Monday, October 28, 2019

QetriX Start

I can once again see similarities between different platforms. They may look different at a first sight, but underneath it's not that far away.

  • *PHP*: web server calls qetrix.php, which loads qpage.php
  • *Node.js*: calls qetrix.js, which loads module qpage.js
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Microsoft's Edge

I was looking for some distract-free environment for web development, so I started using Vivaldi as my browser of choice. I chose Vivaldi, because I picked it some time ago as a potential successor to my aging Firefox.

But after the recent update Vivaldi started to crash on page refresh, which is a quite frequent task in web dev. It was really annoying, so I decided to find a temporary replacement.

I don't want to use Chrome for personal reasons, so I was basically aiming for Opera, until I stumbled upon a promising newcomer – rebuilt Chromium based Edge from Microsoft, firstly released in April 2019.


Because I really like what Microsoft does for devs under Satya Nadella's leadership (Visual Studio Community Edition, VS Code, .NET Core, Linux, OSS and more), I decided to give Edge a try. And I quite liked it, I found no problems whatsoever and most Chromium based browsers are essentially the same.

I was pleasantly surprised they ditched the logo, which was suitable for the old Edge, but somehow looked weird to me on the new one.

And despite the bug in Vivaldi has already been fixed, the supposed temporary replacement became permanent. Sorry, Vivaldi, Microsoft now has edge over you. I mean, Edge.

Saturday, October 19, 2019

QB in JSONs

I finally created a basic backend for converting original QB data in Data Particle structure to the Qedy-style JSON structure. It will take some time to convert those millions of rows, but I'm in no rush.