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It really depends on where you live and in some places that distinction does not matter. See for example https://www.canadianconsultingengineer.com/quebec-order-of-e...

There are places (eg Canada) where engineer is a protected title like lawyer or doctor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...

And in case people are looking for an open source alternative, Fly.io's tokenizer is a credential-injecting proxy: https://fly.io/blog/tokenized-tokens/

The concept of a proxy injecting/removing sensitive data has been for much longer, e.g. VGS has a JS SDK and proxy to handle credit card data for you and keep you out of PCI scope.…

I'm surprised it's not mentioned yet, but this seems to compliment last year's acquisition of observability tool HyperDX[1] (part of ClickStack[2]) quite well. I'm in the market fo…

I know of https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy but it is not protocol aware, you might be able to add it yourself.

> This is one of the frustrating realities of these attacks: once the malware runs, identifying the source becomes extremely difficult. The package doesn't announce itself. The pnp…

> Using UUIDv7 is generally discouraged for security when the primary key is exposed to end users in external-facing applications or APIs. I would not call this “generally discoura…

The counter can always be 0, which is what cloud synced passkeys are doing IIRC.

We've used it for about a year - Blazer is okay if you need a quick SQL query console, but we found it lacking as a business intelligence tool. The support for graphs and dashboard…

> It would be quite unfortunate to end up with a UUID v7 in PostgreSQL that’s not quite the standardized one because the patch got merged too quickly. The chances of that seem extr…

Curious which DBs are "production ready" according to you, and how you define that exactly.

I'm aware - but that's hardly their first foray into the space is what I'm trying to say. I guess 'abandoning expansion' can be read multiple ways :)

Quickly? They acquired 6 River Systems and announced the Shopify Fulfillment Network back in 2019. The were some pivots along the way (using 3rd party vs building out own warehouse…

Things changed quite a bit since this quote from February 17: > “There’s no cuts coming for us,” Harley Finkelstein told The Canadian Press. “We’re in a really good place.” https:/…

Have you tried Tapioca ( https://github.com/Shopify/tapioca ) with Sorbet? Typing in general has ways to go sure, but I find this combination quite usable in my day to day.

Besides consent there is also the possibility of legitimate interest under the GDPR.

They were locked into long term leases anyway: https://storeys.com/shopify-the-well-toronto-office-space-su...

Agreed. The author is surprised by a major Ruby release on Christmas day (tradition for many years) and uses a lot of superlatives for no reason.

`Float(str, exception: false)` returns either float or nil.

ULID hits most of these, and can be converted to UUID for use with databases supporting this datatype (not a strong column): https://github.com/ulid/spec

The Basecamp folks feel that web and mobile are the same target: https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/native Rails doesn't stop you from building a backend for your React and React …

Tab stops are called out in the footnotes: > Never attempt to line up text by using spaces. The only exception is if you are using a monospaced font. But in word processing applica…