Chase Douglas

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@mikejulian @matsonj You can manually change the code, but then it’s like doing it behind the back of the agent. It won't have your change in its context, so it can easily get overwritten again when the agent makes more changes. I've found it generally better to ask it to make changes.

@matsonj So is *every* code change through Claude Code, then? You're not doing any manual changes?

For those who are 100% on Claude Code, what role does an IDE (eg, VS Code, Cursor, etc) play in your workflow, if any? Having trouble wrapping my head around this.

@njpatel Reminds me of this post about debanking from @patio11: bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debank…. It's more directly about fintech founders hitting issues with personal bank accounts, but might apply some to all successful founders to some extent because of a few bad apples in the past?

There seems to have been a gradual change to how banking works which has now become a strange feeling. Over the last few years, the amount of times you are asked for the reason you are moving money, the number of transfers held up for weird reasons, the work you're asked to do to triple verify the receiver, the kind of questions you're asked etc. It's all very odd and makes you feel like you don't actually have access to your money if you need it. A random guy you'll never meet gate-keeps your money for you and can delay proceedings to their desire.

@QuinnyPig @JackEllis That said, battery life has actually been pretty good for him, so there's that at least!

@QuinnyPig @JackEllis I speak from confidence and disbelief on this point. In a prior work life I wrote the multitouch protocol for X11, and fixed many touchpad issues along the way. I'm utterly disappointed to see all that work has reverted to an unusable state in "modern" Linux :(.

How did this pass QA?!

AWS finally talked about the Oct. 20th outage and holy shit, @QuinnyPig was right the whole time AWS uses DNS (route53) as a database, creating a txt record to indicate which node holds the lock while it updates the public DNS records for the entire region Total Corey Victory

The day has come where we get to announce what we've been working on for the past year 😍 duckbillhq.com/blog/skyway-cl…

For anyone at @KubeCon_ next week, we'll be hosting beers on the 11th. Find the details at redmonk.com/event/redmonk-…, and we hope to see you there!

I'm having the Away Days Mr. Ordinary English Bitter, and Ben's having the @GreatNotionPDX Devil's Night Schwarzbier.

Just me and my friend Ben Ford (of Puppet fame) rotating secrets on a Friday afternoon over beers @TheBeermongers in Portland. Which we can do, cause archodex.com makes sure we know everywhere our secrets are used so we don't cause outages.

🪔 Happy Diwali 🪔

@QuinnyPig That is probably the great commit message I've ever seen. I need to know your prompt so I can put it in my vscode settings for commit message generation for all my projects moving forward...

HR would like a word with Claude Code.

Banger description of archodex.com 🎯🤣

@QuinnyPig I'm working on launching a novel eBPF observability tool to help you know where your secrets live and which workloads are using them: archodex.com

Tell me what you're working on and I, in turn, will roast you like a chicken.

a thread of harsh truths to vaccinate you against chatgpt psychosis 1. AI will not make you more interesting. AI-generated words may be helpful to you in your own research. Nobody else is interested in reading them. Assume that nothing written by AI is worth publishing. AI will not earn anyone’s respect.

Wow, vaultwarden now supports using @ApacheOpenDAL for file persistence!

I describe the architecture in more detail and provide further thoughts and recommendations on DSQL in my post. You might be surprised by my conclusion given the above :). chasedouglas.net/p/vaultwarden-… (8/8)

3. Columns cannot be added with default values or other constraints to existing tables. Hopefully this is addressed by GA. More concerning is that the docs do not make this clear. I worry what other quirks lie improperly documented only to be found in a future migration. (7/8)

I became annoyed with my password manager and decided to do something about it. Along the way I scratched another itch: Is AWS Aurora DSQL for real? (1/8)