Prison Mike

Didn’t get through season one?

So Trump’s going to skyrocket inflation and debt again? Like he did last time and that this administration is finally in the late stages of cleaning up?

This happens basically any time a Republican president is elected. They shit all over the economy, tank it and finally when Democrats clean everything up these morons cry “I was better off under the guy that fucked up everything.”

I keep seeing everywhere that voters voted on the economy, yet no one seems to be pointing out the exhausting, blatantly obvious truth. It’s been happening for what, 20+ years now?

Republicans make a mess, Democrats are always forced to clean it up. So pardon me if I think the voters are idiots.

I don’t have a great answer but I’m sure most modern browsers have locked down their address bar (and bookmarks) enough that it’s not possible without enabling developer features.

Is this a joke? Back in my office days I constantly had to switch to Chromium-based browsers to load websites with shit security (TLS 1.0 anyone?). Chrome’s even dumb enough to let you load an <iframe> without checking the content-type.

(Not hating on Firefox though.)

“21 Ways Your iPhone is Spying on You” and it’s always dumb stuff like shady apps asking for permissions mouth breathers are stupid enough to allow. Then their website has 14 trillion tracking scripts loaded up; hypocrites.

Yeah, this is pretty stupid. “Oh no! The cops use CarPlay??” and “omg they developed an iOS app, the horror!”

Yeah everyone says this then I look around at REST APIs (as a consumer and developer) and 99% are trash.

I’m loving GraphQL mainly for “take only what you need” and type definitions. Every other standard I can find has some crummy gem, serializers that need to be hacked because they never work out of the box, etc.

As soon as my experience changes maybe I’ll change my mind, but I’ve had to develop some REST APIs using Ruby and Rails and wasn’t happy. Meanwhile my side projects using GraphQL are just incredible, and I don’t want to kill myself after developing it.

No but you are misunderstanding me — I’m talking about a web API for others to consume, not using GraphQL in the frontend of a website.

I’m discussing APIs that can be consumed by others, not something for my frontend to use.

My frontend uses Hotwire — I’m not using GraphQL as some Node.js guy writing the entire frontend in JavaScript.

I think you’re discussing PWA technologies where I’m trying to talk about web APIs.

I’ll give that a look, thanks!

Edit: This looks like a JavaScript library rather than a serious API standard.

Just block ‘em with DNS and/or IP filtering; you won’t be dependent on a browser and as a bonus you’ll get system-wide blocking

I really don’t like starting with “fix.” You can just describe it without saying “fix” most times.

• Fix Strings containing whitespace
• Escape Strings containing whitespace in CSVExporter

Do you happen to do this in Ruby on Rails? I don’t know what happened but it seems like Swagger, JSON:API, and the serializers/deserializes are all abandoned.

For personal projects I use GraphQL for everything, I’m not a fan of REST these days. Let me define a schema and let clients screw around with the data. I just won’t waste the time anymore despite the performance impact everyone might cry about.

I can’t speak to your framework specifically, but:

I’m assuming this is a REST API. I would suggest versioning the API, like /api/v1 for example.

It’s funny, I’m currently dealing with this at work. The old API was just /api but on the backend we’ve mapped it to API::V1 (Ruby). It gets a little pesky backporting things to the older API so it’s good to start with a solid foundation as much as possible.

Something else I might suggest: use a good serializer and deserializer. You don’t want to muck up your models with crazy translations for everything: having a middle layer to perform that has been so, so beneficial to us.

This is the language I use, once I started I never looked back.

I’m kind of sad to say that I don’t think it’s going to reach the adoption level of Ruby but I hope I’m wrong.

Crystal, but only because I’m a full time Ruby on Rails (and sometimes Hanami!) programmer.

It’s fantastic, and I had an excuse to use it at work when we needed to gather PHP Watchdog logs from a MySQL database and format, output them to STDOUT in a Kubernetes environment. (This was necessary for our log monitoring tools expecting data in a standard way, AKA not connecting to a database. 🤦‍♂️)

I know there are perhaps better options out there (Go, Rust, etc.) but from a Rubyist’s point of view Crystal gives you that “flow” from working in a beautiful language but with the performance boost of compiled software.

This is a beautifully simple solution! I hadn’t thought of that but I’ll have to keep it in mind.

Do you think you’d have to move closer to another AP? I do think a duplicate a MAC address might cause connectivity problems at least while connected to the same AP.

Are you familiar with Tailscale? I think it reverts to tunneling over WireGuard over HTTPS in cases like this — I might be wrong, but I might block UDP on myself to test this out.

I think if you lie and use a VPN there might be less data for them to profit from.