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Why NATS over Kafka?

Not OP but I can’t leave jet brains until a double shift search everywhere is implemented.

I use the (now deprecated?) opus plan mode still. Sonnet 4.5 turns in less thought out plans than Opus. I wish codex cli tool wasn’t so super basic. Not even dedicated plan mode. V…

I book almost all my travel through capital one or Amex credit card points. Am I getting fleeced by not booking directly now?

I found setting up complex train networks in factorio pretty annoying. Your less than ideal designs can’t really be modified in dense areas without tearing up half the factory. I e…

That someone has iMessage on android without the remote device work around would have blown up regardless.

If you have some group that all understands and checks each other from the beginning, Ruby is probably great. However it was every startups default choice for a while, and those co…

Ruby meta programming is awesomely powerful, but also one of the main reasons I never want to work in another’s Ruby codebase again. There is always some developer who read some ar…

I imagine a FAANG salary allowing fully remote would be a very competitive position.

Even under an RTO mandate to a sinking ship, people will still go in. Who are are they going to run to? Nobody is hiring and paying the same rates unless your resume say AI.

I’m sure he’s tasked somebody to set up an IRC server.

Every time I see a recipe app, I wonder if it will stack up to Paprika. It never does. It parses every recipe website and the sync works perfectly.

B2 is a fantastic service. I upload everything I want backed up to a private bucket via Cyberduck. 0 issues for many years.

The feed is nothing but useless hustle porn. 99.99% of recruiter messages I get are offering the same position I have now, but at a less mature company. However I got my first soft…