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I'm working on a self-hosted open source system for monitoring and alerting on stalled / crashed / overdue asynchronous workflows. I had some weird things I needed to monitor and l…

I'm working on a self-hosted open source system for monitoring and alerting on stalled / crashed / overdue asynchronous workflows. I had some weird things I needed to monitor and l…

“Do you expect me to code?” “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to prompt!”

You’d think that, right, but even cities that welcome businesses are having a hard time. Even Dallas is at like 30% empty office space. I’m sure the factors are different for every…

I totally agree on the healthcare thing, a few years ago I was working as an independent contractor and my health insurance premiums were almost $25k a year, for a plan with a $6.5…

I'm still in the prompt response loop of learning how to be more effective with it, but I've found that what works for me is to approach a project the same way I would if I was wri…

> I read somewhere that almost every very successful person’s results can be attributed to 2-3 tricks that they consistently apply to great effect. This entirely. I've been CTO at …

Some of this old stuff is really interesting - I used to live in Wisconsin and there was this place called “Crex Meadows” near my house which was a wildlife area but the name seeme…

It was more like some kind of credit thing, not tokens.

Within a few weeks of telling people at our company that if they don’t use AI they will be replaced by someone who does, they just announced that their allocation with ChatGPT has …

Not to mention all the great deals on expresso machines, lmao.

I miss the whole dot-com boom era - that was the best. I was working in Austin at the time and would drive to work down a road that was lined with all the latest dot-com goodness l…

I'm curious how they would know - can't someone just tell Claude not to use excessive comments and write code that matches the style and conventions of the codebase it's being used…

I'm in that boat - my current employer recently announced that they are tracking AI usage across the company and if you're not using enough AI you will be "replaced by someone who …

The weirdest insects I've seen in real life are these ones called Burying Beetles - they have chemoreceptors that allow them to detect the odor of a dead mouse from as far away as …

But this too shall pass, it used to be you were dependent on a subscription to just have access to a computer itself (mainframe) and now we all have one in our pockets. I’m sure so…

This looks amazing, we've been using Postgres in production for the last two years on a fairly high-volume system and it's been fantastic.

I have a Lenovo Legion and a Macbook Pro - I've had to restart the mac a couple of times due to VPN issues with work, but the Lenovo has probably been running for a few months.

Thanks, appreciate it!

I just finished building an open-source project using SQLite, and this makes me a little nervous. Is SQLite generally considered a reliable system? I've only had one experience wit…

Right, I find that AI tools combined with solid domain knowledge are incredibly effective. Yeah, if you try to one-shot a complex distributed system you'll end up with a mess, but …

"They cluster around exactly the parts of engineering that take sustained operational experience, the idempotency key that keeps two racing requests from corrupting state, the back…

I needed to quit drinking caffeine and my wife decided to just start transitioning me onto decaf without telling me, each week mixing a little more into the regular coffee bean can…

I'm not sure - like I said, it's just a friend's speculation, but when you consider how far AI has come in the past four years it's not hard to believe that it will simply continue…

How will the customers know? And if it does what they need it to do, then why would they even care?