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For those looking for more autism related stuff I tweet about autistic daily life over at @spacedoutsmiles :)

@FunkaFoundation Hi, I've been trying to join this session with the link provided in the email... but it keeps telling me that "the host has another meeting in progress". Is there somewhere I can get hold of the correct link?

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@XReyRobert @CuriousGuy07 @simonw I don’t think Apple will be using consumer M4s in the data centre. They have an exceptionally talented silicon team and direct access to leading end TSMC process nodes. I suspect they have built themselves something bespoke. Hopefully we get a behind the scenes look :)

Okay, I don't have much time to go into details; Apple Silicon is a good architecture for selected use cases. At the moment, there's no point in comparing Nvidia's Blackwell architecture and Apple Silicon M4. They simply aren't playing in the same category, and no Apple product is available on the market to do training at scale.

Was Apple's emphasis today that they were running their Private Cloud Compute AI accelerators on Apple Silicon a veiled dig at NVIDIA?

@tvaziri The more I’ve been learning to fly the harder it hits me. The professional ATC terminology giving way to emotion, followed by the last minute realisation there was nothing to do but leap for the kids! It breaks me every time.

my god the airplane/missile scene in “The Incredibles” still fucking rocks

@rem When I first swapped to M1 I was running all my x86 builds using virtual box. Docker can also run builds for x86 on M1 using buildx command, then run the containers locally. It’s slow but it works pretty well.

Love that SQLite is getting attention. We’re probably approaching about a billion read & writes through the various SQLite databases we use in @ERMILTD since we started. It’s bloody quick for calculating stats too :)

@simonhamp It’s kinda the nature of node projects. They need a lot of looking after to keep them sweet and up to date. A lot of orgs don’t factor in long term maintenance costs when they take on more and more code :(

i don't mind legacy projects... but this takes the biscuit this is in production folks of a profitable org employing hundreds of people

Not checked this account for ages as I do most of my twitter stuff on @spacedoutsmiles these days. It’s good to see stuff folks are working on. Lots of extremely funky things!

@HarshVrdn03 You could in theory load the formulas from the spreadsheet and attempt to convert them so node can run them by substituting values etc. It would be a bit of a bodge + very brittle. Doing the 40 formulas in node is probably easier in the long run.

@HarshVrdn03 Why do the calculation in excel rather than just having node do the sums? The node excel library’s are for reading and writing the format. They don’t include the excel engine to open the file and execute the calculations.

🚀Looking for help 📢 ... with a React & Express project. I need to take 2 user-input values in React, send them via POST request to an Express backend, where they'll be inserted into an Excel sheet.

AWS servers can be surprisingly slow compared to Macs. On a per core bases even an M1 CPU is around 2x the speed of a Graviton 3 CPU used in the c7g AWS instances. We work around it by scaling out not up, but it’s far from ideal. At least they are super cheap :)

It’s been really fun watching this grow. @micmath and the rest of the team have done an amazing job with it :)

@KatieLangerman It might be a bit low level, but I approached this by storing a UTC date in ISO format, and then using the date functions of the database to do the week logic in queries On the front end I’ve been using momentJS, I take a date, call “startOf(‘week’)” then format as week number.

I've been building a little tool for myself that includes storing dates. And now I know how challenging timezones are. I thought I could get around it by using an input type="week", only to find out its not supported in Safari. Anyone have a good week picker web component?

I got burned by data migrations in the past, so for @ERMILTD we treat our backend database as ephemeral, it’s a fast and easy to query index of data held in S3. Rather than migrate data, we regenerate the database from S3 files when needed. Works well for our use case :)

Really impressed with AWS ECR support in Serverless. A few days of playing & I have a single command which can… - Build + upload a complex container - Deploy it to Lambda & AWS Batch environments - Setup input & output buckets - Deploy an admin api to manage it all Magic :)

Does anyone know of a really good training for creating AWS diagrams? I’m creating diagrams for a bunch of @ERMILTD stuff and they keep ending up a bit of a mess. It’s a bunch of simple things… interconnected via events & common resources like S3.. Quickly gets messy!

After evaluating a heap of approaches we’ve decided go to go with an AWS sandbox account for each dev on the team. To make that work, we need to fully automate some of the older bits of our setup which where hand setup ~5 years ago :) It’s been fun to get going :)

Doing a bunch of nerdy work to simplify the deployment process for @ERMILTD. It’s very satisfying to run a single command on an empty AWS account… and have a working install of ERMI running a few minutes later. About 70% there for a few hours work :)

This was really fun to write. Fab to see an event getting lots of the small details right :)

@DRGtelevision Really cool. Was a pleasure to spend time with ya at the weekend :) Does the company have a twitter account?