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Being a junior engineer was a good time!

Yes, this mattered when 6 character passwords were common.

It's actually been useful for me to explain certain best practices now that I can show that the LLM cares. Why is this name bad? Because an llm will get confused by it and di the w…

Yes, I agree, we seem to need to feel "special". Language is really powerful, I think it's a huge part of our intelligence. The interesting part of the article to me is the focus o…

Python packaging is the least zen of python thing about python.

I don't think changeable code is the number one priority. The goal is to solve a problem and code that solves a problem without needing to change is sufficient. Code that doesn't n…

Quoted: "Likewise, you can repeat yourself but classes only have a single (duplicated, but subtly different) responsibility."

I'm proud of my little joke on dogmas: "The only dogma I believe is that all dogmas are wrong".

I like to phrase this kind of thought as: "The only dogma I believe, is that all dogmas are wrong".

vim is late 1991, vi was 1976, sublime text was 2008. Just seems like garbage writing (very easily could be LLM).

In the article the author mentions wanting to benchmark a GPU and using ChatGPT to write CUDA. Benchmarks are easy to mess up and to interpret incorrectly without understanding. I …

With a dependency on a font. Wow, it's been a while since I've seen that.

I think they are talking kilometers

I forget that this has been a very popular strategy for a long time with more traditional databases.

Who is doing this and where can I read more? What are the tradeoffs? I imagine that you get a a dataset that is significantly smaller but it is much trickier to keep a dataset in m…

It's okay to erect a fence that is less than ideal but please explain yourself.

Whenever I am in that expedient hack mode I've started commenting to explain my dilemma. My most valuable comments typically come out at that time. Such and such can't be done righ…

An under-rated solution to this problem is saying No and having quality retrospectives. Microservices adoption has largely become a cargo cult thing. It is a part of being cool lik…

Some services just don't stop at night. Healthcare has trends but it never stops.

It just depends on the business, b2b can be very consistent. Some workloads just have predictable behavior. I worked at a medium sized place where we had plans in place to handle t…

I've been patiently watching for a nice way to plug in a local development DNS resolver (patiently waiting for someone to document and script the a few tiny patterns).

I'm a big Avro fan, it isn't easy to be good at but if you follow its rules it is so much easier to evolve than plain json is.

Random ids require random inserts and that is bad for performance. It isn't a deal-breaker in most situations but it is a real cost that you do pay.

ulids are beautiful little ids without many of the drawbacks and risks of other id systems. They are sufficiently unique for most work (anywhere that you don't need to actually uni…