Reddit user since March 26, 2011.
A farmer by trade turned software engineer and web developer.
I used to love moderating daily as a way to foster communities that felt inclusive and constructive. These days I’m fairly hands-off and am just concerned with keeping some things I love secure and comfortable for everyone.
In theory, kbin instances could load balance by defaulting where registration gets posted.
As a bonus when logging in, you typically shouldn’t have to choose which instance you connect to because it’s in the username.
Only downside of load balancing is differences in admins and federation.
You would use the app to login to a specific instance, and access federated content through that instances API
While I haven’t tried symphony, my annoyance with PHP in general is that parsing any kind of data is tacky. In the end you have just as many lines as python but less readable.
Cleaner functions or cleaner data? Both languages have their strengths and can (now) be typed.
12 or 13 years? Don’t really remember or care!