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Very cool. Should flush out a few bugs. I'd be interested to know why Valgrind vs the Clang AddressSanitizer and MemorySaniziter. These normally find more types of errors (like use…

The thing I don't like about day rates is where I've seen large consultancies pile in large inexperienced teams propped up by one or two seniors to do the actual job that needs doi…

Looks like you can get a bit of a Node stack trace on mobile ``` Error: Choose failed Missing field "user_id" in context for bucket_val = user_idError: Choose failed Missing field …

Looks like you can get a bit of a Node stack trace on mobile ``` Error: Choose failed Missing field "user_id" in context for bucket_val = user_idError: Choose failed Missing field …

I've had to do a lot of scraping recently and something that really helps is https://pypi.org/project/requests-cache/ . It's a drop in replacement for the requests library but it c…

Not a great week for managed Kubernetes services as Digital Ocean have been having an ongoing issue since yesterday morning on their service https://status.digitalocean.com/inciden…

My cluster was down this morning around 11 UTC. Not sure when it started working again but I'm back in business. Some comms from DO that there was an active issue and they were inv…

I've had a good experience doing a couple of bug fix bounties for urllib3 https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues . I'd be interested in how the maintainers how found running the…

Average is around $120 for an hour for them.

Great write up on something I depend on a lot but don't understand well. This also answers something I've always wondered about which is how Twisted and Tornado fit into the Python…

I've used respondent.io successfully for a few years doing surveys on new developer tools and cloud provider portals.

This solves a really tricky Terraform problem I have at the moment about wanting to create Dev environments quickly but not wanting to recreate DNS, VNets and other core functions …

Really well put on the risks and how outcome based projects aren't necessarily better aligned for good outcomes. The best company I worked with did a multi-drop "agile" contract wh…

I work in UK Software/IT Consulting and I've seen that the vast majority of deals I'm involved with are Time and Materials with fixed rate-cards. I rarely see outcome or goal based…

I love the idea of doing independent technical due diligence work after enjoying doing software auditing and investigations in my current job. Looking at Gitlab's processes it seem…

I always enjoy seeing what a good awk & sed user can achieve in bash. However one of the not so good Devs I worked with used awk to load a large, deeply hierarchical JSON file. The…