coxley · HackerLangs

From the docs:

> ZeroFS fetches object data in 128 KiB parts

Read/write operations in object storage are _far more_ expensive than stored bytes. I'm always afraid of anything that abstracts over S3/GCS access specifically for that reason.

coxley

last monthdiscuss

A pure Go, in-memory Cassandra emulator

Technically for work, but it was during a hackathon so we could reduce the amount of tests we need to run against real or containerized instances. Go as the language just because that's the stack interacting with it the most.

coxley

2 months agodiscuss

Yeah... my .com renewal lapsed due to an expired credit card, and it was snatched before I realized it. They've always wanted $2k for it.

Even if I was OK paying in principle, that's too much for a personal blog that gets one post every 4 years.

coxley

4 months agodiscuss

Right!? My mind teleported back to the TechTV era for a second.

coxley

6 months agodiscuss

Not to mention you can restrict who can file issues with permissions. So you have a forcing function, whereas hoping tags are correctly applied is a never ending battle.

coxley

8 months agodiscuss

> Author: frontend technical lead, setting high code standards

Haha, to be fair it's common to half-ass personal projects even if it's your primary domain.

coxley

9 months agodiscuss

Off-topic rant: I hate when websites hide the scrollbar. By all means, apply minimal styling to make it cohesive with the website background and foreground. But don't completely hide it.

This is included on that page's stylesheet:

    ::-webkit-scrollbar {
        width: 0;
        height: 0;
        display: none;
    }

coxley

10 months agodiscuss

You can definitely use this approach for large projects. No matter how big, at some point you are just reading a function or file. You don't need to read every single file to find bugs.

This can be combined with a more strategic approach like: https://mitchellh.com/writing/contributing-to-complex-projec...

coxley

10 months agodiscuss

Well said!

coxley

3 years agodiscuss

Not exactly a project, but I was very active in IRC between 2009-2017.

I stuck mostly to Linux and network engineering channels. I contributed to open source projects, answered questions, and asked plenty of my own.

One day I helped someone with some weird Docker issue in 2014. He later referred me to the company he worked for in San Francisco. I moved from my small 2,000 person unincorporated town a few months later, tripling my salary.

There were other ways it could have eventually happened, but the serendipity of that was never lost on me. Changed my career for the better — tho I left that company a year later for a unique opportunity at FB.

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