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> No one is ever going back and reading individual commits I do, regularly! In a repository where care has been taken, it can be super valuable when tracking down a bug or regressi…

The article is wrong, the PDF spec has introduced breaking changes plenty of times. It’s done slowly and conservatively though, particularly now that the format is an ISO spec. The…

Viewable without logging in to x though, and shareable on fediverse

Via fediverse, for those not on x: https://bird.makeup/users/penpizzareport/statuses/2007347706...

interesting idea, good on them for trying something different in the Ruby ecosystem. The website is quite extensive, but the gem only has ~1.5k downloads. It’s presumably very earl…

At a previous employer we did this with our docs repo. The public docs site was managed and deployed via a private GitHub repository, and we had a public GitHub repo that mirrored …

Since 2024 you can disable the root credentials on all accounts except the Organization management account: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/centrally-managing-root-acc... I don't …

Not really a new vulnerability, and yet Notion just shipped it this week. All caution thrown to the wind in the name of an announce-able AI feature

See also: https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/19/goodbye-rubygems/

I live in Melbourne (on Jemena’s distribution network) and this isn’t my experience. Our power is very reliable and rarely goes out. Every few years a car hits a pole or something …

Related content: Corey Quinn on the AWS GenAI obsession https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-genai-services/

If you’re still looking for an alternative, https://dnsimple.com is an excellent engineer focused no bullshit domain registrar and they support .co.za

Implicit or explicit, I’m OK with the global namespace. On paper it’s awkward, but in reality convention and social norms make it rarely an issue. The global namespace only support…

I've never used aurora serverless v1, so I'd somehow never heard of the RDS data API before this. It seems like it'd be useful in some cases, particularly because connection poolin…

They were. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/12/amazon-au...

I'm not the author but I work at the same company. None of our systems require perfect ordering of IDs generated across our distributed system. Most of the system was built with ra…

I'm not the author, but I work at the same company. ULIDs are nice, but we're a 10 year old company with many TBs of data across multiple logical databases and most rows had UUIDv4…