i’ve been using solid every day for the past two years
something has happened in the last few months where it feels like the ecosystem has hit a threshold and is producing some extremely high quality stuff
some highlights in the thread
kobalte is the absolute best ui toolkit i’ve ever used in any framework
it’s unstyled so make it look like whatever you want, the APIs are fantastic and i’ve never ran into any limitations so far, excellent typesafety and accessibility
one way to implement this is to specify a column in every single table - in this case `workspace_id`
every single query you do on behalf of a customer will be filtered `where workspace_id = xxx`
from their point of view it's like only their own data exists in the db
May 24, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
lot of you talking about lambda function warming but i don’t remember authorizing any of you to comment on this
come to papa i’ll lay it out for you
here’s another thread to shove into your empty brains
sorry @lizisraad we’re talking about cold starts again
if you engineer for serverless you select minimal dependencies and keep your code small
these are good practices in general and if you do them in serverless architectures you don’t really have to worry about cold starts
May 1, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
alright i can’t resist
everyone is covering the technical details of the @vercel announcement so not gonna comment there
but today marks a major shift in how they’re positioned strategically
have some thoughts
threadboi time
vercel has had a brilliant strategy that makes them different than other hosting providers
they don’t run infra
all of their own bills are usage based
they’re only charged when they’re charging you
and so they don’t have to be over provisioned just in case your app goes viral
Apr 30, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
all this auth talk with @ClerkDev surprised no one has brought this up
say you're using github login
one of the best features in clerk is not having to configure a new github app for each one of your development environments
but i have some concerns with the implementation
when logging in you can see that you're not authorizing your app specifically - you're authorizing Clerk as a whole
Apr 27, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
lots of talk about auth being easy to roll yourself
i’ve tried to use every managed auth provider i could find and i always ended up doing my own thing
and it has nothing to do with it being easier or even cost
there’s an entirely different problem
thread boi time
when you look at these auth solutions they typically will handle three things
1. handshakes with third party IDPs (login with google, etc) 2. session management 3. user storage
1+2 are boring and i’m 100% down to offload it to someone else
the problem is #3
Jan 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
keep seeing a certain doomed product being built over and over
why?
it's a funny mix of getting certain things absolutely right while missing something a bit obvious
1/x
the product I'm talking about is visual drag and drop tools to build up your infrastructure
we've seen it with Stackery (dead), AWS Application Composer (doa), Massdriver (tbd) to name a few
the idea starts with "why can't I just ship my high level architecture diagrams?"
2/x
May 19, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
It's easy to make the same old jokes about NoSQL but there's a much more important lesson to learn of how it tragically became a punchline in the first place.
Back in the early 2010s a PAAS company called 10gen decided to pivot. They were going to narrow their focus and develop a new kind of database that they named MongoDB
Jun 20, 2019 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Here's a thread putting frameworks like #reactjs in context of why they exist and thinking about where to go next
Start by forgetting React and writing a simple UI with vanilla JS like a troglodyte. This is as performant as can be as it only mutates the element that needs to be changed
Feb 9, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Imagine a world with 100 people who each produce and consume one apple every year. If someone invents a way to double output and takes half of everyone's second apple they become obscenely wealthy (50 apples a year). Still, everyone is much better off
This is wealth creation
Now that it's easier to produce the one apple needed, everyone can spend a portion of their time working on something else. Maybe even faster apple production methods or something unrelated to apples, like medicine or entertainment
This is how wealth creation compounds
Jan 4, 2019 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
With all the talk about regulating Facebook, it's a good time to consider the difference between horizontal and vertical regulation
Thread 👇
Regulation tends to be horizontal. It identifies specific effects of the company, i.e. privacy violations, and attempts to create rules horizontally for the entire market
Jul 25, 2018 • 15 tweets • 1 min read
Things I've learned engineering at startups:
Complexity is a permanent part of the world. Technology claiming to eliminate complexity is actually shifting it elsewhere.
the product I'm talking about is visual drag and drop tools to build up your infrastructure
