#events

Everyone defaults to WebSockets for real-time features. Most shouldn't. The reality: 95% of "real-time" applications only need server → client updates. Chat notifications. Live dashboards. Stock tickers. Log streams. AI responses. WebSockets give you bidirectional communication. But bidirectional comes with a tax: complexity, resource overhead, scaling challenges, debugging nightmares. Server-Sent Events (SSE) do one thing: stream data from server to client. They do it brilliantly. And for most applications, that's all you need.

The goal was never to replace Kafka with PostgreSQL. Kafka remained the backbone for high-throughput event ingestion, while PostgreSQL handled what it does best—durability, querying, and observability around failures. By letting each system play to its strengths, we ended up with a pipeline that was resilient, debuggable, and easy to operate. In the end, using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue turned failure handling into something boring and predictable. And in production systems, boring is exactly what you want.

You have happened upon a big friendly pile of SHOWS AND EVENTS AND OTHER THINGS in order of date! Some flyers might not load, simply hit refresh and give it a sec - this here old school website has some old school quirks.

The way we got to this point, this place where we’re all friends and don’t tolerate sexist and homophobic behavior, is in no small part thanks to booze. If we want to continue to expand this community and make the rest of the world a more tolerant place we’ll have to continue to value the personal over the professional.

"jQuery 1.4.2 added a set of new functions: $.delegate() and $.undelegate(). $.delegate() is a hybrid between $.bind() and $.live(). Here is an example of how the three functions differ, and how to implement $.delegate() in existing code."

"Evented I/O for V8 javascript. "

"I would think that Ann Arbor would be a little embarrassed that it doesn't provide an open and affordable arts and cultural center for its citizens. Even Ypsilanti, which is one fifth our size has managed to create the Riverside Arts Center, which has both a gallery and theater for public use."

Wishing I was there! "California Extreme 2009, an annual celebration of classic arcade games and pinball, takes place July 11-12 at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara."

"So far the idea is just a dream but I think that with enough support and hard work Bar Camp Detroit can be a truly awesome community run event."

"The Midwest's largest electronic gaming convention, the Midwest Gaming Classic, is coming to the Olympia Resort!" Maybe next year...

"Join us for a well-deserved celebration of this historic demonstration that spawned a tremendous market for home, small business, distributed and networked technology uses."

"People get together to chat, learn about wikis, find jobs, talk deals and generally cavort"

Notice something different about the design and the URL? :)

"You can apply the same DOM-event style logic to anything that happens within your application itself. You can plan your application that way from the outset"

"There are bars all over the city which participate in the nationally-run Brainstormer Pub Quiz trivia nights and there are also bars which forego national affiliation for creating their own quiz nights."

"Of course, I'm probably free at midnight, but I wasn't sure if that was great."

"The acclaimed host of NPR's "This American Life" visits the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor for an evening of engaging recollections.""

Concert tour featuring video game music along with video clips, laser light show, and live action.

Holy cow! Look at the guests! I missed Penguicon, but I'd like to make it to this