Tim Freeman

on the sky place ● Love distributed systems, backend, performance, security, Rust, Python

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

@rickasaurus I've seen (and done) that role as "lead developer". Often includes every management duty except ability to hire/fire or do formal performance mgmt. And the people are often oversubscribed and heading towards burnout 😒

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

@Austen Hmm, they started experimenting with forcing logins in August 2021 (there are a number of articles and posts about it). Publicly accessible tweets/embeds was the norm for the majority of its life.

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

From the performance page: https://t.co/M2pbX9oL8a

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

Reading "Feedly became unbearably slow" for nth time.

Guessing that is at least partially caused by the freemium model? From what I can tell they advertise 15M users but more like 100K paying.

I'm good with subscription-only for Yupdates but I bet it's going to affect traction

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

@IanColdwater @ChristianSelig some jerks came along and pushed them all into the fire 😞

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

I knew it had millions of users, but didn't realize Google Reader had hit over 30 million. A shame that is still a "rounding error" at Google.

https://t.co/st0sLwTGRz

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

@fortworthchris Worse pet peeve is when people call themselves entrepreneurs but they were only ever hired as part of a founding team or after series A, etc., not taking any personal risk.

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

@AllenHeltonDev is that a small/hobby farm or a huge, terrible place 😬

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

"Moving to Hpc7g offers up to 70% better performance and almost 3x better price-performance compared to the previous generation AWS Graviton instances for compute-intensive workloads. They also consume up to 60% less energy for the same work"

https://t.co/V24Z6rgH1Y

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

Separating services out is not guaranteed to be the wrong design or anything, but identifying externalities and where complexity is shifting to will lead to better decisions.
https://t.co/pIu4xG3WjC

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

"GPT-3 is a double-edge sword: In comparison with humans, it can produce accurate information that is easier to understand, but it can also produce more compelling disinformation"

https://t.co/d8BYjLlLft

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

@adamhjk @patrickdebois how about New Wave devops?

[Alberto Ruiz @acruiz]

An aspect of participating in the FOSS ecosystem that I struggle with a lot is dealing with the excessive entitlement people who have barely commited anything to contribute to the commons and how they use it against the people doing the work.

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

@nathanmarz @redplanetlabs Will most people read that much? (I will, in this case)

Would it be better to introduce concepts one by one?

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

Speaking of CAPTCHA, I added @Cloudflare Turnstile to https://t.co/1cKWQFdmFX

Now there's no email needed to check it out.

Had a good experience setting up Turnstile. The fact that for most people it's completed automated is a big plus. No crosswalk puzzles to solve, etc.

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

@lucperkins Even with curated following choices, it isn’t that great. I’ve been a fan of private lists for a long time: fewer people per list and topic specific.

[Determinate Systems @DeterminateSys]

We're extremely excited to introduce the Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action that will dramatically speed up your Nix workflow runs with a single line of YAML. No signup, SaaS membership, or additional Nix config required.

https://t.co/wWz9SsLU0d

[Tim Freeman @peakscale]

@lusis all the problems it helps with are still flourishing 😒