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scegiton Curiosity rover gives Nasa a scare, needed a reset

Debugging a system like this must very scary because of the tremendous responsibility. It is intersting to know how they actually communicate with it and handle auth.

scegiton Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the Digital New York Times

It is pretty cool that they created their own language, but I was not sure if they really needed to do that. I guess it was worth it back then. Looking at their website in 2002[0] it is pretty impressive indeed. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20020209001700/https://www.nytim...

scegiton Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the Digital New York Times

I'm not really familiar with how things were ~20 years ago, but I still believe that creating a language to use internally just for this is overkill. Dynamic ads, weather reports ... etc. are not that difficult they could have probably done it in C (maybe a custom somewhat advanced template engine?) with much less effort.

scegiton Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the Digital New York Times

> “We probably over-engineered it, I guess,” Damens said.

Exactly. Also, creating a programming language for something as simple as a newspaper is pretty much a nightmare. Worrying about scalability when most of their content is static.

scegiton Show HN: Created My First Admin Dashboard Kit

Looks good but the dark version is not really dark mode.

scegiton Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

Great job! very annoying. I was wondering why they haven't done this before.

scegiton Show HN: Notepin – Extremely simple blogging platform

Maybe their intent was to show the sidebar on the right when it's clicked.

scegiton HTTP/3: from root to tip

You can read about IETF QUIC here https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-quic-transport/

HTTP over QUIC is now HTTP/3. "HTTP/3 is just a new HTTP syntax that works on IETF QUIC, a UDP-based multiplexed and secure transport"

scegiton Confessions of an Abstraction Hater

This reminds me of Laravel their codebase sometimes feels like a maze even with a very decent IDE. Too many abstractions, and facades makes it even worse.

Edit: Baklava code is a good term for it

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/07/27/baklav-code/

scegiton HTTP/3: From root to tip

TL;DR HTTP over QUIC is now HTTP/3. "HTTP/3 is just a new HTTP syntax that works on IETF QUIC, a UDP-based multiplexed and secure transport"

scegiton Facil.io: A micro-framework for C web applications

HTTP1.1 is expected to just work it has been here for a very long time. It takes time to understand, support and adopt new technology. I'm not sure if the blame should be on HTTP2 in this case.

scegiton Facil.io: A micro-framework for C web applications

Pretty cool! but it doesn't support HTTP2 which is a bit disappointing

scegiton Tracking Users with CSS (2018)

You can still do this

input[type="button"]:active { background-image: url('http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&_v=j23&a=...'); }

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/10/css-only-solution-f...

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Android is a mess