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m-a-r-c-e-lon Why we migrated from Python to Node.js

3 days? Do it!

It took our team 5 man-years (1 year of time) to upgrade from Laravel 4 to 5...

m-a-r-c-e-lon Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

That's incorrect. PHP has concurrency included.

On the other hand, in 99.99% of web applications you do not need self baked concurrency. Instead use a queue system which handles this. I've used this with 20 million background jobs per day without hassles, it scales very well horizontally und vertically.

m-a-r-c-e-lon Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

PHP is super-fast today. I've built 2 customer facing web products with PHP which made each a million dollar business. And they were very fast!

https://dev.to/dehemi_fabio/why-php-is-still-worth-learning-...

m-a-r-c-e-lon The Beauty of Programming (2001)

47 now

First company with 23, sold with 33.

Second + third company founded with 36, sold at 46.

I was the software engineer in the founders team, built alot by myself, even in the last years with a tech department of 30 people.

After doing nothing for 1.5 years, I am back with a new startup, being the only developer. Because I love it, and I am good at it!

It's my passion...

m-a-r-c-e-lon The Beauty of Programming (2001)

I'm still coding like it's 2001!

m-a-r-c-e-lon The Beauty of Programming (2001)

For me it's the opposite: if your job is your passion, it doesn't feel like a job anymore!

m-a-r-c-e-lon Next.js to Htmx – A Real World Example

Love 4 htmx

m-a-r-c-e-lon Laravel Cloud

correct

m-a-r-c-e-lon Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

Hey, have a look at this

https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/

m-a-r-c-e-lon Android SMS Gateway Using MQTT

I did something similar 20 years ago. Setup 4 Nokia phones with 4 SIM cards for the 4 different networks in Germany.

It was possible to connect them via a serial cable to a linux machine and receive/send SMS.

Used that to offer a horse betting service: people could bet on horses via complex SMS syntax. It worked, but never made enough money :)

m-a-r-c-e-lon Show HN: DodgeTest – Small HTML5 Browser Game

wow, super hard game...

m-a-r-c-e-lon PC Floppy Copy Protection: Softguard Superlok

There were a lot of commercial hole punchers at that time. See here for some photos e.g.

https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/38406-diskettenloche...

m-a-r-c-e-lon Structured logs are the way to start

IMO manual logging and especially being consistent is hard in a team. Language skills, cultural background, personal preferences, etc.

Much better is a well thought of error handling. This shows exactly when and where something went wrong. If your error handler supports it, even context information like all the variables of the current stack is reported.

Add managable background jobs to the recipe which you can restart after fixing the code...

This helps in 99.99% of all cases.

m-a-r-c-e-lon "The Door Problem" (2014)

Ok, won't start at all then...

m-a-r-c-e-lon How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

Use WhatsApp:

- create a group and add 1 person

- remove that person

- share whatever you like with yourself via WhatsApp web :)

m-a-r-c-e-lon Programming in 1969

Super interesting, thanks you!

m-a-r-c-e-lon Operating on infinite lists

Very nice approach...

m-a-r-c-e-lon I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021)

Rockstar fixed that bug because of this guy... Awesome!

m-a-r-c-e-lon Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

Yahoo Pipes was the spiritual father of Node RED

m-a-r-c-e-lon Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

Diary that stores everything in the local storage of your browser

https://myappp.tiiny.site/

- track your food

- track your Sports

- track your Habits

- track your whatever :)

Feedback welcome

m-a-r-c-e-lon Stripe live dashboard

Awesome visuals!

m-a-r-c-e-lon River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres

Nice problem observation.

One solution is the outbox pattern:

https://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox....

m-a-r-c-e-lon HoneyPot – I Made a Text Field Only Bots Use – Heres What Happened

Same Here. Much better than any CAPTCHA!

m-a-r-c-e-lon HTML First

You're absolutely right. We had additionally one common JS/CSS file each.

Every approach has its pros and cons.

m-a-r-c-e-lon HTML First

I love the idea!

In my current company we started with HTML and embedded JavaScript at the bottom and Styles at the top. Everything in one file, very easy to find and understand.

It was "a little bit" slower. Pagespeed Insights didn't like it.

Now we are "modern" with CSS and JS in a build process. And nobody knows which file to look at...

My new Projects will start with HTML first, again.

My credibility: 45 years, commercial web programming >25 years, 3 successful web companies founded as CTO

m-a-r-c-e-lon Write code like you just learned how to program (2010)

Make it work. Make it nice. Make it fast.

Don't forget the second step, otherwise your nightmares will haunt you...

m-a-r-c-e-lon Ask HN: 100% pagespeed and good Design possible?

Hey fellow HNs,

My small site https://link2tv.com/ has a pagespeed score of 100 by Intention. I tried to build a minimal page without any external dependencies.

BUT it looks like it looks... What would you recommend to make it look nicer and keep the score of 100 at the same time?

Thanks Marcel

m-a-r-c-e-lon Show HN: I made this tool to send a Link / URL to TV

vs URL shortener

- 9 digits are faster to type

- 9 digits are even easier to remember with your brain, bc you need it only for some seconds

- no ads, no tracking

- data friendly

vs pastebin

- UI is much simpler

- private by default