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I work on Enterprise Firefox, helping organizations deploy and manage Firefox at scale. Previously, I documented web platform technologies at MDN Web Docs, and before that Head of Content at QuestDB (YC S20).
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I share your frustration with this, and in my experience a lot of noise comes from these types of accounts.
I'll mention this with the team anyway, we're always looking to improve. There may be options like showing a tooltip with the bug title on hover or something similar.
Maybe it's interesting for you: the method pages have compat data at the bottom so you can see what's supported and in which browser release.
There's another discussion here about this API where a reader believes it should be behind a permission flag: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33965677#33994536
Personally, I think it's my role to discourage dark patterns in docs and examples and promote user agency and responsible development where I can. In this case, I'm highlighting the sustainability potential by making systems more efficient when resources are not needed. There's a section on 'patterns to avoid' in the post which talks about user control, so 'opting-in' to use of this API sounds like the better approach whether that's through in-app preferences or browser settings while there is no permission policy: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Permission...
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036?hl=en
It's not great, but you'll find it useful if you have the muscle memory of `* thing` for bullet lists and `## My section` for headings.
This post got me interested again in trying out something a bit more robust. I've put through an order for the kit linked in the article. Looking forward to trying it out.
A lot of you might be comfortable tinkering with breadboards or Arduinos and hobbyist electronics, but mains electricity can be lethal. Please consider hiring a professional electrician before you start replacing failing components or power cables if you're unsure about what you're doing.
Stay safe :)
Instead of writing an MQTT -> PostgreSQL bridge, you could use Telegraf to listen to MQTT topics and write data to QuestDB over InfluxDB line protocol when it meets certain criteria. One of our users shared the tooling they use in industrial IoT and a tutorial here for exactly this use case: https://questdb.io/tutorial/2020/08/25/questitto/#stack