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by peterldowns 1y ago
Direct from them: https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-s...
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by peterldowns 1y ago
One object level suggestion is you shouldn't be doing string formatting manipulation to construct valid YAML objects as part of your ops pipeline; instead, do it all with actual data structures and then just render the result. Yes, I k
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by peterldowns 1y ago
I know it didn't escape anyone; I'm explaining the downside to the choices made by the stdlib authors, from my perspective. When performance is a concern, people pick uber/zap.Logger or zerolog. When performance isn't a
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by peterldowns 1y ago
1) Right, but this is complicated and annoying. Imagine a world where you could just pass your existing logger in, because my library references an interface like `stdlib/logging.GenericLoggerInterface` and slog, zap, zerolog, etc. all
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by peterldowns 1y ago
That's close, but not what I meant — that's specific to this package, and is the interface for processing log records produced by a slog.Logger. What I mean is that there should be a single interface for Logging that is implemente
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by peterldowns 1y ago
It's fine for application logging but I have two gripes with slog: 1) If you're writing a library that can be used by many different applications and want to emit logs, you'll still need to write a generic log interface with
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by peterldowns 1y ago
No mention of Graphite.dev? Oh, it's written by Mergify, got it.
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Well-written blog post about something I had never, ever, considered. Maybe one day this will come up and I'll remember that something like this is possible. The general trick of "rewrite the entire webpage based on some external
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Can someone elaborate on the first accusation — "DFP favours AdX over rival Ad exchanges by e.g. informing it in advance of the best bid from competitors"? I'd be really curious to understand how it does this, like what infor
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Just to pile on the terrible Apple Music UI — it's so unnatural and baffling to me. One example that really takes the cake is that there is no ability to set a sleep timer in the app. After having to google it, the only way I've f
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Given your interest in BCH, you may enjoy Non-places: An Anthropology of Supermodernity by Marc Augé. BCH draws on a lot of Augé's ideas from this book in Psychopolitics . It is obtuse and either poorly-translated or badly-written b
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Ancient, but potentially also helpful due to documentation and tests, is my old django implementation: https://github.com/peterldowns/djoauth2 . I’m sure it doesn’t run out of the box anymore due to Django changes but
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Yup, pain in the ass but quite possible. Check out this 100gecs ringtone I made as an example (warning — autoplay ringtone audio): https://freezine.xyz/2/my-boys-got-his-own-ring-tone/index.h...
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by peterldowns 1y ago
“AI reshoring” is what I call it. Makes perfect sense.
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by peterldowns 1y ago
"Try running 50+ miles a week in order to eat more" is an insane suggestion.
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by peterldowns 1y ago
That's a cool thing to know, thanks for sharing. Great job on the sky site!
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by peterldowns 1y ago
That's like 4000 calories. How much do you weigh / what's your exercise like?
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Doesn't work in firefox, console tells me Uncaught TypeError: a.frequency.cancelAndHoldAtTime is not a function Pretty fun in Chrome!
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Hey, cool looking product! Why do I want this instead of just adding birthdays to my existing calendar and setting reminders there?
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by peterldowns 1y ago
In the past I'd heard people recommend against gVisor, and recommend looking at firecracker instead, because of I/O overhead. Is that something you've noticed at Modal? Obviously you're happy with gVisor, not suggesting
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Strongly Typed Identifier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly_typed_identifier > The strongly typed identifier commonly wraps the data type used as the primary key in the database, such as a string, an integer or
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by peterldowns 1y ago
My friend Lukas has written about this before in more detail, and describes the general technique as "Safety Through Incompatibility". I use this approach in all of my golang codebases now and find it invaluable — it makes it real
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Very interesting writeup, as a long-time Nix user I've always been interested in trying guix but never gotten around to it. Great post overall. > The thing is, I'm not actually sure if Guix's better documentation helps smo
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Sorry, my phrasing was not clear. Your metabolic rate is generally lower during sleep than during the day; you definitely lose more weight overall during the day than while asleep. But, while you're sleeping, you don't eat anythin
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by peterldowns 1y ago
A related fun fact is that you generally lose weight by exhaling, generally while you sleep. Sweating, defecating, etc. is all temporary. If you're trying to lose weight, make sure you're sleeping enough! edit: see my followup com
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by peterldowns 1y ago
I walked the Kumano Kodo after reading Craig's essay about it. I like to think I was one of the 15% he talks about here. One of these days I'll go back to Japan and I'll make sure to go to Morioka. My favorite line in this ar
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Hey Tomas, been a while! I like the approach that graphite is taking to AI code review — focus on automating the “lint” or “hey this is clearly wrong” or “you probably wanted to not introduce a security flaw here” type stuff, so that humans
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by peterldowns 1y ago
> The American appetite for a low skill manufacturing job is dead - I'm not sure it's a bad thing either. It probably isn't a bad thing, as long as we continue to invest in automation and high-skill manufacturing. The Econ
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Fun story. This reminds me of the summer my friends and I were all still around our small town — we used the Yo! app the same way, as a bat signal to meet up and get into nonsense. Someone would start Yo!ing and then once there was a critic
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by peterldowns 1y ago
Given the title, it's surprising how the entire thing reads like normie-mode chatGPT wrote it. Boring and content-free. Yup, after scrolling to the bottom, the author proudly defends his AI use: https://wildbarestepf.substac

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