Stephen Ball

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Father of three | DURM | Functional programming is good. Elixir fan but I write whatever code is necessary. I have written more BASH than anyone probably should | Videogames are good.
Bloghttps://www.strangeleaflet.com/
Stephen BallAug 30, 2023
Dan HonAug 30, 2023

Holy shit, The Daily Tar Heel (student newspaper of UNC Chapel Hill) has a horrifying front page today, after yesterday's campus shooting left one dead.

It's text messages sent to and from students during the lockdown.

Via https://kottke.org/23/08/the-tombstone-of-democracy

“The Tombstone of Democracy”

Yesterday, there was yet another school shooting on a college campus, this time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

kottke.org
Stephen BallAug 30, 2023
Ryan Hall’s live streaming coverage of hurricane Idalia along with his team of field reporters is really well done and informative. https://www.youtube.com/live/4Twdn4GowHA?si=44A0JF4roRPU0H6v
🔴LIVE - Major Hurricane Idalia Coverage With Storm Chasers In The Eye - Live Weather Channel...

YouTube
Stephen BallAug 29, 2023
Brian HonanAug 29, 2023
Happy Skynet day to those who celebrate :)
Stephen BallAug 29, 2023
Naming things is hard
and cache invalidation
DNS is both
Stephen BallAug 25, 2023
jordanAug 25, 2023
I guess it's time to start writing "Twitter is no longer a reliable method of disseminating information, please publish an RSS feed" letters to my local park district et. al.
Stephen BallAug 25, 2023
mekka okereke Aug 25, 2023

I don't care what Trump's height and weight is. At all. I care that he was allowed to lie on his prison intake form.

We just can't stop giving him special treatment. Even for things as silly and inconsequential as this.

Show threadStephen BallAug 23, 2023
SvelteKit certainly doesn't provide the vast data pipeline, concurrency, and backend power capabilities of Phoenix (via Elixir) but as a way to build web applications it sure has a lot going for it. It's approach of folder based routing is pretty great.
Show threadStephen BallAug 23, 2023

SvelteKit's approach is a really interesting mix between web programming framework and folder/page oriented CMS. It makes the general problems of creating web pages easy and also makes many of the problems creating web applications easy.

It's got the single language to bind front/back like Phoenix but coming at the idea from JS instead of Elixir.

Stephen BallAug 23, 2023
Wow Svelte (JS frontend framework) and SvelteKit (JS backend framework) have some ridiculously good ideas.
Show threadStephen BallAug 23, 2023
I love Svelte's approach to compile the framework code down to native JavaScript and avoid shipping a runtime. Svelte's stores are also wonderful to coordinate data. And transitions are dreamy.