Notices by Timo Zimmermann (fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com)

One day I’ll write a book „how to build scalable system for the 95%“.

You’ll be able to summarize it with

- pick any mainstream language
- deploy on one server
- deploy Postgres on another server
- double the number of server for redundancy

So many systems I’ve seen lately could run off in memory SQLite and a replication to a CSV file.
Yet there’s a relational database, a document database, a key value store and four services deployed on k8s for all 100MB data and 2000 customers.

@killyourfm I’m curious which apps you are concerned about with the M1?

I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon gen9 which runs perfectly under Fedora (sans facial sign in as I’m too lazy to setup howdy). Battery life is better than Windows 11, Intels GPU might be a deal breaker depending on your needs :/

@SuperDicq when traveling I found this option really helpful as I could most often pull up an English menu or at least had pictures so I had a rough idea what I’m ordering. But I’m with you, if there’s a feasible option for a regular menu I prefer it as well

@SuperDicq maybe a phone icon with a camera next to it?

Is there actually any research showing that removing the „friction“ of typing a URL increases conversion / usage?

@SuperDicq I’d argue that most phones which are usually used to scan a QR code have decent enough OCR lately to simply print a URL. It’d also make it a lot harder to hide trackers etc