CEO/Principal Consultant at INNOQ, he/him, software architect, RESTafarian, conference tourist. Works at innoq.com. Fediverse: @stilkov@innoq.social

Germany
Joined April 2007
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as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days
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Now up: A first look at @bluesky's AT Protocol for distributed social networking First impression: I could do with less protocol detail and more architecture. I am left with a lot of open questions about how this is going to actually work. educatedguesswork.org/posts/…
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Happy second anniversary to one of the funniest things that has ever happened. nitter.vloup.ch/Spoonhead8/statu…
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Next, it will helpfully highlight the areas where a client-side architecture *can* improve things -- usually in applications with many interactions (taps/clicks, not scrolls) per session. In those domains, choice in JS stack is appropriate question, but not elsewhere.
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First, for nearly every class of site ("app"), a better counterfactual will uncover that full page transitions actually aren't that expensive if you don't screw up your caching, and will scale better into the high percentiles where CPUs are much weaker.
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Replying to @hillelogram @marick
Stop irritating us with facts
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For me, nothing flips the bozo bit as reliably as voicing support for the Republican party. Please vote if it’s your country
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It's easy to poke fun at the UK government at times, but I am continually impressed with their digital and online work @GOVUK . "Building a resilient frontend using progressive enhancement" is a great example that they really care about users. gov.uk/service-manual/techno…
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Replying to @kellabyte
As long as the architecture is sound (a big if), that stack is not a problem
Replying to @CicmilJovan
Jill’s algorithms may require 10 times more brain power, but only a tenth of the LOC, as Jack and John’s repetitive UI code. LOC is a completely stupid metric that creates an illusion of knowledge
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Look, if you're working on something you're excited about, and it's your choice to pull an all nighter or to sleep at the office or temporarily ignore work life balance, then go for it! If you're pressured into it by management, that management is being toxic and abusive.
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Replying to @rotnroll666
Und den Rückweg dann schwimmen?
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In 2005 Rupert Murdoch paid $580m for MySpace. In 2009 he sold it for $35m In 2013 Yahoo paid $1.1bn for Tumblr. In 2019 they sold it for $3m. In 2022 Elon Musk paid £44bn for Twitter. <To be continued...>
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Using raw lines of code counts as a valid performance measure for SW developers is a REALLY old trope & COMPLETELY misplaced. Classic review mistake of juvenile SW managers & execs. Real measures=functional req stability/utility, quality, robustness, compactness, ease of support.
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imagine deciding which engineers to keep around based on lines of code and choosing to keep the ones who wrote the MOST
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Königsberg xkcd.com/2694
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One time, someone sincerely asked me why we need more than a handful of engineers for Chrome. "After all," they said, "it's just a box around websites!" It's easy for smart people to underestimate how much effort goes into something that looks simple.
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