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iampims··on Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker
DigitalOcean, GCP, Hertzner, Raspberrypi
iampims··on When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
It’s trunk driven because there aren’t some long lived branches like ‘dev’ and ‘staging’ or ‘release-xx’

Feature flags can be used to gate features until they are ready, but all code is committed to trunk and is deployed to prod mostly continuously.

iampims··on Hetzner partnering with Ampere to bring ARM systems to their cloud
That’s exactly what Scaleway offers.
iampims··on Incident with GitHub Actions
You always need a break glass solution for these kind of events, SaaS or self-hosted, something will break at an inopportune time and you need to be able to move forward.
iampims··on Starring your repo does not give you permission to spam me
You get an email if you subscribe to releases.
iampims··on Ask HN: Are you using actors in production? Why/Why not?
Because they scale to more than one node is a very important feature.
iampims··on A lock with many keys: Spoofing DNSSEC-signed domains in 8.8.8.8
1.1.1.2 is correct, see this blogpost:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-1-1-1-1-for-families...

iampims··on Expremigen: Expressive MIDI Generation Library
A demo would be nice :)
iampims··on Arduboy
Please consider adding another means of payment besides PayPal. I’d buy this in an instant if I could use Stripe/Apple Pay/Anything but Paypal.
iampims··on Containerize Go and SQLite with Docker
Distroless works well. Still no shell, but comes with “what’s usually missing in scratch”.
iampims··on An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)
How are they conflicting?
iampims··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
Mining pools split profits according to each participants contributions (~= hashrate)
iampims··on Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
Leak
iampims··on Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards
And merchant add 2% to their base price which amounts to everyone not using a credit card “subsidizing” the benefits to all credit card users.
iampims··on Redis Anti-Patterns
> In computer science, marshalling or marshaling (US spelling) is the process of transforming the memory representation of an object into a data format suitable for storage or transmission

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_scienc...

iampims··on Redis Anti-Patterns
Marshaling is serializing.
iampims··on Using load shedding to avoid overload
Recommendations.
iampims··on Taiwan reports largest ever incursion as 38 Chinese planes fly over air space
This is not going to end well.
iampims··on WAGI: WebAssembly Gateway Interface
They are loaded at boot an executed for each matching requests.
iampims··on Kape Technologies buys ExpressVPN for $936M
Mullvad
iampims··on My Room in 3D
I found it a bit easier to start with voxels:

https://ephtracy.github.io/

iampims··on Show HN: Heroku Alternative for Python/Django apps
That’s probably the way to go. Easy provisioning/scaling/backup based on RDS or equivalent.
iampims··on Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
This is a fantastic write-up. Worth a read even if you don’t care about CRDTs.
iampims··on Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line
https://webwormhole.io/
iampims··on Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++
Don’t let any of these comments take away from how great this is, _especially_ with the in-depth blog post.
iampims··on PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on PostgreSQL
Heroku is only available in EU and US east. Latency from Australia is somewhat unavoidable. You can maybe reduce it by using Cloudflare or similar to terminate TLS as close to your users as possible.
iampims··on Notion API – public beta
Backup to s3 every N hours sounds like a good trade off.
iampims··on GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
curl -i (lowercase) prints the headers as well as the response body without the verbosity of -v
iampims··on Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments
I thought this was the kind of government actions that Cryptocurrencies were supposed to absolve us from.
iampims··on std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs
> Made with by a Blockchain Expert who wrote like 100 lines of Solidity in 2017 (which didn't work)

This made me chuckle.

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