Dan Upton

Founding Engineer at @GradientLabsAI 🤖 (but opinions mine)

Ex-HashiCorp, Ex-Monzo

he/him/his

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[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

Twitter's gone a bit horrible now (thanks, Elon)

Find me on the 🐘 app instead: @[email protected]

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

#MarcellusWilliams faces execution on 9/24 for a crime that DNA proves he didn’t commit. Join me, @innocence, and @the_mip in taking action to prevent this irreversible injustice. #SaveMarcellus https://t.co/uODf7zAG7Z

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

@MattJamesBoyle 👋 🤖 (also using Encore fwiw)

https://t.co/ipqOGBzyUQ

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@Liggi 😬😬😬

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

@mattklein123 Switching to a split keyboard (the CRKBD) forced my hand so to speak 😄

My technique is still terrible on a regular keyboard, but I type properly on that keyboard at least

[All That Dazzles @ATDazzles]

How Matthew Perry wanted to be remembered. I think we can honour his wishes today.

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

@lawrjones @incident_io Thanks so much for sharing 🙌

Are you doing any kind of autoscaling, or just a static # of app instances?

Also what’s your per-instance connection limit?

We have a Cloud Run job that ingests embeddings into pgvector which gets autoscaled and uses up our connection limit 😅

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

@jonfry22 Heads up ☝️

(looking forward to reading it!)

[Lawrence Jones @lawrjones]

In 2020 Figma started hitting growing pains with their single managed Postgres database.

That means they managed to grow to a $2B company on a single mged instance.

I bet at they hired engineers around this time who grumbled about not picking a more ‘scalable’ tech.

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

@Herring1967 Ooof cocomelon at #3 though 😬

[james bedford @jameesy]

As someone who has had the "you need to speak up more" piece of feedback since school, here is some advice on how to handle meetings...

It's no good trying to change how often you speak - it just leads to further anxiety and overthinking.

Instead - this is what I do:

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

Oooof 😬

"Water intrusion in a data center in europe-west9 has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to a shutdown of multiple zones"

https://t.co/yYEQUWCawG

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

Not receiving the test emergency notification like

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@Liggi https://t.co/X6Pa4VkmQe

[Richard K Herring @Herring1967]

It’s choosing the worthy women and letting the unworthy men die

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

@Liggi Same!

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

@NotePlanApp Fixed in the beta! Thanks 🙌

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

@NotePlanApp Heya 👋 The iOS app has started crashing for me on startup. Doesn’t crash if I turn ✈️ mode on, so I think it must be sync-related? Using CloudKit and v3.8.1 FWIW

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

@asubiotto It’s suffering from bitrot these days, but we’ve used ALICE with some success:

https://t.co/EcZCnI7Ji7

[Dan Upton @boxofrad]

So they're shutting down Amazon Smile to focus on "philanthropic efforts with greater impact" rather than, say, making it the default (and actually giving it a chance to work) instead of sticking it on some janky subdomain you have to remember to go 🤔