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We used `pgdog` as a proxy during a recent database backend migration (Heroku -> EC2 -> RDS) and it was much smoother than PgBouncer. Really nice seeing more things in this space, …

To follow up here, it sure sounds like Andre is not entirely acting in good faith. https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-org-aws-root-access-ev... discusses that a precipitating ev…

TBH the whole thing is pretty opaque. There are a lot of accusations floating around. It's pretty easily to capitalize on "Big evil shopify is making a takeover", but I suspect the…

Given some of the ways Andre Arko gets described (See https://justin.searls.co/posts/why-im-not-rushing-to-take-si... for a recent overview) I'm a little wary of what the motivatio…

Given some of the ways Andre Arko gets described (See https://justin.searls.co/posts/why-im-not-rushing-to-take-si... for a recent overview) I'm a little wary of what the motivatio…

I remember this differently. SVN had great _branching_ but horrific merge support. They resisted improvements to merging, because they wanted something theoretically perfect. Git c…

Are there details about how key management works? Where are the keys stored, what has access to them, etc? Because this tweet is empty hype.

In a different vein, https://www.redactle.com is a fun wikipedia game

For calculator languages, I think there are several choices. Depends a bit on what you know, and what you need... Frink ( https://frinklang.org/ ) has been around for ages, and is …

It often does -- basically whatever information you had, that subjected you to it, is still meaningful for a length of time. Depends on the details.

Kolide -- Go Software Engineer -- US based, Full REMOTE https://www.kolide.com/company/jobs/4134612004 We're a small startup building device management tools. We believe strongly i…

See comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29551572

What about this does not feel like a postgres use case?

It's neat to see this! But somehow, an RPM based distro, that solely documents its instructions for Ubuntu feels very something.

For AWS and GCP you can setup cross-project permissions. I've run a single project of secrets, which grants specific access to various service accounts

This feels like a somewhat narrow and biased comparison. It is focused around getting startup credits, and while that's important, I think it's a very limited view of onboarding. B…

This is super exciting. Apple has been moving away from kernel extensions. This is basically a user space replacement for Google Santa

(commented above -- https://github.com/kolide/kit/tree/master/munemo )

(commented above -- https://github.com/kolide/kit/tree/master/munemo )

https://github.com/kolide/kit/tree/master/munemo Implements two dialects. An original one compatible with the inspiration, and used in some of our earlier product. And the replacem…

I'm fond us using a base100, made of up 2 letter syllables. It results in a vaguely pronounceable string. For syllables, I use: syllables: %w[ ba be bi bo bu ca ce ci co cu da de d…