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by mtlynch 1y ago
sre.google links to this book, but it links to github.io. The other two books linked on sre.google point to within the sre.google domain, so this is the odd one out.
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by mtlynch 1y ago
Sorry for the offtopic comment, but it's bizarre to me that Google is hosting their book on Github with a github.io domain. Their previous two SRE books are hosted at https://sre.google on Google-owned IPs.[0] What was that
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by mtlynch 1y ago
> lol Are you saying that a distro that makes this kind of claim shouldn't be concerned with the amount of times you can type in a wrong password? Especially since it's not vetting that actual security of the password itself?
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by mtlynch 1y ago
These criticisms all feel very nitpicky and subjective. So many of them seem to boil down to, "this is an opinionated configuration, but their opinions differ from my opinions." This part was where I stopped taking the article ser
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by mtlynch 1y ago
No, I saw that bug in the issue log, but I never hit that personally. If you're running into it, I'd test again with the latest release (0.5.1) and see if it's still present. If so, I suspect it would get more traction from t
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by mtlynch 1y ago
Oh, thanks for the correction! I can't believe I never noticed that. I've updated the post. After your comment, I thought, "Oh, I should contribute a PR to the repo to add the Docker badge so the Docker image is obvious to ev
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by mtlynch 1y ago
I think the most disruptive part is the migration to the new LTX format,[0] which I'd imagine is hard to do incrementally. [0] https://fly.io/blog/litestream-v050-is-here/#the-ltx-file-fo...
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Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0(mtlynch.io)
96 points by mtlynch 1y ago|18 comments
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by mtlynch 1y ago
Does using NextDNS mean that you both can see a list of all the websites anyone in your family visits?
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My Friend Is Giving Me a Kidney(nathandyer.me)
6 points by mtlynch 1y ago|0 comments
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by mtlynch 1y ago
> Say what you will about Uber, but no Uber driver has ever tried to lie and harass a passenger over whether or not the credit card machine is broken in an effort to cheat on their taxes. This actually did happen to me. When I was in Hy
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by mtlynch 1y ago
> My first instinct to this piece of news is a five-char word starting with 'S'. Am I the only one who can't figure out the word? Did you mean four characters? Or are you including a null-terminator? Extra 'e' i
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by mtlynch 1y ago
> Thx. The only problem I have with litestream binary is ~31Mb !? Where are you seeing a 31 MB binary? Latest releases are 10-11 MB.[0] > This why I prefer to take backup stuff in a side container, eg: https://github.com&#
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by mtlynch 1y ago
Manning doesn't pay that much to first time authors, and it looks like it's the first book for the author, Garrison Hinson-Hasty. My guess is it's about $2k upfront and the author owes it back if they don't deliver. Teiv
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by mtlynch 1y ago
> The DX for deploying SQLite apps to Fly.io is rough. I'm a few hours into trying to get a production Rails app booting, but running into issues getting the database to initialize, migrate, and become writable. The root of my probl
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by mtlynch 1y ago
This happened before in hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn .[0] I've heard a lot of people cite this case as proof that scraping is legal, but it seems like the decision kept going back and forth in appeals, and I never understood what precedent it
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by mtlynch 1y ago
Very excited to see Fly restart development on Litestream after a 2ish year freeze! I love Litestream and use it in every app I build now. They advertise it as costing "pennies per day," but it's even less expensive than that
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by mtlynch 1y ago
Thanks for reading! > This is about as incorrect as it gets. > The only way to verify correctness is to change the production code in a way that should cause the test to fail, then watch it fail. In TDD this is done by writing the te
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by mtlynch 1y ago
Thanks for reading and for sharing your post! In your writeup, it seems like you're arguing that LLMs can't eliminate essential complexity, and I agree that they probably can't. But I do think they can reduce essential co
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by mtlynch 1y ago
It's worth noting that the breathless worship of everything about TigerBeetle in this post is likely related to the fact that the author is an investor in TigerBeetle.[0] [0] https://www.amplifypartners.com/portfolio&#x
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by mtlynch 1y ago
Thanks for sharing! I hadn't read that one, but I read Code Complete early in my career and loved it. It's been on my bookshelf forever, but I've only gone back to it a few times. But every time I do, I think, "This is
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by mtlynch 1y ago
> The "Parse, don't validate" paper is classic IMHO. Yeah, I find it so baffling that 90% of programmers I talk to have never heard of it. My circle is more Go/Python/C++ folks, so maybe it's more well-know
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Software essays that shaped me(refactoringenglish.com)
308 points by mtlynch 1y ago|47 comments
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by mtlynch 1y ago
> I don't even know how could commits only benefit the author; if they're poor they won't help him either, if not as a log of how much work he's done. Intermediate commits are just checkpoints of unfinished code. The
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by mtlynch 1y ago
I love code reviews and blog posts about them, but I vehemently disagree with all of this advice. > His example PR[0] adds just 152 lines of code, removes 2 lines, but uses 13 thoughtful commits. > While some developers might underst
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by mtlynch 1y ago
> Sidekiq withdrew its $250,000/year sponsorship for Ruby Central Whoa! I'm blown away that Sidekiq has enough money in the bank that one of their sponsorships is $250k/yr! Sidekiq the company (actually ContribSys) is j
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Targetting specific characters with CSS rules(shkspr.mobi)
42 points by mtlynch 1y ago|7 comments
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by mtlynch 1y ago
> Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jakt, for example: He published free, open-sour
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by mtlynch 1y ago
Cool projects! A few suggestions: - You're committing .zig-cache to git, but that's build output, so it shouldn't be under version control. You should add it to .gitignore (you already have zig-cache without leading dot). - Y
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by mtlynch 1y ago
No, the group policy checks are runtime checks, not compile time checks. It meant that when a user enables BitLocker on a drive, the BitLocker setup flow would check if group policy defined a minimum password length. If it did, BitLocker wo

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