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> We had a budget alert (€80) and a cost anomaly alert, both of which triggered with a delay of a few hours. By the time we reacted, costs were already around €28,000. I had a simi…

Thanks for taking the time to reply! I'm relatively new to working on this type of system (large scale, event driven) and half posted because I know there are people on HN way bett…

This was shared with me years ago by another developer I worked with. I still reference it today as I continue my external battle with the complexity demon.

Oh I can 100% see where all of that comes from too. I think a lot of Brisbanes secret beauty is well hidden from people just visiting. The temperate rainforests, glasshouse mountai…

What a fantastic write-up. As a Brisbane native and software developer I often feel similarly to the author about Brisbane's software dev scene. Brisbane so often feels like a back…

I made a game called "So you think you know Brisbane?", in which you guess the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. https://johnscolaro.xyz/projects/so-you-think-you-know-brisb... I'm w…

If this is an idle game, why do I need to log in? Couldn't you store the game state in localStorage or something?

I was wondering that too! Surely Airbnb - a company that runs a website - has the capability to put a text post on their own website. Then they'd own the content, and people lookin…

I recently made a serverless lambda/dynamo webapp following similar patterns and wrote about the experience here: https://johnscolaro.xyz/blog/serverless-python-websites I think it…

Next.js on Vercel. I don't get enough hits to take me out of the free tier, so I'm fine staying here for now. If it became absurdly expensive, I'd try to either self-host, or move …

I recently made the backend of a hobby Python project run entirely serverlessly on AWS, and reduced my bill from ~$300 a year to $0 a year. There seem to be a million and 1 ways to…

I first attempted to use ruff for a small project ~2 years ago, and at the time felt that it wasn't quite good enough to replace the: black+isort+whatever linter combo we were usin…

I'm predominantly a backend Python Web developer, and I implemented a match 3 engine in Pygame. See example gifs on my blog here: https://johnscolaro.xyz/blog/pygame-match-3 When I…

Cool website, but I'm in a barbershop right now and can't wave my phone around like a madman to see the map. I'd love it if I could drag the sphere around with my finger on the scr…

Interestingly, all but one of the descriptions on the front page start with the word "In".

I can't wait to play Super Mario in this when someone inevitably makes a 3D rendering engine in it.