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djm_

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About djm_

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    Comment #48182770

    OpenAI is not Anthropic, the original comment is valid. Anthropic have bought out a tool their competitor used too, they even have an OpenAI case study still on the Stainless websi…

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    Comment #44384827

    You could do with using an LLM to make your site work on mobile.

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    Comment #36130102

    Same over here, we're down due to a deploy. Heroku Status green as grass. Edit: Good Twitter thread with some support replies [1] https://twitter.com/nunotomas/status/1663642609527…

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    Comment #35530587

    This is so important if you want to avoid incredibly gnarly race conditions. In particular for us: jobs being run even before the transaction has been fully committed to the databa…

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    Comment #35488672

    Dependabot is based on releases from the various package repositories; running of main is pre-release - hence they’re probably using GitHub Actions to pin their Gemfile-defined Rai…

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    Comment #34995846

    Correct. Which means if you’re taking deliveries it’s probably better to have a house number as you get validated more frequently.

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    Comment #34995605

    I remember working with SagePay as a payment provider back in 2008 (before we knew of Stripe!) and finding it interesting that card address validation was only done on the numbers …

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    Comment #34861211

    Fantastic write-up. This seems to me like a combination of multiple foot-guns, first being the Docker one - followed by the fact Mongo was not configured to authenticate the connec…

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    Comment #34496408

    Yes! And it’s actually not either/or for us, we still use Docker Compose to run our services (Redis, PostgreSQL, etc) that don’t require file syncing with the host. It’s good at th…

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    Comment #34493443

    As a Mac-using Python shop, we had serious file-sync performance issues when mounting our codebase inside a container via docker-compose. Nix completely freed us from them and allo…

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    Comment #34304033

    This looks great! If you're building CLI tooling in Elixir, you may also be interested in TableRex, my ASCII-table drawing library. [1] [1] https://github.com/djm/table_rex

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    Comment #31548192

    Did you miss the whole pandemic bit or are you too “disconnected from reality”?

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    Comment #30320993

    From experience, I can tell you that many people simply refer to this entire domain as CORS despite that S standing for Sharing. The Same Origin Policy is treated verbally more lik…

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    Comment #28691263

    There is a lot of movement in the offline-first/multiplayer space at the moment, after apps like Linear [1] & Figma [2] have pushed the paradigms. [1]: https://linear.app [2]: http…

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    Comment #27061552

    A solid set of changes and incredibly well presented for digesting what changed and why - congrats on the release!

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    Comment #25801616

    The post is about how they built their own internal API Gateway; it's not a product Digital Ocean offer (yet?).

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    Comment #25620935

    Yes, running pytest with the --pdb flag will drop you into the debugger on an unhandled exception which gets a comparable workflow but it's not quite the same as, a) writing tests …

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    Comment #24621344

    Followed you in case you ever do! I'm a big fan of Jackbox and I'd love to read about where CRDTs fit in your stack.

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    Comment #23880127

    Generally if a service was to keep them it would be to keep a history of passwords you may not use ever again. They wouldn't be available for use in authentication. Obviously this …

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    Comment #23065880

    Augmented Reality. Adding copy/paste as a feature to reality definitely falls under that banner.

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    Comment #22896931

    >latest hottest tech rarely make sense I would agree! But I'd also say that I believe Elixir has moved past this part of the curve and is seeing serious adoption amongst companies.…

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    Comment #21592721

    Re-read the first sentence.

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    Comment #21047410

    That screenshot likely shows a warm startup; while they've improved recently, from personal experience .NET has the worst cold startup times of all the officially supported languag…