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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch In this context it means upon a successful backup, update a timestamp somewhere. Some other system monitors the timestamp and if i…

I read that post back in the day and have remembered it ever since, and used it as a basis for the process at my current employment. Thank you! (For those interested: https://sockp…

I view this use of AI as a type of denial of service attack. Alice sends Bob a wall of text (low effort) and Bob must parse it (high effort, yet probably no value received for the …

"Pacific time" is going to be so confusing though. Should have just called it Yukon Standard Time, since that's already a thing, at least informally. Cause that would not be confus…

Location: Kelowna area, BC, Canada Remote: Yep Willing to relocate: Nope Technologies: Linux, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, SaltStack, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Pyt…

It wasn't for no reason at all though. There were concerns about availability of yeast, which isn't used in sourdough. (Valid concerns or not, I have no idea.)

Yesterday my manager sent LLM-generated code that did a thing. Of course I didn't read it, I only read Claude's summary of it. Then I died a little inside. It was especially unfort…

Agreed- just a month ago I told my team to read https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... and note how Spolsky knew the details of his application (weird date…

I installed CodeRabbit for our reviews in GitLab and am pretty happy with the results, especially considering the low price ($15/user/mo I think). It regularly finds problems, incl…

I was driving home with my family from a long trip having just bought a really cool camping trailer, a 1979 Airstream. Our vehicle died on the side of the road in a rural area. The…

I'm an avid HTMX user but never did I ever think "I'm using so many includes, I wish I didn't have to use include so much." What I would like is a way to cut down the sprawl of url…

This is a great quote for the topic, but the quote is normally about a bridge that barely stands. I'm chuckling at the thought of barely building something. (All in good fun, thank…

I distinctly recall early in my first university programming courses the instructor saying something to the effect of "Just wait until you learn 'public static void main'". I think…

As someone who previously led development of a commercial VPN system, I assure you, there are about 100 ways for a VPN to go slower than the network hosting it. Unfortunately. Two …

> The rapid growth of revenue of AI model companies, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. You can't use growth of AI companies as evidence to refute the article. The premise is that it's a bubb…

Tufte also had a lot to say about the Challenger disaster, which predates Powerpoint but not the visual display of information. Found the chapter here: https://williamwolff.org/wp-…

With regards to wrapping your head around heat loss- this winter some work was done on our property while there was snow on the ground. A bunch of snow got covered in dirt. In the …

Yes although somewhere there will be an `if` statement to determine if the process being started should get the complete environment or a key to get the other keys or whatever. Bes…