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rcaught··on Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006
> Each decision solved the problem in front of it. Nobody was asked to look at the sum of all actions.

This is the perfect description of Telstra as a company.

rcaught··on Saying goodbye to Agile
Aigile
rcaught··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
NIH syndrome
rcaught··on I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours
While I understand the intent of this exercise, couldn't someone just wasm compile the Servo html5ever Rust codebase?
rcaught··on Adk-go: code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents
That's because OP wrote that
rcaught··on Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy
rcaught··on Stripe V2
> These days a great SDK, not a great API, is a hallmark, and maybe even a necessity, of a world class development experience.

IMO, you can't build a great SDK without a great API. Duct tape only goes so far.

rcaught··on OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider
Malicious access to these tokens is malicious access to the service.
rcaught··on SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance
Rails 8 will by default use the DB for cache, queues and WebSocket broadcasting - https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/the-plan-for-rails-8/
rcaught··on SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_job_basics.html
rcaught··on DevHub.app – Developer Utilities for macOS
Make one program do no one thing well.
rcaught··on Reclaim the Stack
hahaha, do you even realize what else this company makes?
rcaught··on Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial
It looks like one you shouldn't implement.
rcaught··on Awsviz.dev simplifying AWS IAM policies
Permission boundaries
rcaught··on Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
Savings plans, spot, EDP discounts. Some of these have to be applied, right?
rcaught··on Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
https://archive.google/pigeonrank/
rcaught··on Building a SaaS product with Htmx – Are you sure you need all the complexity?
Complexity breeds complexity
rcaught··on Apple Fell Behind in the AI Arms Race
> “Apple is not compatible with that. They won’t release something until it’s perfect.”

Apple Maps, Magic Mouse charging from the base, Butterfly keyboard...

rcaught··on Java Language Update – a look at where the language is going by Brian Goetz
Appreciate Kotlin and others pushing it there.
rcaught··on DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
COPY (SELECT * FROM view_name) TO 'output.csv' (HEADER, DELIMITER ',');
rcaught··on DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/iceberg.html
rcaught··on DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
This is not showing what you would always do, it's showing something novel that you could do.
rcaught··on DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
In the full context of their statement, many modern databases separate the data storage component. RDS Aurora, etc.
rcaught··on DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
The article shows dynamically fetching a database, with database level views, that dynamically fetch data.

You're just showing a query that dynamically fetches data.

rcaught··on DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
https://duckdb.org/docs/sql/statements/create_view - the View is not physically materialized, but the query is run every time the view is referenced in a query.
rcaught··on DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
I've successfully used it's glob support on S3.
rcaught··on Is regulated BGP security coming?
Somewhat related. I've been looking at RPKI lately, and there are two things I'm not overly impressed with:

1. LACNIC and RIPE have 100 year validity on their trust anchors.

2. All RIR trust anchors are valid for all IPs (past their allocations), due to, I assume, inter-RIR transfers.

rcaught··on Slack AI Training with Customer Data
Keyboard warriors
rcaught··on Sqlime: Online SQLite Playground
Also see: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite
rcaught··on White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)
I'm sure someone will incorrectly consider this a valid reason to create another.
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