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The headline could also be “Google is deprecating older Widevine CDM versions”, which is a regular process. Whether or not the playback error rate of your product significantly spi…

The public Go code I usually read are libraries and I admit I also noticed only a little adoption of generics. My personal hypothesis is that many libraries follow the official Go …

For me, a language or tech stack is not more than a tool box to achieve a higher goal, namely solving specific problems. While I do enjoy building software, "writing code" or maste…

Netflix is able to track when viewers jump off in an episode. I’m wondering whether this information will be used soon to retroactively optimize the story line.

Actually this is Hetzner’s second attempt offering Arm-based dedicated servers. They launched the AX10 model[1] in 2015[2]. It seems like they started to use the “AX” prefix for th…

If you’re self-hosting your mail server and if you are using Postfix, changing recipient_delimiter could do the job without regex. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#recipient_…

Fully agree here: I don’t expect anything else but reliable and performant HTTP caching from a CDN like CloudFront. Request manipulation is not the duty of a cache - even though ot…

If you have trouble logging in to AWS Console, you can use a regional console endpoint such as https://eu-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/

I noticed last year that using a standing desk (in lifted position) half of the day helps me to focus significantly.

They’re commonly used at API boundaries to pass cancellation signals and deadlines. The Go blog has always good insights and details around things like this: https://go.dev/blog/co…

Functions is cheaper than Lambda@Edge ($0.10 per 1M invocations vs. $0.60 per 1M invocations + duration pricing) but limited to lightweight request manipulation purposes.

Since I’m using a password manager, I’m generating >24 digit passwords, because I’ll never have to type them. You would be surprised how many websites cut everything after 24/32 di…

I don’t expect software to fail generally, but I’m getting used to a recurring stimulus quickly, especially if I underestimate its importance. Perhaps it’s a kind of habituation. I…