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"You need to be bored" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQKfIXMiA8 This is harder than ever - I've always got the urge (no pun intended to the original post) to start a new workt…

For those who may not know, you can cut your costs in AWS by going with Valkey over Redis for about 33% savings. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/reduce-your-amazon-ela...

I think it's important to share the difficult / hard experiences of having kids as much as the good ones. I've noticed that there is a huge bias towards only sharing the good momen…

Anyone else surprised that the download links are plain HTTP without SSL? I know it's a page that in the past I would have typically not worried about securing - but nowadays it's …

I really enjoyed Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood. It's fairly obscure though - I was surprised to see it mentioned here.!

Inspector is telling me it's "ZedTextFtl", with "Jetbrains Mono" used for the monospace blocks. Edit - More info on it here: 1) https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/zed-text 2) https:/…

I think you're looking at OTel from a strictly infrastructure perspective - which Cloudwatch does effectively solve without any added effort. But OTel really begins to shine when y…

> And I'm actually quite happy that most Deno projects don't have a custom testing and linting setup. I feel similarly. The standard configurations (e.g. tsconfig, linting, formatt…

> Server authors working on large systems likely already have an OAuth 2.0 API. I think this biases towards sufficiently large engineering organizations where OAuth 2.0 was identif…

Everyone I know who uses Teams does not like it. Is that selection bias based on my personal network of technically savvy peers and professionals, or is it founded in a broader exp…

Came here to recommend Porkbun - I've had great experience with them and so have all of the friends and family I've recommended.

Yeah, the fatigue is real. It takes much more energy to stop a bad idea / framework from taking root in a large org than to start one.

Caddy is great! But am I the only one who gets frustrated seeing breaking changes in a minor version release? I know semver isn't "the one true way", but it sure does solve a probl…

You can click the button labeled "Support Pop" on this page. https://pop.system76.com/ The only option is $12/year last I checked. It'd be nice if we could donate a larger amount e…

I think there's something to be said for the fact that the engineering organization grew through this exercise - experimenting with using telemetry data in new ways that, when pres…

Yes, don't leave us hanging (on Christmas, no less!).

Cannot recommend this podcast enough: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nuclear-power-isnt-perfect-... It goes into detail about the argument you are proposing.

Yup - same idea as a11y - just easier to type. :-)

429... Hilarious.

This was a lifeline for me when we were on an unstable DSL line for a year!

Sublime performance can't be beat, but I'm seeing the end of the road for active plugin development. It's getting harder and harder to adopt new tools without farting around with c…