If you're a team of 5+ and you don't have formal, tracked SLOs around:

* Request queue time (web server)
* Background job queue time (per queue)

... you should, because you already have an informal one (your customers complaining).

Jumping back into learning Nix as I want to use NixOS for my homelab. I had a brief brush with Nix via nix-darwin back in 2020 in the pre-Flakes era. I loved the declarative nature of Nix, but it definitely had rough edges. I’m hoping Flakes will make things smoother this time around.

A photo that I snapped an hour ago of the San Francisco #NoKings protest. I estimate about 150,000 people in total.

From sea to shining sea, millions of Americans are taking to the streets to reject Trump’s authoritarianism. #nokings

cloudflare is a net negative on the internet even before you get to the fascism

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things."

Douglas Adams predicted some of the knee-jerk negative reactions to LLMs.

Apple's Spotlight updates are trying to Sherlock Raycast

there exists an entire class of programmer for whom the goal of programming is not to solve a problem, but to write code

golang is for that person

github copilot is for that person

I hate that Facebook and Elon ruined the terms “meta” and “X” in casual (text) conversation.

#StarTrek

“AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians

London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence

https://www.osnews.com/story/142488/ai-coding-chatbot-funded-by-microsoft-were-actually-indians/

#ClownCar

You’ve heard of DRY. Now get a load of WET (Write Everything [at least] Twice)

Pretty strongly consider a UNAS Pro, now that I have Ubiquiti for my networking. I wanted a NAS for “just storage”, since I wanted to separate compute. This seems to fit the bill, is rack mounted, and doesn’t break the $1k mark (sans drive).

#StarTrek

If your AI recruiting emails don’t even sign off as if they were coming from an actual recruiter, you have 0% chance hearing back from me.

Is it possible to create middleware for @honeybadger? For example, I want to tag every exception with a code owner based on the originating file path. Searching “middleware” didn’t turn up anything in the docs /cc @wood

Boomers signing their texts like:

Thank you
Ryan

I know who it is because I’ve got you on my phone as a contact!

AI codegen is programming's replication crisis.

"How are _you_ not as productive as this AI? It generates 10 PRs in 30 minutes for $20 of tokens, you take 10x as long and cost 10x as much"

We have no real productivity measure. What is "maintainable"? What is "clean"?