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I see a lot of back and forth about postgres' suitability as a queuing system. I wonder if there's a couple of separable problems here. Postgres backed queues - even very scalable …

In the UK, pretty much zero. Nobody ever leaves their windows down when they leave their car.

Indeed. Real life hacks are beginning to sound like Neuromancer.

It says something about the state of the world that I was genuinely uncertain whether this was actually a joke right until the last paragraph. Very well done.

That's interesting and actually the opposite of mine. I wonder if it's stack or methodology dependant? For reference I'm usually using cursor and opus4.6 and for a bigger piece of …

I can't speak to this particular case, but most of the delay is likely to be organisational rather than technical at this kind of scale. Don't think about how hard it is to migrate…

How could that possibly, ever have made it through. Every single API for every single service didn't check the JWT?

I think the specific case of having a long conversation with an agent about what you're trying to achieve and why, and then have it update a README or a skill based on that convers…

That's usually because the system that runs those things is independent of the timing of the main game loop. And then when someone finally gets around to implementing the pause scr…

I hope most people have a broader definition of "relevance".

The reintroduction of Red Kites to the UK has been a huge success. I don't get particularly excited by birds normally, but regularly seeing such large creatures (almost 2m wingspan…

Just to sanity-check my reading of this: - Zustand exposes itself as a hook. - MobX does that observer-wrapper thing - Snapstate instead has an explicit writing step (`scoped()`) a…

I tend to use things like pyenv or nvm; they keep python and node versions in environments local to your user, rather than the system. `pip install x` then installs inside your pye…

It's fine, just not stellar. It was terrible (UX, speed, consistency) ten years ago. It's better now - mostly gets out of people's way and just works. It doesn't delight me.

Can anyone recommend good alternatives to Jira? Things that keep me defaulting to it: - Scales well from simple configuration and workflows to more complex multiboard views/custom …

I think there's definite scope for that being true; not because you can start doing stuff before you understand it (you can), but because you can ask questions of a codebase your u…

I think that we don't and can't know is part of the point

Serious question: what are those things from windows 95/98 I might miss? Rose tinted glasses perhaps, but I remember it as a very straightforward and consistent UI that provided gr…

Could you give a few examples? I'd lean towards adjusting tooling if you can. My spelling is often horrendous and I know it - but almost every dev I know of prefers to copy and pas…

Is there a way of getting them to store a dozen or so totp secrets? And if so, how do you select which one you want to use?

Cheaper for everything, ultimately. A triangle by definition is guaranteed to be co-planer; three vertices must describe a single flat plane. This means every triangle has a single…

And in case it helps further in the context of the article: traditional rendering pipelines for games don't render fuzzy Gaussian points, but triangles instead. Having the model tr…

I'm on mobile; I scrolled to the bottom and clicked the image of the painting and could zoom in to my heart's content - did it ask you for an account?

Fascinating reading: > The majority of developers are unacquainted with features such as processing instructions and entity expansions that XML inherited from SGML. At best they kn…

Nope, it's not a coincidence - it's an interesting exploration of the history of the definition of a metre. Read the article. As it says, at some point there was an attempt to stan…