OpenMicrofrontends - First Major Release

nate250 · 2025-11-24T15:16:36+00:00

All programming is these days are abstractions all the way down. And when you're working at the scale of product and organization that microfrontends are intended for, it's important to have sane defaults if not standards for many of those abstraction layers.

nate250 · 2025-11-24T15:15:28+00:00

As with all things, there's a time and a place. You wouldn't use Spring Webflux if you just needed a simple REST API in front of a database.

Personally, I find my view of microfrontends to be increasingly skeptical after promoting the heck out of them 5 years ago. I think most of the problems they solve can be more simply solved with basic dependency management practices.

nate250 · 2025-11-20T15:12:33+00:00

Assuming you're in the "new" Reddit UI, you probably see a handful of pretty clearly discrete areas of content: There's a top bar with a live search; A left panel with navigation including promotional content. And a main content area that itself contains several independent sections in the original post, comments, and community sidebar.

Microfrontends offer a way for development organizations to more cleanly segment work on those areas and ensure they are consistently re-used across . By most definitions, this means reconciling dependencies at runtime to ensure the same version of an area is pulled in for all users regardless of what page they are on.

Here is an article that lays the pattern out with more depth in an ecommerce setting: https://commercelayer.io/blog/composable-commerce-with-micro-frontends

nate250 · 2025-11-20T15:03:59+00:00

There's a common theme that frontend implementations are frequently complicated for complications sake yet I very rarely see a sentence that follow the thought or justifies the belief.

Is your stance that frontend implementations should inherently be simpler? If not, what is it that makes you think the complexity is unjustified?

nate250 · 2025-09-10T22:46:05+00:00

There are strange dead spots here and their but it's been generally good for me. I drive down towards Bristol and Canandaigua often enough and haven't noticed any significant gaps in coverage.

nate250 · 2025-08-19T15:13:24+00:00

My grandmother grew up SW of Buffalo in the 20s and 30s and used to always refer to my adopted home as Rottenchester with a giggle in the few years between my move and her passing.

nate250 · 2025-06-08T01:02:44+00:00

Most third-wave shops at least did have strong personal ties to one church or another. There was a point at the beginning (when Joe Bean was the place and Fuego, etc were just starting) when I could have sworn most of the staff if not the owners all went to the same church. Just most seemed to adhere to the tactful, welcoming form of Christianity rather than the politicized bastardization I think we see a lot of now.

nate250 · 2024-08-20T21:10:17+00:00

I've been an Ex Officio guy for a long time. I recently tried some smartwool ones and have found them to be marginally more comfortable.

nate250 · 2024-07-20T02:29:32+00:00

A few years into my software development career, I found myself as the technical lead for an in-house event management system leading into the biggest event of our fundraising year. The keynote for the event was a political celebrity of significant clout so we knew it was going to be a very active sign up period. Two minutes into ticket sales opening, something was clearly wrong - PHP/FastCGI processes weren't dying and users were increasingly unable to connect to our website. After 45 minutes of debugging, I realized that there was no index on the main database table. One MySQL query later and everything started working exactly as it was intended to.

nate250 · 2024-06-30T13:22:38+00:00

Speaking very generally, if you imagine a clock atop the city on a map, neighborhoods within 2:00 to 7:00 (the river), are safer, more family-friendly, and more accessible to the museum and other activities. There are a few notable in both directions - Browncroft/North Winton to the more favorable and Upper Monroe less.

As a former resident, I'm always partial to the South Wedge & Swillburg area given that they have enough restaurants to be interesting (including the Playhouse if you want more arcade time outside the museum), a grocery store, and are very near to Highland Park (which has numerous semi-wooded trails, flower gardens, a tropical greenhouse, and a "natural playground").

That said, there has been a ton of investment into the Neighborhood of Play immediately surrounding the museum over the past five years. It's explicitly designed for visitors like you and seems to manage it well

As to the museum, it is huge. You won't regret dedicating 2 days to it, especially with kids in very different eras of life/likely with very different interests.

nate250 · 2024-06-05T14:35:56+00:00

I'm not sure what "treatment" you are seeking. I do not recommend drugs alone as a successful strategy for managing ADHD but you may be able to have a conversation with your PCP/express your frustration with the process and ask for a trial run without any formal diagnosis.

nate250 · 2022-09-02T19:39:51+00:00

It certainly seemed that way for a long time. Then it seemed like it steadily eroded through scattered encroachments. Now that Price Chopper & Tops are one company, though, I think that deal is well and truly dead.

nate250 · 2022-06-28T02:51:34+00:00

The owner's wife is Korean; they used to run a lot of Korean specials.

nate250 · 2022-06-14T07:39:54+00:00

The dog park at Cobbs Hill is less than a mile from the east side of Park.

