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At 10:25am ET, HN is more up-to-date than Wikipedia (article hasn't been updated yet to reflect his passing).

We did this at OpsLevel a few years back. Went from AWS managed NAT gateway to fck-nat (Option 1 in the article). It’s a (small) moving part we now have to maintain. But it’s very …

When mosh came out back in 2013, it solved a pretty real problem of ssh crapping out when you changed networks (like moving from in-office to home). It solves it at the app layer a…

Totally fair to bring up IPv6 vs. IPv4. However, I think Tailscale’s approach might sidestep some of that pain. Avery (Tailscale CEO) has actually written about IPv6 in the past: -…

Can likewise confirm dblohm7 is a real human too :)

You're not wrong to think Tailscale is primarily a software company, and yes, salaries are a big part of any software company's costs. But it's definitely more complex than just pa…

I’m the CTO at OpsLevel, where we’ve been running a Rails monolith for ~6 years. We started on Rails 5, upgraded to 7, and are currently moving to 8. Before this, I worked on Rails…

Fair enough, but the system isn’t set up to optimize for the happiness of founders and employees. It’s set up to maximize returns, which agreed ends up concentrated in a very few r…

Dilbert... or any place that practices continuous delivery? Sounds like your current/previous companies have heavier weight release processes that reduces how often releases go out…

I thought Subversion was the answer to complaints about CVS? Then git followed afterwards. /s

It's great to see jq get some releases again. It's a big part of our check evaluation infra at OpsLevel.

I have to ask: how are you using this in prod?

BMath 2005 here. I worked with a bunch of smarter-than-me UW grads after graduating. My “how to write large systems” takeaway from that early point in my career was to focus on the…

Same here re: opt out. You tell the agent you want to opt out. They scream “Opt out!” at the top of their lungs. Then another agent takes you through the plexiglass door beside the…