Ross Duggan

Publishing the code for that little stock/crypto/other display I've been tinkering away with for the last couple of weeks github.com/duggan/inkysto… Finally, breaking the cycle 5+ years later twitter.com/duggan/status/…

@Tanakaisfired hey Joel, I'm a huge Fast Karate fan – actually still listen to old episodes I kept copies of because I am basically a 39 year old teenager. I was never really the send fan mail type, so before I lose track of both of you entirely just wanted to say thank you!

@conzy_m I'll take a dozen!

I've noticed that I'm very susceptible to the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect with ChatGPT - I scoff at its technical incorrectness in one conversation then proceed to use it like some sort of sentient wikipedia on topics I don't know anything about.

Enjoying ChatGPT but when it comes to software sometimes it's like talking to someone who is absolutely blind drunk. Frequently invents things that it then apologies for when you point out that it is pure fiction. Good to get the creative juices flowing though!

@Suhail Can even put together a Github Action to run it (even if it's a little out of date in terms of the actions being used)

Riffing on @Suhail's IAM Policy writer, writing the Terraform boilerplate via ChatGPT is also impressive. At this relatively small scale, it could be a really useful way to improve your ability to teach other people what you know: have AI write out examples, explanations, etc.

@ncremins Technically it's more like for every one person outraged there's two rejoicing.

For every one person outraged at Mars removing Bounty from celebrations, there’s a million others rejoicing. Me? It’s probably some BS to make the tub even more smaller and maximise profits in some BS way and also rejoicing.

@ciaran_lee From what I hear, people (e.g., Cloudflare blog.cloudflare.com/open-sourcing-…) lean on pgbouncer.org as connection proxy. Haven't used it yet myself, but it's on the list!

How do people deal with scaling Postgres connection counts as their application scales? The constraints there (compared to MySQL) would make me nervous about using it for a high scale rails app.

Weird to be directed to Jira's product roadmap from within the app, and the first random "roadmap" item I click on is a feature announcement for a discontinued product

Love a good thread about handling spaghetti codebases. Somehow I manage to find myself agreeing with every opinion at once (write tests / bad code leads to bad tests / never rewrite / rewrite is the only way). The cognitive dissonance is immense news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328835…

Spent most of my day in pdb (which I've never used directly before), teasing out what ended up being a tricky SQLAlchemy early transaction termination issue that only manifested during FastAPI's JSON serialization, only in production, for one (reported) meeting. A great day!

Handy little hack to use TouchID for sudo on macOS it.digitaino.com/use-touchid-to…

Before Covid, visiting startups meant visiting offices full of midcentury modern furniture in buildings near Market Street. Now it means visiting an apartment containing a baby, a dog, and 6 coworkers who haven't met in person for a month.

All going well in Crypto land..

@kelseyhightower I used to have to make my Mac look like a Linux box. Today I have to make it look like an AWS region instead.

when Figma is down you can create your very own emo status mac

Molly White, a 28-year-old software engineer, documents the failures of the cryptocurrency industry on her blog “Web3 is Going Just Great.” wapo.st/3N4KkrB

The most cursed Python codebase: everything annotated with Pydantic types, but all of the types are Optional[None]

Some books really catch you at the right moment — I think @tfadell’s Build is going to be something I keep coming back to. Lot of inspiration, wisdom, and no bullshit :) I feel pumped every time I read a few pages 💪