Notices by Deane Barker (deane@contenttechtodon.org)

I know you're cool, but you'll never be as cool as the guy who stores an entire SQLite database as a BLOB inside a field of a row in a PostgreSQL database and then creates a set of SQL functions to query the embedded SQLite database from a Postgres query. https://github.com/frectonz/pglite-fusion

I think we're underestimating how fast SSD file systems can be. Using C#, my desktop machine can read in the entire text of "War and Peace" from a 3.2MB text file in 6 milliseconds.

That's database-ish fast.

I have a process that does multiple reads for every inbound request. It searches the file system for filenames of a particular pattern, then reads multiple files in.

This takes, on average, 3 milliseconds.

I used to cache this. Like, I had this big caching architecture to avoid these file reads. It was complicated and invalidation was a mess.

When I realize just how damn fast the file system actually was, I deleted HUNDREDS of lines of code -- like, multiple classes and background services.

It was heavenly.

I learned a new word, which I love. https://deanebarker.net/huh/diegesis/

I love that someone put together a guide for this. https://gajus.com/blog/avoiding-visually-ambiguous-characters-in-ids

@eaton So this needs to be said: this book is...horny. There's a lot of sexual innuendo and nudity and such (Anthony has been criticized for it, in fact). So, I might be coming to understand why the 15 year-old me was so damn into this series...

I read this again after 35 years. It was okay. It didn't charm me as much as it did in high school, but that's just the cynicism of middle age, I think.

@eaton Related: https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/utility-of-page-composition/

@eaton Related: https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/grokking-cms/

One day, I will be as smart as @eaton

This explains the situation well.

@eaton The only framework I truly enjoy is HTMX. I did do something with VanJS the other day, but that's so stripped down you can barely call it a framework.

Also, build a couple Web Components last week. I really enjoy those. Nothing new there, but they're handy for code organization and cleanliness.

This is a nice resource. It's all sorts of ways to work with the DOM using nothing but pure, villa JS, no frameworks. They put a lot of work into this. https://phuoc.ng/collection/html-dom/