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02 November 2022 18h50

I imagine this is more about simplicity at a small scale, which then gets baked in too deep to easily refactor layer on

Isolate Analytics Data From Core Application Databases

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02 November 2022 18h45

This makes a ton of sense to me: keep less critical, high throughput data such as analytics in a separate database from your core application data such that any problems with the high throughput stuff are isolated from affecting your key tables

Single Digit Percent of Earnings Discussion

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02 November 2022 16h29

A single digit percent of what I earn

AI agents for freelance work coordination and contract management

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02 November 2022 13h13

I don't want an agent to help me get hired to a full time role, but having an agent to help coordinate short term contracts plus things like speaking gigs is something I would find incredibly useful The worst part of freelancing is finding and administrating new work

Generative AI Deserves More Nuanced Media Coverage

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01 November 2022 16h59

Generative AI warrants a whole lot more nuanced, considerate coverage like this IMO

Mining electricity costs impact on cryptocurrency economics

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01 November 2022 7h01

Plus a not insignificant amount of the money was lost to paying for electricity used by the miners

RFC 7807 Standard for HTTP JSON API Error Messages

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01 November 2022 2h20

This is interesting: a proposed standard (RFC 7807) for how error messages in HTTP+JSON APIs should be structured, for example like this:

GitHub Pages Undocumented Feature Serves HTML Files Automatically

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01 November 2022 1h35

Looks like numerous hosts – including GitHub Pages (via an undocumented feature) – will serve foo.html for /foo automatically https://
x.com/bitswamp/statu
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ghp-import Script Uses Git Fast-Import Cleverly

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01 November 2022 1h17

That ghp-import script is interesting, it uses "git fast-import" in a pretty clever way https://
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