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Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0
Hi HN,Recently I wasted several hours wrangling my dev environment only to find out that the browser frontend was talking to the wrong version of the backend. This got me thinking--why on earth are we still using simple numbers to describe which process to connect to? Why not use names instead? I thought of all the tim