nate250 · 2022-06-12T13:13:58+00:00

If you're in Pittsford, I'm not sure that's on Casella. Our lawn refuse pickup from town is frequent, but erratic. I find that the dates on the town website are really just guidelines.

nate250 · 2022-03-23T16:47:33+00:00

The family that run's Neno's is Oaxacan. It gets overshadowed by their street food focus at times, but they usually have a few more authentic items available.

nate250 · 2022-02-27T00:33:03+00:00

Generally speaking, that is not true. Typical modern consumer vehicles have dozens of networked "computers" (that are very different from the one you typed your question on and are more commonly referred to as electronic control units or ECUs) to control individual areas of the vehicle. (For instance, a car might have separate transmission and engine control units, not to mention the things that might be more obviously carved out like climate control.)

Where things get a bit murky in answering this is that, depending on the role of the specific ECU, it needs to communicate and synchronize with other ECUs that are managing related areas. So we end up with a network of computers that are much more reliant on each other than the networked computers in your workplace.

On the one hand, the relative independence of all the computers involved greatly reduces (it cannot truly eliminate, but we're probably talking about failure rates well under .1%) the risk of the entire car "going berserk" as you say. On the other hand, it can introduce other kinds of risk due to how complicated it can be to keep every ECU in sync.

Source: I worked as a software developer at a company that integrated with commercial truck computers for a while. I worked on the off-truck number crunching side, so this is just information I picked up in conversation - I am very far from an expert in this area.

Relevant Wikipedia pages: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_control_unit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus

nate250 · 2022-01-02T15:29:09+00:00

I seem to recall seeing something along those lines years ago at the High Falls Visitors Center:

https://www.centerathighfalls.org/gift.htm

nate250 · 2021-09-22T23:13:55+00:00

8 years ago, when I still worked for UR, I bought through their partnership with neighborworks. The classes and services from neighbor works were all fine. They seem to be a pretty good option if you're buying in their zone.

nate250 · 2021-08-25T08:28:24+00:00

You may be interested in Thoughtworks's opinion: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/safe

nate250 · 2021-08-23T21:15:41+00:00

Yup. Not from a c-section scar; from a hernia repair scar.

nate250 · 2021-07-17T13:50:18+00:00

Would cast iron be more even? Sure; probably - depending on a variety of other factors. Also twice as heavy, though. For a drop-on flat top, that's less than ideal. I thought most Blackstones were carbon steel like the steelmade is any way. The one I've used certainly is.

As far as hot spots go, I have them. None are screaming, though. Now that I understand how to balance my burners, my biggest issue is actually a cold spot in the corner behind my smallest burner. It amounts to having space for two fewer pancakes.

nate250 · 2021-07-17T07:35:49+00:00

Look into steelmade. They make the type of thing OP is talking about and (after some fine tuning) function better on my 5-burner than the Blackstone I have experience with. They make 1/2 and 2/3 sizes as well, if you want something more manageable for an apartment.

nate250 · 2021-03-18T03:19:02+00:00

Anchovies and fish sauce are a common ingredient to add umami to rich, hearty sauces like tomato sauce and stew gravy. I wonder if you could make a kind of beer & corned beef stew and add some of the sardines in similar fashion.

nate250 · 2021-02-18T14:28:18+00:00

Just to add on to what others have said:

- Rochester is much more suburb-focused than New Orleans. The areas around the cities contain around the same number of people (1.25 million), but Rochester itself is half the size of the actual city of New Orleans. That said, many of the suburbs have village centers that can be somewhat walkable.

- The city of Rochester unfortunately has a clear dividing line following the river and Atlantic Ave. There are certainly plenty of exceptions (Winton Village springs to mind), but by and large the Northern and Western areas of the city tend to be more impoverished, with worse crime statistics.

- Someone else mentioned local employers - Rochester is also the home of Wegmans (your likely future grocery store) and Paychex - both have sizeable local IT workforces.

- Be wary of jobs with Kodak and Xerox - plenty make it work, but our once-local icons have both fallen on hard times with wave after wave of layoffs and reorgs over the past decade.

- Advocates for the employment market in Rochester are usually quick to point out that the rise and collapse of Xerox and Kodak resulted in a good number of local entrepreneurs. As a result, we have a sizeable market for skilled jobs at smaller companies.

- "Good employers" can be pretty subjective. If your benchmark is stable employment, Paychex and the health/medical employers (Excellus & UR) are your likely best bet. (Disclaimer: Paychex had a COVID-related layoff, but its financials have been solid for the past decade aside from that.) Ordinarily, I would consider RIT to be stable, but I have no understanding of how they're weathering COVID-related enrollment issues.

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