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Protip: select the items in the canvas you want in your SS and 'copy to clipboard as PNG' instead of a screen shot and you can get transparent PNGs of diagrams or of detailed subse…

we have an excalidraw MCP for claude, it can easily do both :) (Excalidraw is basically just fancy SVG)

Excalidraw has a 1 click 'sloppiness' change. We do drafts and ideation in 'full sloppy' mode, to indicate to the reader that this is not fully thought through, or a final document…

Nah, they're still actively selling/implementing the backing service/tech for other orgs.

How do you sanitize hardware between workloads?

My clients (extremely large) AWS based infrastructure experienced no downtime this year. So, if it's based on some random person's clients, it's not clearly better at all. I don't …

I have some reaallllly bad news for you on that front.

Same capability is now just a storage class in S3.

Having more money than free time but still wanting a thing to get done. Lots of folks pay good money for hobbies (video games, golf fees, bicycle purchases, etc.).

“Everything but a phone” is a tiny tiny percentage of the devices used to consume content on YouTube. It’s not just mobile first, it’s basically only mobile…

There’s lots of those too.

Multiple large scale SAP S4/HANA workloads wasting electrons…

TAMs are super hit and miss. We’ve had great ones (hi Nick!) and not so great ones. ($7-10M/mo customer AWS spend, support is a complicated sliding scale % of that, gogo ES!). Non-…

The service teams don’t talk to each other…

Call it bad luck, but I’ve never had a fully successful restore. Drives eat tapes, drives are damaged and write bad data, robot arms die or malfunction. Tapes have NEVER worked for…

You know, it is possible that other folks feel the same way, and that can be taken into consideration. The meeting we hold is scheduled at the very end of the work day. It's a fun …

This is how group conversations happen in person at an office too. I think it's fine, and everybody has reported feeling more connected / less isolated during our periodic polls si…

We schedule a 2x a week 15-30 minute no-project-talk socialization meeting for our fully distributed team. It helps a LOT. We also have dedicated rambling channels in slack, active…

Shortening “Norfolk Southern” to “Norfolk” makes this confusing to read. Norfolk is a city (and former HQ of Norfolk Southern). “Union” isn’t shortened the same… Also, railroads ar…

Yeah, I was using Novell DirXML to do XSLT processing of inbound/outbound data in 2000 ( https://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/ana20000701.h... ) for directory services st…

Disable anti-tracking features and ad blocks, it turns out cookies and temp storage for ad tracking are how IDPs track your choice to trust the device too.

That’s not what the talk is about - it’s using dbms query error logs to spot attackers. Stuff like “table doesn’t exist” or “invalid syntax” on your production database can be extr…

Zane Lackey (with Dan Kaminsky) gave a talk that discussed doing literally that sort of things, back in 2013. Zane went on to found Signal Sciences (acquired by Fastly), doing this…

It’s regulatory capture for large well resourced companies - keeps the smaller players off the field and unable to scale.

That's uh, not running out of power in the middle of the write. That's having extra special backup power to finish the write. If your battery dies mid cache-write-out, you're still…