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This post continues the story from my previous post about vendor lock-in. The previous post wasn't very general in nature, and focused a lot instead on my specific woes; mostly talking about a problem, and not so much a solution. Since then, I've read This interesting article over at IBM.com. It speak a lot to my issues, but its conclusions aren't entirely what I am going for. It descr...
Breaking out of vendor lock-in (part 2)
May 23, 2023
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Short for "JavaScript, API, and Markup". In short, the idea is that a website/webapp doesn't need server side processing, but can be precompiled to a set of markup files and scripts that communicate with APIs to deliver dynamic and data-bound features. In fact, this site - my blog - is built around the same philosophy. It is built on Statiq, which is a static site generator that works with .NET. (...
JAMstack appeal
May 23, 2023
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Back at school, our first dive into code was MoscowML (for some unholy reason). Strictly functional language, and not a lot of fuzz. We learned how types mattered, and we learned how to get something working without loops and control flow. An interesting exercise, but not really what I was there for. Later on, we were taught Java as the object oriented flavour. It took quite a while to get accusto...
Python isn't a silver bullet
May 23, 2023
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