tomklein

> people who deliberately use MongoDB as a relational database sucks

I’ve seen this in a lot of projects I worked for too. Along with the use of “trendy” tech like blockchains being used for stuff it shouldn’t be used for.

Country Code TLDs have their own rules/are independent.

Why not just include a coupon for a free charger or let the customer decide?

They got the british phone number prefix +44 as a trademark?

I wrote a custom DNS nameserver and a resolver for an upcoming project. I implemented it IPv6 first. I think as more we support and use IPv6, as more it’ll be adopted.

Only one I’ve heard of is Google Inc. switching to Google LLC after Alphabet was founded.

Out of curiosity: Do screenreaders use OCR nowadays and if so, is it working good or rather bad due to the lost HTML markup?

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

I just found this after looking through a couple of interesting posts. I have no idea if this is permitted or why it was set up unfortunately.

Wouldn’t that be way faster than the speed of light?

You can do code blocks by putting two spaces in front of text:

  This is an example of a code block, if that’s what you meant.

This is the level of creativity I needed this morning.

I guess the author means $175 up to $180,000 instead of $175k as minimum

Seems to be a premium domain name which is at 215k € for just this one single registration.

It’s a win-win already. Google is listing those sites giving them the opportunity to be seen by lots of people and news sites sell subscriptions or put ads on their sites to make money. I don’t really get why Google should pay news sites for promoting them and helping them make money. Personally, I always clicked to read more if I wanted to know more about a certain topic.

My guess is that those web developers like it, want their visitors to have the same experience as them and/or implemented it maybe as a challenge or because they can.

Edit: Some sites do it as part of the user experience, which might be useful, but most of the time it might be annoying due to bad implementations.

Would love to work with your product. Got a SaaS Startup (prerelease) that‘ll provide web products to founders, startups, and SMBs at an affordable price. We got a solid NodeJS-based modular codebase and a highly available infrastructure. I think this would fit us well.

tom@gentlent.com

Actually, containerization helped us a lot. Our automated CI/CD does linting, testing (we only test critical stuff atm), compilation and deployment in less than 5 minutes. We also double-check changes by requiring approval to merge into develop and a second approval if develop is merged into the main branch.

If we need to deploy a hot fix, it is pushed to master directly with admin access or if there is something truly critically (which should never happen), we just block connections on our load balancers and/or clusters.

Containers are imho one of the best things out there for deployment, as you can deploy changes to a cluster of servers without needing to reconfigure them and without the codes/containers interfering each other.

That was beautifully written.

Addition: CF just sent an email out to customers about the incident.

I love your transparent communication and how quickly you guys respond with an explanation of what actually went wrong and how to mitigate these issues in the future. Such things happen.

Back online for me.

NPM is down too.

We're currently building one. If you'd like, you can send us some ideas to be implemented at support at gentlent dot com :)

In Germany lots of places just don’t accept any cards besides Visa and MasterCard just because of the seller fees.

I guess a lot of times it’s for security or to minimize storage over time. Sometimes you are only logged in for the browser session, so if you close it, it removes your session. Most smaller sites do have the remember me button to opt in for longer sessions and do not implement a session renew feature.

Why exactly 398 days? Seems a little bit odd as it’s approx 13 months plus additional 2-3 days.

This one made my day

Never heard about the democracy index. Pretty interesting. I share this thought of a democracy 2.0 where people are educated more on a rational basis before decisions are made.

This seems to me like overprotective parents trying to limit what the kids should do based mostly on feelings, which is not a bad thing per se, but should be backed by some form of rationality.

I guess a lot things can be challenged

That’s an interesting point of view I didn’t think about yet. But as long as there is no collective will, should there be a law on that at all?