spacedogroy

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• Marc Conway risked his life to stop the London Bridge terror attack. Why did he fear being sent to prison for it?www.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hacker News Top 40 books of 2023⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of it has reinforced my understanding around distributed databases and transactions. In my day-to-day, I’ve not really had need to use this knowledge as pretty much all our data stores are hosted in cloud platforms and we’re operating on low datasets and traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hacker News Top 40 books of 2023⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications and it really is a great book, specifically for backend engineers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality check: Our Go backend stack⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a bit of low-hanging fruit, you may be able to reduce the length of the diffs in an MR by marking generated files with -diff in a .gitattributes file. This is at least supported by GitLab (not sure about others): git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_marking_files_as_…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality check: Our Go backend stack⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, it doesn’t seem that bad. With clean architecture, you are going to end up with extra types and mappers. I would argue that what you have isn’t coupled, because a change in one place doesn’t have unexpected side effects elsewhere.

  I haven’t used Goa or Gorm. Writing SQL by hand gets old quick so I get why you’d use Gorm - just less code to write in the end. I’ve used sqlc as it’s more a library than a framework, and it’s fine, but it can’t fulfill every use case. Goa looks too opinionated for me, on the face of it.

  I’ve used wire. It takes some understanding but it’s definitely a lot to understand just to add a dependency. At work we’ve got our own template for doing dependency injection and although I was skeptical at first it strikes a really good balance between being understandable and abstracting away DI. If this is your pain point, I’d consider going back to basics and get rid of the framework.

  If you decide to go with a framework like Laravel, Rails or Next.js and don’t build everything around the framework, you will deliver quickly at first, but you won’t have type safety and it particular point it will stop scaling because these frameworks have no consideration for clean architecture. You won’t necessarily be better off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young people in England feel they must move for better opportunities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most senseless thing about the RTO movement to me. We have a tiny country and, in software at least, jobs are centralised in a few major cities. There was an opportunity for people from all over to live wherever they choose and spend in their local areas, doesn’t the wealth throughout the country.

  But nah, let’s go back to the office, the congested and overburdened roads, the noise and air pollution, the hours lost travelling. It’s hugely disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Curious to know what they intend to do with the Bully XLs currently owned legally.

• Woking plans to cut funds for care, arts, sports and toilets to plug £1.2bn deficit | Austeritywww.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NodeJS vs Go⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wanted to do both front and backend development TypeScript + JS/Node would make the most sense, no? I say this as someone who works with and enjoys working with Go almost every day, but there’s only so much time to learn new stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is a fractured mess and easily the worst of the series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they kind of squandered Rocket’s origin story - it would have been better served as some kind of mini series in my opinion - given how much it was bigged up.

  Tone was all over the place. Same with the music, which felt like it was serving itself rather than fitting in with the film. The cast has very obviously gotten older, which isn’t necessarily a problem in itself but reinforces the idea of the series being past its best.

  Thing is, I know people liked seeing Rocket’s origin story and enjoyed the film. So 🤷‍♂️