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Yeah, I just discovered this and was also amazed. https://decasia.org/tech/2026/02/raise-not-a-reserved-word.h... This being said, I don't think there is any requirement technicall…

It's a neat project. Write cross platform desktop apps in C. Presumably it would not have been very usable in practice in the late 1980s, because of all the OTHER system interfaces…

I had a long conversation with a fellow parent sitting next to me at soccer practice today. Never met her before in my life, but we just started chatting about soccer logistics, an…

Counterpoint: I thought it was a useful analysis — I was very disappointed when the local Joann's closed and this added a bunch of context I would not have had otherwise.

Strongly agreeing with this comment… I realized early on in my enterprise software job that if I produce code faster than average for my team, it will just get stuck in the rest of…

This reminds me exactly of "The Art of Turboing"[1] [1] https://www.macwhiz.com/blog/art-of-turboing/

I thought this was a really good piece of writing. It’s rare to do something like this because the job discourages it by putting PR filters on everything you say. My uncle was a pr…

My current org uses this: https://libyear.com/

I misinterpreted the title and was hoping that this was going to be a post about realtime algorithmic music generation from the Postgres WAL, something like the Hatnote “listen to …

Agreeing with most of the other comments here that this discussion needs more context which we don't have... If the request for additional access controls/access cleanup came from …

I have a toy web application that accepts a very, very low rate of writes. It's almost all reads. It is implemented like this: - The front end uses react to draw a UI. - It fetches…

“If the devotion scholars feel toward their work is intense and sometimes irrational, it’s because this is one of the last spaces of unalienated labor” Speaking as a former academi…

Remind me to stick to my hyperlocal fast food restaurant that only has one location and probably doesn't record every conversation you have with them or use any of the other gross …

To be clear - this isn't an endorsement on my part, just observations of why cloud-only deployment seems common. I guess we shouldn't neglect the pressure towards resume-oriented d…

Regardless of the cost and capacity analysis, it's just hard to fight the industry trends. The benefits of "just don't think about hardware" are real. I think there is a school of …

About this, I noticed a relatively prominent gem maintainer publicly announcing his efforts to avoid rubygems security measures: > I'll try to get a unicorn 7.x release soon but te…

For what it's worth, I really enjoyed "Traceroute Isn't Real." I have noticed for quite a while that the data from it is at best patchy, often apparently meaningless. So it's helpf…

I spent a few years trying to work on legacy PHP systems. Would never take another job using it if I had any choice. Most large tech companies do not have large PHP codebases, and …

I was trying to reinstall my rear wheel the other day after removing a bike trailer. I apparently didn't tighten it down enough and the wheel came out of the brackets as soon as I …

Just in case you ever had any doubts about whether baseline competence or domain knowledge were important in technical leadership (and yes, I would consider disaster response a kin…

We aren't expecting LLMs to come up with incredibly creative software designs right now, we are expecting them to execute conventional best practices based on common patterns. So i…

> Information loss is an inherent property of large organizations. That's such an interesting axiom, I'm curious if you would want to say more about it? It feels right intuitively …

It basically is like having politically motivated human chaos monkeys running around the data center randomly killing systems and seeing whether anyone notices.