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The one I saw most recently was working with an SRE coworker. Data in what looks like a table, in this case a subdomain/IP address, that overflows the cell gets cut off with no abi…

Yes. We’re beginning the process of moving away because of how they’ve become a single point failure that’s unreliable. AWS is more reliable and it’s a bad spot to be in when your …

These acquisition announcements always leave me uneasy. There’s a lot of hand waving, “nothing will change and our roadmap will stay the same!” but we can all do basic math and und…

Same, we got an email with a PDF with the affected commits and how to fix. What an absolute clown show.

I'm not a journalist so I don't have any interest in "telling you what happened," but the note about commits after the firestorm is a good one.

I haven't posted in a while, but: https://www.nickolinger.com/

I lived in Japan and your level of written fluency paired with the patience to distill aspects of Japanese culture strikes me as AI. Even amongst long time foreigners, there’s this…

Only on HN is there a “well, actually” with little substance followed by a comment about a launch. The article isn’t about writing production ready agents, so it does appear to be …

I don’t really see what’s newsworthy. Acela already runs in the NE corridor and many trains have outlets. Other than the 27% increase in trains, it’s hard to tell what’s different

I’m not creating a medium account to read the entire article, but I read plenty of bad code while living in Japan — as a full-time employee, a contractor, and open source projects.…

I’m mixed about Next.js. On one hand, it’s a company building a framework with investors, of course there are incentives for them to corner the market. Like the author mentions, Re…

I think linux + osx combined is probably developer majority. I'm assuming most Windows development is .NET or Unity based. Over the past nine years, I've worked primarily with Node…

I passionately disagree with this. Abstractions inherently introduce some level of opaqueness and it's only useful in the context of making things more maintainable. Duplicated cod…

https://nickolinger.com I post infrequently but try to keep it interesting

I chose TypeScript for a large project for the first time in early ~2018 and had no idea how much history I had missed. I presumed that the adoption was the other way around and th…

I'm currently on one. Was very burnt out from high stress environments and not practicing enough self care for the past five years. I experienced daily bouts of mild to intense anx…

In my experience, using a service like Cloudflare or Fastly creates a gap between what you're working with locally and in pre-production environments. It quickly becomes a single p…

Like others have mentioned, this seems to be from ~2016. The lack of HTTPS on the provided link ages this some for me, but the use of coffeescript really dates this[1]. I even thou…

JS land really needs to take some notes on how Rust and Go handle major versions, i.e. avoid them if possible. Breaking changes may be progress for tooling but for end users it's u…

Looks neat, but couldn't do this basic request: "write a flask endpoint to calculate pi"

Very wide range depending on the company. Startups and the like $200K/yr+ and equity. The equivalent at Google is $500K - ?. As an aside, Staff Engineers have to ride this strange …