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You better believe that if I’m writing a blog after the kids goto bed, maybe after a couple of drinks, with my own fingers, that I am going to write a long meandering narrative.
I’m not usually writing for SEO optimization or even clarity.
I’m writing so that it costs OpenAI just a little bit more money to wade through everything.
Waiting for all the data we give them in these chats to be sold even more.
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I had a professor who said that writing is thinking. If you outsource writing to an AI, there’s no thought in it.
Using AI for any part of the writing process has a way of seeping into the rest of it, so I try to stay away from using it at all when writing.
Man, Jon and Vangelis is a surprisingly good album
I have heard this also. I still find it wild that Azure DevOps had that feature long before GitHub
> the bottleneck is no longer engineering, it’s ____
90% of blog articles created in the last two years are probably dead on arrival
Oh, I assumed that was a joke. I’ll have to check my privilege
Posted by
kdazzle on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:36PM
from the self-post dept.
Earlier this evening, we were informed by an independent security researcher about an issue involving a third-party storage service we utilize.Based on our immediate investigation to date, it appears this service may have been accessible to third parties, including customer materials such as screenshots, documents, and other supporting data uploaded to the platform.What we are doing about itWe...
Fully fashioned hand knit stuff looks great! I just haven’t seen a wholegarment machine knit shirt that looks nice. Maybe because the yarn isn’t as chunky.
I'm kind of in this space - 3d knitting is pretty interesting, but knitting a sweater like that takes a long time (I forget how long, but I think it's 1-2 hours), so it's not really a solution for working at any sort of scale. Unless you build up inventory or have a ton of machines. But the machines are super expensive compared to regular knitting machines.
I also think that wholegarment knits look kind of cheap and that sewing actually adds structural integrity and durability to a garment.
But anything knitting or clothes related is really fun and challenging and good for them for making a business out of it.
My god. I hope the constant refreshing helps.
Seems like it would be increasingly difficult to make a case for switching to GitHub.
Pretty sure someone at MS told me that Actions was written by the team who wrote Azure DevOps. So bureaucracy would be a feature.
That aside, GH Actions doesn’t seem any worse than GitLab. I forget why I stopped using CircleCI. Price maybe? I do remember liking the feature where you could enter the console of the CI job and run commands. That was awesome.
I agree though that yaml is not ideal.
Canadian companies actually have great economic incentives. The government will pay like 60% for your dev salaries that go towards R&D (SR&ED).
Plus you don’t have to worry about getting audited if you tweet the wrong thing.
The WSJ interviewing and quoting the kids is priceless
Posted by
kdazzle on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:43AM
from the wsj.com dept.
Exactly - film photographers heavily process(ed) their images from the film processing through to the print. Ansel Adams wrote a few books on the topic and they’re great reads.
And different films and photo papers can have totally different looks, defined by the chemistry of the manufacturer and however _they_ want things to look.
I havent been through the US process in a while, but usually that is allowed if your application is processing. You just can’t leave the country.
I worked on the data platform at a smaller car co, and there were tight controls around getting access to precise geo data, and there were strong privacy advocates at higher levels. Wasn’t a perfect system, but “spying” would be far from what I saw
> that claim is ad hominem
Or dare i say…ad clippynem?
Maybe, but a 200 person company isn’t really that big. The CEO should probably get over themselves if they think they couldnt possibly know everyone at least a little bit.
I dont think the solution to not knowing people in your company is to create bureaucracy. Ie - only hanging with 10 executives and a focus group. Get out there and talk to people for a few minutes - at the office or wherever.
I'd probably use a jsonfield in postgres for data that i knew was going to be unstructured. meanwhile, other columns can join and have decent constraints and indexes.
I’m curious about the resilience bit. Are you planning on some sort of active-active setup with mongo? I found it difficult on AWS to even do active-passive (i guess that was docdb), since programatically changing the primary write node instance was kind of a pain when failing over to a new region.
Going into any depth with mongo mostly taught me to just stick with postgres.
Well, sounds like a VC but without a good bit of the stress and hassle. Like you wouldnt have to gin up money from LPs
Snowflake is expensive, even compared to Databricks, and you pay their pre-AWS discount storage price while they get the discount and pocket the difference as profit
I think Backbone was a bit before Coffeescript.
Haha, coffeescript was so hot for a minute
Yeah, if you remember to use it properly. SQL injection was pretty rampant before ORMs and web frameworks started being used everywhere.
ORMs let anyone make CRUD apps without needing to worry about that sort of thing. Also helps prevent issues from slipping through on larger teams with more junior developers. Or, frankly, even “senior” developers that don’t really understand web security.
Mostly, I think, the problem is SQL injection, and raw SQL is a great place for people to forget to escape their strings.
Not sure why anyone would pay billions for dbt, but who am I to say