I was curious about use of ZeroMQ since I use it extensively with my own RPC, PubSub system.

Spotify's Hermes

Hermes is a network messaging stack created at Spotify, on top of existing open source stack such as ZeroMQ, protobuf and gevent. We are migrating backend service from legacy stack to Hermes and this session explains the rationale behind some of the choices. It also gives a brief introduction of some typical network topology for backend messaging at Spotify. Finally we discuss some lessons lear...

"Enhance your Functional Web Apps with Web Components"

https://2022.cascadiajs.com/speakers/brian-leroux

Enhance is one of those frameworks I wish existed in 2010 because I would have used it. Too bad I found Lit and a few other libraries I like now. I'm generally not a fan of UI frameworks unless they allow you to substitute their functions like routing. Can't be having arbitrary updates break shit that already works and chase low value updates.

There are things I would say you legitimately need a framework f...

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1504567905819643904

When a PM tells a user (engineer) that you are not the audience and we know the user better than you then switch teams. There's no point in working with people who force their will on users. No one ever knows what will be received well or not. Its one of the reasons why companies dogfood their applications. To find these kinks and adjust.

What the hell is the point of dogfooding and getting feedback but then throwing away the feedback. You throw it away an...

This article is so believable and it is funny as fuck.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-demands-special-master-be-fired-and-replaced-with-extra-special-master

This article is comedic gold. 😂 Too bad it will not be in the realm of comedy for long.

Of course, Faux News would put Chris Wallace up to the task and even he could not find the ideological bias. Chris Wallace tried really hard to paint Jon Stewart as a leftist activist, but alas fail.

I wonder why? "Conservative" projection.

Definitely have to say it is pretty funny to see how Jon Stewart ridiculed Faux News on their own show. He pointed out specifically that the public perception is that news is moving towards his area of entertainment rather than the other way around which is disappointing. ...

A little redesign of my blog to make it more consistent. It was a migration to Web Components at first, but I got some inspiration to update the look. This blog is now Svelte-less and framework-less. My mantra of high performance, low maintenance continues.

Gone is the realistic looking oven. With your attention at the logo, it is a window of a oven with a delectable cupcake. It is truly my oven.

Never thought I'd go back to a dark background, but with how sleeker and consistent things look it looked natural.

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SARS 2 supposedly is a once in a life time global pandemic, but ~SARS 1 was 20 years ago. Who says in 20 years that another one can't pop up? More than likely election, anti-vaxxer, covid deniers aka Republicans might, but who cares what they say or think. Those who cannot learn to discern bad information submit to darwinism. Like in all areas you ignore the dumb and look for the optimal.

I think its worth buying masks for the next pandemic. I'm not sure buying them today is a good idea, but within the next ...

Migrated my SvelteKit projects to lit-html because it is so much better to use lit-html. I've always been a fanatic about staying close to vanilla as possible for high performance and low maintenance. I'm super happy about how lit has gone about it.

I've noted in previous posts why I am switching away from Svelte and going frameworkless. No more Aurelia, React, Vue or Svelte/SvelteKit/Sapper as Web Components with Lit obliterates the use case of these frameworks. Never required two way binding, SSR or whatev...

I think SSR is only important because of cargo culting. This site right now uses Sapper to render the the entry page after that, it's all Javascript. I never cared about Sapper's SSR ability. Only that it kept close enough to HTML, CSS, JS and easy to understand routing. No weird shit.

Now that I've discovered lit-html which is lightweight and helps tremendously with building web applications without a framework why bother with React, Svelte or anything else for small web apps? Web Components are easy AF. Bu...

Turns out even Steve Jobs understood he stood on the shoulders of others. He says this as he contemplates life while sick.

From: Steve Jobs To: Steve Jobs

Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM

I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

I do not make any of my own clothing.

I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

I did not discover the mathematics I use.

I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or...