Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
-
Lewis Dale ☛ Get your Eleventy site onto the Fediverse
A little while ago, I brought my blog to the Fediverse. This was a fun experiment which resulted in me turning my Netlify-hosted blog into an instance.
-
Étienne Pflieger ☛ Dark window decorations for st and Emacs
What become very annoying is when you use a dark application, which keeps light window border, because that application does not know how to tell to the window manager that it prefer a dark theme. That was my case with both GNU Emacs and simple terminal. In both of them I use the Dracula dark theme, and thus having light window borders was a bit sad.
-
Mozilla
-
James G ☛ Search engine shortcuts in Firefox
Firefox has a feature that lets you map a character or sequence of characters typed in the Firefox address bar to a custom search engine. For example, you can map w to Wikipedia, so the query w coffee would take you to the Wikipedia search page for coffee (which auto-redirects to the Wikipedia page for coffee).
-
-
SaaS/Back End/Databases
-
Simon Willison ☛ Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object
The key idea behind Durable Objects is to colocate application logic with the data it operates on. A Durable Object comprises code that executes on the same physical host as the SQLite database that it uses, resulting in blazingly fast read and write performance.
How could this work at scale?
-
[Old] Cloudflare ☛ Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object
SQLite is the most-used SQL database implementation in the world, with billions of installations. It’s on practically every phone and desktop computer, and many embedded devices use it as well. It's known to be blazingly fast and rock solid. But it's been less common on the server. This is because traditional cloud architecture favors large distributed databases that live separately from application servers, while SQLite is designed to run as an embedded library. In this post, we'll show you how Durable Objects turn this architecture on its head and unlock the full power of SQLite in the cloud.
-