Mark Imbriaco

There's technical debt, then there's technical subprime mortgages with exploding balloon payments.

Credit where it's due, the initial corner logic came from @tobi and github.com/tobi/ac-tracer that he showed me. I took his advice, pointed my Claude at it, had it port it to typescript, and then iterated from there.

The age of personal software is pretty rad. I added this feature to my PDR review software to visualize how I attack a corner vs. my instructor from the lounge at the airport waiting to fly home last night in about 10 minutes.

@mscccc And lots of SSDs for the databases and file servers, before it was cool.

Rails and MySQL

/btw stop telling me to go to bed claude, you're not my dad

@dillon_mulroy I dunno I see 50 Cent vs Diddy

this is kendrick vs drake but for f1 fans

10k new users per day Up from 3k/day at the start of the year

@tobi Many such cases.

Turns out, you can vibecode your own motorsport telemetry tools instead of waiting for mac ports

The #Canes swept the podium 🧹

Hellebuyck should get an extra gold medal for that performance.

Okay after the overtime it definitely counts as HIIT.

Trying to get back into working out regularly. Does the zone 2 heart rate from watching the hockey game count?

@JustJake I'll do better.

On track to spend my first new grad SWE salary on Opus 4.6

@eligaultney @robertgraham Let’s say there are 1,000,000 people and 3% of them get the flu. That’s 30,000. If only 2% get the flu instead, that’s 20,000 people. 20,000 is 33% lower than 30,000.

@robertgraham I'm maybe just doing bad stats, but the chart looks like it's 3% versus 2% between the two vaccines that were offered, roughly. So it's one extra person per 100, 1%. Very open to being schooled if I'm reading this incorrectly!

There are truly revolutionary, life saving drugs around the corner, yet we can't have them until we vote Republicans out of office. Woke Democrats are bad, but they aren't life threatening.

@jaredpalmer @github Great change! Now who do I need to bribe to get stacked diffs?

Pull Requests on @GitHub can now be limited to repo collaborators or disabled entirely. This should help cut down on unwanted noise and give maintainers more control over their experience

@craigkerstiens @heroku @_adamwiggins_ My favorite was still the Heroku for Logo release, but this one was pretty good too.

Random highlight from time at @heroku was working on the Python launch with @_adamwiggins_. I remember the wrestling back and forth on the blog post and how to do it. The conversation with Adam was invigorating, while a Rubyist he really appreciated certain things about the community and Python. But we were a Ruby product and came out of the Ruby community. Does supporting Python look like we're selling out, and yet of course we were doing this, but how do we do it well for everyone. And we wanted to truly welcome the Python community in. At the time there were about 5 other "Heroku for Python" newer entrants in the market. It was great to see other Heroku for X, but also they probably didn't expect us to make the leap we did as fast as we did. I personally reached out to each of them ahead of time to let them know what we were launching. We considered even hiring a few of them to help lead/drive Python on Heroku. It was older Microsoft playbook, if you're going into a space tell partners and other in the space to give a warning. RDS even did it the other direction to us about Postgres. A small detour, a thing I loved that we did, we "leaked" the Python support on HN. Our original plan was Python was going to be around the 3rd new language, it was ready to go. But because of some conference and other things the schedule for launching it slipped about 4 months. But the buildpack was live, if you shipped a requirements.txt file you got: ... Python app detected ... Yet the HN comments every month were "I hacked Heroku and got a Python app running". I smiled every time I saw it. Back on course. In the end we wrote a mini love letter to Python. These words took hours upon hours, but every minute was worth it. Being one of the few Python folks in Heroku, can't speak highly enough of how when @_adamwiggins_ pours himself into something. From the post: It emphasizes readability, minimizes “magic,” treats documentation as a first-class concern, and has a tradition of well-tested, backward-compatible releases in both the core language and its ecosystem of libraries. It blends approachability for beginners with maintainability for large projects, which has enabled its presence in fields as diverse as scientific computing, video games, systems automation, and the web.

Waiting for my flight home after 2 days at racing school, so naturally I'm having Claude Code use my data recorder software to analyze my performance for me. As one does.

@craigkerstiens @Railway Yeah, even though it's not the Heroku of old I still hate to see them go out with a whimper like this. Feels bad.

@markimbriaco @Railway Someone called out to me for that the worst part is this is from the heroku handle. It’s not the tone that would have ever been the case, if from Salesforce sure I get it. Says a lot in how things are not like they were

This makes me super sad. Heroku proved that developer experience shouldn't be an afterthought in infrastructure and spawned an entire category. We carry that torch forward at @Railway, but it's a bummer to see an OG go out like this.

Added a sattelite map underlay to the lap analysis view because (a) I wanted it and (b) I had 10 minutes to kill for Claude to crank it out while I was watching UFC.