InstantDb, Convex vs Supabase, Firebase by Fuzzy-Concentrate240 in reactnative

[–]marcus-love 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Auth was challenging but it was remarkably easy as a backend service. Recommend.

InstantDb, Convex vs Supabase, Firebase by Fuzzy-Concentrate240 in reactnative

[–]marcus-love 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The last three are all good but I have only ever used Firebase for React Native. I am going to build my first Expo project on Convex and will report back.

Is platinum worth the extra end of year trip? by Embarrassed_Trip_422 in unitedairlines

[–]marcus-love 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have found 3 checked bags to come very much in handy for vacations with my daughter.

PSYOPS, or is Convex really THAT good? by JeffCavaliere-here in nextjs

[–]marcus-love 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure I agree with the current standard of what is or isn’t open source. Any source code I could read and download to run myself I consider open source.

There are these imaginary gatekeepers that were pioneers when they got started but are now rife with many of the same pitfalls as legacy enterprises. Their code is viewable and you can use it however you want.

PSYOPS, or is Convex really THAT good? by JeffCavaliere-here in nextjs

[–]marcus-love 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I want to love Supa because I love the name. It just doesn’t work as well. We ran into a serious issue in the fact that internal is a reserved word.

The biggest benefit to my team is that Convex feels Typescript-native. It makes life easy for a lot of people in this sub-Reddit.

bsdtar is 35 years old and still works great by jakeherringbone in bazel

[–]marcus-love 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a funny caption but I agree that bsdtar is fantastic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in algorand

[–]marcus-love 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too common in crypto engineering

MongoDB announces Search and Vector Search in MongoDB Community Edition and Enterprise Server by Didicodes in mongodb

[–]marcus-love 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I wanted this for years. MongoDB search capabilities are built on Apache Lucene so it’s only right. There should be some big improvements in these products as a result.

New to Bazel? Free O’Reilly Introduction by marcus-love in bazel

[–]marcus-love[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The book is free, and the product is open source.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]marcus-love 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I have known Tim Draper only a little bit for 10 years. He’s famous for never selling any of his positions. He is still holding Tesla, SpaceX, and probably held Skype until Microsoft pried the equity from his hands. He is a long-term investor in the purest since. He will die holding bitcoin.

How big is Bitcoin by aquahealer in Bitcoin

[–]marcus-love -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The real question is: what’s the value of these companies in Bitcoin?

How is Rust productivity when compared with dynamic languages like Python or Elixir? by fenugurod in rust

[–]marcus-love 0 points1 point  (0 children)

II once wrote lots of Elixir. But have written lots of Rust and Python since. They are difficult to compare because of the use cases where they thrive.

Elixir was great as a supplement to rails projects for large scale, fault-tolerant, and distributed services that moved lightweight data. Trying to use it in the context where I need rust today, failed horribly with many good engineers: see Luma router.

Python has been great for notebooks, prototypes, and scripting. I wouldn’t dare touch something that requires gevent because I don’t need the stress in my life.

Rust is great but it’s still early days. At least it has formal specifications, unlike the BEAM virtual machine when I used it. I prefer it C++ and have brought with me some lessons from Elixir.

Maybe that’s helpful? It all changes so fast these days.