Mark Imbriaco

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

@mcclusk @BizNasty2point0 @spittinchiclets @RearAdBsBlog Lenovo was awesome for this in game 2. The traveling Habs fans sang along to O Canada and the rest of us sang along to The Star Spangled Banner. It was great.

@BizNasty2point0 @spittinchiclets @RearAdBsBlog How about... the anthem singer only sings the first line and lobs it to the crowd in the playoffs. Nothing makes my goosebumps erect like an entire stadium of fans singing the anthem together. Go ahead and put a little heat on your team word, but sing the whole thing or stfu.

RA’s had enough of the anthem callbacks🗣️🙅‍♂️

@TheGentleGoat You have the agency to not run their game. It’s quite simple.

@markimbriaco When "crushing it" means intruding on user's environments and contributing to the normalization of iterative attacks on user agency, forgive me if I'm not very supportive.

I love everything about this DMA blocking anti-cheat saga. Riot’s anti-cheat team is crushing it.

@ChogoSprow The next time that happens will be the first time, so I’m profoundly unconcerned.

@markimbriaco Don't complain when your PC gets wrecked due to bad code from RIOT corrupting the Bios

@chrismunns Agreed with all and we're addressing it.

The single biggest thing in the Railway post mortem that other companies should pick up on is this: "As the route caches expired, these other workloads became unreachable" I've seen various examples of this in the past. You have some sort of workload that maintains a cached config or set of properties, and it relies on some other subsystem to be available to repopulate it (like a db somewhere). that subsystem has a downtime, and slowly you fall into degradation and eventually failure as caches expire to empty. If that subsystem takes a long time to recover, everything based on that cache is down. A solution (note not "the" solution) is that you dont really use expiring caches like this. Instead you have a populating mechanism that defaults to the last stable state, unless fresh data is available. For a lot of systems, that allows you to maintain some stability while impacting hopefully a much smaller % of users/usage. its likely from reading this, that the other 2/3 of Railway's provider based customers would have remained online for this (again hypothetically). I don't encourage companies to take on multi-cloud architectures (at least not cross-cloud single blast zone things) and I generally respect the Railway team a lot in what they've built. I worry a lot about the way that the major CSPs have built their giant "turn em off" buttons based on some automation. I've seen these issues first hand at AWS and through examples like yesterday at GCP. Both have gotten respectively lazy when it comes to these types of things and I believe we'll keep seeing It happen regardless who is impacted (like a company with a 7 or 8 figure a year spend...)

tar files -> rcs -> tar files -> svn -> sourcesafe -> svn -> git -> perforce -> git

@holman But at least we got an epic video of the new data center build after we left them.

Really cracks me up that this boomer goes back to his Rackspace days, where GitHub couldn’t order more racks from Rackspace because they told us, and I quote, “we have no space for more racks”

@BenjDicken @levelsio @PlanetScale SQLite and rsync is all you need

@levelsio Guess it's time for sharded SQLite on @PlanetScale

This is why SQLite on the same server (which it is by default, it's a file based db) is so fast 1000x faster than making a server connection

@chrismunns A database is really just two S3 buckets in a trenchcoat.

Im just waiting for them to say that since its in S3 you don't need WAL

@buildwithparas @tqbf And nobody cared or noticed. Which is, in fact, the point.

@tqbf claude will tell you dnssec is set up and you'll find out otherwise three months later

AI agents will ultimately kill off DNSSEC completely, because the only people who defend it are nerds who get dopamine hits from getting it working in their homelabs, and now anybody can just tell Claude "make a DNSSEC happen for me".

Welp, concerns about the Canes being rusty can be put to bed. Let’s go Canes!

@jmclarty @JustJake These are almost always failing servers, not something we do by choice. I think we fixed the email subject very recently. Sorry for the unclear messaging there.

@JustJake We get random 10-min outages via email subject "Temporary Service Disruption". I understand unplanned outages are a thing, but the subject planned(?) 'maintenance event' are painful for my biz.

Today, Railway hit 3m users This is accelerating, and as a billion people come online to building software, we don't expect it to slowdown Thank you for your trust. Onwards and upwards 🚀🚄🚀

@samlambert Sam.

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@samlambert @kdaigle Yep.

If the community wants to save contemporary GitHub we should rally around @kdaigle becoming independent CEO. He has been there since the old days. Knows the soul of the product and knows how to do it.

In a world where everyone can be a creator and AI does the heavy lifting, safety nets are more important than ever. Our UI has had undo for destructive actions for a long time, now our APIs do too. We're building more guardrails so you can operate at agentic speed, safely.

@TrippTracy @ryanwhitney6 I don't think we want him here for the siren, bet or no bet. The man is cursed.

Frank 🐶 and I along with Huge Caniac Sting are quietly watching “Every Move You Make” from afar @ryanwhitney6

@mikejulian Either (a) markdown files in your repo or (b) hook up the Notion MCP and let the agent grab them from there. Or a mix of both.

What are folks doing for non-public technical documentation storage these days? We store internal technical docs in Notion (eg, architectural design docs), but I'd love to make those easier for AI tools (eg, Cursor, Claude Code) to work with and Notion feels like the wrong place

@mikejulian Leading from the front, love it.

I've been shipping a lot personally lately and I think it's only a matter of time before I have a mutiny on my hands

@LarssonJ06 @ryanwhitney6 🧹🧹🧹🧹

@ryanwhitney6 The refs won the series. Terrible officiating.

Hand up Ottawa fooled me. Carolina might be a wagon with no Panthers this year. Senators in 7 good call whit