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The fact that it is both the end of coding as we know it and also just another tool is essentially the point of the post. It doesn’t quite come through in the title.

Author here - this kinda feels like a controversial take, because so much productivity advice seems to focus on blocking out distractions. I'm not sure that it is though? Every hig…

> supports but ignores type annotations That’s how TS works too though - compilation just strips the types via babel etc, with type checking a separate process. You opt in file by …

That sounds like a query planner… but it’s fundamentally not really what dynamodb is about. Query planners are amazing but the tradeoff is unpredictable performance - dependent on …

In New Zealand - most layoffs I’ve heard about have been US companies trimming offshore staff. At least one high profile local startup has laid people off though. Speaking as a hir…

The author isn’t claiming that micromanaging is good - it’s not. But I wholeheartedly agree that it’s better than being absent. Good leaders create great things by caring about the…

We used to use pgtap extensively, but ended up removing it in favour of testing queries as part our regular nodejs application tests, via a db client - the ergomonics of the test t…

Out of interest are you deploying exactly the same software to each instance? Or are there customisations? My work deploys an instance per customer, and I haven’t encountered the s…

Sounds like a “surf” truck? https://surfskate.love/surfskate-trucks/

It tells you how difficult the rapid is to paddle - 1 being basically flat water, 5 generally the highest that can be paddled. This website explains it https://gopaddling.info/rive…

There’s a lot of value in keeping data in the same format everywhere. Why “munge” it into some other format if there’s no actual need?

“Flexibility” isn’t why nosql patterns are useful - at least not in the sense of fewer constraints on your data. Imagine you’re writing an editing interface of some sort with image…

Check out migra[1] - it covers most of that. One notable omission is column-level grants though - as far as I know changes to those aren’t detected [1] https://github.com/djrobstep…

Neither have a positive return as far as the gambler/insuree is concerned, if they do, they casino/insurer will not stay in business for long! The difference is that one has a pote…

Not apocryphal :) https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/what-makes-people-do-what-t...

They mentioned that most of the services are on-demand pricing, that’s why it’s cheap for a personal instance. Production presumably costs much more due to much higher usage.

fwiw plenty of overseas companies are hiring remotely in NZ these days, some explicitly eg atlassian, gitlab, but anecdotally, many others are willing to hire here even though thei…

IMO the best way to use this is as a way to determine what’s changed between your canonical dB schema (well organised and easily understood DDL) and migrations (which are what gets…

We do get very occasional issues in our React app, but not enough to outweigh the benefits of things staying up to date.

I used to do this before I discovered renovate [1] - now we spend time working on major upgrades but minor are generally automatic (assuming they pass tests) [1]: https://github.co…

Ah ok, interesting - I haven't tried Aurora, my company uses a mixture of RDS postgres and Dynamo. Cockroachdb and Yugabyte also seem like good options but a harder sell for us not…

Out of interest, have you considered moving to a "serverless" db like Aurora Postgres or even DynamoDb, to avoid the cost of unused database capacity at idle times?

I’ve heard lots of people claim that yarn gives no advantage over npm anymore, as of a year or two ago. But in 5 or so years of using yarn every day, on numerous projects, I’ve pro…

I heard an interesting comment recently from Derek Collison (creator of NATS[1]) that durability and delivery requirements can have the unwanted side-effect that one consumer can a…