What's your issue with invite-only periods? Is there a better way to throttle signups while you scale a system early on?
But if you use web scale tech you can scale to infinity on day one right? :eye-roll:
Readit Newswesleytodd commented on This website is hosted on Bluesky danielmangum.com/posts/th... · Posted by u/hasheddan
> You probably dont have enough context to have clarity here
I clearly didn't, so thank you for dropping by to enlighten me on it.
> We have spent our time on those code changes, leaving nearly zero time for public relations on this, but I hope to start changing that soon
Yes I can tell you at least from where I'm sitting it has felt that the other frameworks have had online presence/excitement, whereas Express has (perhaps wrongly) felt absent. I'm glad to hear you're jumping back into the mix.
Oh no not wrongly at all. The project was on life support with only one maintainer who had stalled out all efforts to onboard new people. I burnt out hard in 2020 from trying and quit. Luckily I found some folks willing to help try again, and we were able to achieve a healthy and positive hand-off of the project governance.
Given how this has been 10 years in the making, I really wonder if this sends a message to the wider community to consider the alternatives like Hono, Elysia, etc. It just looks like this update doesn't speak to the main reasons why people are switching (performance, simplicity).
I wouldn't expect Express to dump Nodejs, but at least attempt to stay competitive.
I know Express will remain in existing projects for decades to come, but it would give me pause when considering what to use for any greenfield project.
You probably dont have enough context to have clarity here, but this release was to unblock performance and simplicity changes. We first needed to clean up 10 years of stagnant code from the years with a single maintainer, now we can remove the worse old decisions and only support node 18. Those changes could not land prior to this release in any form.
We have spent our time on those code changes, leaving nearly zero time for public relations on this, but I hope to start changing that soon. The main thing to take away here is this is a "boring release". It is to unblock more serious changes in v6 and for node core.
people like to shit on the js ecosystem. but the expressjs folks have done great work. the API has been stable for a long time. if you learned express.js in 2013 - your knowledge is still relevant. how many frameworks can say that.
now there's faster frameworks etc -- but many things built on expressjs keep chugging along.
And now that we finally resurrected the project we can land the perf improvements which were unable to land with one maintainer and still supporting 10y old node versions. We likley will not get it to match fastify, but our goal is likely to make more balanced trade offs. I am excited to see what we can do not that we have broken through the dam which was holding us back.
I am not a user of Deno, but I acknowledged that HTTPS module imports were one of the original selling points of Deno compared to Node/NPM. Was it revised at some point that a package repository is needed? What's the back story?
In case you are not aware (maybe you are) node has experimental support for http imports. I personally think this feature is a disaster for many reasons, but if you want to use it in your toy apps it is there in node.
wesleytodd commented on How Netflix really uses Java infoq.com/presentations/n... · Posted by u/parsd
This is mostly off-topic I suppose but I recently noticed that Netflix, and Netflix on my TV(WebOS) specifically is absolutely spamming my router with DNS requests sometimes several times a minute, most of them for nrdp-ipv6.prod.ftl.netflix.com. I'm not blocking them btw, so it's not some buggy retry thing going on.
Even if I do a hard reboot of my TV and don't start the app, my TV is still happily resolving away. I'm gonna have to set up a local cache or something just to save on my NextDNS quota.
Edit: I just asked Netflix support about it. Worse than useless, just kept telling me to either try a different internet connection(no idea why), then they told me to take it up with my ISP and immediately closed the chat. I'm gonna wait an hour or so, open another chat, and tell them my ISP said this was purely a Netflix issue, I suppose.
Not my area of work, but pretty sure that is expected behavior to resolve an ever changing set of services being called out to. Better to do dns resolution than for a call to fail and have to re-resolve while you wait on a loading screen right?
wesleytodd commented on Bluesky signups are now open to the public bsky.social/about/blog/02... · Posted by u/jakebsky
1. "Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements."
https://atproto.com/guides/faq
2. Jack Dorsey is on the board but has no day-to-day role in the company. Jay Graber is the CEO of Bluesky and is in control. The protocol is also designed not to require trust. The network is being "locked open" in a way that would allow it to survive Bluesky becoming evil.
3. Bluesky has a different approach in many ways. One of the biggest differences is that Bluesky is (IMHO) the first decentralized social network that is highly usable by regular non-technical users.
Point number three is critically important and no matter how many nerds complain it is not activity pub or some crypto thing, the company focus on delivering a product which is viable to use by normies is awesome.
wesleytodd commented on Bluesky signups are now open to the public bsky.social/about/blog/02... · Posted by u/jakebsky
yeah but this one is more official right. It is from one of their team members.
wesleytodd commented on My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad kapwing.com/blog/digital-... · Posted by u/justswim
WeWork is great and would be far more economical than paying day-pass rates assuming (big assumption) you are okay with working in major metro areas only. For instance there is 1 location in Sacramento and nothing else in Norcal outside the immediate Bay Area. For me I kind of like cities, but I suspect the author of this piece would feel pretty hemmed in by that footprint since he seems to like to actually be in nature daily (which is cool!).
I haven't tried to do any coworking in smaller cities or towns, but I guess maybe there are indie coworking spaces in places like say, Santa Rosa or Auburn.
TBH if I was designing a nomad project for myself (and wanting a significant nature/non-urban aspect to it) I think i'd do a literal van and have a real desk and chair in it. 5G internet isn't the greatest but I think it'd be easy enough, armed with a van, to seek out places within the area I want to visit with a good enough signal to make it workable.
(Obviously add rooftop solar panels and a Jackery or whatever to satisfy power needs all day.)
I full time'd for nearly a year with just three cell devices and the Open Signal app. The only time I had issues was when we watched some shows and used our bandwidth "cap" on our unlimited plan and it throttled me the next morning. I picked up the third device (an att mifi type thing) after that and haven't had a problem since. The only restriction was that we check cell coverage where we were planning to stay before booking if I was going to be working and without easy access to a coffee shop or RV park WIFI.
wesleytodd commented on My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad kapwing.com/blog/digital-... · Posted by u/justswim
So much wasted energy from the source of generation to the EV motor.. Diesel engines are optimized for towing
We full time'd for a while towing a 40ft trailer with a diesel f250. While it is obviously not "efficient" relative to smaller rigs, it is way more efficient than living in a house and commuting daily even with an EV. This is one of those things I don't think people realize about "low carbon impact living" (or whatever you would want to call it), you likely get 80% there just by not heading/cooling a 2k sqft house all the time.