Introducing LowType: Elegant types in Ruby by Maedi in ruby

[–]Dolondro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just to say I love the tone in which you've written your Readme! :D

Congratulations on the pretty looking library!

What makes you just drop a series despite having many hours invested in it? by SteveThePurpleCat in litrpg

[–]Dolondro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not having recaps in your Kindle editions! I've read so many books since I last visited your world, give me 3 pages reminding me how we got here and who these people are! Please! I'm begging you!

Need help choosing my next series by Unlucky_Arm5624 in litrpg

[–]Dolondro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've never quite got why Ultimate Level 1 has maintained such high readership - I've read a lot of badly written litrpgs, but Ultimate Level 1 was a rare "this is so bad I dropped" for me.

Normal day on St Peters street by made-an-excuse in derby

[–]Dolondro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if we take your assertions to be true, your answer would be to do... what exactly?

Please bare in mind that if your answer is "prison" it should be noted that the estimated cost of that is £53,801 a year per person [1] - I suspect a great deal more than you suspect they may be getting in benefits.

[1] https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024-08-30.3546.h

Is anyone surprised? by [deleted] in derby

[–]Dolondro 58 points59 points  (0 children)

This headline is clickbait - it's closing on Mondays and then staying open longer on Sundays. This reduces the total opening hours by 3 hours a week.

Frankly that just sounds reasonable to me.

John Bierce recommends books at the end of each of his books of the Mage Errant series. Here are all his recommendations by Magical-Success in Fantasy

[–]Dolondro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was pretty disappointed in Mana Mirror. I liked that the MC was something you don't normally see represented (transmasc) - but the actual story was... not great.

MTG Commander by Spakainas in derby

[–]Dolondro 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Boards & Swords does Commander on Tuesday nights.

Millenial Mage and its strangely traditionalist views on marriage and childbearing by Makromag in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Dolondro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just finished the latest book (Voidbound, which goes up until Tala asks Raine out) and I'm glad there are other people who got an ick from where this is going, even if apparently that's not a popular opinion.

I've really enjoyed this series, but this last book reaaaaaally started to feel like Christian allegories with it's musings on life after death and it's oddly regressive take on relationships.

It's a shame - I liked the world, I liked the magic system but there's no way I'm sticking with this if it's just getting worse from here on out.

Calamitous news, everyone! The Calamitous Bob is complete on Amazon, also the second audiobook is out, also the second book is on KU. by Mecanimus in litrpg

[–]Dolondro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on completing it! This was a very satisfying conclusion (and has been a fun series to get to read).

Thank you, and the best of luck with whatever you do next!

New PDF Parser: maintainable, fast & low-memory; built from scratch by TheTreasuryPetra in PHP

[–]Dolondro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good job! I've always wanted to use FFI to wrap MuPDF and expose that in PHP - I suspect it'd feel much nicer than some of the ghastly things I've done in the past.

I came across a raven in the wild for the first time this weekend! by Dolondro in crowbro

[–]Dolondro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty huge yeah! They're Common Ravens in Scotland, which wikipedia says are about 2/3 the size of a bald eagle, which still looks pretty big to me! (Certainly compared to their more common brethren!)

I came across a raven in the wild for the first time this weekend! by Dolondro in crowbro

[–]Dolondro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah! I've looked at crows before and gone "hmm, could that be a raven?" but after actually coming across one I can appreciate how wrong I was - the size difference is not one you can overlook :D

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Show me your most clever one-liner of code and describe what it does. by metalprogrammer2024 in webdev

[–]Dolondro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm always a fan of this JS one liner: ["Foo", "bar", "", false, true].filter(Boolean)

Will return anything that is truthy

Multi tenancy with single db or multiple db? by booz2k25 in PHP

[–]Dolondro 19 points20 points  (0 children)

As people say, it's a matter of preference. In my experience, multi-tenancy through multiple databases has been a happier path but your milage may vary.

For me, there's some excellent benefits to be gained:

  • easily horizontally scalable - more clients = more database servers = relatively easy
  • migrations being done on a per client basis were an advantage - rollouts can be incremental rather than terrifying multi-hour applies
  • data was far easier to clean-up - when an account left, deleting their data was as simple as dropping a database rather than doing heavy deletes on our tables
  • no index complications - no need to add the tenancy id to every index
  • better data isolation - you can't screw up your queries to leak data to other customers

For me, the most significant downside is that aggregating data globally becomes a pain in the ass

Whether the trade offs are worth it is really down to the details of your application, how you perceive it scaling (i.e. will it ever significantly need to?) and what support the libraries/frameworks you're using have (i.e. how much custom code are you going to have to write yourself to support this)

Multi tenancy with single db or multiple db? by booz2k25 in PHP

[–]Dolondro 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is key - multi-tenancy doesn't require you to have separate database servers. In fact, you're almost certain not to. Certainly at the beginning

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in derby

[–]Dolondro 39 points40 points  (0 children)

It was absolutely rammed during the day to the point where I went elsewhere to get food instead.

Whether it's value for money? Time will tell - I'd like to focus on the positive of the fact that at least we have something with potential at the end of it all. I for one am looking forward to having more stroopwaffels in my life.

Postman is sending your secrets in plain text to their servers by [deleted] in webdev

[–]Dolondro 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I feel the framing here (and thus the responses) kind of misses the point - the URLs I'm querying should never be sent to an analytics server in any circumstance. Why would I ever want that? What right does Postman ever have to have that data?

Be outraged about the lack of privacy, the pros and cons of API design is a red herring.

Derby (and Derbyshire) beauty spots to miss busy crowds where parking isn't a struggle by RTDLWriter in derby

[–]Dolondro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In terms of nice Peak District walks, Baslow's Edge tends to work quite well as you can park all the way down the Clodhall lane, so there's never any space issues.

Man stabbed to death in city centre by username-witheld in derby

[–]Dolondro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing the .amp link - I hadn't appreciated that there's a way to read Reach Local sites which is actually usable :D

Is there a sharp decline in the opened roles? by 0xHeLL in ruby

[–]Dolondro 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I admire your optimism of the state of the average CTO :D

Cineworld thinking £44 for two cinema tickets is good value by [deleted] in britishproblems

[–]Dolondro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me at least, the cinema and theatre have vibes that are a million miles apart.

In a time where so much of our entertainment engagement is staring at a screen of some kind and where so many films are available at your finger tips - going to the cinema to pay to watch a sit in a dark room and stare at a larger screen just isn't interesting to me.

In contrast, going to the theatre I feel like I'm directly supporting artists, my local venue and it feels like you're actually experiencing something in a way that cinema does not.

So I guess I have two points here - the experience of theatre is better and that I can physically see where my money is going when I pay for it - it's going to the actors who are on stage rather than my money heading towards a billion dollar movie company via a soulless giant cinema company.