Chris Smith

"most Rails applications won’t need a dependency on Node given these defaults" #Rails

Listening to @kathleencodes Day 2 Keynote at cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/learn21 Great so far.

"now, with GitHub's introduction of OIDC tokens into GitHub Actions Workflows, you can authenticate from GitHub Actions to Google Cloud using Workload Identity Federation, removing the need to export a long-lived JSON service account key." #googlecloud cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

Just registered for the latest session of Google Cloud Security Talks, Dec 15, 2021. #cloudsecurity #googlecloud cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/securit…

I read a post about gRPC vs REST that listed one of the potential disadvantages of gRPC as "wants TLS". I agree that this is broadly true, although insecure channel credentials are supported. But isn't the zero-trust network pretty well established as a positive? #ZeroTrust

"There isn’t a single ticket in HashiCorp’s support database about Python module versions or Ruby gem versions or kernel release... our support workload would be about 5x if we had to sort out every user’s environment." #golang #hashicorp link.medium.com/PN95zRoo1kb

Learning from video courseware talking heads has never been my thing, but @goinggodotnet is impressive. He puts everything he's got into it. Great energy. (Ultimate Go Preview - Prepare Your Mind)

Listening to back episodes of Go Time, the design philosophy presented in 172 by @goinggodotnet is excellent: Easy to understand more important than easy to write. gotime.fm/172 #Golang

Rails 6.0 beta1 has been released! Two major new frameworks – Action Mailbox and Action Text – and two important scalable-by-default upgrades with multiple database support and parallel testing. Along with a ton of other awesome stuff. weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/1/18/Rail…

I just bought #UnblockedBook by @unblockedfuture and it already derailed my work day, so hard to resist reading the whole thing straight through. $1 today only. amazon.com/Unblocked-Bloc…

"often overlooked in economic histories in favour of product innovation, ... Process innovation is harder to do, and more influential in determining productivity growth (as recent research underlines). It drives the democratisation of capitalism" -- economist.com/books-and-arts…

I was up late last night reflecting on diversity in tech issues. If you think tech is a meritocracy you are wrong. I'm thinking about writing an Auntie Aja blog post about all the things I've learned I have to change or hide about myself as a woman in tech.

"Auth may be the difference between someone having a good first 15 minutes with your product and them wanting to throw it on a trash fire." -- @the_thagomizer

"Bitcoin’s energy footprint has more than doubled since... six months ago. It’s expected to double again by the end of the year... bitcoin would be gobbling up 0.5 percent of the world’s electricity, about as much as the Netherlands." grist.org/article/bitcoi…

I've been a big fan of Grimes for a while. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…

Open-source can sometimes require a thick skin, so it's really nice to get a comment like this: #issuecomment-373478593" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/GoogleCloudPla…

@shanebdavis github.com/caffeine-suite… looks really cool! If you want to adapt some of the readme into a blog post, I'd be happy to guest-post it for you. Follow back and dm, or email (gmail).

@quartzmo I see you maintain coffeescriptlove.com. Have you seen my CaffeineScript.com project? I'm taking the best parts of CoffeeScript(v2) and going well beyond. I'd be curious to hear your feedback.

#Ethereum Please go to #Casper #PoS asap! "the Bitcoin network consumes as much energy each day as some medium-size countries... the network supporting Ethereum, the second-most valuable virtual currency, gobbles up another country’s worth of electricity" nytimes.com/2018/01/21/tec…

"forget everything else about the Bitcoin frenzy, and just keep these two things in mind: ... a database without anyone being 'in charge' of the database, and a way of compensating people for helping [secure] that database" nytimes.com/2018/01/16/mag…

“How We Implemented a Fully Serverless Recommender System Using GCP” by @IWillFuks @willian.fuks/how-we-implemented-a-fully-serverless-recommender-system-using-gcp-9c9fbbdc46cc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@willian.fuks/… @googlecloud