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by scraplab 7mo ago
Crunchy Bridge will help you migrate. They did a great job for us. We had a minute or so of downtime to let the read replica catch up and cut across. The team knows Heroku well, and some of them built it. (No affiliation, just a happy custo
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by scraplab 2y ago
All three of my kids were riding full bikes around 3 years old, having used a balance bike for 12-18 months previous. I don’t think my kids are exceptional - balance bikes work wonders!
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by scraplab 2y ago
Yes: https://www.newspaperclub.com/ Disclaimer: I was one of the founders of the business, but left a long time ago. It’s still a great service! We print a newspaper for our friends and family each year.
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by scraplab 2y ago
I don’t believe it’s ever been accessible for free. It’s just that ownership has moved from the state to a private company and now it’s difficult to make it open.
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by scraplab 2y ago
OS does release a large volume of open data, but yes, the vast majority of the good stuff is not open. https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open
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by scraplab 2y ago
I know Dave personally, and I can assure you he’s read Seeing Like a State! In fact, if you spend more than 30 seconds in his presence he’ll probably give you a copy.
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by scraplab 2y ago
Our experience of moving from Heroku to CrunchyBridge has been very similar - excellent help with the migration including jumping on a call with us during the switchover to resolve a broken index. Would strongly recommend them to anyone loo
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by scraplab 2y ago
I refer to Fly.io’s guide to Safe Migrations in Ecto (Elixir’s DB adapter) multiple times a week. It’s a very useful quick reference to check whether you can get away with a basic migration or if something more involved is required. https:
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by scraplab 2y ago
By using client side rendering you’re effectively playing SEO on hard mode. It’s all possible, but you’re making life very difficult for yourself. Google will crawl and render client side only sites, but the crawl budget will be reduced. Th
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by scraplab 2y ago
CrunchyBridge will run you a Citus cluster on any of the major cloud providers.
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by scraplab 2y ago
Chromium is open source and both Google and Microsoft do whatever they want to it as part of developing their browsers. WebKit on iOS is a closed source blob of rendering engine and assorted bits that it is not possible to deeply extend or
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by scraplab 3y ago
Kielder Forest in the north of England is another spot that’s got Dark Sky status[1]. We stayed in a place with an A frame roof that opens into a V shape so you can lie in bed and watch the stars, which was pretty great[2]. [1]: https:&#x2
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by scraplab 3y ago
Did you read the article? It specially argues for unstructured play and freedom, and against structured play, such as organised sports.
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by scraplab 3y ago
I bought an ESPHome smart doorbell board and put it in the existing 8V AC loop with the existing button and bell. It connects to Home Assistant over MQTT and works a treat, including the ability to silence the bell circuit. https:/&#x
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Poem/1: an AI rhyming clock(poem.town)
1 points by scraplab 3y ago|0 comments
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by scraplab 3y ago
I use this, mostly for the .arpa vibes.
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by scraplab 3y ago
Yep, we process hundreds of thousands and sometimes a few million jobs daily inside Postgres, using Oban in Elixir. Having transactional semantics around background jobs is incredibly convenient for things like scheduling email only if the
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by scraplab 3y ago
We use Elixir. Everyone we’ve hired, from junior to principal, has had no previous Elixir experience. They’ve mostly come from Ruby/Rails or JavaScript backgrounds. They’ve become productive in Elixir quickly and once they’ve understoo
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1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”(hypertalking.com)
391 points by scraplab 3y ago|72 comments
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by scraplab 3y ago
I have a Sensor Watch, which is an ARM cortex processor and SDK which retrofits into an F91W. It’s really nicely put together and offers a lot of flexibility. https://www.sensorwatch.net/
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by scraplab 4y ago
I run one that hasn’t been blocked and is working as normal. This definitely looks selective to me.
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by scraplab 4y ago
FWIW, William Gibson is on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@GreatDismal
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by scraplab 4y ago
I had one of these. It was a terrible mistake.
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by scraplab 4y ago
As a provider is it possible to defend against this with a Content Security Policy or does this mechanism override the site’s CSP?
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by scraplab 4y ago
Our database is north of 20GB and backups work fine. They made improvements to this in Jan 21, which might have improved this? https://blog.heroku.com/faster-postgres-backups
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by scraplab 4y ago
Finally, push notifications in iOS coming in... oh, 2023. > "look for Web Push for iOS and iPadOS in 2023."
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by scraplab 5y ago
I'm a verified Twitter user who runs a bunch of inconsequential bots ( https://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks , https://twitter.com/urnowentering ) and has a small side project for discovering what your frien
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by scraplab 5y ago
Breakroom | Software Engineers, Designers, Product Manager, Content Manager | London, UK (hybrid) | Full-time | https://www.breakroom.cc Breakroom's mission is to make every job a good job. We crowdsource information about
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by scraplab 5y ago
I often come back to the Relevant Search book, by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman. I'm sure some of the examples are a little dated now, but most of the advice and approach is still sound and it's a great tour through all the thin
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by scraplab 5y ago
Hi Chris - this is superb, really pleased to see LiveView getting so much attention, and thanks for all your hard work. Can you talk a little about the current story with deployments and managing state across/during those? Obviously Er

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