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AWS may be overcharging but it's a balancing act. Going on-prem (well, shared DC) will be cheaper but comes with requirements for either jack of all trades sysadmins or a bunch of …

Just get on the road with a 3/4/5G connection on a mobile phone if you want to understand why we still need to design for "iffy" Internet. So many applications have a habit of hang…

Generally yes and even today, if you've got a twisted pair, it's that down to the exchange. Though party lines were also a thing a very long time ago. There were also specialist ci…

OpenTherm is a cool idea but even new installations aren't always wired for it. When installing a new smart thermostat I found the installation has been wired as S Plan with the fe…

As someone who's been involved with radio and occasionally podcasts for about 20 years... I'm struggling to see the benefit of this one. Yes, prep services have existed in the past…

It's worth remembering that Radio Garden is now gubbed for transatlantic listening from the UK due to music licencing issues. The same problem also impacts TuneIn.

I was on-call for over a decade, usually in roles where there was no compensation for working out of hours other than maybe TOIL. We're not talking FAANG gigs here - like £20-50k i…

Indeed. The few times I've encountered Rust in the wild it's been for a project that didn't need it (web or IO bound applications) and someone's "My First Rust Project". It's diffi…

Music rights are a bit of a mess across the Atlantic. PRS/PPL licences don't reciprocate with the American equivalents and vice versa. Either it's two sets of licences (and possibl…

It's a real problem they need to get on top of as an organisation. Unceremoniously pulling the plug on services like IoT Core on tight timescales doesn't scream "reliable, sustaina…

I took the plunge and published some of my old projects over at https://github.com/steelegbr?tab=repositories Yeah, I'm not proud of the way I wrote the code 17 years ago (historic…

They are and there's old firewalls out there that report Youtube traffic as a UDP DoS attack.

> A lot of times on-call gets stuck on these folks because they're often treated as second class citizens in the softwarescape. Sadly spot on. For anyone that’s not been the ops si…

Spot on. It gets messier when a failure in a T1 carrier between your CDN and a customer is causing issues. Neither of you (nor possibly even the CDN) has the power to fix it. Well,…

To add another bit of anecdata, if either station has their PI mis-configured, you can get handoff without being in the AF list. 1st and 3rd character matching rings a bell. Seen i…

Ooh... reminds me of a throwaway experiment I did a few years back - WebRTC for radio outside broadcasts. It never went far as we ended up going down the SIP path instead. Nice to …

A cloud / web based radio playout system. It's a bit of a niche but it'll get rid of the desktop(s) running some web radio streams. We operate as a "voice tracking" service but nee…