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Turning our snowflake infrastructure into an autoscaling fleet via a packer + terraform pipeline was one of my first projects at Buildkite back in 2016: https://buildkite.com/resou…

I'm Sam, a founding engineer still at Buildkite. I've been quite vocal that this was short term gains for long term pains. We're in the process of fixing this - we're working on a …

I think he basically did this too.

Interesting discovery: PG::FeatureNotSupported: ERROR: ddl and dml are not supported in the same transaction

If anybody likes to play with Ruby on Rails, I've published a bare bones active record connection adapter: https://github.com/sj26/activerecord-dsql-adapter

Mea cupla. Fixed.

I actively endorse https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog if you want something more Go-flavoured or operationalised. But it is also "complete."

Hiya! I'm the maintainer. It's true I don't do much to it these days. But that's because it's complete. There are lots of things I would love to do to improve it. But none of it wo…

It's not designed to go in your Gemfile gem install mailcatcher :-)

It Depends(tm). If you're using a system which is built for distribution, random is great. When you're leaning on a Postgres database which has powered your startup through scaling…

Somebody already has, for perforce: https://github.com/improbable-eng/perforce-buildkite-plugin

alias rm="rm -v" helps.

Cost/benefit. There are always going to be security holes in anything we make. We can be a bank and focus two feet ahead on making sure everything is as secure as possible, or stay…

This was my first thought, and seems likely. They do several forms of analysis on their cache. It could even be some engineers running tests or queries that require rendering the p…

Agreed, although apparently this has been tried a few times without success. Do it next year!

Entirely home–grown CSS with transitions via Sass/Compass by the ever–wonderful http://levibuzolic.com/ .

We used Slim for findthin.gs—it's faster, has much better whitespace control, and, imho, better achieves Haml's reduce noise, increase beauty aims. But there's no contest about Sas…

This reminds me waaaay too much of ASP.NET's oh-so-wonderful __VIEWSTATE.

https://github.com/sj26/rbenv-install

I was just about to go an do this. Has anyone else yet?

So could most of us, but then again you could do something interesting with your weekend instead.