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I find GCP to be easier to use, but that's just me. If you're already productive with AWS I don't think there's much point in trying to get ramped up on Google's PaaS

Of course, the person in the hero image for that article has his UK flag upside down.

I loved Foobar2000 back in my Windows days. iTunes just wasn't as fun an experience.

Fix in one place, and it's fixed everywhere. Allegedly.

"week year" was the cause of a big Twitter outage during the time I worked there. In the immediate aftermath there was a "see? this is why we need a monorepo" exhortation from lead…

My definition of "having fun" while coding is to feel like I'm not struggling to manifest whatever idea it is I have. To that end, right now I find writing for Google Cloud to be f…

what do you think "public" means

This is gold. Valhalla's reverbs are the best around.

Scala's community has a reputation for toxicity. I don't write Scala, so I don't know how deserved this is, but nevertheless the reputation exists.

My understanding is that in Japan, engineers generally make a lot less money than they do in the USA, and that American companies with engineering offices in Japan tend to pay bett…

Twilio is famously good at SMS/MMS (disclosure: I work there)

In the late 00's, SVN was the dominant version control system, but it had lots of pain points (eg reliant on remote server, lots of crappy little .svn directories, branching was di…

That's exactly what came to my mind too. I think the sqlite folks have similar struggles.

FYI if you set PayPal as your payment method, you can cancel your subscription in a couple clicks. Obviously it'd be preferable to NOT have a ridiculously difficult cancellation pr…

I was hardly using it, though I definitely took advantage of the crypto thing when I had the opportunity.

It's just Twitter engineers goofing.

My personal fave. https://twitter.com/SarnatsPointer/status/253602578695344128

Yeah but what's its Weissman score?

Lately I've enjoyed bypassing the NYT paywall using the `Lynx` CLI browser.

This would be a reasonable analogy if proceeds from the sales of these sets funded ongoing piracy.

I downloaded a .syx and loaded it into Dexed. About half the patches don't make any sound, but the ones that remain are pretty good. Various classic FM sounds in the Sonic the Hedg…

The last band name generator I'll ever use. Bravo.

If I were well known as a master bullshitter, I would simply convince the world that being a master bullshitter was a sign of intelligence.

Yes please.

He doesn't explain why he can't afford to pay his staff to work more than the unemployment benefits. He doesn't explain why he doesn't pay these chefs more than $26/hour. He doesn'…