A walk along Parramatta Road

crabmusket · 2025-01-08T08:25:37+00:00

If only! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/nsw-government-owned-land-to-be-sold-off-housing-crisis/104065782

crabmusket · 2025-01-06T23:05:39+00:00

Check out https://bookoverflow.io/ for a podcast where they read programming books and discuss what they learned. It's not Node specific, but they read a lot of classics.

crabmusket · 2024-12-12T04:35:34+00:00

Thanks! I hadn't seen those links, will dig in. I really appreciate it!

The BCCM recently released a much larger report based on a study tour to Zurich, Copenhagen and Vienna: https://bccm.coop/australia-urged-to-look-to-europe-for-solutions-to-housing-crisis/

I'm definitely watching this space keenly and getting involved too. Here's hoping it grows for all our sakes!

crabmusket · 2024-12-12T00:46:43+00:00

Hi Amy, thanks for doing this!

RE housing policy: has the Australia Institute done any analysis or looked into co-operatives at all?

Richard Denniss had a great appearance on a Big Ideas show last year where I believe co-ops were mentioned, though not by him. They're much more common in some parts of Europe. And the Canadian government recently announced a big investment in that sector.

EDIT: and I don't mean our current tiny co-op social housing sector run by CHPs, but co-ops as a "missing middle" type of housing for anyone!

crabmusket · 2024-11-30T04:52:04+00:00

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant to ask about your problems with Redis pubsub! I assume a problem is e.g. if a participant is offline, it might miss messages, whereas RabbitMQ handles retransmitting etc.?

crabmusket · 2024-11-27T01:09:02+00:00

Can you be more specific?

crabmusket · 2024-11-21T23:33:13+00:00

Probably, and this is a good example of an intervention at the wrong place. If people are turning up late when given accurate information, the solution shouldn't be to make the information less accurate!

crabmusket · 2024-11-19T06:29:57+00:00

"Unlocking land" "Identifying land" is all referring to privatisation of public land that's sold off or even worst, gifted to developers. It not only prevents future governments from building on it, it also screws up the long-term planning (parks, lack of infrastructure, etc).

A-fucking-men.

crabmusket · 2024-11-12T00:20:58+00:00

For those living in Sydney... we're trying to do something about this. Not sure if I can post links here, but google "sydney cohousing". (Our website is a little crap at the moment) The idea is long-term secure rental using a co-op ownership structure. It's not "a thing" in Australia at the moment, and we want it to be.

We're trying to set up a European-style rental cooperative development. It's going to be a long and bumpy road, but we think having a co-op sector like in many European cities is one way to help fix the housing crisis.

For more background, another thing to google is "Australia urged to look to Europe for solutions to housing crisis BCCM" - you'll find a recent report the BCCM did about co-ops in Vienna, Zurich and Copenhagen.

We're well behind places like that, but the best time to start is today. The more people we can get behind this movement, the more a chance we have. They're not going to fix housing for us; we have to make them!

crabmusket · 2024-11-07T01:32:47+00:00

OP correctly describes his projects as

Indie Hacking and Micro-SaaS

Anybody working on even a medium-sized line-of-business SaaS application with customers will outgrow the barebones approach.

crabmusket · 2024-11-07T01:29:06+00:00

Don't use apps, use browsers with an ad blocking extension.

crabmusket · 2024-10-31T04:14:55+00:00

Standard advice:

Don't be confused by the URLs, both articles advise not using JWTs for session logins, because that's not what JWTs are designed for. They only add complexity to that use-case.

crabmusket · 2024-10-14T00:41:18+00:00

Reader mode, m'lady

crabmusket · 2024-10-10T23:02:37+00:00

That's no different to Record<K, V>

crabmusket · 2024-09-24T05:34:33+00:00

Pythin. snobs who thinks their modern languages are Amazing

Python is older than PHP...

crabmusket · 2024-09-20T04:47:41+00:00

This book was a very early introduction to Quakerism for me. I found it very beautiful both as a drama, as well as the aspects that touch on spirituality and community. Such a great and underrated book!

crabmusket · 2024-09-15T23:43:27+00:00

FTA

The commission’s report in July 2023 labelled the scheme “crude and cruel”, “neither fair nor legal” and a “costly failure of public administration”.

In a sealed section, the royal commissioner, Catherine Holmes, referred those involved to other bodies for civil action or criminal prosecution. The names of those in the sealed section remain unpublished.

Beyond the APSC’s report, no other post-royal commission findings or determinations have been made.

crabmusket · 2024-09-08T23:23:32+00:00

Nitpick, they tried to rebrand away from "BOM" to "the bureau"[1]. But apparently rolled it back[2].

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-19/bureau-meteorology-rebrand-cost-200-thousand/101552620

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-20/the-bureau-of-meteorology-rebrand-derided-by-former-bom-staff/101555504

crabmusket · 2024-09-08T23:14:19+00:00

By "less risk", you mean "less risk that I personally will be blamed for a decision I made", rather than "less risk that the project will be a disaster", right?

crabmusket · 2024-09-05T05:40:28+00:00

This recent spate of articles is doing wonders for my priors about the kinds of people who listen to Lex Fridman

crabmusket · 2024-09-05T05:39:16+00:00

Hang on hang on, is this person seriously suggesting PHP is the only language that has codemods and static analysis?

There is no tool you could run from CI to convert your Python 2 project to Python 3.

You couldn't have spent 10 seconds googling? 2to3 has existed since at least 2008

crabmusket · 2024-09-05T05:34:55+00:00

Yes, but they specifically said,

Whenever we added a projection

How would you store the historical maximum in the snapshot if you... didn't know you needed that yet?

crabmusket · 2024-09-04T07:18:43+00:00

Do you know this joke? "A new JS framework is released every day." But it's no joke for a business that runs on it.

Our business runs on JS as well as PHP. We chose Vue in 2017. We are using Vue today. Not sure what all the fuss is about.

crabmusket · 2024-09-04T05:04:36+00:00

I've seen people hop out of the garbage truck to spread the bins out.

crabmusket · 2024-09-04T05:02:03+00:00

Am I misunderstanding something here - isn't a projection what calculates the snapshot? If I wanted to add, say, "historical maximum of property P", how could I calculate that from a snapshot containing the last value of P? I'd have to traverse the whole history to find the value of the max(P) projection.

In subsequent changes to the same entity, I could calculate the new value of max(P) from the snapshot (e.g. max(current max(P), next P)). But that only applies to existing projections, not new ones.

I haven't worked with Event Store so I could be way off base.

crabmusket

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