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Working on a 5 min multiplayer dungeon https://escapethe.app which the kids say “is actually fun”. And taking a second crack at a feature flags with https://quonfig.com because I s…

always this. I had a $5/month thing. Made a $20/month option that barely had more features. Sold lotsa seats. Rewrote it. $10 and $50 plans. $50 is most popular. But a day after I …

Man, glad I chose WorkOS instead. I’ve been a happy camper there but have wondered about Clerk bc it felt hotter. Turns out hot isn’t always good.

I used GSD for a bit. It was helpful for a side project where I constantly forgot where I was in implementation. Helpful to be able to just say "Do the next thing" I would imagine …

the duration one in particular bugs me. I work on a dynamic configuration system and i was super happy when we added proper duration support. we took the approach of storing in iso…

I've done 100s of interviews over the years. But haven't been doing any for the past 3. But now we're scaling, so need to figure out how to do a technical interview again. But... m…

There is something too this, though jumping all the way to DIY is unnecessary. Context: I run a FF company ( https://prefab.cloud/ ) There are multiple distinct benefits to be had …

If I could go back in time I would stop myself from ever learning about gRPC. I was so into the dream, but years later way too many headaches. Don’t do it to yourself. Saying gRPC …

Spanner has been a terrific part of our architecture. It's a great piece of tech and very impressive from a cost/scalability/ease-of-use perspective. It's particularly worth taking…

This is such an awesome idea. I remember spending an extra $30 to at 2am to overnight "Gripe Water" in the hope that it would get my kid to sleep. #takeMyMoney

"A breakpoint for logging is usually scalability, because they are expensive to store and index." I hope 2024 is the year where we realize that if we make the log levels dynamicall…

I have such a distinct memory of being at a friend's house and seeing the California raisins. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Feels like 100 years ago.

Perplexity has definitely stolen >10% of my search traffic. Just got meta glasses. Curious whether they'll steal another 15% of my traffic. Primarily the "looking up a random fact …

“But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was.” If you’re lookin for a book that has absolutely kept this sense of wonder, “Immune” by Philipp Dettmer has this i…

super easy. fun to play with. fast. we screwed around with it on a live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/3YhBoox4JvQ?si=dkni5LY3EALnWVuE... If you're writing something that wil…

I had a day of it last week, debugging Rails / Kubernetes / Memory usage & OOM kills. I wrote it up so that maybe you can avoid my fate. I won't spoil the surprise, but I did end u…

Jeffrey & I build a rate limiter in Ruby: - visualizing a rate limiter - leaky bucket vs token bucket - capacity vs rate - dynamic rate limits - use cases for rate limits

So yeah, some assorted thoughts: 1. Some of these are primarily updated in a UI, some are driven from some other system. Flags are customer UI, but Auth is often customer's custome…

100% I'm really interested in getting stronger opinions here about how to set people up for success. Being the founder of a feature flag company I feel like I'm a rope dealer. I'm …

yes, this is needed too. Specifically for real usage based systems, how do we get these limits to apply all the way down to our API rate limits / filters? And how do we output the …

Totally agree on the response time. OpenAI etc have been non starters for me. I'm excited/experimenting with attaching https://ollama.com/ though. It is so much faster it's startin…