I stopped myself at least 5 times from self hosting my personal Mastodon instance last night. I think I’ll just wait until Mastohost plans are available again.
my short piece from 2017 on the engineer/manager pendulum remains the most-read, most-cited thing i've ever written, but it took me over five years to turn it into a talk. ☺️
behold ... my slides from @QConSF earlier this month:
https://t.co/vSYsUyO0GC
Since the iPhone 14 went on sale, the 911 dispatch center near Kings Island amusement park has received at least six phones calls saying:
“The owner of this iPhone was in a severe car crash...”
Except, the owner was just on a roller coaster.
🆕 by me: https://t.co/hp1fHZBIf6
Also on pagination: your docs should make explicit that the number of results on a page can be ≤ ${pageSize}.
This means that you can have more predictable performance for your API. You can make sure a page is never more than 1MB of data.
The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades. Pre-pandemic WFH was trending towards 5% of days by 2022. Now WFH is now stabilizing at 30%, a 6-fold jump.
In America alone this is saving about 200 million hours and 6 billion miles of commuting a week.
🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps.
https://t.co/TxN1ezZX71
Someone finally implemented open source code signing and notarisation for Mach-O binaries 🎉 https://t.co/tdC5Kx5t3D
cc @StewGleadow@sirjec@_petegoldsmith (if you folks even care about this any more 😂)
One chart that shows a key to the US economy's huge innovative advantage over other nations. It shows the global flows of inventors into and out of various countries from 2000-2010. What this looks like from 2020-2030 will shape the future world economy. https://t.co/i4mRfct3ls
1) engineering cycles are scarce, and you should spend as much of them as possible on core differentiators for your customers
2) if you run your o11y on the same cloud as production, then whenever cloud causes problems with prod your telemetry goes down too.