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I’m currently evaluating Auth0 and other similar services with a view to migrating from Cognito. May I ask what you don’t like about it?

I imagine it means one with a higher coefficient of greybeard admins.

Yep. Rotten luck with the malaria and blockades, eh.

I’m not sure it was mainly rich folks who suffered. Many small scale investors also lost money. So severe were the losses that something like 25% of private wealth in Scotland was …

Does Resend use AWS SES under the hood?

It seems to be true that they are either doing very well or very badly. St Andrews? Elie? Lovely. Methil? Granton? Pass. Are there examples of “it’s alright” seaside towns above so…

I’m sure you managed to get the MIDI background music working easily though.

I hate how accurate this is. Imagine you are a UK resident, born and raised, who went to the UK’s top school for CS (4-year degree). You made American friends at university who lat…

Could this claim the title of “oldest host on the public internet serving traffic”? At first I thought “~100 days, so what?” - but that was before I knew this was an 8088 managing …

I wrote about something along these lines a couple of years ago [0] and thought the idea was dead due to rate limiting. But does LE now regard each subdomain as having its own limi…

Yes. Also, one could quite trivially turn the driver’s seat and steering column 180 degrees in the UK model, yielding the benefits you mention, as well as that of facing the direct…

Like I said, views are changing in light of events, but let’s not pretend this was the settled majority view since 1945 or 1990. That’s the point: there has been a presumption by A…

I would agree that the worldview of Europe is changing, given the sharp reality of its defences being tested. Europe is of course (to state the extremely obvious) no stranger to it…

Quite, and the reality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine certainly trumps armchair rhetoric on this topic. I would only add that (until recently) many Europeans would have questio…

> Another point I’d like to make is that modern European lifestyles exist partly due to American military hegemony, which has allowed European nations to redirect their defense spe…

I’m no expert, but I wonder what the long-term socioeconomic effects are of Sweden not having been involved in major wars or colonial empires for hundreds of years.

Sitting atop the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, accumulated over decades of judicious management of national oil wealth, perhaps insulates Norway from realities that apply …

We also have a lot of infuriatingly tautological explanations, for example: “We apologise that this train has only 2 carriages today. This is because the additional carriages faile…

Thanks for your comments - my goal with the writeup was to attempt to sound out why the idea of ".nonpublic" would or would not work, and I think it's clear that it's not really vi…

Right, so it would be necessary to force the NS records to point to registrar-owned nameservers which would be the point of enforcement. This is of course bad for a variety of reas…

Don’t let your degree get in the way of your education. The ability to socialise with others and form connections with people is of maximal importance when it comes to convincing s…

As someone who worked on timetabling databases and pricing services at Skyscanner, I appreciate just what a phenomenal achievement ITA is. Very well done sir. There is still so, so…

In the Royal Navy, written letters to the captain [1] have to be signed off with "I am honoured to be, Sir, your obedient servant". I remember (in 2010) people thought this was stu…

Astonishing. Not only the modern conservatism in this regard, but also that lesbianism was legal in the UK even in early C20, so the SG position was even more strict. A morbid but …