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gtaylor··on My Ten Years in No Man's Sky
They really turned it around. You should check it out.

But yeah, super crappy launch.

gtaylor··on Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale
Why does it matter if it’s coming from Airbnb vs some other business? Should the originating business crowd out interest in the actual topic for the reader?
gtaylor··on Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war
This “both sides” argument is so weak.
gtaylor··on Some notes on starting to use Django
The nice thing in this case is that Django will meet you where you are with your preferences. Want to go the manual route? Sure. Want it to take a shot at auto-generation and then you customize? Very doable and. Want to let Django take the wheel fully the majority of the time? Sure.
gtaylor··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Congrats on your progress! This is pretty cool.
gtaylor··on Writing a good Claude.md
Most countries don’t have a notion of a formally licensed software engineer, anyway. Arguing what is and is not engineering is not useful.
gtaylor··on Will a 50-Year Mortgage Make Homes More Affordable?
Homes are lucrative investment vehicles. I’d expect many of these to get gobbled up people and companies looking to make a buck.
gtaylor··on A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime
I’ve never been on a team that migrated to Aurora PG for raw query perf. It is slower than a bespoke setup that is optimized for raw latency, but Aurora is going to hold up under much higher traffic with much less fuss. It also has an excellent snapshot/restore facility.
gtaylor··on Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
I'm glad to let uv handle that for me. It does a pretty good job at it!
gtaylor··on What I wish someone told me about Postgres
Auto vacuuming is enabled now. We did have some near misses due to long running vacuums that barely completed before wraparounds, but got things tuned over time.

I did none of that work but was on the team where it happened.

gtaylor··on New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
More than a few do not. You shouldn’t have to barely scrape by as a single parent in one of the most wealthy countries in the world.
gtaylor··on Move to Texas or else: Apple sends some California employees clear message
The last line in the comment was a little petty but I don’t think I’d describe it as a Molotov cocktail. It sucks that we’ve ended up in this situation but Texas is an objectively more risky place to live if you are in the 50% of the population that has a uterus.
gtaylor··on Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops
Had great results with my Dell XPS 17. Everything but the fingerprint reader works out of the box.
gtaylor··on Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops
Quality went downhill since Lenovo.
gtaylor··on ZeroMQ – Relicense from LGPL3 and exceptions to MPL 2.0
Seen this quite a few times as well, but we’ve managed to strike the indemnification clause from various third party CLAs by putting our legal teams in touch.
gtaylor··on Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences
Seems possible or even plausible, but can't help but feel like this takes us one step closer to:

> Welcome to Costco. I love you.

gtaylor··on How to make good small games
Sounds interesting! Do you have screenshots of what the TUI looks like anywhere?
gtaylor··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
Same. Just moved to Fedora about 6 months ago and have pleasantly surprised. Works better on my laptop as well.
gtaylor··on Self-Host All the Things?
Some providers block or score hit IPs from popular provider blocks due to the amount of spam that comes from them.
gtaylor··on Ask HN: Which big tech companies are still (or permanently) remote?
Netflix is still remote friendly in general.
gtaylor··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Copilot for Business use your organization's actual repos?
Is this going to be available for self-hosted enterprise users?
gtaylor··on Ask HN: How to Exit FAANG?
It is for some of us! Probably not in the cards for everyone, though.
gtaylor··on Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles is wrong
Rep has been fine for me as well. And much cheaper than Rogue.
gtaylor··on Amazon set to begin new round of layoffs affecting over 18,000 people
They may mean "unregrettable attrition".
gtaylor··on Ask HN: How to Deal with Rejections?
They exist!
gtaylor··on Nix and NixOS, my pain points
Which package was it?
gtaylor··on Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
Twitter is a good deal bigger than reddit. At least pre-Elon. 200MM+ DAU vs 50MM+.
gtaylor··on Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?
Wondering whether it's EVE Online
gtaylor··on The best leaders are great individual contributors, not professional managers
Why do you need to be a top IC after years managing managers? Some of the worst managers I've seen tried to cling too much to the technical details, which is smothering to the actual ICs.
gtaylor··on Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea
Gitea itself was forked off of Gogs.
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