoretical assertion, but a deeply felt belief that essentially any question I might care to ask (about computers) has a comprehensible answer which is accessible with determined exploration and learning.

Now I use my inbox as a to do list of sorts. Emails are only there as long as they're relevant. Confirmation of a table reservation at a restaurant? It's at most relevant until the date of the booking has past. Archive it.

Hundreds of utilities available for recovery, maintenance, testing and more

Живой диск линупса для починки поломанных систем. Не содержит графического интерфейса, голая консоль и куча утилит.

В лифте написано УП вместо ВВЕРХ.

Представьте, какой гемор был бы построить это в Экселе, Гугле или даже на языке программирования вроде Питона. Там с одним только парсингом дат и времени наешься, а тут все из коробки.

Максим выдаёт базу про СМИ, манипуляцию общественным мнением, политические интересы и решение проблем на разных уровнях.

Алексей Антонов читает лекцию про финансы в Студии