Matt Brown

@aarondfrancis Honestly, a mostly static UI having FPS like it's simulating a world in a game loop is the part that leaves me scratching my head every time I'm reminded this is an actual issue for React apps. :)

@lennysan No spotify? Might artificially depress your subscribe metrics... Would love to listen, but via a webpage doesn't fit my podcast listening schedule/habits...

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@danielwithmusic and rule specification formats?

Council of Nicaea, but between all the AI coding assistant companies to settle on shift+enter vs opt+enter to make a newline.

What if...

One of the worst vulns I’ve ever seen. Makes you wonder who else knew about it and for how long. Kudos to Dirk-jan for uncovering it. dirkjanm.io/obtaining-glob…

✨ Big O ✨ Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o. With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform, finding orders of magnitude improvements with very simple changes to your code

@robzolkos @jasonfried I'm interested in this angle!

@jasonfried Probably not a huge focus but maybe on how/if it works for teams of one (it does for me) and how it can be adapted for that scenario.

Working on the Second Edition of Shape Up and we want to make sure we're addressing common open questions, snags, or things people wonder about. Got any Q's you'd really like to see answered in the updated book?

Waipa Tech meetup in Te Awamutu! #AI #technz #waipa

I'm pretty much 100% migrated to the new butterfly place for social media now. I still read here occasionally but I'd love to connect with you over there instead. My profile is under @mattb.nz there. Find me and connect :)

11am: this will be a nice self-contained feature I can finish before lunch 6 hours later:

@samwhoo fascinating perspective (that it sets expectations that readers might feel bad not to meet) that I never even thought of.... I've like them (and added them to my blog) because it gives an up-front indication of whether I have time to read something now, or to save it for later.

I actually agree with this. You might have noticed I quietly removed these widgets just from my visual posts. Been meaning to go and remove them everywhere. I got feedback from a few people that they felt bad it took them much longer to get through the post than the estimate.

@samwhoo you're sure it's not a directive to citizens on whether or not to festoon their streets?

The UK government publishes a list of public holidays as JSON and one of the fields is a boolean called “bunting” that appears to control whether or not the gov.uk website is adorned with bunting visuals for that day.

@samwhoo nice! very clean and understandable, would consider stealing the structure (I x.., I y.., ...) myself. As a little detail, I love the hover animations on the visualisation links, I literally spent 60s exploring them ;)

Decided to give my homepage a bit of a face-lift, would love to hear what you think. samwho.dev

@ioquatix I don't really think you can in practice - do you know of an implementation in the wild where it reliably works? The draft to clarify that QDCOUNT=1 is nearly done - datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf…

I didn't realise you couldn't send multiple questions in a single DNS query: #4083071" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">stackoverflow.com/questions/4082…

#F1Sprint what's up with all the missing timing graphics!?

@EnergySRE @odataorg The only place I've ever encountered it is the MS Graph API (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/us…) where it's definitely the thing.

Today I learned about OData (@odataorg). Is this still a thing, or did it simply get crushed by GraphQL?

@danielwithmusic "...but it is now clear that this was indeed a Google Cloud bug." Agreed. But what is the bug? * Allowing a null parameter that defaults to a 1yr time-bomb? * Acting on the configured intent at 1yr without a grace period? * Both? Something else?

Finally an update with more details about what went wrong with UniSuper/Google Cloud. I've updated my post on this: danielcompton.net/google-cloud-u…

@danielwithmusic although it does very much sound like there were at least 1 or 2 concrete bugs in Google's control plane that provided at least some of the holes in the swiss cheese that had to line up. Very bad look. My takeaway: avoid 2nd tier cloud services like VMware private cloud ;)

@danielwithmusic definitely a weird/worrying event... in both the initial occurence, and the strange comms! Fault is such a hard concept in complex systems like this. No doubt there are contributing factors on both sides, any one of which might have prevented the outcome...

The public updates from UniSuper on their Google Cloud outage were light on details, so I did some research on how it might have happened, and speculate on who was at fault: danielcompton.net/google-cloud-u…

The reason nobody found this problem in dnssec before now is that, as they say, the fundamental design flaws were completely hidden by the superficial design flaws. lwn.net/Articles/96292…