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by bilalq 3y ago
PSA for anyone else whose Gmail experience has become unusably slow recently: I was facing 60+ seconds latency to open any email on Chrome through my Macbook. No issues on the Android app. I believe this started at the time Gemini launched.
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by bilalq 3y ago
> - I am shocked that you don't seem to find Deny By Default the best thing in the world... (looking at you Azure...) The problem is not deny by default, but the complexity of setting "allow just the things I need". This i
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by bilalq 3y ago
Whether you agree with the article's recommendations or not, I do not understand how there are so many commenters saying "IAM is not that complicated". Even engineers internally at AWS frequently get tripped up with IAM permi
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by bilalq 3y ago
This might be of interest to you: https://neon.tech/blog/bring-your-own-s3-to-neon . There's also the OG Aurora whitepaper: https://www.amazon.science/publications/amazon-aurora-design...
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by bilalq 3y ago
Cost may not be an obstacle, but process is. For some companies, getting approval to do that won't be easy. When services have free tiers, people can try them out as individuals before they go on to champion the case for using that too
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by bilalq 3y ago
A lot of today's managed service solutions turn scaling problems into billing problems. While that's a useful tradeoff for many business use-cases, there should still be a way to set limits so you don't wind up with insane co
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by bilalq 3y ago
JS is the only language that has really fulfilled the dream of being able to run anywhere. Web, desktop, servers, CLI tools, mobile, microcontrollers, you name it. I've written JS/TS that has run across so many different runtimes
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by bilalq 3y ago
In 2012, PHP was already going through a renaissance. PHP 5.4 had come out with massive improvements and the release cycle for updates was accelerated. Composer and Laravel were released and people were not only building real apps with PHP
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by bilalq 3y ago
Linear has a lot going for it. It doesn't support custom fields, so if that's a critical feature for you, I can see it falling short. In my experience though, custom fields just end up being a mess anytime a manager changes and de
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by bilalq 3y ago
I love this write-up and the way it's presented. I disagree with some of the decisions and recommendations, but it's great to read through the reasoning even in those cases. It'd be amazing if more people published similar ar
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by bilalq 3y ago
> Your conversations are processed by human reviewers to improve the technologies powering Gemini Apps. Don’t enter anything you wouldn’t want reviewed or used. I appreciate them being upfront with that, but for a paid feature, it sucks
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by bilalq 3y ago
Try disabling hardware acceleration in your browser. It'll probably fix the black screen issue. The situation is still ridiculous though. Streaming is no longer easier than piracy.
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by bilalq 3y ago
The NAT tax is real. We got to tens of thousands of registered users of our app with the $30/month NAT gateway being like 90% of our AWS bill. And it didn't even serve customer facing traffic! At the time, it's only use was f
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by bilalq 3y ago
Seeing that activity chart reminds me of TJ Holowaychuk (a.k.a., visionmedia). He was such a prolific and inspirational guy. I remember going through college over a decade ago and looking up to him. He accomplished so much, but still made i
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by bilalq 3y ago
This is an excellent write-up. We've felt these same pain points with CFN and CDK. AWS has unfortunately rested on the laurels of its first-mover advantage a little too much. The leadership around CloudFormation and its limitations are
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by bilalq 3y ago
This looks really cool! I feel like we need more libs where we have bindings to native code where CPU intensive tasks can run. I've been meaning to create a fast local search lib like fuse.js, but native.
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by bilalq 3y ago
Always exciting to see abandoned OSS projects get new life breathed into them. One of the biggest issues around React Native's ecosystem is how quickly some libs get abandoned. Props to you all for reviving this.
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by bilalq 3y ago
The mutations and side-effects only last until synthesis. You can imagine a CDK app as a pure function that runs a bunch of mutations on an App object and then serializes the state of that object in the end to static assets that can be depl
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by bilalq 3y ago
Even then, it gets messy. From a tooling standpoint, how will I load your schema? How will my editor respect it? How do I run a validator against it? I know XML kind of solves some of these problems, but it has its own thorns and despite wh
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by bilalq 3y ago
I prefer JSON to YAML as well. The lack of comments is a problem though. But I feel like this is a false dichotomy. Both kind of suck for this need, but I can accept that JSON is at least reasonable to work with if you need language agnosti
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by bilalq 3y ago
It's an annoyingly OOP model with mutations and side-effects, but if you look past that, it's pretty nice. The core idea is you create an instance of a CDK "App" object. You create new instances of "Stack" obje
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by bilalq 3y ago
I'm completely done with configs written in YAML. Easily the worst part of Github Actions, even worse than the reliability. When I see some cool tool require a YAML file for config, I immediately get hit with a wave of apprehension. Th
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by bilalq 3y ago
I've been using NearDrop, which is open source, for this use-case: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop The most annoying thing is you can't share clipboard text easily, only files or links. Does Ubidrop addre
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by bilalq 3y ago
> You’re approaching this from the premise that you pay a commission for payment processing, when in actuality the primary purpose of the commission is to collect payment for the use of Apple’s IP. All the rest is secondary to that. The
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by bilalq 3y ago
If it was just a tax, it'd be bad enough. But Apple's in-app payments solution is severely lacking in terms of features and capabilities. Just some of the problems: * You cannot issue a partial refund. * Actually, you can't r
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by bilalq 3y ago
The way billing is done in observability offerings everywhere is so frustrating. CloudWatch metrics is such a footgun that I'm terrified when any engineer on our team submits a PR that includes them. It's so easy to accidentally 1
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by bilalq 3y ago
Tracing is pretty life-changing when it works well though. It's worth spending some engineering resources to try and get it if you can, even if it's at a lower sampled rate.
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by bilalq 3y ago
I mean, sure, you can improve performance a bit by increasing the RAM/compute capacity on the Lambda. But it always adds a pretty steep overhead right now, no matter how much capacity you throw at it. https://github.com&#x2F
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by bilalq 3y ago
The biggest issue with OpenTelemetry is how aggressively it's being pushed, despite not being mature enough. The AWS X-Ray team frequently suggests switching to OTel on bug reports and feature requests, but the performance and resource
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by bilalq 3y ago
For all the hype "AI" gets these days, it's amazing how much things have regressed. My Android phone used to remember where I parked and show it on my Google Now feed and a push notification as I headed out, all without ever

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