Regular Programming

Did they do design, or did they just do a system?

Distributed systems are hard in many ways. Andreas describes a system communicating between backends and mobile phones in exciting ways with many exciting possibilities for errors. Like data format changes, loss of messages, having 1.5 source of truths, and of course ordering.

In certain cases, nobody likes an optimist.

The discussion then moves to discuss the working well-windows for various networking solutions, before diving into WebRTC and finishing up with the various dangers of auto.

Links

• Recursion
• Eventual consistency
• Pubsub
• RethinkDB
• Event sourcing
• React native
• Android studio
• Mnesia - a "distributed, soft real-time database management system" written in Erlang
• Dirty reads and writes
• Websockets
• QUIC
• UDP
• TCP
• WebRTC
• NAT
• HTTP live streaming
• Lars' ElixirConf talk
• Zoom H4
• Zoom H4n pro

Quotes

• Working with systems and feeling the pain
• Coping with system design
• Eventually consistent, on a good day
• Eventually sourced
• A disappointment to work with
• Your internal representation of the user
• This is the shape of the data, deal with it
• 1.5 source of thruths
• Oh, it's an optimist
• I don't like optimists at all
• Optimist databases
• Within its working well-window
• Outside of the working well-window
• A crash of servers
• Bad connections over long distances
• I don't do math

The continued cratering of Twitter, and the joy of discovering open alternatives. Lars and many others find themselves on the open and federated Mastodon instead of Twitter, having a great time, and feeling more excited about open systems than in a long time.

On the level of individuals, owning and controlling your own data feels back in fashion, but there is even more to dig into on the level of large organizations.

Perhaps when GDPR says no and the good spirit of the internet is strong, there is a chance for municipalities and other public sector organizations to get and help build open alternatives to the closed, proprietary, and often hair-raisingly expensive and poorly received software they have today?

Lars sees exciting business opportunities, better software for all, as well as the interesting challenges of navigating tender processes and plain old corruption.

Links

• Mastodon
• genserver.social
• fosstodon.org
• Ruby on rails
• PostgreSQL
• Object storage
• Redis
• Pleroma
• Akkoma
• glitch-soc - "Mastodon Glitch Edition" - where Mastodon UI discovers new features
• Glesys' object storage
• PeerTube
• Pixelfed
• Activitypub
• SpaceX rockets exploding compilation video
• WebTorrent
• Element and Matrix
• eSam
• Mattermost
• SPF - Sender policy framework - email authentication method
• Skolplattformen
• Offentlighetsprincipen

Quotes

• Elon happened
• A very straight path to somewhere else
• As open as email
• Satiate my doomscrolling needs
• A Twitter on IRC
• I don't trust the ecosystem under my feet
• Lectured about a culture I'm not in
• Teams was dubbed illegal
• videos.varberg.se
• The good spirit of the internet
• GDPR says no!
• People software
• You have people living in you
• I want "Svenska IT-myndigheten"
• Pointless, annoying, and wasteful

Painstakingly putting together a framework on frameworks. Also name dropping frameworks and everything under the sun as if there was no tomorrow.

• Phoenix Framework
• tailwindcss
• alpinejs
• Django
• jQuery
• Wordpress
• Laravel
• Symphony
• Drupal
• Django admin
• Django modelforms
• Ecto schemas in Phoenix
• Ecto changesets in Phoenix
• Ruby on Rails
• Django formsets
• Flask
• FastApi
• HTTP basic auth
• Django REST framework
• Plug
• Cowboy
• Liveview
• Erlang
• Celery
• Sidekiq
• Cron
• Redis
• Oban
• Beam
• PostgreSQL
• Postgrest
• Views
• Schema
• Lemmingpants
• GraphQL
• Haskell
• Yesod Web Framework
• Scotty
• Sqlite-simple
• Lucid: templating DSL for HTML
• EDSL@HaskellWiki
• EDSL@Ward wiki
• Surface ui
• php
• Cycle.js
• Functional reactive programming
• Virtual DOM
• Elm architecture
• Javascript
• PureScript
• PureScript Halogen
• Mithril
• React
• Vue.js
• Vuex
• Redux
• React router
• Angular
• Typescript
• Ionic 1
• Cordova
• Phone gap
• Xamarin
• PETAL
• Livewire
• Hotwire
• Django hotwire
• Vim
• Refactoring UI
• Styled components
• Sass
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