Hacker News·4yThe next-gen web framework.
Fresh is a next generation web framework, built for speed, reliability, and simplicity. Just-in-time rendering on the edge. Island based client hydration for maximum interactivity. Zero runtime overhead: no JS is shipped to the client by default. TypeScript support out of the box.
Hacker News·4yGive Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
GitHub profits from those proprietary products (sometimes from customers who use it for problematic activities). GitHub profits primarily from those who wish to use GitHub tools for in-house proprietary software development. If you aren't the customer, you're the product. The FOSS development methodology is GitHub's product, which they've proprietarized.
Hacker News·4yFresh 1.0
Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno. By default, web pages built with Fresh send zero JavaScript to the client. The framework has no build step which allows for an order of magnitude improvement in deployment times. Fresh is a routing framework and templating engine that renders pages as they are requested, on a server. It also provides an interface for seamlessly rendering some components on the client for maximum interactivity.
Hacker News·4yStack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
Research companies that have advertised on sites I visit 14.8% have emailed me 8.39% 208. Academic researcher Start a free trial 66.98% 1,661. Ask developers I know/work with 69.96% 1.735.Visit developer communities like Stack Overflow 65.04% 1,.613.Read ratings or reviews on third party sites like G2Crowd 28.91% 717.
Hacker News·4yLissy93/dashy: 🚀 A self-hosted startpage for your server. Easy to use visual editor, status checking, widgets, themes and tons more!
Dashy helps you organize your self-hosted services by making them accessible from a single place. Theming, Icons, Status Indicators, Widgets and Cloud Backup & Sync are all included. Dashy is 100% free and open-source for basic offline access.
Hacker News·4yDeno raises $21M
Deno is JavaScript for the serverless era. The open source Deno runtime shows how clean and productive a modern, batteries-included, programming environment can be. Tens of thousands of users utilize the runtime every week. The Deno software stack was built for more than simply improving local development and system APIs. We also use it to build the most modern, user-friendly, serverless-at-edge system.
Hacker News·4yThings You Should Know About Databases
Indexes are a data structure that helps decrease the look-up time of requested data. Indexes achieve this with the additional costs of storage, memory, and keeping it up to date. The main difference between a solid-state drive (SSD) and hard disk drive (HDD) is how data is stored and accessed.
Hacker News·4y7 Absolute Truths I Unlearned as Junior Developer
Next year, I’ll be entering my 10th year of being formally employed to write code. I wanted to share some of the ways my thinking shifted over the years as a developer. Maybe you can relate, and also have some funny (and humbling) stories to share about your own life lessons.
Hacker News·4ydolthub/dolt: Dolt – It's Git for Data
Dolt is a single 68 megabyte program. It can be used to run queries or update the data using SQL commands. All the commands you know for Git work exactly the same for Dolt. We also built DoltHub, a place to share Dolt databases. If you want to host your own version of Dolt, we have DoltLab.
Hacker News·4yHow Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
Project management is a topic most people have strong opinions on, and I’m no exception. To answer the question of how different companies run engineering projects, I pulled in help from across the industry. In this issue we’ll cover:Project management approaches across the Industry. Project management at Big Tech. How are these done? How does the organizational setup of Big Tech influence how projects are executed?
Hacker News·4yWhy We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers
Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers despite efforts to grow the number of computer science graduates and software engineers. Engineers swap technical roles for non-technical roles over time. The types of skills required by software developers change more rapidly than any other profession. Web development has the highest rate of skill change among all jobs in the country.
Hacker News·4yHow I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
GTA Online has been criticized for its slow loading times. The game takes a minute to load the common resources used for both story and online modes. GTA decides to max out a single core on my machine for four minutes and do nothing else. I was expecting vast amounts of disk reads loading up resources. But this? This is probably a bug.
Hacker News·4yA Trail Tale
Follow Andy as he hikes the 2,190 mile Appalachian Trail. An interactive, animated blog with beautiful pixel art and relaxing music. We're sorry but A Trail Tale doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue. Follow Andy on Twitter @ATrailTale.
Hacker News·4ySMS phishing is way too easy
SMS has a sender ID which is set by the sender, requires no identity verification. This allows anyone to send messages to any number, identifying themselves as whoever they want to impersonate. Phones should warn users of non-verified sender IDs. Companies should stop sending URLs over SMS.
Hacker News·4yAre You Suffering from Toxic Productivity?
Toxic productivity is when you go way beyond realistic expectations and become fixated on constant productivity. It comes above everything else in your life, including your mental health, physical health, quality time with family, time with friends, and leisure time spent doing hobbies. Here are five signs you’re falling into the toxic productivity trap.
Hacker News·4yStop Interviewing With Leet Code
During interviews, technical skills in the industry are still largely vetted through LeetCode-style questions. These are small algorithmic riddles in the form of “I have an array with positive numbers, find the n^th largest”, or “Print nodes in a binary tree in a zig-zag order”.
Hacker News·4yFacebook Says Apple is Too Powerful. They're Right.
Apple changed how iOS handled users’ privacy preferences. Users could indicate that they don’t want to be tracked by any of the apps on their devices. If they did, Apple would block those apps from harvesting users' data. According to Facebook, empowering Apple’s users to opt out of tracking cost the company $10,000,000 in the first year.
Hacker News·4yInternet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support—what you need to know
Internet Explorer (IE) is officially retired and out of support as of today, June 15, 2022. Over the next few months, opening Internet Explorer will progressively redirect users to our new modern browser, Microsoft Edge with IE mode. Users will still see the Internet Explorer icon on their devices (such as on the taskbar or in the Start menu) Users will have their data like favorites, passwords and settings imported from Internet Explorer.
Hacker News·4yNew UUID Formats
Modern applications have a need to create and utilize UUIDs as the primary identifier for a variety of different items in complex computational systems. UUID versions 1-5 lack certain other desirable characteristics. Privacy and network security issues arise from using a MAC address in the node field of Version 1 Uuids. Exposed MAC addresses can be used as an attack surface to locate machines.
Hacker News·4yCloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company
Cloudflare for Infrastructure is a complete solution to enable this for anything connected to the Internet. Protect your Internet presence. Your website, APIs, and applications are your key channels for doing business with your customers. As more and more shift online, ensuring these resources are secure, performant and reliable is a business imperative.
Hacker News·4ywailsapp/wails: Create beautiful applications using Go
Wails is a tool for Go programmers to make lightweight desktop applications or add a frontend to their existing applications. It provides the ability to wrap both Go code and a web frontend into a single binary. Tools are provided to make this easy for you by handling project creation, compilation and bundling. Wails v2 has been released in Beta for all 3 platforms.
Hacker News·4yApple unveils M2 with breakthrough performance and capabilities
Apple unveils M2, taking the breakthrough performance and capabilities of M1 even further. M2 has an 18 percent faster CPU, a 35 percent more powerful GPU, and a 40 percent faster Neural Engine. It also delivers 50 percent more memory bandwidth compared to M1 and up to 24GB of fast unified memory.
Hacker News·4yAlways. Own. Your platform.
Stop giving away your work to people who don't care about it. Distribute it via methods you control. Build your audience deliberately and on your own terms. Be in charge of the relationship with your audience. Avoid unnecessary middlemen. Own your platform. Do you see someone in the wild, not owning their platform? Let them know.