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Actually, when it comes to SQL specifically, it almost demands using a language one higher up. Any language that features the ability to embed/interpolate unescaped quotes is not secure enough to be used directly by professional developers. Just not worth it to track down all the potential injection attacks. And if an abstraction lets you understand the structure of queries (eg for sharding them) and even writes the code for you and balances parentheses, flags other syntax errors at compile time etc. then it’s a net benefit. And of course there is the Adapter Pattern to abstract away connection logic and differences between mysql, pg, etc. I wrote the “Db” library 12 years ago in PHP and still use it. I never released it on HN for reasons like this. But I might. Here it is, embedded in my larger library, but I might break it out: https://

And what alternatives do you suggest? HN rightly complains about proprietary closed platforms, and enshittification. Here is an open source alternative to Twitter and Facebook: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

In their research Ms Nikolova and her co-authors found that people did not perceive a loss of autonomy if they were working with computers, where they have more control of the machine than the other way round. This is why I strongly advocate for open source to replace the Big Tech closed server farms, the learned helplessness that people have when they give their entire audience over to Twitter and hope they dont get deplatformed etc. It is why I work on https://github.com/Qbix/Platform And why I started https://engageusers.ai/ecosystem.pdf

You know, there is this maddening trend on HN to bemoan how networks owned by large centralized corporations with profit motives enshittify everything (Skype, Reddit, LinkedIn) But then as soon as an open, decentralized alternative not driven by the profit motive is introduced, it’s knee-jerk criticized and downvoted. How do you expect anything to change if you won’t support any solutions? (Other than, let’s use the government regulations / antitrust / whatever). Here is a free and open alternative that I have been working on for 12 years: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Here is exactly how it would reinvent the profit-driven ecosystem behind the current centralized social networks: https://qbix.com/ecosystem It does to LinkedIn, Twitter et al what the Web did to AOL, MSN etc. Putting the control in the hands of the community. Here is wh

I built this and never sold out: Web2 open source tools: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform (https://qbix.com/ecosystem) Web3 open source tools: https://github.com/orgs/Intercoin/repositories (https://intercoin.org/applications) Anyone is welcome to get involved or sponsor the projects. But frankly my experience with most VCs I have met has been that they try to avoid deep, decentralized open source platforms like this, so they can make quick wins on the latest fad. Mostly individuals here and there get it. But 95% of the time it turns out they have no money or liquidity, and I don’t have time chasing and finding out who does. That’s the nature of these things. It’s a lonely job. Honestly, even though it’s completely free and open source, and gives people the tools to do what until now they could only do with Big Tech platforms, I expect ma

> I think this is exactly what _most_ people want. Yes, and they should have it. As open source software that a free market of hosting companies can compete on price and quality for. Not as closed source software hosting by a Big Tech oligopoly. You should be able to host your info on a server of your choice, encrypted end-to-end from your devices. That server is the one which should collect payments, manage subscriptions, do access control checks, and deliver data to others. That server is the one which should send notifications and push news updates to your devices as well as subscribers’ devices. You should always be able to migrate easily to another server, or use several at once, as fallbacks. People have learned helplessness (“oh I wish Twitter would add feature X”, “oh, I guess we all have to get a Google Plus account”, “oh, sucks

Here is the framework powering it: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform We are approaching the final runway for releasing Qbix Platform 2.0 – "Where No One Has Gone Before" Feel free to poke around. It took us years to build this stuff, especially the videoconferencing piece. It's all re-usable functionality. I would love to get feedback on the site, the good the bad and the ugly. A few other examples (which unlike this are not accelerated by CloudFlare): https://freetalklive.com https://gba.community https://yang2020.app

That is one page on the website, the rest of it is a lot more friendly (https://qbix.com/communities or https://qbix.com/invest for instance). Sorry the experimental stuff is not slick enough for you yet, we don’t have the resources of Facebook or even Automattic. We worked very hard for 12 years on the foundations at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform but I am sure you can find many faults there. (I’d like to hear about them btw.) On the other hand, many other projects like the E programming language, Capn’proto, Linux etc. are also very complex and did not have fantastic and slick documentation, first adopters also had to read some words in order to get it. This is an open source project. You are welcome to reduce the words and make a summary. Perhaps when we start marketing to a broad audience, we’ll reduce it to 10 word slides and sound

Excuse me but what is HN about if not sharing your work that you worked on? Oh, it's also about startups. And about funding them. And building stuff people want. I don't know man. Every time I put in a lot of work (a decade, say) and build something major and substantial to improve the world, and document it, linking to third party reputable sources for everything I'm claiming and saying, and give it away for free... if I share the link on HN, I often get downvoted. It's almost as if talking out of your ass and NOT doing anything to solve the problem, is far more appreciated. Like how people regularly complain about everything related to extreme centralization of control, surveillance capitalism, etc, and I built open source and free software give you an alternative, attracted millions of people in over 100 countries, and give it away for