Just in case you needed more proof the US is not a good role model:
Average annual interest on a payday loan in Utah: 482%
45,655 Utahns couldn't pay loans off last year.
sltrib.com/news/3044275-155/… #utpol
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@rob_knight Yes, probably. Yet I claim that’s because it does a lot less.
If your business logic is in the client, and you need a backend data API, HTTP is an option. Just don’t call your static URI API “REST”.
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GraphQL is much better than a bad REST API (the kind that doesn’t merit the name). A real REST API is on a completely different layer.
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@argorak Die Sonos-App tut für mich genau das, was sie soll, sehr gut. Aber halt nur übers Sonos.
I don’t even
NodeJS tip: optimize your code by changing the function comment. medium.com/@c2c/nodejs-a-qui…
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@adactio I always point people to iana.org/assignments/link-re… instead of microformats.org/wiki/existi…. How many link relations registries are there?
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@tekener Maybe the problem is having an API like this in the first place, and if the client contains all business logic, REST is not for you
Had a fantastic evening with @chillygonzales and the @kaiserquartet 👌 Go see them if you have a chance.
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@bodil OK, here’s a translation: m.poemhunter.com/poem/the-pa… (Doesn’t do it justice, of course)
@bodil Do you happen to read German? rainer-maria-rilke.de/080027…
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Looking forward to @chillygonzales and @kaiserquartet in Brussels tonight :)
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@manuelkiessling No, still on my list. Thanks for the reminder :-)
Even though I love Sorkin’s dialogues, I’m not going to watch a Jobs movie based on that awful Isaacson book
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@bodil Have you seen the website, openlysecular.org? I mean, WTF?
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“U.S. corporations lack agency to contractually guarantee privacy” privateinternetaccess.com/bl…
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I couldn’t agree more: “It feels wrong for books to be ‘exclusive’ to a proprietary software platform.” @gruber at daringfireball.net/linked/20…
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