I accidentally a word in the original comment, it was supposed to say they don’t use *centralized databases. Instead it said I’m a moron lmao.

Whoops, I flubbed that message hard and didn’t catch it at the time: Meant to say “don’t use centralized databases.” They definitely use databases lmao. No idea how I screwed that message up so hard. I blame ADHD for not proofreading.

Just so we’re on the same page, let me be more specific. I’m saying the individuals in the article were making terrible decisions. Lots of them.

I am also saying that UUIDs are good primary keys for very specific purposes: Large, distributed systems that handle large amounts of small data, powered by databases like Cassandra that are designed to handle millions of record insertions per hour across several hundred nodes, to the point where inserts are very likely to happen at the exact same time on two different replicas of the same schema.

Hope that makes more sense than my previous flub. lol

Oh for sure, the article folks are inept and absolutely not the people I was talking about. I’m just talking about stuff more like Discord or Steam that are huge distributed systems that don’t use centralized databases.

Edit: that don’t use centralized databases. I blame the ADHD.

Edit 2: I am agreeing with this person

They’re good for large, distributed applications for sure. Better than incrementing integers for those kinds of applications at the very least.

For the folks in the article though? lol they were making no good decisions

Excellent!

It did! And thanks to the fediverse, I’m responding to you via that very post, on a completely separate Lemmy instance: https://programming.dev/post/4224624

Interesting that this wound up posted in the very community you mentioned. ActivityPub wins again!

RIP

and the “clutter” really is fine

Yeah, even then - I’ve seen at least a few IDEs offer extensions that hide the contents of the class attribute until you hover it. So if you’re the sort who finds it visually distracting, it’s fairly easy to overcome.

Tailwind is an unrelated project, that’s just used by this one.

Basically, TailwindCSS is a combination of two things:

1. A huge set of “utility” CSS classes that apply consistent, basic styles, with tons of handy conventions for stuff like colors, shadows, border-radii, spacing - and it even lets you target them to hover state, active state, disabled state, users with prefers-color-scheme set to dark, etc.
2. A JIT-compiled system of creating one-off CSS by just writing the name of a not-yet-existent utility class.

The main benefits, I find, are mostly:

• Keeping your style controls directly present in the HTML, without needing to remember conventions or arbitrary “semantic” names for things.
• Consistency in convention. Need a color? There’s a set (configurable) list of them. text-green-500 and you suddenly have green text with a middle-of-the-road luminosity. Need spacing? Use one of the padding or margin utilities, and you’ll have consistent spacing based on a convention. py-4 and you know you get “level 4” padding without having to care what the exact pixel amount is. But! You know it’s the same as everywhere else you’ve done py-4. No need to go fiddle with a stylesheet.

Tailwind focuses on coupling your styling to your HTML by using tiny, focused, glanceable utility classes (<div></div>) rather than by needing to create a ton of potentially-confusing “semantic” classes^[1] (<div></div>).

There are tons of classes in it, and I’ve found it to be super useful. Want to center something, horizontally and vertically? Here’s how in Tailwind:

<div>
    <div>I'm centered!</div>
</div>

And if you need a one-off specific setup - something like display: grid; grid-template-columns: 30px 1fr 1fr 20px, you can do it with the JIT as such: `

You’re probably right I have checked it out, but so far home-manager was a bit of a cold shower to me. I had a ton of trouble wrapping my head around which parts of what config should be responsible for what - and lots of the documentation seems to either be out of date or relying on thing that are still in the ‘testing’ stage?

I’m interested, but so far just found it frustrating.

I hate that you’re correct lmao

Neither, I’ve written plenty of Python and I know how useful it can be. However, as someone who is neurospicy, I find languages that have semantically l significant white space to be frustrating to read.

Sure, there are tools to help with it. Sure, they help. But they don’t replace how much more useful curly braces are at defining scope.

Bruh. I want to use this for my dotfiles. Thanks for sharing it!

Yeah, any language in which whitespace count is semantically significant can go suck fat nards.

JSON5, bay-beee

Maybe I’m wrong,

You are. The only way it “creates a MITM vuln” is if you’re entering sensitive information into the site, which you’re not.

Catppuccin for everything

There are a handful of utilities for profiling: https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/profiling.html

If your dev documentation includes your devs running docker build, you’re doing docker wrong.

The whole point is that you can build a working container image and then ship it to a registry (including private registries) so that your other developers/users/etc don’t have to build them and can just run the existing image.

Then for development, you simply use a bind mount to ensure your local copy of the code is available in the container instead of the copy the container was built with.

That doesn’t solve the performance issues on Windows and Mac, but it does prevent the “my environment is broke” issues that docker is designed to solve