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Gitlab is a very open company and have lots of documentation on their architecture here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture.html and here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure...

Chris McCord, who built this app (and author of Phoenix) talked about it on the Thinking Elixir podcast. Excited to learn that many of the learnings that he got when building this app will make its way into Phoenix LiveView.

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/84

This talk at Nextjs Conf explores cross platform solutions for common issues like routing, styling and animation. Found it to be quite helpful!

https://youtu.be/0lnbdRweJtA

> A better solution for me was using Karabiner-Elements to only swap the right command and option keys:

macOS has a built in tool called hidutil[1] for simple keyboard remapping. Prefer to use that since Karabiner-Elements has some issues on M1 and macOS Big Sur. I use this[2] tool to generate a simple launchd config.

1 - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450... 2 - https://hidutil-generator.netlify.app

Another limitation is that you can't pin chats on desktop/web.

Great article! Is there something similar to Replicache that is targeted towards simple multiplayer games? Im building a multiplayer version of a clicker game like Universal Paperclips[0] and dealing with similar the problems that Replicache tries to solve.

[0] https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

It was buggy as well. I was locked out of receiving and sending payments for about a month. After some updates, had to relink my bank account and the app created a new UPI ID by appending a -1 ie. myname-1@okhdfc! It's like creating a new email ID to resolve the issue.

> Jeff started to think - we have all this excess server capacity for 46 weeks/year, why not rent it out to other companies?

If Amazon rented out excess capacity after Nov/Dec, what did they do for next years Nov/Dec peak? Did they build up more capacity throughout the year and not rent it out?

> Zoom "happy hours" pretty much get dominated by two or three voices (usually of the most senior people) and everyone else just listens, because you can't have 2 conversations at a time.

This is definitely a problem and my co founder and I wanted to solve it. We tried a bunch of stuff, but one thing that we noticed was that we were playing a lot more casual games with our friends and family since the pandemic. It was pretty enjoyable. We tried the same with our colleagues and it was definitely much better than a Zoom happy hour. The game provides some structure which removes the awkwardness and there is some amount of participation from everyone on the call. We are now working on a product (https://getlounge.app/) that helps teams organize these game happy hours.

Dropbox Paper has the best editing experience. Notion should try to emulate that.

At the time of writing, they had 168 employees, I wonder how it has scaled to their current org size.

It's totally possible to run Phoenix in prod. I started learning elixir and am using Phoenix for https://getlounge.app. I don't use any of the advanced BEAM features like GenServers etc.

Another fully featured group video chat: https://talky.io

It's based on this open source app https://github.com/simplewebrtc/simplewebrtc-talky-sample-ap...

They also run https://www.simplewebrtc.com which is an SDK for building custom WebRTC apps. They also provide TURN and SFU servers.

I think a lot of it has to do with how companies evolve. Apple and its culture has evolved to make it reliant on these chance encounters, where as Gitlab and other fully remote companies haven't. It will be interesting to see how companies transition.

Related PG tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1270622556098355201

The astronauts show parts of the touchscreen and physical controls here: https://youtu.be/llbIzbOStt4?t=150

Im not sure, even I would like to know the answer to this.

Impressive, especially considering some of the touch targets are pretty small.

They have physical buttons Incase the touch functionality misbehaves.

I wonder how they manage not to have accidental taps on the touch screen during liftoff and or re-entry. As I understand there are a lot of G's and violent vibrations and I would assume it's hard to keep a steady hand?

(Atleast this is my understanding from watching Apollo documentaries/movies etc.)

We have a Java + Mongo stack and recently we had an issue in prod where code was deployed with a @Indexed annotation. When deployed this will create an index on startup and can lock up the DB. We had this issue years ago, but it slipped pass code review and we had a 10 minute downtime because of this. Can this be prevented using custom rules in Datree?

Looks good. We were trying to implement this using a mix of CI, pre-commit hooks and Gitlab PR templates, but it was limiting. This looks like exactly what we needed.

Regarding custom rules, does the tool run automated tests for those too?

I think email+password is still too confusing for "normal" people. Phone number + OTP is becoming very popular in apps, especially in developing countries where a lot of people don't even have/know what email is. I think this was mentioned in a recent a16z podcast as well.

They just announced it http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/24/5933361/welcome-to-the-fut...

Looks like Nilay Patel is replacing him https://twitter.com/ravisomaiya/status/492318663748628481

That just goes to show that URLs are a layer of indirection that people just don't get. Screenshots/photos are easy: Im seeing something, if I send this, they see the same thing.

Most normal users don't understand what URLs are, so I don't think this is a bad thing. This actually makes the UI more consistent; the address bar is always a way to search or go to a URL.

An anecdote: my friends girlfriend was reading an article on mobile safari and wanted my friend to read it. Instead of sharing the URL, she actually took screenshots and messaged it to him! We both found this fascinating! I keep seeing this sort of behaviour on Twitter and Facebook where people share screenshots of tweets and posts instead of the URLs.

Pixter: http://pixter.in

Like Instagram, but for more privacy conscious users. It's ad-free so users have to pay a yearly fee for using the app similar to App.net. Has support for comments, likes, push notifications and live filters.

We couldn't market it properly and also people were not as willing to pay as we had expected so we want to sell it.

Includes the iPhone app, the fully responsive web app and the backend. Code can be reused to make any type of photo/selfie sharing app.

More details: https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/717/pixter

The author of systemd, Lennart Poettering busts some systemd myths in his blog post http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html