I came back from 6 months of parental leave in march 2026. When I left no one serious was using the tools for more than casual rubber ducking. When I came back my best colleagues were spitting out clauded PRs faster than I could review them, and they were all nice.
Sweet! I’m just about to replace pfsense with openbsd on my router. Smoothly setting up ipv6 is a bit of a headscratcher atm, mainly because i’ve never had to understand it before.
Isn’t it just regular price discrimination? Profit maximizing firms with market power charge different prices based on willingness to pay in order to sell to people who won’t pay a higher single value monopolist price.
I’ve only had their platforms explained to me by them (palantir) at a conference but the mental model that stuck with me was more of an operating system than a single tool. Think AWS managed services + databricks + whatever library of ready made intelligence software they have already built for others.
They also have “forward deployed engineers” to help organizations actually use the platform. It looked complicated enough to probably be completely useless without these specialists, even in a “self hosted” setup.
The managed hosting also seems like a major selling point so many deployments that probably should be self hosted probably aren’t because muh managed services added value.
And the backdoors of course. There is no way it isn’t full of plausibly deniable “metrics endpoints” that helpfully spew out all the internal data if the right key comes knocking. There’s no way it’s auditable at the level of detail you would need compared to the value of the data and the sophistication of the potential attacker (NSA).
Maybe my brain is oversaturated with culture war nonsense from too much doomscrolling but that’s where my train of thought went too, even if it wasn’t directly implied.
By claiming our ancient predecessors had terrible taste you can make them look like primitive fools, and make our own modernity appear superior in comparison.
When boiled down to culture war brainrot the poor coloring in the reconstructions becomes a woke statement that the brutish patriarchal empires of antiquity have nothing to teach our sophisticated modern selves and that new is good and old is bad. A progressive hit-piece on muh heritage.
Anything you don’t like is a purple haired marxist if you squint hard enough.
Idk why my brain went there. I’m guessing the years of daily exposure to engagement-farming ragebait had something to do with it.
I like it! We have a service with a similar postgres task queue but we use an insert trigger on the tasks table that does NOTIFY and the worker runs LISTEN, it feels a bit tidier than polling IMO.
I had a few periods of doing the same in sublime text, I did use syntax highlighting though. It’s a really great feeling and very liberating, especially in a greenfield project.
Can’t really justify it at work though, projects are too big to and gnarly keep in my head.
Speaker components, tools and plywood. I've just finished building my first speaker and it sounds FANTASTIC and I designed and built it myself. It's been extremely rewarding and I highly recommend everyone to make something physical yourselves. So much nicer than making anything appear on a screen.
My first box is a ported enclosure tuned to about 45hz with a cheap 15" driver and a vintage compression driver on an old cast-iron horn. It looks pretty rough, I can just barely move it by myself, but it's beautiful.
Building it made me:
* Calculate the enclosure volume and port tuning and selecting the appropriate drivers.
* Buying amps and crossovers. I got a behringer ultradrive and a 4 channel PA amp
* Draw a plan
* Measure and cut the wood with the shitty circular saw I got (took me ages, came out not terrible)
* Routing the holes for the drivers and speakons
* Assembling: drilling, fitting, screwing, gluing, mounting T-nuts for the drivers
* Finishing: Sanding, oiling, stuffing
* Soldering connectors
* Installing drivers
* Tuning, adjusting crossovers
I started in august and just finished the first box. I have enoug materials for a 2*18" subwoofer and a 12" midrange horn to go with it. Overall I spent about 2000USD in plywood (18mm baltic birch), tools (cheapest I could get), drivers, DSP and amps.
I hope to have a very nice little rig together by the end of summer.