CropSwapLA is in my neighborhood, they do amazing work! Just the fact that a single residential property can grow enough produce for 45 families _each week_ is astonishing. Their technology in their latest farm (https://www.cropswapla.org/degnan) is very special as well: they refer to it as terraponic. 100% recycled water, but also using some soil for temperature and moisture control. Best of both worlds between traditional farming and 100% controlled aquaponics farms. The growing boxes are entirely separated from the ground, which limits pests and maintenance. Nutrition is provided through the water, with exactly the right balance that the respective plants need.

Yes, I'm biased, I'm a big fan. Just wanted to share some highlights because I think the article doesn't do the amazing work of Jamiah and his team justice. I hope we get to see many more such micro farms all across Los Angeles and Southern California.

Which book is it?

Project Hail Mary

I drive an EV for over a year, I barely use the break any more. Single pedal driving is wonderful

Curious: How do you roll towards a red traffic light, do you somehow push a "neutral" button?

Just take the foot off the accelerator gradually.

The kia I drive still roll at a couple of km/h when accelerator is fully released and will not hit 0 unless you use a paddle by the steering wheel (or use the breaks).

Release the pedal. Car figures out where the next car or stop line is (I think. Even when you're not using radar cruise control).

You just slowly let off the pedal as you approach.

My kids are into superheros. We explained how vaccines are basically super powers! Now they are sad when they go to the doctor and don’t get one they also get all their friends and class mates pumped about vaccines which I take as a win

In a real sense, vaccinations are superpowers. Immunity from pestilence was historically taken, across cultures and for obvious reasons, as signs of divine influence.

I wouldn’t overthink it, it’s just a metaphor :)

I also don’t think that GraphQL will replace REST, the two work great side-by-side

Congratulations to the big release :)

As a primarily front-end developer, this is a gift from heaven. I'm part of team Hoodie so I'm biased of course, but I'll add this to all my existing and future projects now <3

Hoodie doesn't provide any email privileges in it's core. There is an email plugin that does that, but it's just a showcase and we would not recommend to use that in a production app. The plugin is maybe 10 lines of code, you can easily use that as base and put all the security in it that you would do in a REST API as well.

I'd be also very interested in your basic use cases that you think Hoodie couldn't handle. It would certainly be great input for the project.

"There is an email plugin that does that, but it's just a showcase and we would not recommend to use that in a production app."

You do realize that by putting it in your documentation, you're encouraging people to use it.

We also encourage people not to use Hoodie in production, yet :)

What @gr2m means: there is no reason Hoodie’s mail feature would work any different from a traditional web app. At some point a server side will validate a client request, and if valid, translate that into sending an email (Gmail comes to mind). Hoodie’s email plugin can do exactly that, except that today’s implementation is a mere sketch of that, like other parts of Hoodie, that show what can be done, but aren’t hardened against production use, yet. None of that means though that Hoodie behaves any differently from a security/abuse/DOS perspective than any other web app :)

Thanks for confirming my crosspost :) However, as I was just saying, wouldn't it be nice to clearly see that we're talking 0.x directly on the website and not only when we install the npm package?

EDIT: Thanks for your answer, I am going to stop crossposting now :D

To be fair they are still working on 0.x, they probably don't recommend the whole thing to be used in production (although I personally wouldn't mind for some specific projects...). At this stage, I understand they just want to showcase some cool stuff. This being said, we should always be really careful about security when using dependencies, especially when it's in beta, and especially when mostly everything is done client side. It would be also nice if something more explicit was mentioned on the hoodie website. Like the last release version for example (0.x).

Yeah, we are working on a website redesign that addresses this. So much to do, so little time :)

Our goal is to lower the barrier of entry to build fully capable applications. While using the simple email plugin is not a good idea in a production app, there is no problem to use it with an app that runs on your computer only, or in your companie's intranet.

I know this is nightmare to system architects / backend developers at first sight, but trust us, we know exactly what we are doing. We have excellent architects on our team, you just might not be our primary target group here.

But thanks for your feedback, much appreciated!

please ping us if you have any questions! twitter.com/hoodiehq

Besides the points already mentioned, Meteor is VC backed. Hoodie is an open source project first, that we founded & bootstrapped a company for to sustain its future, and that we will eventually turn into a non-profit. We are and will be not accountable to any investor with questionable interests in an open source project.