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moritonal

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CTO in Tech. My LinkedIn is same as my username.
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moritonal··on Apple Invites
But... we have CalDAV, it exists, it's open, it's right there for sods sake. There's a whole spec to allow people to accept invites, why don't they just build on that?
moritonal··on The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
I imagine it's a mix of either using ChatGPT as an the oracle to get training data. Or, it's the radiocarbon issue where the Internet has so much info on ChatGPT other models now get confused.
moritonal··on Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket
Didn't we laude SpaceX for failing fast and moving forward?
moritonal··on White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices
An interesting thought is how when devices couldn't auto-update, they had to work out the gate. I imagine this encouraged companies to do much better testing to reach a gold-plate before deploying.
moritonal··on Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to embarrass you. I only meant to point out that people would err on the side of John likely knowing what they were talking about, whilst you seem to confidently have some misunderstandings in your comment.

For example, you said "Every timeout in every hop of the chain is within your control to configure", but I'm quite confident that the WiFi router my office uses doesn't respect timeouts correctly, nor does my Phone's ISP, or certain VPNs. Those "hops" in the network are not within my control at all.

moritonal··on Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets
Whilst it's possible you may be correct, I do have to point out you are, I believe, lecturing John Nagle, known for Nagle's algorithm, used in most TCP stacks in the world.
moritonal··on Developing inside a virtual machine
I noticed similar things, and found most these problems went away with more memory, and less usage of the "{}.features[]" in the `devcontainer.json` file.
moritonal··on Developing inside a virtual machine
Thr Dev Container ecosystem for VsCode really is quite impressive at the moment. All your dev dependencies, wrapped up in a docker image per repo.
moritonal··on Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team
Fleet commander or I'm guessing .IO?
moritonal··on Veo 2: Our video generation model
Okay, so is the aim to run this locally on a client's computer or served from a cloud? How does the math work out where it's not just easier at that point to render it in game?
moritonal··on Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires
The video shows the entire elevator being engulfed in fire, fumes and light. It was a small lift, but I'd doubt any part of any normal lift would have a safe spot.
moritonal··on Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
There is also https://shinobi.video/, as another alternative.
moritonal··on RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)
Key to note that the cookie banner fiasco wasn't GDPR, it was a separate policy that should be changed.
moritonal··on This website is hosted on Bluesky
Congrats on finding a role at Bluesky. Beaker was such an amazing project to follow, that experience must be so useful.
moritonal··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
This, I feel bad for their engineers who were told every bonus would be a matter of how low can they get the cost-per-GB of transferred data, leading to the glorious Netflix-in-a-box (https://openconnect.netflix.com/deploymentguide.pdf) and then management casually asks for a live show with a wildly different set of guarantee requirements.
moritonal··on Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls
Hide's real phone-number and allows you to control when, how you receive calls. Pretty smart honestly.
moritonal··on SST: Container Support
If by that you mean "is IaC production-ready yet?" my answer would be yes, I have lines like this in our code-base and it is really impressive.
moritonal··on The Weeds Are Winning
We're pretty confidently letting AI drive 2 ton metal vehicles on the road, and letting them fly around in the sky with grenades. A farmer-bot with a laser sounds pretty tame to me.
moritonal··on Inside the Transport for London cyberattack
That would be Mayoral career suicide at this point. Most voters are car owners.
moritonal··on 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor
Would love to see the parts of the market where you've marked off every current option, given each would represent new business opportunities.
moritonal··on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
I agree, and I'd hazard a guess that part of my slow-down was not knowing Ruby very well when starting. But the lack of intellisense made it difficult to grok, and the Rails libraries always feel more "magical" to me than the Node ecosystem.
moritonal··on Do not use secrets in environment variables
Okay, I really thought you were messing with me, but both https://github.com/ADIDAS and https://gucci-kering-group.opendatasoft.com/pages/home/ do have project pages!
moritonal··on Is the attack helicopter dead?
I mean, as I watched him destroy my personal definition of what a military industry might look like in X4 I did start to make the connection with the similar sounding war economist I followed.
moritonal··on Do not use secrets in environment variables
TIL Nike (the shoe company) has a surprisingly intense OSS presence.

https://github.com/orgs/Nike-Inc/repositories

moritonal··on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
Playing with a WebDev project in Node.js but jobs with Rails.

Node makes things like OAuth trivial with the mix of Express and Passport, something that took me two weeks in Rails. But man does Rails make Sequelize look childish by comparison.

moritonal··on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
Depends what you wanted from Microservices. If all you wanted was scale, then Rails ActiveJob solves that very effectively allowing you to scale your job-runners.

If you're looking for the "mindset" of microservices, where you store the data separately and impotently, then I believe Rails discourages that mindset.

moritonal··on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
I always saw it commenting on the difference between what non-techies perceive as hard. Multiple times in my career a single off the cuff requirement in a meeting changed the estimate of a project by several months.
moritonal··on We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs
I guess it doesn't matter if this is human or bot, an advert's an advert.
moritonal··on Desktop Windowing on Android Tablets
It's wild there are plenty of AR headset's arriving such as Visor, that can't just plug into your phone and spawn a full desktop. Instead they want you to plug into a Windows or Apple laptop, or battery kit.

Android fully understands the idea of running multiple apps, at different resolutions, simultaneously and yet, no product in this space due to I assume restrictive APIs.

moritonal··on ReMarkable Paper Pro
Bingo, Boox support WebDAV or FTP file sync and it's a breeze to use. It pains me how much of modern tech doesn't support the very standards half of it's built on. All to moat users into their domain.
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