Posts tagged: dev

Serious question. No one ever got fired for choosing PostgreSQL # But, why. It’s the most loved db, right? Right? Maybe it’s time to rethink it. Don’t get me wrong, if I need a relational db as a service, PostgreSQL is going to be my first choice, but why do I need to run a separate application for it? Tutorials use sqlite # Why is that? Because there is nothing else to stand up. Nothing else to maintain. And you probably already have it installed on just about anything that has a battery. SQLite runs in memory # Don’t need, or maybe don’t want to persist state. Run it in memory. This is a nice feature for running tests. Less exposure # SQLite is a file on your filesystem. It’s not a web service. It’s not a cloud service. Not that postgres is insecure, but it is one more endpoint that you have to think about securing. this means that is probably also cheaper 🤑 SQLite is easy to replicate # Want to run your new feature with prod data? Pull a replica or backup. It’s a file, you can cp, s…

I was watching @theprimeagen recently and I think he sold me on using tailwindcss. The thing about tailwind is that it is not a big component library, it’s a set of css classes mapped to a few (usually one) style. All css classes are shitty, so you might as well use someone else’s shitty css classes on all your projects rather than thinking you’re being smart with a new set of classes that you will hate in 6 months when you come back to the project. roughly quoted from memory of @theprimeagen It’s tiny # So unlike big component libraries like tailwind, it comes with a cli that that it uses to create the final css file. It is able to treeshake out all the tailwind classes that you are not using and only ship the ones that you are using. It’s hard to clash # Since the classes are so small and single purpose it’s hard to end up with something like in two places that mean different things causing you to duplicate most of that css anyways so that the whole design doesn’t break when you chan…