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treve··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Yes you are right. With HTTP/2 responses can be sent out of order, but once they are sent down the pipe they have head of line blocking and have to arrive at that order, unlike QUIC.

Websockets don't really have an advantage here because typically websockets are implemented server-side as event based systems, and if a RPC paradigm is put on top of it has the same properties as HTTP/2 request/responses ordering. So if HTTP/2 doesn't have head of line blocking, then you can't argue that websockets do.

treve··on Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
I was around 16 when I discovered this, and it was my first IRC client. Didn't fully get what IRC was yet. It felt like a new world opening up.
treve··on PowerFox Browser
I've been meaning to dust off my black plastic intel macbook and see if it's still usable as a workstation. Go back to Snow Leopard
treve··on RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
It's not a great idea. I wrote something a few years ago if it's interesting:

https://evertpot.com/get-request-bodies/

treve··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Still does. On gnome you can switch via the lock screen.
treve··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Linux had this well before OS X
treve··on It's time to talk about my writerdeck
I've been wondering if I can somehow get the Toshiba Satellite VGA font back to today.
treve··on From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab
I just installed Proxmox for the first time with a 5 disk ZFS array. Very basic stuff but I already had to go to the CLI a few times and it didn't really feel that well integrated. Even setting up the array didn't work (non-descript -1 error message, and ended up needed to use -f on the cli). I also couldn't find a zfs create equivalent (but that could have been me?)

It's fine because I'm comfortable in the CLI but I read your comment and wanted to share that it felt a bit rudimentary at best.

treve··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
Laws in the US aren't taken as literal as in civil law systems. The intent and precedent is what carries much more weight in the end. Graph calculators are unlikely to be tested in court because it's irrelevant with respect to what this law is trying to accomplish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

I often see laws discussed here and people finding some edge case and presenting this as a gotcha. The reality is that it's unlikely to matter.

treve··on British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years
Public services don't need to be 'economical'
treve··on Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
It's wild this is what you took from that, but no. My issue was with the word 'Hype'. Would you call windows Hype because it's bigger?
treve··on Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
Some cognitive dissonance going on here. The vast majority of current Linux Desktop users are on Wayland, and X11 is phased out across the board. Calling it hype is absurd.
treve··on What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
Good modern protocols will explicitly define extension points, so 'ingoring unknown JSON keys' is in-spec rather than assumed that an implementer will do.
treve··on 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
it's nice to be able to use https locally if you're doing things with HTTP/2 specifically.
treve··on Project Euler
Nobody is interested in AI commentary.
treve··on </> Htmx – The Fetch()ening
or 'cascade' ?
treve··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
I replaced all my Dropbox uses with SyncThing (and love it). I run an instance on my server at all times and on every client.
treve··on HTTPS by default
If you think about it the spirit of the internet is based on collaboration with other parties. If you want no third parties, there's always file: and localhost.
treve··on React vs. Backbone in 2025
Yeah I would argue that it's possible to do it well with Backbone, and you end up with something much leaner but it requires a really strong understanding of state/event flow and lot of discipline, whereas with React the correct way to handle this is the 'obvious' path, which dramatically lowers the barrier to entry.
treve··on Technical experts have zero customers
A good engineer is not a perfectionist, but they're not callous either. It's knowing when to make the trade-off, or at least making an informed guess.
treve··on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
I don't think you'll find many recommendations for key lengths under 128 bits / 16 bytes these days.
treve··on Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi
For me they are weirdly hard to obtain. Don't show up in second hand shops. Ebay shipping is prohibitively expensive.
treve··on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
There's 2 cases being discussed. A UUIDv7 is a bad secret, but it's fine for many other ids. If I can guess your user id, it shouldn't really matter because your business logic should prevent me from doing anything with that information. If I can guess your password reset token it's a different story because I don't need anything else beyond that token to do damage.
treve··on ImapGoose
Looks great! Curious what the author and others use for local maildir email reading.
treve··on Why is everything so scalable?
A bit of an alternative take on this, but I talk to a lot of folks at small start-ups (in Toronto, if that matters), but it seems like most people actually get this right and understand not to bring in complexity until later. Things like microservices seems like they are mostly understood as a tool that's not really meant to solve a real scalibility problem and is massive liability early on.

The exceptions are usually just inexperienced people at the helm. My feeling is, hire someone with adequate experience and this is likely not an issue.

I do think architecture astronauts tend to talk a lot more about their houses of cards, which makes it seem like these set ups are more popular than they are.

treve··on Notes on switching to Helix from Vim
Also been doing vim and now neovim for 20+ years. LSP just broke and several keybinds alongside it and just not looking forward to figuring out what happened (but will anyway). It's a huge mental block for me whenever I need to get into configuration. So to me this feels very relatable.
treve··on Vibe engineering
I think the general issue with software engineering discourse is that while our tools and languages may be the same, there's a massive gradient in tolerance for incorrectness, security, compliance, maintainability.

Some of us are building prototypes, and others are building software with a 10 year horizon or work with sensitive personal data.

So on the one side you get people that are super efficient cranking things out, and others that read this and feel appalled anyone would be comfortable with this and see software engineering as theory building. Neither are really wrong here, but the context / risk of what people are working on always seems to be missing when people talk about this.

treve··on IP over Lasers
Individual bits always go fast, the difficulty is always telling many apart. Speed is kind of the wrong word. It's about throughput
treve··on Leaf miners identified as oldest insect plague in the history of Earth
Not a scientist or science reporter, but it strikes me that the headline (and content) of the article should include 'that we know of'. Is that silly of me, or is it expected from the reader to know that this is always implied?
treve··on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
Or h3ss, pronounced hess
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