gill-bates

I was waiting for a comment like this. It's not like there aren't any projects that should be thinking about "scale", but it's almost a meme at this point. There is even the section there near the beginning about how small web apps without many users 'may have to think about horizontal scaling as well' - no, no they don't. To take part in the meme as well, a single server with Postgres will suffice for what? 99% of companies?

Great project! Really cool to see something like this.

On the other hand, and this says nothing about you or your work, I realize I can put to bed my desire to learn and use F# after seeing what it looks like in a real project. The purely functional stuff is beautiful but once you drop in to more imperative/mutable code I find it really ugly to look at. I suppose unfortunately I suspect that in most real projects you will have to. Not sure if it just means I should choose a different functional language to jump in to, or if I should just work on applying functional concepts to the language(s) I already work with (fairly easy since C# is my primary language and has ever-increasing support for the functional paradigm).

I get that. To counter it I usually try to have at least one public repo on my Forgejo instance and link to that on my resume/LinkedIn. It helps that I'm angling for security/infra positions so the self-hosting aspect actually helps but even without that I would imagine it signals something. Maybe not ideal for the most mainstream jobs (whatever that even means...), but I suspect some people will be intrigued by the initiative.

Edit: to the "do you even lift bro", the response becomes "yeah man, I've built my own gym - oh, you go to Planet Fitness? Good luck."

Interesting looking book, but it seems a bit too meta for what I'm looking for. I'm not really looking for an argument for Christianity, but rather arguments from Christianity on modernity. Or did I not understand the role of that book?

Thanks! I'm used to looking at an argument and understanding that it comes with a set of presuppositions that must be accepted for the argument to follow (my academic background is in philosophy). I suppose the position I find myself in is at least toying with those presuppositions. I am finding the arguments that stem from them to be valuable and I can adopt the first principles while thinking about it and I'll leave the question of whether they themselves are right or worth holding for another moment.

In these times I'm finding myself more drawn to reading and trying to understand christian views on a number of modern issues.

Does anyone know where to find more? Where are the modern christian scholars? Are there christian publications easily available? In the universities I found those sources are available, but only in the specific context of studying religion but much less so as another voice on the subject at hand.

My man, your site is a single page with a contact form and it's 4.91mb and takes 1.45s to load after 183 network requests.