Viewing profile — shortj

As far as I know, fly.io is very much alive?

I caught myself the other day throwing my feed of articles into an LLM to give me summaries and what it thinks are interesting points / facts. I'm not sure how to feel about this.

Nice catch and very good point. The model actually tried to fix this in a couple cases, but not all, when I was playing with it to see how else it would typo.

Funny enough, one fo the first things I did with ChatGPT was teach it how to write with charcater keyboard transpositions and subtle typos so people wouldn't think varioius text wa…

Make sure you have versioning turned on as well. Even if attackers can figure out your naming conventions and overwrite, you just go back to the first version and everything is goo…

Yeet is for distance/power. Kobe is for accuracy/precision.

> that means there are long-lived credentials (probably written to disk) used to generate short-lived credentials. In terms of local development experience, most mature organizatio…

Yep! They work great in many situations. However, Cloud9 is quite a bit more usable and stable on something like shaky/inconsistent airplane wifi. It’s also way less friction to se…

Appreciate you!

RDS snapshot copying, EBS snapshot copies, S3 cross account bucket replication, etc. Write only with no entry points into that account from your other accounts. (Preferably its own…

Probably the most useful mechanism I have for determining this is “if this AWS account disappears, how screwed am I / can I recover.” I tend to separate all of my projects/services…

From my understanding when I first read through Kendra info (albeit that was launch day) it is more enterprise knowledge-base search and not quite the same use case as Algolia.

Author here. Similar reply to one I did below, but a significant amount of developers I work with in enterprise or corporate contexts don’t have this similar situation. Cloud9 can …

Author here. HN in a lot of cases has readership that I’d put in the segment of developers that should absolutely not be using Cloud9 daily. I personally take using Cloud9 to the a…

I'll never understand why they haven't fixed that. A while ago I ended up writing a little patch that parallelized list sends with Redis backing things and some worker processes. T…

A bit tangential, but please for all that is good in this world, stop depending on static AWS IAM User keys in an integration product. https://docs.sendwithses.com/how/how-to-gener…