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Where did the idea for a Shadow Request come from?

That's a very good idea. I might use that for my script. Thanks!

As a kid, this was my favorite part of Mad Magazine.

Thanks for the wonderfully insightful comment. I need to save this so I can periodically look at it for motivation!

That's pretty cool actually. That speaks to your consistency as a programmer.

This is a great comment. I updated my post based on your suggestion.

Author here. Thanks for educating me on the subtleties. It seems like I was mixing up a Level 3 multiverse with a Level 2. I made a small edit to remove the sentence about constants changing. And I also added a note that I edited the post.

This is great. I'm learning so much from this thread.

Ah, I think I'm beginning to understand. Perhaps I should just remove the sentence about constants changing.

That's hilarious. I should have done that.

This is the video that inspired this project, but I don't think that I'm knowledgeable enough to answer your question with 100% certainty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpEvv349Pyk

Whoa, I'm so out of my depth. This is really cool. Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about the multiverse levels!

Author here. Sorry, I guess I misunderstood that part of the hypothesis. Do you have a source, so I can edit my post and correct it?

I like the table of contents at the beginning with the links. I'm going to steal that for my next blog post. The author is a really clear writer, and I love the table of contents because you can jump around and things are bite-sized.

Oh wow, well at least Skynet has decent taste.

I use Hugo and I host my blog out of an AWS S3 bucket.

Pros:

  - Cheap.

  - Static and small. Hugo lets me really make everything tiny.

  - Learned more about AWS.

Cons:

  - A lot of work because I had to setup Route 53, CloudFront, Certificate Manager and S3.

  - Learning about the permission model and setting up an IAM user with right permissions.

  - Figuring out how Route 53, Certificate Manager and CloudFront work together so I could have SSL.

Reading this back, my pros and cons list sounds ridiculous.

>(An advertisement for myself.)

I love the author's sense of humor.

Author here. Yes, there is a trade-off. The resulting code is much bigger than the original code because of this transformation. But, I think the trade-off is worth it because it makes the code simpler to read, write and maintain. As far as speed, I don't have any benchmarks but I don't think there is speed penalty. It's mainly an issue of code size.

The news cycle is so chaotic and contradictory these days that I can't make heads or tails of anything.

> Every time I’ve outsourced my thinking for a job change (n=2)

I love the n = 2 aside. I really like OP's sense of humor.

ymmv but I went to Recurse Center and it sparked the joy again for me...twice!