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joeblubaugh

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About joeblubaugh

Software Engineer @ Grafana, located in Singapore

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49092115

    Can’t compete, time to complain.

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    Comment #49066430

    This is a US citizen, so that’s a moot point

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    Comment #48979179

    This is exactly what the EU does for foreigners entering

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    Comment #48549213

    I have some doubts about San Francisco’s ability to run a provider well, given the long history of corruption in city service providers and permitting agencies.

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    Comment #48498466

    Hardware timelines are long. I doubt they could have switched in less than three years regardless.

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    Comment #48469919

    60 invocations / second across all tenants

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    Comment #48176909

    It’s hard to enforce on developer machines - there are lots of ways to install npm even if you never use it for managing development dependencies.

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    Comment #48156292

    There has been a lot of pain at my various jobs installing a safe global npm config on every developer machine, asking people not to disable it, checking it with mdm tools. A safer…

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    Comment #48156271

    It’s very slick, but I would be interested to know how separable the UI and the data layer are. I love vim but asking a collaborative group to all use a TUI is difficult. A local w…

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    Comment #47608436

    Good luck to the astronauts https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....

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    Comment #47419868

    In fact it was “the Java way” for many years and “useless getters” was always a big complaint about Java.

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    Comment #47406680

    Barbara O’Neill promotes baking soda injections as a cancer cure and encourages people not to use antibiotics because she thinks they cause cancer. She’s a dimwit.

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    Comment #47227443

    This has recently been updated: > Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone str…

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    Comment #47021722

    I vibe-coded a simple neovim lua plugin very recently. It worked well! https://joeblu.com/blog/2026_01_introducing-nvim-beads-manag...

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    Comment #47010245

    Yes - you can hang multiple hooks per line. You can use more lines. I was at the Rijksmuseum recently and they use a wire system like this for all manner of configurations

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    Comment #46508002

    please delete - dead link

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