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To have the best of all worlds: - your own blog on a domain you control - effortless crossposting to bluesky, mastodon, threads, linkedin, and others Then micro.blog is a great sol…

This does not appear to be a total outage. I cannot reach any of our sites, and Pingdom also reports we are down, however, I can see normal looking traffic reaching our servers (vi…

Heroku apps are down, but API access is available. Might be a good time to run: heroku pg:backups:download

It's not about tech point scoring, it's about quickly solving a problem. Specifically how can my customers on IPv6-only networks reach my service hosted on Heroku (which does not s…

I've also found this Geekflare tool to be useful to test the IPv6 compatibility of any domain/URL. https://gf.dev/ipv6-test Geekflare ( https://gf.dev/ ) has several other useful t…

The need for IPv6 support is real! This site: https://whynoipv6.com/country/us -- provides a "wall of shame" summary of sites that do not yet fully support IPv6, in order of Alexa …

I'm working on a project with some offline data synchronization needs, but haven't started implementation yet. I've been following CRDTs with interest. I also saw many of the same …

This is a good time to point out Micro.blog, an independent publishing platform designed to empower publishers and protect privacy. (Not my work, but I'm a fan) Check it out: https…

Yeah, I struggle with this. Often when I see someone my brain doesn't present single name match, more often I have a list of potential matches in my head. e.g. "Scott or Rob" -- so…

I'm pretty bad at remembering names, but my wife and I have worked out a system. If we're in a social setting together and I start to introduce her "have you met my wife..." she wi…

I worked on a project that required some pretty standard line charts, but with the addition of an overlaid set of horizontal "benchmark" lines -- and some callouts. After strugglin…

Sounds like an issue for the board of directors. Do you have a board of directors? If so, I suggest reaching out directly to board members one-on-one to raise these issues with the…

Ember is the PostgreSQL of JavaScript frameworks. Similar to the way Postgres has deep roots that trace back to Ingres[1] in the days before SQL was a solidly established standard,…

The wikipedia page on Subjective Logic goes into more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_logic

The most important agile practice, imho, is far and away the Retrospective. A good retrospective process will fix all other problems. In the post, you sort of dismiss it out of han…

Actually, this was the topic of my thesis for my Master's degree. Link: http://flowdelic.com/2005/03/03/learning-from-open-source/ Abstract: In this paper, I study the workings of …

While you cannot ssh directly, you can get a bash shell on a heroku dyno quite easily by running: heroku run bash This can be very handy for debugging. That said, heroku will spin …

Thanks, and glad my comment helped. Startups are REALLY FREAKING HARD, but you are not alone. ;-) Good luck!

In my opinion, the hardest question really is when should you throw in the towel? There certainly are a lot of zombie companies out there with founders toiling away on "bad" ideas …

Austin, Texas -- remote considered Are you interested in helping families be healthier and happier? You're in luck! SwimTopia is looking for Rails and front-end web developers. Swi…

FYI - the intarray contrib module for Postgres does support indexing of arrays of integers. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/intarray.html#AEN1... And it happens to use bl…

Using a custom index implementation that uses bloom filters internally is probably going to work out better in the long run. It should be way more efficient than storing the data i…