albertgoeswoof

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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
Our infra is split across France (our API, database, inbound servers etc.), Germany (backups) and UK (outbound SMTP servers). Unfortunately we haven't seen enough demand in the UK to set up a UK only infra (nor are there any UK cloud p
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! Added my company ( https://mailpace.com ) - I’m looking forward to a resurgence of innovation in European tech companies, the talent and education here is amazing, we ju
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
https://mailpace.com fits your needs (cheap, independent, 3rd party etc.)
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
there's a newer version out now https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa... im excited about the MEMS motion sensor addon - sleep tracking and step counts on an f91-w with year long battery wou
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
CS has always been a great mind clearer. A ranked 5v5 game is high pressure and intense, lasts about 30-45 mins, and has enough human contact to satisfy me. I haven’t found anything to replace it since I quit a few years ago.
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
Damp is worse than cold
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
It’s more like pasting your genome into chatgpt and asking it to fix it
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
It’s mostly how would you solve this programming problem, or reminders on syntax, scaffolding a configuration file etc. Often it’s a form of rubber duck programming, with a smarter rubber duck.
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
I don’t trust anything as fact coming out of these models. I ask it for how to structure solutions, with examples. Then I read the output and research the specifics before using anything further. I wouldn’t copy and paste from even the smar
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
I have a three year old M1 Max, 32gb RAM. Llama 8bn runs at 25 tokens/sec, that’s fast enough, and covers 80% of what I need. On my ryzen 5600h machine, I get about 10 tokens/second, which is slow enough to be annoying. If I get s
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
So cool! Do you have an iOS version?
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Explore new music while growing your digital album collection(discollect.app)
1 points by albertgoeswoof 2y ago|1 comments
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
I run a European cloud service, 80% of our customers are basically looking for a European alternative to the big clouds. The market is huge and in my opinion underserved. What makes it very exciting is that there not too much innovation req
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A short story about idempotent requests(blog.mailpace.com)
5 points by albertgoeswoof 2y ago|0 comments
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
Probably too late, but we support this over at mailpace.com https://docs.mailpace.com/guide/idempotency
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
Ok here is the playbook: - Go here https://aws.amazon.com/products/?aws-products-all.sort-by=it... - Look at the list of products - Copy one of them - Do it a bit better (e.g. cheaper, faster, hosted in EU, targeted at
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
I own https://mailpace.com - if you sign up and set up your DKIM records you can send right away. Drop a note to support@mailpace.com once you're up and we'll remove your rate limits.
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
Pro tip: have 2-3 providers and make sure you can quickly switch between them
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by albertgoeswoof 2y ago
This is one of the problems with graphql, there are no docs because the schema is all you need. But that assumes the schema is logical and consistent, which it rarely is. It also means you need to be an expert in the tooling to figure it ou
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
How does one handle a zero downtime migration in this case? On a database of 50gib+ is this a solved problem in Postgres world?
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
I installed a vpn on my AppleTV and couldn’t tell if it was actually working/secure. So I created my first ever swift app, for TVOS (AppleTV). The app checks if your vpn is active, and tells you your public ip and geo location on a map
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
They are a wrapper over AWS SES
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
You can run fly machines on a schedule e.g: > fly machine run . -a app-name --schedule weekly --restart no --region cdg Which means you can use them like a cron job for maintenance tasks. We use it to renew our ssl certs on our smtp serv
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
Today I asked a devops engineer to tell me how much time a long (3 seconds avg) api call was spending on database queries, application logic, and network etc. He couldn’t understand the request and instead opened up the azure console and re
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
Cold things are harder to move than hot things
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
I run a small transactional email provider ( https://mailpace.com ), our IPs are very rarely added to blocklists- but we are very strict on what we allow through our service, and surprisingly we’ve had no long term delivery issues
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
The gov.uk developer salary starts at 24k gbp, and averages at around 50k. How do they manage to hire and retain people, and create such a great service?
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
Yet you still drive it
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
It's transactional email - so generally speaking it's not a subscription list that recipients are on per se. This is in line with the CAN SPAM guidance (although that is a US law it's good guidance to follow globally). Also i
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by albertgoeswoof 3y ago
> is that the domain or the sending SMTP server?

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