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Building the Future of Spotify Desktop Apps

davidjnelson — Wed, 26 May 2021 23:12:20 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/04/07/building-the-future-of-our-desktop-apps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297289

Points: 2

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New comment by davidjnelson in "Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago"

davidjnelson — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:17:28 +0000

Really sad. Rest In Peace Aaron.

New comment by davidjnelson in "OpenSocial Specification"

davidjnelson — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:15:36 +0000

We built a really cool enterprise social network with this at Autodesk 10+ years ago.

Kuma: The platform that powers MDN

davidjnelson — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 07:49:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mdn/kuma

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25655509

Points: 3

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New comment by davidjnelson in "IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support"

davidjnelson — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:49:12 +0000

That’s exciting, I was just looking at the status of this yesterday.

New comment by davidjnelson in "How We Built the GitHub Globe"

davidjnelson — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:47:05 +0000

Their home page is really a work of art, just beautiful.

MIT Better World Gathering Talks

davidjnelson — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:37:53 +0000

Article URL: https://betterworld.mit.edu/stories/stars-brains-and-enzymes-a-celebration-of-mit-science/?device=mobile

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25461442

Points: 1

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New comment by davidjnelson in "Stimulus.js 2.0"

davidjnelson — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 01:21:41 +0000

yup, and if you want to really optimize it you could use functions as a service like lambda as your react rendering layer, which forwards to heroku or fargate or beanstalk or vanilla ec2 or whatever for your backend.

and if cloudflare workers ever support metered usage you could use that too for the react layer.

and if you want hyper performance you could use lambda@edge and intelligently route to your backend running on fly.io to minimize the distance. the somewhat unsolved problem there though is multi region master master replicated databases which are cost effective.

to my knowledge this is the current state of the art for that https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...

problem is you have to pay for each region so it's not really cost effective.

New comment by davidjnelson in "Stimulus.js 2.0"

davidjnelson — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 01:16:00 +0000

hey if stimulus and turbolinks are your jam then rock it!

I would at least give this a look though, it's super easy to use: https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails

New comment by davidjnelson in "Stimulus.js 2.0"

davidjnelson — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:27:58 +0000

Ya it really depends. I like redis and Postgres generally speaking for data, and Ruby on Rails generally for business logic. And you can certainly do universal rendering with that easily with react_on_rails. If you do end up needing more perf, maybe go would be interesting.

New comment by davidjnelson in "“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”"

davidjnelson — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:23:59 +0000

Wow that’s fascinating and insightful! Stripe sounds like such an awesome company. Congratulations on getting an offer from them, psyched for you!!!

New comment by davidjnelson in "Stimulus.js 2.0"

davidjnelson — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 01:52:16 +0000

Rails is dope. And it works really well with universal react rendering if you need that with react_on_rails.

New comment by davidjnelson in "Stimulus.js 2.0"

davidjnelson — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 01:48:13 +0000

Ya depends on what you’re doing. Webpack is worth mastering though in general.

New comment by davidjnelson in "Stimulus.js 2.0"

davidjnelson — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 01:46:25 +0000

True, that’s not its use case.

New comment by davidjnelson in "Stimulus.js 2.0"

davidjnelson — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 22:52:25 +0000

React supports server side rendering.

New comment by davidjnelson in "Stimulus.js 2.0"

davidjnelson — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 22:41:41 +0000

React is great though, why not just use that?

New comment by davidjnelson in "“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”"

davidjnelson — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:36:04 +0000

Is this faang / levels.fyi pay range?

New comment by davidjnelson in "“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”"

davidjnelson — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:32:40 +0000

> So let's not lose our excitement and sense of wonder

Exactly. It’s wild the potential that many of us hold.

New comment by davidjnelson in "“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”"

davidjnelson — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:29:28 +0000

Sounds reasonable. Thing is, these companies pay, and this is what they do. So if you want to play there, you have to play the game their way.

New comment by davidjnelson in "“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”"

davidjnelson — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:23:48 +0000

Talk to people you know. Should help find a job without the inane interviews. Blessings to you friend.