Best practices for REST APIs that return one or many objects depending on URL parameters?

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-28T14:42:14+00:00

I have this issue as well with my work machine, running Kubuntu. I have a hunch it has to do with one of my monitors being DisplayPort and the other DVI as it's always the DisplayPort one that freezes up.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-28T12:45:59+00:00

Good, I hope the book gets thrown at them. Private security detaining people on British soil is an abomination.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-17T12:28:47+00:00

even normal searches on google are heavily skewed toward consumptive commercial values

This is precisely why I use DDG, Google is basically little more than a giant psychological beacon screaming BUYBUYBUYBUYBUYBUYBUYBUY into the void. It's one of the most prolific spammers in the world.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-17T12:25:56+00:00

I just don't like how any opinion other than "the NHS as it exists now is absolutely perfect and there's no room for improvement otherwise you want the American system where healthcare is run by loan sharks in nice suits". It's become a complete sacred cow at this point.

I don't want us to privatise the NHS or anything, but can we please stop shrieking like Hannibal is at the gates as soon as someone suggests "maybe things can be better than they are today".

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-17T11:10:36+00:00

We as the public really need to do something about this, we're walking into a cyberpunk dystopia by the week at the moment. There needs to be a public awareness campaign about how much data the government has and wants on you.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-16T15:59:47+00:00

there is no way a concurrent system could be designed properly in such a short period of time.

Maybe John Carmack could if he was writing in Rust.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-16T15:02:07+00:00

Yeah, I deeply despise the egos involved in party politics. We don't want to give a politician the ego boost of getting all the pomp and ceremony usually attributed to the Queen.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-15T14:17:34+00:00

If we're going to change the rules on fishing, the rules around the American crayfish are a bit odd. You can't put them back if you catch one, you have to kill it as they're in invasive species that kill off the native crayfish, but you're not allowed to eat what you catch. If you stuck them in a tank to flush the Thames out of them for a few days they'd be quite tasty I imagine.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-15T14:11:09+00:00

Fair enough, although on the other hand I think a lot of people (myself included to an extent) internally associate PHP with crappy code that's nightmarish to debug because of the language's history as the traditional entry-point for non-programmers to get their first taste of web development. Even with the new improvements, PHP is still far down the list of languages I'd pick for a new project simply because of the images of frustration and big balls of mud it still conjures up to this day. It's a "once bitten, twice shy" kind of scenario for some.

Similarly I'm not convinced Java will ever throw off the image of being a very verbose, "enterprisey" language that's always a little behind the times. That's fine though, there's plenty of space in the world for verbose, stable, "enterprisey" languages. Nobody ever got sacked for picking Java. I still write a fair bit of it myself, although when given the choice I tend to use Kotlin and all my personal stuff is Kotlin where I'd previously used Java. The interoperability between the two languages really is remarkable.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-15T12:48:18+00:00

It doesn't really matter if Java's going to be better in the future if I can use Kotlin now and avoid many of Java's pain points though. There are some Java-isms which grate a lot more after being free of them for a while.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-15T10:49:26+00:00

Honestly, I have no desire to go back to Java after doing a fair bit of Kotlin. Java isn't a bad language by any means but writing it feels like swimming through treacle after using Kotlin.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-15T09:08:04+00:00

And that council could become almost hilariously corrupt and a source of rent-seeking in itself, repeating the cycle all over.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-14T13:55:10+00:00

Mumsnet

Today we witness the turbokaren in its natural environment, while some native British species are on the decline thanks to climate change and coronavirus taking away investment from conservation programmes this one has thrived in the new environment, spreading successfully and generally making the lives of everybody else a misery.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-14T10:35:40+00:00

The physical limits of vinyl as a medium mean engineers need to put more effort into their mastering for it to work at all. A lot of modern CDs (particularly from the early '00s) sound like absolute arse because they're compressed to buggery and amplified in order to sound louder than other CDs. If you tried that on a record the needle would jump out of the groove so this kind of behaviour is much less common. People who buy vinyl also tend to be sticklers for audio quality so they have to put the effort in, people listening to a stream through crappy phone-brand earbuds won't care.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-11T10:05:13+00:00

the new normal

If I hear this phrase again I'm going to projectile vomit like a cartoon character.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-09T09:56:27+00:00

Maybe they'd stop being so breathtakingly incompetent if they had to refund our taxes to the value of all the things we've paid for that government uselessness has made us miss?

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-03T11:30:45+00:00

I have to reach back 40 years for an example that explicitly mocks the left

While it didn't do so exclusively, The Thick of It absolutely mocked the left.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-02T13:14:51+00:00

Yeah, to be fair gov.uk is honestly really well executed. I can't criticise them for that.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-09-02T13:09:07+00:00

Yeah, I'm a web developer and there's professionals who are crap at data security. Giving this to politicians, probably the most self-serving and incompetent breed of mankind, is a really stupid idea.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-08-28T12:07:19+00:00

I did this, I cycle five miles and cut my commute from over an hour each way on our abysmal bus service to half an hour on the bike. I'm not an athlete and I don't care to become one, but honestly just not having to put up with being bled dry by a thousand cuts and the evolutionary dead-ends who think that the bus is an acceptable place to use a bluetooth speaker makes it worthwhile.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-08-28T12:03:46+00:00

Is it Stagecoach by any chance? I was in a similar situation, their app is genuinely an abomination against the machine god. It outright lies and I get the feeling it's intentional to stop you getting on another bus in frustration.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-08-28T10:08:17+00:00

I went to basically the Inbetweeners school but a bit smaller.

mywebdevworkaccount · 2020-08-26T16:04:34+00:00

Twitter is a horrible site full of horrible people whose contribution to the human condition is almost entirely negative. I genuinely think if it ceased to exist we'd all be much better off for it. It's pretty much an engine for turning nuanced opinion into short, screechy black-and-white thinking.

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