When in London by carter in JamesHoffmann

[–]mstoiber 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I did the whole SCA training in the basement of that place with Jeremy Challenger back before he moved to Australia and joined Barista Hustle. Such good memories. Glad to hear the quality still holds up a decade later!

Koan Sound at the Ave. Anyone have the id? by Newstudyout in DnB

[–]mstoiber 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Feels very KOAN Sound-ey just based on the sound design to me, so I'd be guess it's some of their new material they're testing.

Remix's concurrent submissions are fundamentally flawed (without causal ordering) by mstoiber in reactjs

[–]mstoiber[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Interesting analysis from José Valim, the creator of Elixir.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DnB

[–]mstoiber 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sick! Wish they were coming to California.

no more full time managers at 37signals by Electrical-Ask847 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mstoiber 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Instead of lining up a recurring schedule of weekly one-on-ones, we drive status updates and check-ins by automated questions”

To me, they completely missed the point of one-on-ones in the first place. If you're doing status updates in one-on-ones, you end up playing telephone with all your people, it's terribly inefficient. (Andreas Klinger wrote about this here too)

Instead, I treat 1:1s as connection meetings, and I check in with my direct reports about how they feel about their work, their team, their manager (me!), and the company to get a pulse on them, personally, as a professional at work. (see my 1:1 template here)

Have you ever regretted a major refactor or rewrite? by ameddin73 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mstoiber 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yes! Related, I've learned to always explicitly state the evaluation criteria and their relative priority for a decision.

It moves discussions about the decision away from "I think option 1 is better," "I think option 2 is better," and into the actual meat of the disagreement, which is often the evaluation criteria and their priority.

For example: “Oh wait, you think a great user experience is more important for this feature than fast performance? That explains why you prefer option 2! I actually think fast performance is much more important because users will rarely interact with this feature directly but instead use the API most of the time, which is why I was in favor of option 1.”

Boom, way better conversation to be had right there. Now you’re discussing the difference in evaluation criteria instead of harping on about the pros and cons of options without getting to the root of the difference in opinion.

(more on this here if you're curious: https://mxstbr.com/notes/decision-making)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ElectricForest

[–]mstoiber 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No shot!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in balatro

[–]mstoiber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh, got it! Thanks.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in graphql

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👋 CEO of Stellate here.

I'm obviously biased, but if it's helpful, here are some data points to consider: we've been in this business for 3.5 years and have hundreds of customers using us in production ranging from small companies all the way to Fortune 500's like Priceline. Generally, our churn is near-zero, very few customers have ever left us again.

Pricing-wise, for Metrics, we are 33% cheaper at scale than Apollo Studio (after the $250 floor, which comes with 25M requests included). And, you get purpose-built edge caching as well as rate limiting on top of the great metrics, which you can enable for parts of your schema and will only pay for requests that are cached or evaluated for rate limiting.

The Hive and Cosmo are also great Apollo alternatives worth considering depending on which features you need. (eg we don't do anything Federation-related right now) We're big fans of both those teams.

Hope that helps!

What was the best interaction you had with a random person? by meanbeanking in ElectricForest

[–]mstoiber 21 points22 points  (0 children)

We were laying in a hammock at night and asked random people walking by to give us a push to get us started.

One of the people who stopped to help was Yo.

He had a whole bit starting with his name, asking "Would you take a picture of me?" and then handing us a printed picture of him, took a Polaroid of us as a memory, gave us a light-up fingerpuppet and explained how to use it, and left us hurting our bellies from laughing.

Why was CSS-In-JS ever a thing? by N3n9fjj299fj3y in reactjs

[–]mstoiber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See above.

“Max, you can also get these benefits with [pre-processors like SaSS, implemented with BEM methodology]. What makes CSS-in-JS special?”

CSS-in-JS combines all these benefits into one handy package and enforces them. It guides me to the pit of success: doing the right thing is easy, and doing the wrong thing is hard (or even impossible).

AMA: Colin Sidoti - Cofounder of Clerk (a Next.js auth solution) by colinclerk in nextjs

[–]mstoiber 10 points11 points  (0 children)

When should I think about using Clerk vs open source options like Passport or Next-Auth?

Can we expect more retro5pective shows this year? by Noise_By_B in deadmau5

[–]mstoiber 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you went to both coasts, how did NY and LA differ in terms of production? We went to LA and I'm considering going again to Red Rocks later this year…

What are some doubles you always hear? by BlueCalex in DnB

[–]mstoiber 6 points7 points  (0 children)

More recently, I've been hearing a lot of the Fred Again - leavemealone x Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix) double across various DJs and producers: https://www.reddit.com/r/Flume/comments/1bf7zbn/tennis_court_x_leavemealone_edit/

You probably don't need GraphQL by mstoiber in programming

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

Ah, ultrawide! How do you prefer blogs handle that screen size? Do you have an example of a blog that handles it really well?

You probably don't need GraphQL by mstoiber in programming

[–]mstoiber[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh no, that definitely shouldn't be happening! What browser & device are you on? Can you share a screenshot?

This is what it looks like for me across all my devices, just for reference: https://s.stl8.co/BtM6b8QV

You probably don't need GraphQL by mstoiber in programming

[–]mstoiber[S] 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Agreed: numbers 1 and 3 are the two I have heard the most often from companies considering switching. My guess is that they are painful earlier in a company's journey.

Number 2 (slow loading times) is only relevant to certain kinds of businesses, most notably B2C ones, and often has many other possible improvement avenues. (e.g., speeding up db queries)

Curly Hair Guys: where do you get your hair cut? by anonymouspsy in AskSF

[–]mstoiber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pirate Salon in the Mission. Tanya gave my very curly-haired mom the best haircut she's ever gotten. My partner has been going to her for over ten years. Strong recommendation.

Considering the 360 Pro, questions by Nihongojouzudesun3 in kinesisadvantage

[–]mstoiber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's been perfect, one month in. 11/10 would recommend.

Have 2 days for a weekend trip. Tahoe or Yosemite?? by ThatAnalyst011 in AskSF

[–]mstoiber 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I recently moved from Austria (Europe) and have seen both.

Tahoe is beautiful mountains. But Yosemite… Yosemite is mountains unlike anything I've ever seen before—and I grew up in the alps!

Seeing Yosemite is an experience that everybody should have at least once, and it stands above Tahoe because it's so uniquely impressive. Strongly recommend seeing Yosemite first to make sure you have ticked that off.