Can they lay off half the company on Friday without a material deterioration in service performance, availability and moderation quality? If they can't pull that off, there could be a very quick exodus
@simonw
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Trust Erosion: How Minor Disappointments Compound Over Time
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Interesting model here for thinking about how it can feel like people suddenly, irreversibly stop trusting a product, when it was usually the outcome of a multi-year sequence of minor disappointments accumulating over time
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Justfile for sqlite-utils project repository
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Here's the Justfile https://
github.com/simonw/sqlite-
utils/blob/main/Justfile
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Automated File Updates and Commits in Repository Actions
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I may have solved that in the past with an action that occasionally updates and commits a file in its own repo…
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Twitter Chirp Conference Returns to Rebuild Developer Trust
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Pretty short notice: Twitter's Chirp conference was scheduled for November 16th Here's a story from June about how the goal of the conference was to help restore developer trust in the platform! https://
techcrunch.com/2022/06/21/twi
tter-is-bringing-back-its-long-lost-chirp-developer-conference-in-november/
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Internal App with CI/CD for Company-wide Collaboration
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I pitched something like that at a previous employer: let's have an internal app for things like "staff pet directory" and "project status reports" which lives in a repo with CI and CD and anyone in the company can ship a new feature to it any time they like
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Cooperative Backup System: Peer-to-Peer Data Security Solution
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I've long fantasized about implementing a co-op backup system: you host my encrypted backups, I host yours, then if just one of us screws up our storage somehow or forgets to renew our credit card we don't lose all of our data!
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PostgreSQL Simplicity Over Complex Distributed Systems
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Operational simplicity. Running just one or two PostgreSQL instances will always be more straightforward than adding a Kafka and a Redis and so on – especially for companies that have deep PostgreSQL expertise already
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PostgreSQL Analytics Suffices for Early-Stage Startups
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My hunch is that these days most startups could get away just fine with analytics on a beefy PostgreSQL instance, at least for their first few years before they start to really scale
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14-Year Data Matching Project Considered as Datasette Plugin
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Sadly my 14 year old project never got any further than this! https://
github.com/simonw/datamat
cher/blob/main/index.html
… Though now I'm pondering if something like this could make a good @datasetteproj plugin…