@mistersql in February 2026
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India: So what's the word for heng? Asafoetida? Really? No kidding? Thanks but...
India: So what's the word for heng? Asafoetida? Really? No kidding? Thanks but we think we'll keep using our word.
Pentagon is also sending a message that they are reserving the right to violate...
Pentagon is also sending a message that they are reserving the right to violate all terms of services and contracts. Man, no one thinks this stuff through.
Browser vendors: Defend against XSS, use CSPs! F5, the firewall thingy: No! We...
Browser vendors: Defend against XSS, use CSPs! F5, the firewall thingy: No! We want to do XSS attacks against all your websites, to add "features"
Good uses for 2, maybe 3, 3.5 hours of your time Line go Up
Good uses for 2, maybe 3, 3.5 hours of your time Line go Up
re: code quality & AI Author makes a good point, code quality is something that...
re: code quality & AI Author makes a good point, code quality is something that is done against the will of almost the entire team (developers, PMs, POs), most of the time. "...if...
Finished Bear Head. The author tries hard to explain the kakistocracy, how a...
Finished Bear Head. The author tries hard to explain the kakistocracy, how a system that should reward power or fitness to the job instead rewards the worst.
"No hard coded values!" as we proceed to put everything into immutable docker...
"No hard coded values!" as we proceed to put everything into immutable docker containers, update AWS SSM Parameters with gitops via an immutable/add-only source control system....
Nominally an essay with advice about doing US work with "Tech Force", but...
Nominally an essay with advice about doing US work with "Tech Force", but mostly interesting to me to hear about what it was like for the last year.
I'm reading a scifi book (Bear Head) that has an fictional Trump politician....
I'm reading a scifi book (Bear Head) that has an fictional Trump politician. Good authors have a hard time writing gish gallop dialog. At first I thought it was futuristic...
Hot take: No RDS instance should ever be part of a stack. The technology is so...
Hot take: No RDS instance should ever be part of a stack. The technology is so immature that it is just a matter of time before the stack gets in an unrecoverable state. Everyone...
Infrastructure-as-code deskilled the only part of the problem that wasn't a...
Infrastructure-as-code deskilled the only part of the problem that wasn't a problem: removing if-blocks, loops and all programming constructs other than property assignment on...
IDEA: how many fake libraries can you make that are wrappers around regex, e.g....
IDEA: how many fake libraries can you make that are wrappers around regex, e.g. a refactoring library where when it comes time to do refactoring you just provide a place for the...
Does LLM-assisted programming make you stupid? I can image agentic style does...
Does LLM-assisted programming make you stupid? I can image agentic style does (hey bot, translate this javascript library into Go, wake me in the morning when you're done!) The...
Algorithmic feed = evil. exploitation. slavery. contempt for *you*...
Algorithmic feed = evil. exploitation. slavery. contempt for *you* Chronological feed = bad 1/2 the time, but w/o the malice of the algorithmic feed So content in a feed is either...
this is so cool, run postgres, with about as much effort as it takes to run...
this is so cool, run postgres, with about as much effort as it takes to run sqlite
If you browse enough Facebook content, it starts feeding you hate material. The...
If you browse enough Facebook content, it starts feeding you hate material. The algorithm there is !@$% evil. The programmers and their overseers in San Francisco see you are a...