mmzeeman | 7 months ago | on: Mountain of Ink
True. When I mentioned this on an FP Discord, people actively shared tips about content blockers.
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mmzeeman | 1 year ago | on: Where should visual programming go?
Visual programming has a long history. See Nassi-Shneiderman-Diagram's, which are even a German (Now eu) DIN standard. And you have Drakon from the Russian space program.
mmzeeman | 2 years ago | on: SSH over HTTPS
Back in the day, XS4ALL, a Dutch internet provider had exactly this feature. They provided ssh access via port 80. It saved me a couple of time while I was traveling and the only way to get internet access was via hotel WiFi, which blocked everything except port 80. If anybody from XS4ALL is reading this... Thanks!
mmzeeman | 2 years ago | on: Against Superficial Simplicity (2022)
The paradox of KISS is that it makes things simpler... for the designers. Because they don't have to think about the cognitive psychology aspects of their work.
mmzeeman | 2 years ago | on: Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom
There are some practical obstacles here. To name one. All high schools in the Netherlands use online schedule and agenda software.
mmzeeman | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
Currently I use two Jinhao X159s, which cost about $3 on aliexpress. Pretty decent writers. Cheap does not necessarily mean bad.
mmzeeman | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
Some fountain pens and a notebook. This allows me to quickly write down notes before jumping into my editor. This makes a big difference.
mmzeeman | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: Microsoft classifies own emails as junk
My work office365 mailbox is unusable. Normal mails ends up in spam or quarantine, or gets delivered with a very large delay.
mmzeeman | 3 years ago | on: Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT
Maybe let the AI enter your license plate the next time. ;-)
mmzeeman | 3 years ago | on: Why I program in Erlang (2012)
Zotonic is an Erlang CMS. https://zotonic.com
We have payment gateway solutions (stripe, mollie, buckaroo). See: https://github.com/zotonic/zotonic_mod_payment
It has a full blown MQTT communication bus. Browsers connect as mqtt clients to the cms via a web socket.
mmzeeman | 3 years ago | on: Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty
It looks incredible. But there is one really big omission. Where are the cyclists? Where they to difficult to model?
mmzeeman | 4 years ago | on: Zotonic, the Erlang Web Framework
Yes indeed. We also have something not more similar to what liveview offers. It is here: https://github.com/mmzeeman/zotonic_mod_teleview. It is based on mqtt, and the views are updated with normal html like templates. This makes it possible for frontenders with html and css knowledge to contribute to a project with a rich SPA like interface.
mmzeeman | 4 years ago | on: Zotonic, the Erlang Web Framework
Yes, the website is old and about to be retired.
mmzeeman | 4 years ago | on: Zotonic, the Erlang Web Framework
We are about to release 1.0. The new site is not entirely ready. This is a preview. https://test.zotonic.com.
mmzeeman | 4 years ago | on: Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
That is an non-standardised DIY pub/sub protocol over a websocket.
mmzeeman | 4 years ago | on: Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
There is no efficient pub/sub functionality in HTTP.
mmzeeman | 4 years ago | on: Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
MQTT is a proven protocol. It's design started started more than 20 years ago. The protocol was designed to be easy to implement. It is simple to implement if you want. There are multiple brokers, and client libraries available. So why invent a new protocol, when an open, standardised protocol already exists.
Open pages in a browser are not that different from IoT devices.
mmzeeman | 4 years ago | on: Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
An example proof of concept application: https://github.com/mmzeeman/zotonic_mod_doom_fire/
mmzeeman | 4 years ago | on: Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
Very interesting. I've implemented something similar. It evolved out of the co-browsing solution I developed for the company I work for.
The solution uses mqtt. Clients subscribe to a topic on the server, and the server publishes patches to update the view. Patches can be incremental (patch against the last frame), cumulative (patch agains the last keyframe) or a new keyframe. It allows for server side rendered views. Multiple clients can subscribe to the same view and keep in sync. See: https://github.com/mmzeeman/zotonic_mod_teleview
mmzeeman | 4 years ago | on: Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
The best way to do pub/sub on the web with a standard protocol is MQTT (https://mqtt.org). It supports websockets, it scales, supports authentication, can handle unreliable networks.
We use it exclusively for the soon to be released 1.0 version of Zotonic. See: https://test.zotonic.com (running on a 4.99 euro Hetzner vps).
We developed an independent support javascript library called Cotonic (https://cotonic.org) to handle pub/sub via MQTT. This library can also connect to other compliant MQTT brokers. Because MQTT is fairly simple protocol, it is fairly easy to integrate in existing frameworks. Here is an example chat application (https://cotonic.org/examples/chat) which uses the open Eclipse broker.
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