Diego

Software engineer (14+ yrs). Building in public. Side projects & Raspberry Pi tinkerer

[Diego @dnmellen]

Gifting an ebook has always felt a bit impersonal. It’s just a file.

So in my spare time I built something to change that.

Upload a DRM-free EPUB, add a dedication, and it’s embedded directly into the book itself.

No DRM. No tracking. Files auto-delete.
https://t.co/aXMtKs4gVQ

[Diego @dnmellen]

@sneha___03 brew

[Diego @dnmellen]

@itsaaroshi 32GB is the new 16GB

[Diego @dnmellen]

@vibeonX69 Nature is too distracting. I wouldn’t mix that with coding. Way better something like this.

[Diego @dnmellen]

@Jashanx_gill I know, at least I know I’m solving a real problem, but not getting any traffic from that post (https://t.co/THNebB5V2n)

[Diego @dnmellen]

You can now try the editor before signing up.

It adds a dedication page inside a DRM-free ebook so gifting it feels more like a real book.

Interactive demo:
https://t.co/aXMtKs4gVQ

[Diego @dnmellen]

@uzair_dev_ Modular monolith.

Fast to build, simple to deploy, and you can still extract services later if it ever becomes necessary.

[Diego @dnmellen]

I launched a small side project this week: https://t.co/aXMtKs4gVQ

~300 visits from Hacker News
0 signups 😅

Turns out building something people can use is much easier than building something people actually want.

[Diego @dnmellen]

@suni_code Hi! Let’s connect!

[Diego @dnmellen]

@suni_code You can gift an ebook.

But it still feels like sending a file.

Trying to fix that:
https://t.co/aXMtKs4gVQ

[Diego @dnmellen]

@levelsio @rjburkejr Or cloudflare tunnels + cloudflare zero trust for free 👌

[Diego @dnmellen]

@gabriel__xyz ChatGPT for sure 👍

[Diego @dnmellen]

@FatherPhi It’s funny how some people think software engineers usually make $300k.

[Diego @dnmellen]

@agazdecki If I stop adding features I would have to actually launch it 🤯🥲

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

Top 5 common ways to improve API performance.

Result Pagination:
This method is used to optimize large result sets by streaming them back to the client, enhancing service responsiveness and user experience.

Asynchronous Logging:
This approach involves sending logs to a lock-free buffer and returning immediately, rather than dealing with the disk on every call. Logs are periodically flushed to the disk, significantly reducing I/O overhead.

Data Caching:
Frequently accessed data can be stored in a cache to speed up retrieval. Clients check the cache before querying the database, with data storage solutions like Redis offering faster access due to in-memory storage.

Payload Compression:
To reduce data transmission time, requests and responses can be compressed (e.g., using gzip), making the upload and download processes quicker.

Connection Pooling:
This technique involves using a pool of open connections to manage database interaction, which reduces the overhead associated with opening and closing connections each time data needs to be loaded. The pool manages the lifecycle of connections for efficient resource use.

Over to you: What other ways do you use to improve API performance?

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[Sergio de los Santos @ssantosv]

¿Serías capaz de distinguir qué URL en la imagen apunta a https://v1271[.]zip donde podrías descargar un ejecutable creyendo que es Kubernetes?
No es trivial. Pista: Nuevos TLD (top level domains) terminados en ZIP y un defecto del navegador para disimular barras. Hilo¬.

[Diego @dnmellen]

Estoy empezando a usar ChatGPT en lugar de buscar en Google. Puede ser un punto de partida muy interesante para aprender sobre un tema 🧐. Eso sí, las respuestas son bastante imparciales, no se moja con nada 😀

[htmx.org / Viceroy of Corn Dog (same thing) @htmx_org]

people are beginning to recognize that GraphQL is not a panacea & has many difficulties, not the least of which:

the browser is *not* a trusted computing environment

any expressive power you give your FE devs, you give potentially hostile users as well!

no so w/ hypermedia!