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lnsp

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About lnsp

portfolio: espe.tech github: github.com/lnsp

currently interested in databases, distributed systems, infrastructure

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    Valar: https://valar.dev It's kinda like a private SaaS platform. I just run it for me and a couple of friends right now and just hosting a ton of little fun side projects on it. e…

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    As far as I understood it: the premise of added security is based on the fact that the other WebRTC peers only see Cloudflare's IP instead of your own. Also nobody knows who you ar…

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    Cloudflare provides an immense value for small sites. Doing DDoS protection with specialized firewall hardware was one of the most expensive things you could do, so it wasn't reall…

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    Great to see new features being implemented. I'm using DuckDB for a thesis project and integrating it into my own Python CLI/web tool has been super easy -- I especially love the d…

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    I got a - main desktop PC (AMD Ryzen 5950X, 64GB, 2TB SSD) I use for basically everything when I'm doing stuff at home (dual boot Linux/Windows) - a recent 2021 14" MacBook Pro (wh…

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    > Litestream has a new home at Fly.io, but it is and always will be an open-source project. My plan for the next several years is to keep making it more useful, no matter where you…

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    I guess in the long term the product will at least pay for itself, in the short term it will just be a marketing campaign and gives people a good reason to switch from their Amazon…

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    I discovered this book today and have been reading it all afternoon. The interviews with Brad Fitzpatrick and Peter Norvig are very entertaining (and informative)!

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    Isn't this solved by a large scale find-and-replace for existing scripts? Sure, the changes can be inconvenient but it's not like a major API change or something. They've also been…

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    TLDR: Your Let's Encrypt certificate may have an RSA private key. Go's TLS implementation is far better optimized for ECDSA keys. Switching from RSA to ECDSA saves about 95% of CPU…

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    According to GH Status ( https://www.githubstatus.com/ ), everything is fine. Gotta love functional status pages. edit: Nevermind, they just reported "degraded performance" for Git…

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    I came across this course after going through the 6.824 from RTM last year and enjoying the hands on approach a lot! Teaching using the xv6 OS ( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/20…

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    Isn't the Tech Titan comparison graph misleading? I mean sure, TSMC has a higher market capitalization than Nvidia, however TSMC only does manufacturing of chips but doesn't design…

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    You can control locality for some parts of Cloudflare's offering [1], so I guess if you want to comply with the privacy shield stuff, you would have to ensure that the data is stor…

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    Martin Kleppmann (known for the Building Data-Intensive Applications book) gave a lecture on Raft a year ago [0], it remains my absolute favorite explanation of the algorithm. [0] …