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by pjbster 4y ago
Pinboard's performance was ultimately what led me to abandon it in the end. I really like Firefox's built-in bookmark manager. It supports both hierarchy and tags and, if you export your Pinboard bookmarks to html, the file will i
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by pjbster 4y ago
Odd that Kaizen doesn't get a mention here. The article draws battle lines between the two ends of the spectrum but there could be a middle way. In Kaizen, "Fail Fast, Fail Early" would never get ouf of the gate. The game her
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by pjbster 4y ago
I was immediately reminded of this gem from https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-... “You know their motto? ‘Find the dependencies — and eliminate them.’ They’ll never go for something
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by pjbster 4y ago
I'm not sure which vault we're using. There's no identifying information in the server responses. The storage type shows as "Consul" so that suggests Hashicorp Vault. I'm not the person to ask how to set it up
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by pjbster 4y ago
I don't know and I don't need to know (I'm a mere dev -- no "ops" in my role). And, yes, this client has very high compliance requirements.
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by pjbster 4y ago
The best approach I've seen is to have the secrets in a vault and to keep the vault URL in an env var (so different vaults can be used for dev and prod, for example). The secrets location within the vault is held in a variable defined
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by pjbster 5y ago
This isn't the first time something like this has happened: cycling aficionados will remember the tale of Robert Millar and the "stolen" 1984 Vuelta [1]. I personally love it when races are run without radios. The UCI tried
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by pjbster 6y ago
Financial data migration. Big numbers down to many decimal places. I lost days trying to locate a non-existent problem due to this "feature". Not to mention a stakeholder breathing down my neck.
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by pjbster 6y ago
Reminds me of the Cyrano de Bergerac line: Cyrano: I was wandering in a maze I’d too many complicated paths to take: I took ... Le Bret: Which? Cyrano: Oh! Of them all, the simplest one. I decide
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by pjbster 6y ago
I will never trust Excel for manipulating any real world data. Period. Excel only keeps the first 15 digits of any number you give it [0]. If you want to keep the full number, you have to store it as text instead. And then you can't pe
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by pjbster 6y ago
Software engineering is definitely a thing. But it's hard to define because, unlike a physical thing like a building which sits on a patch of ground which won't change much and which will sit there in atmospheric conditions which
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by pjbster 6y ago
You should try to save Casino Royale. It's worth the wait and, after enduring the middle 6 or so, you'll appreciate just how much better it is than all that came before it. Best opening credits. Best femme fatale. Most believable
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by pjbster 6y ago
I am in the process of learning Vapor. You need to be comfortable with Swift closures as Vapor uses them everywhere. The SwiftNIO EventLoopFuture is prevalent too and there's a rich API over that which I'm still getting to grips w
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by pjbster 6y ago
The biggest contributor to technical debt is the mindset of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". This gives everyone permission to just wait for issues to appear on the tracker before even looking at the code after it&#x27
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by pjbster 6y ago
Intel could become dominant as a cloud service provider. They have the engineering resources and the facilities to build bespoke datacenters running servers built on their own SoC's running their own ISA on their own Linux kernel. Scra
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by pjbster 6y ago
Am I the only one who wants to call it MacOS 11 Big Bottom? Any Spinal Tap devotees here? Oh never mind.
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by pjbster 6y ago
A "new" file is simply one which doesn't contain the licensee's signature. Yes, there would be ways to game this approach by minimising the number of files saved but the price per new save could be set sufficiently low t
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by pjbster 6y ago
I have been thinking about an alternative pricing model but it only works for content creation software. It would be enabled by an OpenPGP library which handles signing of files and micropayments. What if the app itself was free but it char
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by pjbster 6y ago
Ah, now if you want to bring tribalism into this, here's the obligatory joke: What are the only 3 English football clubs with swear words in their names? 1. Scunthorpe United, 2. Arsenal, 3. F *ing Man United!
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by pjbster 7y ago
This scene from Cocktail includes some other ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHdUl8hHwKY (None of those examples are on that list.)
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by pjbster 7y ago
Nice idea in theory but it can (and will) be gamed. For instance, the CIO will have an auditor sign off on a master checklist of yes/no items which the engineers will then be forced to self-certify any changes against. Any failures aft
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by pjbster 7y ago
The Kings College sensor data is visualised on this page: https://www.londonair.org.uk/LondonAir/nowcast.aspx When I used to cycle in London I noticed that I struggled to recover at traffic lights. On one occasion I th
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by pjbster 8y ago
3. I’m not sure how the accounting would work, but if we kept the salary the same and tied it to a quarterly bonus structure based on company profits, it could create a more direct link between short-term productivity and income. (That’s n
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by pjbster 8y ago
I have two anecdotes about testing. First one was where I decided to refactor a function which had something like a 10-way cascading branch each of which had a compound test. Normally I wouldn't bother but, on this occasion, I wrote so
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by pjbster 8y ago
I miss cycling to and from work. I used to live 27 miles away from the office and I'd do that ride 5 days a week. Yeah it was 3 hours out of the day but the alternatives didn't add up to a whole lot less than 2 hours anyway so I d
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by pjbster 8y ago
Whatever happened to the Mechanism vs Policy mantra? It was all the rage in the nineties but perhaps X11 soured people on the idea. Anyway, business logic is a perfect example of stuff that should go in Policy: functional, side-effect-free
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by pjbster 8y ago
I think every entity which holds a password should adopt the same policy: from the moment the password is created, the entity will undertake to do everything it can to try and break it. Whatever it takes - bot farms, 3rd-party white hat out
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by pjbster 8y ago
Not a list of "whats", exactly; more like a list of "whys": https://80000hours.org/
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by pjbster 8y ago
Client access to database: too much effort to get stakeholder sign off for api changes and regression testing so we'll just grant the client full access to the database schema. Now we can't change the schema without breaking zero,
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by pjbster 8y ago
Not a CTO and I've never come close to having a conversation with one. As a developer, though, I've been burned by tech debt too many times to feel comfortable with it. The biggest problem with technical debt is that everyone has

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