Tags: web-review, type-systems, databases, web, typescript, open-access, microsoft, services, attention-economy, design, java, security, infrastructure, train, censorship, cloud, map, advertisement, tech, vendor-lockin, tor, search, google, surveillance
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-31.
Tags: tech, train, map
Very cool map. Definitely useful tool to push for more train use.
https://chronotrains-eu.vercel.app/
Tags: tech, microsoft, vendor-lockin, surveillance, security
Palladium is coming back and it’s not good news in my opinion.
https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/29/remote-assertion-is-coming-back-how-much-freedom-will-it-take/
Tags: tech, tor, security, censorship
It’s nice to see Tor is still winning even in difficult countries.
Tags: tech, google, search, attention-economy, advertisement, open-access, web
The paradox of how walled gardens could kill search engines in the end. I’m not too concerned for Google in practice though, it’s been a long time since it’s an ad agency and not a search engine, and they’ll always have something to advertise…
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/other-peoples-websites/
Tags: tech, infrastructure, cloud, services
This is definitely a good musing on when not to go for “cloudy architectures”. Most often people don’t really need it, this needs to be properly thought out for each project. There are costs involved which you might not make sense to pay for in your context.
https://specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/
Tags: tech, design, databases
Nice little database pattern to avoid row contention with counters.
https://planetscale.com/blog/the-slotted-counter-pattern
Tags: tech, java
This looks like an interesting set of extensions for Java projects. Unsure if it’s been properly battle tested yet. Likely need that before being really advisable.
Tags: tech, typescript, type-systems
That’s an intersecting Typescript pattern to get to nominal and refinement types despite the fact they lack from the language.
https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/nominal-and-refinement-types-typescript
Bye for now!