Nick | OneThingWell.dev

A bit about me: I started playing with programming languages when I was a kid in the early 90s. I'm still on a journey to learn as many different ways to build (and break) things as possible. [1/2] #techtwitter #buildinpublic #100daysofcode

Does this thing still work?

@CSDevAr I'm just passing by through the circus, but nice to see you too, Charly :)

@betterways_dev Of course! Well *work* is too much of a word perhaps 😅 Glad to see you in the circus though, Nick!

@ggwhiting Hey Gareth, I'm rarely visiting this awful site anymore... you're still active here?

@betterways_dev #Nim devclass.com/2023/08/03/nim…

@SrihariVernekar There's definitely less idiots than here, but it's simple to use. Bluesky currently requires an invitation, Mastodon generally doesn't.

@betterways_dev Oh thank you. Is this only for smart people.

@SrihariVernekar Like Twitter, but more sane.

@betterways_dev What is this bsky and mstdn?

@DonDubya200 followed!

@betterways_dev datadon.bsky.social

@dgut_ At this point, Twitter is a lost cause, and the sooner we accept that, the better.

Don't know about you guys, but I'm genuinely sad Twitter is going this way. I don't mind the lack of content moderation, in fact, it's a good thing. But making Twitter a more restrictive platform, in developers' minds, is the platform's death. Some will say "It's temporary". What is not temporary is the direction Twitter is going.

@EduSchwarzkopf I don't know much about German, but "Sorry" somehow doesn't look like it belongs there :)

did Twitter rate blocked itself?!

@charafmrah Yeah, I have projects in nim where I was fetching the data from the index in memory, rendering and returning the response in <1ms. Just "SELECT 1" from MySQL would take way more than that :)

@betterways_dev In memory 😳 that’s an interesting approach for sure!

- But they used X technology to make it work - So it’s still MySQL ⁉️ - But YouTube moved to another database back in 2019 - So they used MySQL to serve billions before that ⁉️ - It’s not 1 DB instance - So it’s still MySQL, just several instances ⁉️ MySQL doesn’t scale :(

@charafmrah and keep hot data in memory. For freelancing, at this point I'm okay with pretty much anything I come across :)

@charafmrah Compression was a separate issue, MySQL scaling was a much bigger issue - it wasn't only sluggish, the site was completely dead most of the time, and users have starting to give up on it. For my own projects, I tend to go with something more low-level (like lmdb) [1/2]

@charafmrah Yeah, it's a tricky position. Ideally, if you're working on something that has a potential for getting big, you'd think about scaling right from the start and implement adequate architecture. On the other hand, there's a good chance that the project will fail and it won't matter.

@betterways_dev But depending on your database & type of data you’re storing, the challenge can be more costly depending on the initial database you chose (e.g Discord moving from MongoDB)

@charafmrah a foundamentaly different approach than you'd use with a typical MySQL setup.

@charafmrah Yes, I understand. But it's also important to understand that scaling MySQL is a nightmare. You mentioned YouTube... I don't know if you remember the early days, but it wasn't pretty - not being able to scale MySQL almost killed it. Sharding requires [1/2]

@ggwhiting :) This seems to be the cause of the bug: @grsecurity.net/T/#m3ba5981ed4d5b534fa53589e226d832639584826" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/all/bead7acb-e…

@betterways_dev linux.slashdot.org/story/23/06/17… #Linux

@indefiniteloops Yeah, or leave all this crap behind a become a Buddhist monk.

@betterways_dev Might as well go back to farming 🐮

@indefiniteloops Yes, Twitter told me that programming is dead, prompt engineering is all the rage now :)

@betterways_dev *Learning

@Quasicodo Yes, "cesspool of digital narcissism" doesn't even begin to describe post-Elon's Twitter :)

@betterways_dev and that's before elon took over.

@TomR4vn Yeah, it needed some convincing to tell the truth, but we got there :)

@betterways_dev 😂 Spicy as usual. But this time very true🤣