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Dear media/podcasters/newsletters:Yes, ChatGPT exists. You asked it to do things like every other person on the internet. I'm sure the results were delightful. Now, please stop acting like you...
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Never trust anything written about Leica that contains a referral link.They're good cameras, but there's a whole cottage industry of people who romanticize these things for a living.
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Wrote about a Go test assertion we've been playing around with called `PartialEqual` meant to solve long blocks of ugly one-off asserts. Not a strong recommendation, but rationale for the pattern here:...
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The "True Faith" (New Order) cover from the end of Last of Us e04 is the Lotte Kestner cover which also makes an appearance in the second game.Great cover of one of the greatest songs of all...
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A little dev log of reexamining our password hashing strategy. We inherited PBKDF2 @ 27,500 iterations from Keycloak, jumped it to 600,000 iterations, and then moved to Argon2id.After LastPass, it's a...
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Password hashing follow up. @PredragGruevski brought to my attention that although you can't rehash original passwords for existing hashes, you _can_ wrap them in a stronger hash.AKA banish all weak...
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Honestly, even as bad as all this JavaScript stuff has gotten, I can barely believe this. Bigger than my first computer's entire hard drive.
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Derangement from the usual crowd over retiring SMS 2FA—which for ten years has been a well-documented liability that no one should use—is a new level. Jack himself was simjacked as recently as 2019...
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Nice historical tidbit on GitHub + Postgres.Imagine the counterfactual where reengineering of Postgres was necessary for GitHub's scale. We might have only gotten a K/V store on RDMS like at Uber, but...
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And follow up from yesterday — Shopify was a near miss from being a Postgres stack too.https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1627512397803008001
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Made a little bug in the new billing module. Results only off by two orders of magnitude.
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Notes on automated `govulncheck`.Benefits: vulnerabilities patched in < 24 hours.Costs: Occasional broken builds, some of which you can't do anything about until new patch versions are available on...
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Every time I try to scp a file with a space in the name, I fall a little more out of love with command line interfaces.
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Follow up: it pays to install Signal via Homebrew (`brew install --cask signal`).Signal's download page will direct you to the universal Mac binary, but brew will know how to find an Apple Silicon-only...
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It is quite ironic that elite coastal journalists, who've spent the last 10 years sneering at a suffering middle America, discontent due to hollowing out and job loss from globalism, will see their own...
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SF report: 60% of DT jobs and $1.2B/y gone.Confirms forecasts showing "only" a $728M deficit over 2y were fantasy. Property taxes $82M/y and business tax $139M/y lower than projected.$1B deficit wasn't...
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Hip Seattle-themed store at the airport sells cassette tapes, apparently unironically.I sort of love it, but important question, does the technology to play these even exist anymore?
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Amazing. "Journalists" lie gleefully, not having a shred of internal morality, and knowing their audience doesn't care about truth even by one iota.@elonmusk Removing those legacy bluechecks that imply...
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This is cool: `CL.THROTTLE` (easy rate limiting) given a permanent home in DragonflyDB.And I can't believe I'm saying this, but C++ actually doesn't look all that terrible to write...
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RT @pganalyze: E59 of ”5mins of Postgres” is about UUIDs vs Serial for Primary Keys. We explore reasons for using random keys and reasons for using sequential keys. We also show hybrid approaches and...
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