matthewcford

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by matthewcford 4y ago
It's only good for the occasional email, in some ways its a great way to disconnect
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by matthewcford 4y ago
No one
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by matthewcford 4y ago
My sister has a horror story with the Roomba and dog poo…
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by matthewcford 4y ago
I was the first user of the GOV.UK PaaS for a production service - GOV.UK Trade Tariff [0]. It's unfortunate that it has come to this, and as others have pointed out, the blog doesn't instil confidence about using other GDS servic
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by matthewcford 4y ago
Agree, I'm not sure how they can say with a straight face that people should use the other new forms services they are launching. If that is not profitable will it just be shut down in a few years too?
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by matthewcford 4y ago
Given they charged a markup on AWS costs, I find that it's weird they did not manage to at least break even. Other departments switching to running on their own cloud account rather than use the PaaS could be the main reason, and that&
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by matthewcford 4y ago
usually unsafe, as they drop a lot of spores
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by matthewcford 4y ago
I assumed the prices were 0, hence the empty webpage.
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by matthewcford 4y ago
these were the reasons we chose fly in the end; very happy with it
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by matthewcford 4y ago
We moved our projects to fly.io and didn't look back
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by matthewcford 4y ago
+1 for fly - it's great.
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by matthewcford 4y ago
Resetting the password resets your API key, which is different from the Oauth tokens.
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by matthewcford 5y ago
The copywriting is very fresh and to the point: “ You can take the Hyundai Tucson abroad to any normal destination (usually excluding dodgy places like Albania, etc), but you should apply for a VE103 form from the finance company before you
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by matthewcford 5y ago
I remember Aanand chatting about it, it was originally called fig https://github.com/aanand/fig and it was python scripts.
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by matthewcford 5y ago
They are coming out with a Postgres product
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by matthewcford 5y ago
Would need to commercial licence for this to work though
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by matthewcford 5y ago
I like that you can mount a volume to a region, render can only do a single instance.
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by matthewcford 6y ago
> "lose money now, make money later" This is common to consulting companies, Palantir is more like McKinsey & Company/Accenture/The Boston Consulting Group. The recent deals with the UK gov for £1 are classic get
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by matthewcford 6y ago
Moving breakman into core is nice but not enough
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by matthewcford 6y ago
Same boat, although with GitHub pricing changes it’s more advantageous to switch. The fact that the security and dependency management is locked at gold when they are free on Github is annoying.
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by matthewcford 6y ago
Some things are hard/impossible to do: Repeating fields, in order to construct content as we wanted it to look. We needed to be able to determine if we have the latest information without having to go through all database rows. If it d
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by matthewcford 6y ago
Another good alternative is Convox.
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by matthewcford 6y ago
We evaluated Strapi (contentful snd others) for a headless CMS to power a web and mobile app. In the end we rolled our own in Rails was much quicker and simpler than these off the shelf tools.
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by matthewcford 6y ago
but lambda is an online-only platform:?
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by matthewcford 6y ago
one of our clients uses netlify, does anyone have experience with the two platforms and how they compare on price at the enterprise levels?
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by matthewcford 7y ago
> dose of synthetic psilocybin
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by matthewcford 7y ago
So was it a high dose they were given? and is that pure psilocybin?
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by matthewcford 7y ago
what.. this was a great show.
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by matthewcford 7y ago
Out of interest does anyone know what Atlassian's policy on this is? (as someone who moved from github to gitlab, and is now open to other options).
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by matthewcford 7y ago
My experience is that yes new features might get released sooner, but bugs can linger unattended for years.

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