Read – Project Structure of Node + Express
This was really helpful/valuable and I intend to come back to it regularly. https://www.coreycleary.me/project-structure-for-an-express-rest-api-when-there-is-no-standard-way
Read – Stop Using OR in SQL Joins
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-you-should-stop-using-or-in-sql-joins-right-now-d5b6e83464cf
Read – Node v. Python Performance
https://neoteric.eu/blog/node-js-vs-python/
Why Not an Existing Solution?
One of the questions submitted on the info gathering form was “why not just use Mastodon Social”? To be perfectly honest, I’m leaning towards an off-the-shelf open source solution, such as Mastodon Social. But… We need to decide on an organizational structure to run and support the social network. When it comes to moderating and …
To Framework or Not Framework…
I’ve had a few interesting conversations recently highlighting & confirming my perspective on software development frameworks. 1.) Do you know Zend? I was asked if I know Symphony and my response was “sort of”. They responded (in a snarky tone) “well, you really should know Symphony & Zend because we have a massive job upgrading …
CSRF Tokens, What They Are, What They’re Good For, and Why…
Background 2 junior coworkers asked my boss about a statement I made regarding CSRF tokens and web app security. My boss was unable to answer that question but didn’t refer to me. So, there was a bunch of confusion, miscommunication, and duplicate work. This is the internal documentation I wrote to answer that question. I …
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Business Analysis & Scaling
I’m thinking about business analysis and scaling businesses for a meeting. On the one hand, you don’t want to build The Titanic for a little weekend fishing trip. On the other hand, you don’t want to go out in a row boat only to learn the sea is too rough; you’d end up in deep …
Read – Angular vs. React: A Complete Comparison
I found this article quite interesting. I’m quite keen to work in TypeScript for strict typing and compiled JS. But it seems React is far more common and thus you’d assume the pool of developer candidates is greater.
Server Setup
Multiple subdomains reverse proxy’ing to various Python venv’s and other app ‘containers’ https://serverfault.com/questions/195611/how-do-i-redirect-subdomains-to-a-different-port-on-the-same-server