Probably not; I’d expect the places where you need something like UUIDv7 (large, eventually-consistent systems) to not be entirely suitable because you can have records added out of sequence. You’d have to add a received-at field - but in that case you may as well just use a standard incrementing ID as your primary key.

In time-based pagination, the suggested fix to lots of data in a selected timespan is:

simply adding a limit to the amount of records returned (potentially via a query parameter) transparently solves it.

This means clients can’t see all the results, unless you add a way to view other pages of data, which is just pagination again. Or is the intended design that clients view either the first x results (the default) or view all results?

The problem with articles like OPs and others is that they don’t allow custom sorting, which is often a requirement, e.g. interfaces that present the data in a table, where column headers can be clicked to sort.

I don’t think it’s even enshittification (probably costs more to run than Assistant), it’s just Google desperate to find a use for its new AI.

I’d second Mozilla sync, especially as you can self-host the server.

I use that one on Android, since I have a OLED screen and it seems to do wonders for my battery life.

“Disney understandably may want to benefit from the privacy and confidentiality that arbitration brings, rather than having a wrongful death suit heard in public with the associated publicity,” says Jamie Cartwright, partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys.

– from the BBC article

If that’s what they want, they clearly never heard of the Streisand Effect. This is disgraceful behaviour from Disney, and I hope they come to severely regret it.

I felt the same when reading that book, and I never finished it because following the rules he suggested produced horrible code.

If memory serves, he also suggested that the ideal if statement only had one line inside, and you should move multiple lines into a function to achieve this.

I once had to work on a codebase that seemed like it had followed his style, and it was an awful experience. There were hundreds of tiny functions (most only used once) and even with an IDE it was a chore to follow the logic. Best case the compiler removed most of this “clean” code and the runtime wasn’t spending most of its time managing the stack like a developer had to do.

Oh, that’s LAN - I thought you’d put ian and I was trying to get the joke. Stupid sans-serif fonts.

It’s naïve to think that marketers have any interest in doing things ethically, unless there’s a legal or business reason to do so.

I know of it because Helix uses it, and it works really well.

If you need to refer to a key with ~ or / in its name, you must escape the characters with ~0 and ~1 respectively. For example, to get “baz” from { “foo/bar~”: “baz” } you’d use the pointer /foo_1bar0.

I guess they’re using ~ for escaping since backslash is already escaping text content, not that you’d see it very often in keys.

Having magic values instead of using ~~ and ~/ feels ugly.

It’s far from my field, so I’ll have to take your word on that!

[Making cracks visible is] helpful, but what would be ideal is a way to not just find the cracks, but to fix them.

That’s what the article says, they’re hardly implying it’s nonsense. Or are you saying that the self-healing is nonsense? There are examples of self-healing materials, like Roman concrete.

I don’t know that I agree - it’s worth researching these things because if it works that’s great and that paper proves that other people are working on the visibility problem.

Nope, it’s still great on Windows. Perhaps they went to Linux since it’s still Windows-only.

Good article, apart from talking so much about choosing a language for the user and ignoring the Accept-Language header, which exists solely for this reason.

Most websites seem to ignore this header and just show you whatever their geo-ip says.

True, the article does say that

[the local sheriff] placed a sign at the end of the driveway warning people to stay away from the house and to call him with questions.

The farm should put up a sign or plaque at that spot that they can point their official and vigilante visitors at.

Do you want something that runs on your NAS or from another computer? What OS(es) are you using?

I’m thinking more like using a CMS or Wordpress by people who don’t consider themselves developers.