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dschofie

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dschofie··on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
Reading through the post it looks like this infects via preinstall?

> The new versions of these packages published to the NPM registry falsely purported to introduce the Bun runtime, adding the script preinstall: node setup_bun.js along with an obfuscated bun_environment.js file.

dschofie··on How much solopreneurs make and how they make their money [research report]
Very cool, I wish I could see more of the data without giving up my name + email. A lot of the time i'm hesitant with that because you input it then are continually asked more data
dschofie··on Wiz hardened, near-zero-CVE base images
Definitely! A lot of this falls under the "reachability" umbrella. It's just a little harder to say if something is actually used vs just installed. For example, in your app you could exec a script which can be harder for tools to detect with accuracy and there are just quite a few edge cases to handle
dschofie··on FTC announces rule banning noncompetes
big news for amazon employees
dschofie··on SRE Doesn't Scale (2021)
I believe the problem comes where there isn't a clear division of ownership between product teams and SREs.

At a previous company, we embedded SREs on teams for a quarter rotation and found that this model worked well. It was nice to give SREs more product team empathy and vice versa

dschofie··on Show HN: Strada – Cloud IDE for Connecting SaaS APIs
congrats on the launch! Looks great!!
dschofie··on PayPal to lay off 9% of global workforce
I'm curious how this plays out in terms of their subsidiaries. Anyone have any insight?

As far as I can tell braintree + venmo seem to be doing well

dschofie··on Show HN: Advent of Distributed Systems
Really cool and a great way to show off what you've built with Cannon
dschofie··on Show HN: CopilotKit- Build in-app AI chatbots and AI-powered textareas
Super cool! Heads up: when clicking "website" next to "Join our Discord" on your repo, it looks like the link is broken
dschofie··on Spotify Is Screwed
This feels like a clickbait title. I don't think that Spotify is in that unique of a position compared to other tech companies that have gone through "hypergrowth" and are now focusing more on profitability.
dschofie··on Believe it or not, the US has no pedestrian impact regulations
Alongside this, it's a concerning trend that the size of vehicles is increasing year over year
dschofie··on Banker pays $2M for coal mine, discovers $37B rare Earth elements
This guy should try doing VC
dschofie··on Show HN: Monitor your webapp with minimal setup
The dashboard looks clean in this loom, and I don't think the pictures you have on https://www.catalystmonitor.com/ do the same justice that this loom does. The pics look a little blurry, and it's hard to see how the screenshots fit in. While the loom shows off the entire dashboard and looks great!

Best of luck with everything

dschofie··on 95% of OpenAI Employees (738/770) Threaten to Follow Sam Altman Out the Door
Makes you wonder how many other companies would have this level of consensus supporting their CEO
dschofie··on Show HN: Monitor your webapp with minimal setup
Thanks for sharing! It would be cool to share a loom or a sample dashboard to get things going, as I'd love to see a little more before signing up. It's hard for me to tell where this fits in. Is it a replacement for early usage of datadog? Does this offer support like pagerduty for pinging me? Is it the devX of setup?

Congrats on the launch!

dschofie··on Configtailor: A Cell Configuration Generator
Hi, we made configtailor to manage the growing number of JSON config files that we managed for every environment and cell that we maintained.

configtailor generates config files based on any dimension that you input. For example, we have cells (us0, us1, ..., us9) and we have microservices. For internal microservice discovery we use DNS with the following URI `us0.microservice.path`. We were copying and pasting into each cell's config file the path per cell along with dev and test environments. With configtailor we can put in `$cell.microservice.path` and have configtailor generat the appropriate config.

Some other benefits: - Easily set config values that can be reused in each environment. For example, setting a base config value that is only overwritten for tests. - Hooks into what people are used to with other Go tools that generate other files.

Overall, I was excited to open source this because our config files were a copy/paste nightmare and this tool helped us keep our config DRY and prevents people from missing values.

Let me know what you think!