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orefaloon Zoom is now Chrome only

it's about time... I've been avoiding this tech for years because it was sniffing on my Mic

orefaloon Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew

well nanobrew is not on brew!

orefaloon A Lament for Aperture

I miss it too..

orefaloon Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers

Great move Bose

Shame on you, Google. You disabled my Nest thermostat and Nest Secure alarm — I will never buy your products again.

orefaloon Show HN: Mactop v2.0.0

Congrats. dashed zenith for mactop.

really neat and full featured

orefaloon Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

Apple can go to hell, their 30% fee is prohibitive.

If Jobs was still here, he would have fired all the fat management.

shame on you Apple, you are acting like M$!

orefaloon Distributed ID formats are architectural commitments, not just data types

I wrote an article comparing different GUID implementations and also prepared a clear spreadsheet with side‑by‑side implementation comparisons.

https://medium.com/@orefalo_66733/globally-unique-identifier...

Looking at your implementation, I like the clean split between shard, tenant, and sequence.

However, this results in a 160‑bit format, which does not fit natively in most databases, as they usually use the UUID type. I also find 60 bits of randomness to be low (ULID also uses 60).

Last point, using a GUID is not only for sharding. It is also important for protecting against predictability, which beyond the GUID structure, requires using the right approved crypto‑safe random generator.

orefaloon How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface

We should open a public petition - https://www.openpetition.org/

orefaloon Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet

No, it will not. I live in the UAE, and I appreciate that my children do not have access to pornography or illegal websites, as these are blocked by the service providers.

This should be adopted by many other countries

orefaloon Roman dodecahedron: 12-sided object has baffled archaeologists for centuries

isn't it obvious.. it was used to fortify the tent structure.

orefaloon The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

factor in power usage reduction, and it still works

orefaloon HTAP is Dead

I have compiled the following table to compare OLTP and OLAP

https://medium.com/@orefalo_66733/oltp-vs-olap-fb0441f57259

orefaloon HTAP is Dead

I found the title amusing. This died.. right after inception.

Clearly, the objectives and limitations of OLAP and OLTP differ so much that merging the two domains in a fantasy.

It's like asking two people to view through the same lens.

orefaloon A love letter to the CSV format

CSV?

it's surely simple but..

- where is meta data? - how do you encode binary? - how do you index? - where are relationships? different files?

orefaloon Svelte: $derived can now be overwritten

I love runes, I love svelte 5, I love sveltekit.

Together, they offer a seamless entry into development, allowing you to swiftly grasp concepts akin to JS/HTML.

Other options require a significant learning effort.

Wish it came earlier...

orefaloon River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres

Interesting, I would have though a solution like https://temporal.io/ would be more appropriate for these use cases.

a job queue might just be the tip of the use cases iceberg... isn't it?

in the end it's a pub/sub - I use nats.io workers for this.

arf, just read a few comments on this same line down bellow.

orefaloon Murex rocks v5 is out

I am thrilled to reference the new release of Murex, an intuitive, typed, and content-aware shell. A command line shell is a program that provides a text-based interface for interacting with the operating system. Command line interfaces have typically been stuck in time with dusty capabilities and recurring user experience limitations.

Murex is a modern shell for the rest of us, techies, with advanced features to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and empower users to unleash the full potential of the command line.

Murex is also my latest open-source contribution.

orefaloon Some thoughts on microservices

I do not agree with many of your points.

I also agree with some of them.

orefaloon Some thoughts on microservices

Conways law is not about structuring... it's about domain knowledge.

ie. if you work alone on a problem, you can only solve for the issues you know.

orefaloon Why Codeless Software Is Doomed to Fail

Low-code feels like a deja vu. I call it throwable applications.

built quick to satisfy a short term need.

There is a space for those but it doesn't fit all.

orefaloon Why use GraphQL, good and bad reasons

It's pretty simple... do access the DB (assuming it's SQL) do you prefer SQL or PLSQL.

orefaloon Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC

Neat, TS is the first initiative/product/stuff I enjoyed from M$ is so many years...

orefaloon Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

the price!

orefaloon Git pull --rebase until it hurts

Sounds like the workflow of a developer working by himself.

I have 40 developers working in my company, all doing pull --rebase, I even blocked trivial merges on the server itself (see my answer at http://stackoverflow.com/a/8936474/258689)

Laziness is only acceptable when you work alone.

If you are curious, check out this project: https://github.com/orefalo/g2

orefaloon Please use git pull --rebase

Can't agree more, I'll push it even further...

Use G2! which does pull --rebase magically on your behalf.

http://orefalo.github.io/g2/

https://github.com/orefalo/g2

orefaloon Fish 2.0 shell beta

Where is the feature list? do you have screenshots?

I know it's hard with a CLI, but still if it's colorful better show the baby...

orefaloon Let's make GitHub better, together

Another feature missing: per branch access control