Update: Dorsey’s talk was cancelled! See the update here. Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM. The FOSDEM keynote stage is one of the biggest platforms in the free software comm...

Mocks for databases are extremely brittle and complicated. – javcasas Mocks in general are rarely worth it, the DB ones: 10x so. – pdimitar Was dealing with mocking voodoo garbage this morning as a result of fixing a bug. What a horrible mess just to claim a few lines of “test coverage.” – kerblang ...

I never felt confident about my tsconfig.json. To change that, I went through the official documentation, collected all common options, and documented them in this blog post: This knowledge will enable you to write a tsconfig.json that is cleaner and that you’ll fully understand. If you don’t have t...

Two More Reasons why PubNub Functions are Awesome: Translation and Location Context

Two More Reasons why PubNub Functions are Awesome: Translation and Location Context

Two reasons why PubNub Functions are awesome: chat moderation and sentiment analysis

Two reasons why PubNub Functions are awesome: chat moderation and sentiment analysis

Here's how to test for a bytestring in Elixir.Non-solutionsA couple things that won't work:You can't use is_binary on its own, because it returns true for string type as well:iex> is_binary("wow") trueYou can't use String.valid? inside a guard. You get an error like this:iex> defmodule MyModule do ....

Here's how to map a Postgrex wow to a struct.Postgrex RowsPostgrex is a postgres driver for Elixir. It's great for running raw sql against your Postgres database. Your selection/projection gets returned as rows/columns. The columns are returned as a list of strings. The rows are returned as a list o...

Here's a way to how to rank score rows returned in SQL.Let's say we have many instances of a thing in our database. In this case, let's say we have many books. We want to create a list of books where we recommend to our friends the best books to read in each genre. If we have read the book, we recom...

Interactive Streaming: Boosting Viewer Engagement Through Innovative Features

Interactive Streaming: Boosting Viewer Engagement Through Innovative Features

As organizations face growing cyber risk and regulatory pressure, security leaders are being asked to do more than protect systems: They must enable the business. In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Steven Asifo, Director of Security GRC at Yahoo, joins Zohra Ibrahimi, Toptal’s Inform...

Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it all came out of the box. My immediate reaction was “oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t that hard, you just nee...

I’ve been a Windows and Android user for many years, and I had a Mac […] The post Switching to the Apple ecosystem appeared first on Elegant Code.

As many have observed, at best, AI generates either: Mundane, repetitive documentation or code that most experts already know or If an expert doesn’t know it, they can ask an AI to explain it anyway. Is it the case that if an AI can generate it, it’s not worth adding to your documentation or code? W...

Learn how to implement a distributed counter in 1 line of code using PubNub Functions

Learn how to implement a distributed counter in 1 line of code using PubNub Functions

Traditionally, we could only apply regular expression flags such as i (for ignoring case) to all of a regular expression. The ECMAScript feature “Regular Expression Pattern Modifiers” (by Ron Buckton) enables us to apply them to only part of a regular expression. In this blog post we examine how the...

TL;DR: Vinted operates a billion-scale search system - time to reflect and celebrate. Current state As of November 11 12:01, 2024, there are 1,000,000,000 documents in the search index. And that number keeps on growing! Figure 1: Searchable documents count When I joined the Vinted search team in lat...

Everything that has changed since the RFC post for this feature.