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jenkins running on an old Dell under a desk from someone who left the company 18 months ago looks more reliable these days haha

nope, 6 hours, nothing. I guess they are also load shedding

wasn't that years ago? or was that Skype? hahaha

911 has one! :)

Dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198302

A few friendly suggestions: - Building a floor and then the room/office is a bit annoying…. Should auto build the floor (like Sim Tower) - Stairs are difficult to build, it should …

I played it earlier. Quite enjoyed it (GitHub issues)... Reminded me of my childhood. Gameplay was a bit wonky, some issues. I saw the OP was posting here looking for comments, I w…

Mon and Dad (MS) are (generally) pretty solid with uptime. What is happening at GH? Rate of change trying to keep up with new challengers? Over-reliance on AI? Engineers trying to …

It's been hours :( I have sympathy for the on-call team trying to resolve it, most of us have been there done that. But seems something is systematically going wrong at GH

Campaign pushing for end to developers ending video games by withdrawing online support

Agree with the above, we built and run a ticketing platform, the actual transaction of purchasing the ticket at the final step in the funnel is not the bottleneck. The shopping pro…

Yes, I was wondering what is to stop you replaying the same PoW multiple times. All I can find is: To prevent the vulnerability of “replay attacks,” where a client resubmits the sa…

For me (where our BE consists of maybe 100 endpoints) we’ve found the sweet spot to be Google AppEngine. Incredibly simple to deploy, we don’t really need to manage infrastructure …

My use cases are probably regarded as small/medium, which need a handful of instances running, which you can effectively scale down to zero with Googles free tier (basically allows…

I think appengine is one of the most underrated "serverless" offerings out there. I deploy everything on it, with almost zero concern about infra or server architecture

I could deploy to production 30 times a minute! haha :)

Using vi to update the .html directly on the production server (and this wasn't a personal website)... simpler times :)

Ireland is generating 75% renewable today also! https://www.eirgrid.ie/grid/real-time-system-information