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I made something very similar, in my spare time, last week. I didn't need $60m for it. https://github.com/re-cinq/claudit What's amusing is that I specifically made a comedy licens…

Uses agent and Git Hooks to automatically create Git Notes on commit, containing the agent conversation that led to that commit. Works if either you or the agent commit. It's basic…

I made this last week in my spare time, without $60m in seed funding! https://github.com/re-cinq/claudit

Yes. Admittedly they both work in bars/breweries. It'd be interesting to see the experience of folks in continental Europe, where I gather wine with meals is much more commonplace.…

I was lucky enough to buy about 4 Bitcoins ten years ago on IRC, long before crypto exchanges were really a thing. Over the last couple of years I've thought about cashing out. I'v…

It's worth pointing out that AWS does now support U2F, which isn't reflected in the posts.

Apologies - I updated the post today to include the commit signing, and didn't think about the date of the parent post.

I'm a very strong Concourse proponent. We've been using it exclusively for three years, and it's better than anything we've experienced that our customers use (I run a consultancy)…

It also makes things more comfortable - you can stretch and change position on long drives. In three hours of motorway driving on Sunday, I was only driving for about three minutes…

I drove from the UK to Ålesund, Norway and back in a Model X, which was about 1,300 miles in each direction. Did it on the way home with two kids in the back. Long trips in a Tesla…

> If you could actually predict the future you should invest in the lottery, not in software. Hear, hear!

Estimates seem to be a common topic in replies. If you can accurately estimate how long a software task will take, you should have already made a reusable component or automation t…

Indeed, and the Scrum-Industrial Complex has vested interests in codifying a certain format that it can sell.

If you're getting burnout doing agile, you're doing agile wrong. Don't do sprints. Have a continuous backlog. Don't do overtime. Don't make estimates. Always do the simplest thing.…

This isn't strictly true - Teslas have the ability to perform emergency stops if they detect something in front of them. I don't believe that they're likely to pick up something dr…

I saw these folks at AfrotechFest[1] in London last year, which one of my colleagues helped organise, talking about their entrepreneurial experience. Really great to see them getti…

I'd highly recommend Arieh Ben-Naim's books on entropy for anyone looking for more on this point. TLDR he makes the argument that entropy is a measure of the probability of probabi…

Wow, it takes something to make Philips Hue look cheap. I'll stick to those, which I can fill several rooms with for the same price.

Wow. 1,500C to -150C in 1/100th of a second sounds pretty remarkable. Any idea how that's achieved?

Ha, my sole experience of RDF was on an EU-funded research project :)

Yeah, accept those writes and favour availability. Customer was a wealth management company. Imagine a customer has £100 in their account. System partitions. Customer withdraws £70…

What do you do in a network partition?

Edit - yep, the event producer manages and increments the vector clock. --- I've not really used Kafka, so couldn't comment on that. I did some work for a customer that involved mu…

I think this misses the main one - append vector clocks because your events will inevitably turn up out of sequence at some point.