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Semi-related piece of advice for younger folks: When you join a new team, don't try to change team tools, processes etc. starting in the very first week. Most things are the way th…

In my company, some users' OAuth-with-GitHub browser flows are failing since this morning. The users can obtain a token but then certain GitHub API calls are returning non-200 or e…

I've heard stories like "fine, we'll take your debit card, but only if you also pay a non-reimboursable $$$ deposit in cash" for car rental. (Mostly in central/eastern Europe.) (Fr…

The animations and comparisons of current vehicles with two-three decades ago are extremely informative indeed.

I don't believe so do for two reasons: - everyone assumes their program / website is the only thing running at the machine at a given time, and dev machines are always more powerfu…

Talking the "Sleep" button... Back in 2000s, there were some popular cheap external keyboards with three extra buttons between the delete/end/pgdown row, and the arrows. The first …

I used to check a few times per month, but recently the number of submissions went through the roof, which makes me less likely to check.

One annoying thing is that those "non-standard" ETF variants have much higher management costs than basic S&P500 / All World ETFs.

Note: it's about Bolt.com (fintech), not Bolt.eu (taxi).

> ... While most enterprises were nationalized, authorities gave permission to small-scale private workshops like his to operate Fun story: the city of Nowy Sącz (80,000 habitants)…

There's a famous table with what Brits say vs mean: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/ha0rz/britis... e.g. "very interesting" -> "clearly nonsense"

I have the same observation, when I need to ask someone to repeat, it's usually not because I didn't hear the sound, it's that my brain CPU struggled to process and decode the soun…

Reminded me of this old, pre-LLM git docs generator: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

According to [0] the military was basically doing under-the-radar preparations in the last few weeks before the attack, because the official narrative was that nothing's gonna happ…

I tend to document some tricky non-obvious pieces of knowledge directly above the relevant code. "We have to do X below instead of obvious-first-idea-Y because Z". Any time a refac…

My favorite are the systems where you can only issue one token, so that you can't do a zero downtime rotation by creating new one, making it active in your system, and only then re…

I always wanted to make feature flags system where each FF must declare an expiration date max 1 year in the future and start failing CI beyond that date to force someone to reeval…

FWIW, IBM has been increasing TPF costs dramatically since mid 2000s, which prompted the GDSes to go through decade-plus efforts to migrate away from it, to the cloud.

> 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data Just FYI how this generally works: it's not developers who add it, but non-technical people. Developers only add a single ` ` in the…

"Everything is beta or deprecated."

Semi-related, something that kind of irritates me is the usage of "as" in online newspapers headlines: "$Something-is-happening as $Something-else-is-happening" It's usually writte…

One correction about interviews: if the interviewee comes up with an overengineered solution without asking any questions, it's definitely a red flag. In a good interview, the inte…