I just signed up for Damus purple.

I had to look this up. Berners-Lee coined his SOLID movement a few years after I coined the SOLID principles. That made me smile. But that’s just my own conceit.

Precisely. It is utterly insane for programmers to communicate with a database by constructing strings in an arcane language that is then compiled in real time. Not only does this open a whole bunch of bizarre, security holes, it’s just plain dumb. We are programmers, we communicate with our libraries using functions and data structures, not strings that have a syntax that was designed 50 years ago for non-programmers to use.

I’ve never used Mongo DB. I have no problem with the relational model per se. My issue with SQL is that it is text based and compiled in real time. That makes it a huge security concern. It’s also just really inconvenient for programmers to have to construct sequel statements using a text library. In general databases should be accessed through a software API — a library of function calls that are driven by data structures that cannot be compiled in real time.

So much winning!

James Grenning is the person in my network who is most connected to the Embedded world. He does a lot of training in that space. Do you need an introduction?

Good advice.

From: (zaff) at 01/21 09:08

> Don't trust any government. Power corrupts.

CC: @nostrich

It's done. Biden is gone. Trump is in office. The horrors of the last four years will be repaired and reversed.

If California democrats actually believed that the Climate Crisis increased the risk of wildfires, then they would have done something to mitigate that risk. They might not be able to stop the Chinese from building coal fired power plants, but they could have managed the dry fuel that was blanketing the hills around LA. They might not be able to force everyone in India to drive electric cars, but they could have kept their own water reservoirs full. They might not be able to stop the Saudis from pumping oil, but they could have increased the funding of their fire and water departments.

But they didn't do any of those things. And so either they are supremely incompetent, or they don't actually believe in the Climate Crisis, or (and I think this to be the most likely case) both.