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It's time for sending HTML rendered on server with CSS, and JS for enhancement only to kill the SPA.

I'm not talking about this from a technical standpoint, though there are many reasons that in most cases this is the best technological fit.

I'm talking about this from the position of "what I want to use". I'm sick of loading and navigting overly JS heavy, overly styled, fragile "apps". When I encounter a "proper" website that loads fast, and I can understand easily it's like a breath of fresh air.

Were they? I had an Amiga 1200, a friend a 500, both of which were around long before games consoles became mainstream.

If I earned ~50 million dollars per year then I think I'd just pay for Internet.

Maybe .1% was a bad choice, should we only post articles that are relevant to people on a global average yearly wage of ~$12,000? How are we defining relevant? People earning $2000/year might be /interested/ in a thing, but not able to afford it (eg. a Mac computer or a large hadron collider), where do we draw the line?

  Location: UK (though have worked for US companies remotely coast to coast since 2008)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but will travel
  Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Aurora, Go, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Linux Sysadmin, heroku, Nginx.
  Résumé/CV: https://willj.net/about/hire-me/march-2025-ahx4i/
  Email: will@willj.net

Hi, I'm Will Jessop, currently the now part time CTO of Impactive looking for new opportunities in Rails application scaling and performance or technical leadership. Technically I have a huge amount of experience in scaling and optimising Ruby on Rails applications, Postgres database performance and scalable application architecture. I also have a lot of experience managing a team of 19 people, mostly engineers. I'm product focussed, and among other successes re-orged the product pipeline at Impactive to improve delivery reliability and quality outcomes, while drastically improving staff morale.

There's a podcast I really enjoy that has an episode on the rise and fall of the aztecs, highly recommended:

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/12/16/episode-9-...

I use Go a lot and I completely disagree. I have also used Ruby a lot and even though I prefer writing Go most of the time (it depends on the task) bundler is far better.

go mod is the second best I've used for sure, but if someone releaed bundler-but-for-go I'd switch to it in a heartbeat.

I think I'll wait for the GTI model myself.

I'll pick up a pack if I see it. The top quality the supermarket we go to has is Rummo, it's the next step up from De Cecco (in the supermarket at least) and I buy it sometimes, but to me there's not a hell of a lot of difference between the two for the price difference.

Standards are the minimum, not the maximum.

Planes sometimes overshoot the runway, building an unecessary wall at the end of it might comply with a standard, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

I use kitchen tongs to pick up and jostle the noods as another commentator mentions. It starts out parallel as you say. Flour would add a flavour I didn't want and I don't have an issue with uneven cooking or clumping so I don't need to.

I live in the NW England, De Cecco is "middle" quality where I live and affordable, the brands you mention aren't available.

I make fresh tomato pasta sauces this way as well as the cheese based ones sometimes. A bit of butter and olive oil in the sauce, minimal water in with the pasta (I really like orecchiette) and finish the pasta off in the sauce with a bit of the minimal remaining water. Very clingy, very silky.

I don't get clumping. I use an adequate quality pasta (De Cecco mostly), stir it when I put it in the water, and a few times after that, cooking to al dente. If I'm making a Caccio e Pepe or Carbonara I cook the spaghetti or (my preference) Buccatini I'm aiming for the minimum amount of liquid left, ideally just enough to put in the sauce. I use a frying pan so I can lay the noods out flat to minimise the water.

As I said I don't get clumping, it is absolutely possible to cook noods in minimal water without clumping because I do it so try switching some thing up if it's happening to you.

By the time you reduce the liquid the pasta is going to be pretty cold. Just using less water takes less time.

Title edited to fit, I tried to maintain the meaning of the original:

"A few weird issues in the networking on our custom AWS EKS Workers, and how we worked around them"

Also British ones, though to be fair to them a fair number do actually have it turned on in the areas I'm in.

Yeah, I have experienced this as a sailor.

AIS is required for large ships in many if not most jurisdictions, to have it turned off is suspicious in itself. If you turn it off then re-appear later on somewhere else having had to traverse the area where the cables where at the time they got damaged, that's suspicious. You could turn it off in port, head out, cut the cables then return and turn it on again, but the window of time you had it off would straddle the cable damage time, and there's a high chance you would have been documented (video, radio traffic) leaving port in that time, and depending on the departure port it may be hard to leave without AIS on as the authorities may notice.

I (a brit) have drunk Malört on a few occasions. It's foul, I only drank it because it was part of fun nights out with a group of work friends. My ex boss' review "the worst thing I've ever had in my mouth".

For me, Ruby.

> It's very likely not their decisions that lead to this

Yeah, I get that, I was deliberate about the phrasing of "your company" rather than just "your".

Obviously we don't know anything about the parent commenters company and situation, perhaps 12 people per microservice genuinely is the right solution for them, but it seems like it would be better not to get into this situation in the first place, though once there you obviously have to tackle the problem as it presents itself.

That's ~12 people per microservice. I understand that it might be hard to boot and coordinate all that on each developers machine, and that local docker images/vms/whatever might not suit you, but is it possible that this is a problem of your companies own creation?

  Location: UK (though have worked for US companies remotely coast to coast since 2008)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but will travel
  Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Aurora, Go, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Linux Sysadmin, heroku, Nginx.
  Résumé/CV: https://willj.net/about/hire-me/january-2024-ian8ah/
  Email: will@willj.net

Hi, I'm Will Jessop, currently the now part time CTO of Impactive looking for new opportunities in Rails application scaling and performance or technical leadership. Technically I have a huge amount of experience in scaling and optimising Ruby on Rails applications, Postgres database performance and scalable application architecture. I also have a lot of experience managing a team of 19 people, mostly engineers. I'm product focussed, and among other successes re-orged the product pipeline at Impactive to improve delivery reliability and quality outcomes, while drastically improving staff morale.

My personal projects are all server rendered HTML. My blog (a statically rendered Hugo site) has no JS at all, my project (Rails and server rendered HTML) has minimal JS that adds some nice to have stuff but nothing else (it works with no JS). I know they're my sites, but the experience is just so much better than most of the rest of the web. We've lost so much.

Background: I'm British and live in the UK but have spent a fair amount of time in the US over the years.

I love the dollar bill. I'd really love to have a £1 and/or £2 note in the UK. The moment you need any reasonable number of coins to buy anything they become unwieldy in your pocket and you can carry enough dollar bills to be useful without there being a chunk of metal digging into your leg.

I've hears arguments against relating to durability but those are all predate the new plastic notes we have.

For some reason I get a load of pushback when suggesting that a £1 or £2 note would be nice to have.

Somewhat related. Some US people came to visit our UK office back in about 2001, amongst them "Randy Bush". That entertained us. Also, there used to be a guy at Novell called "Randy Bender".

I've worked with US and EU companies extensively over many years and my experience is that low (it depends greatly where you are what this means) tech salaries have effectively nothing to do with EU privacy regulation, and everything to do with historical cost of living and culture, and the large amount of inertia it takes to change especially the latter.

There are businesses in the US that rely on wafer thin privacy regulation to exploit people's data, but it's very very possible to build a business that doesn't require it to function.

Cite please.

Heat in F chill in C, et voilà! free energy.

Huh, I thought he was on there. I will try to get round to adding him.