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My heuristics are wrong. What now?

brooker.co.za
1 points·by glenjamin·4 mesi fa·0 comments

DoS Vulnerability in Node.js for React, Next.js, and APM Users

nodejs.org
4 points·by glenjamin·6 mesi fa·0 comments

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glenjamin
·11 giorni fa·discuss
Upthread the implication seems to be that smolmachines would be in some way a replacement for orbstack to run docker containers

But it seems more like a completely different way to run isolated workloads?
glenjamin
·3 mesi fa·discuss
on the rare occasions where I need to loudly indicate my presence to a motor vehicle I wouldn't really want to be moving my hands - if I have time to move a hand to a horn I probably have time to brake/manouvre instead.

Generally in those situations I shout really loudly at the driver, and in general they seem to hear me
glenjamin
·3 mesi fa·discuss
The way AWS keep their pricing section completely separate from their system and architecture docs, despite architecture being the primary driver of cost, is a major contributor to this
glenjamin
·6 mesi fa·discuss
A bitmap index scan allows the database to narrow down which pages could include the data, but then still has to recheck the condition on the contents of those pages - so will still not be as performant as an proper index scan
glenjamin
·6 mesi fa·discuss
This pitch seems ok to people using simple log aggregation tools or metric tools that have to be wary of tag cardinality

But how does it compare to an actual modern observability stack built on a columnar datastore like Honeycomb?
glenjamin
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Any advice on how to learn modern Swift?

When I tried to do learn some to put together a little app, every search result for my questions was for a quick blog seemingly aimed at iOS devs who didn’t want to learn and just wanted to copy-paste the answer - usually in the form of an extension method
glenjamin
·7 mesi fa·discuss
A failure mode of ULIDs and similar is that they're too random to be easily compared or recognized by eye.

This is especially useful when you're using them for customer or user IDs - being able to easily spot your important or troublesome customers in logs is very helpful

Personally I'd go with a ULID-like scheme similar to the one in the OP - but I'd aim to use the smallest number of bits I could get away with, and pick a compact encoding scheme
glenjamin
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I invite you to look into feature flagging.

It is entirely viable to never have more than 1 or 2 open pull requests on any particular code repository, and to use continuous delivery practices to keep deploying small changes to production 1 at a time.

That's exactly how I've worked for the past decade or so.
glenjamin
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I’m amazed that this comment is so low down

Stacked diffs seems like a solution to managing high WIP - but the best solution to high WIP is always to lower WIP

Absolutely everything gets easier when you lower your work in progress.
glenjamin
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Does pglite in memory outperform “normal” postgres?

If so then supporting the network protocol so it could be run in CI for non-JS languages could be really cool
glenjamin
·7 mesi fa·discuss
There's a couple of passing mentions of Download Monitor, but also the timeline strongly implies that a specific source was simply guessing the URL of the PDF long before it was uploaded

I'm not clear from the doc which of these scenarios is what they're calling the "leak"
glenjamin
·8 mesi fa·discuss
that looks neat - how but do you handle failover/restarts?
glenjamin
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Other than motherduck, is anyone aware of any good models for running multi-user cloud-based duckdb?

ie. Running it like a normal database, and getting to take advantage of all of its goodies
glenjamin
·9 mesi fa·discuss
This reminded me of a slide from a Dan North talk - perhaps this one https://dannorth.net/talks/#software-faster? One of those anyway.

The key quote was something like "You want your software to be like surgery - as little of it as possible to fix your problem".

Anyway, it doesn't seem like this blog post is following that vibe.
glenjamin
·2 anni fa·discuss
This matches my experience - I was intentional about not saying that a project manager was important - just that project management (the practice) is important.
glenjamin
·2 anni fa·discuss
This is called project management, and in my experience seems to be a practice/discipline that's often overlooked or ignored at startups and scaling tech companies.

Generally in my book projects should only be assigned to teams, and managing that project to completion should be part of that team's way of working.

Doing this in an agile manner generally means smaller projects, one at a time.
glenjamin
·5 anni fa·discuss
actually.