Mike Deeks

@cramforce Wait, it is worse than that. You can't front RDS Proxy with an NLB. I guess we have to run a pgbouncer layer after all.

@cramforce Nice. I think that means we have to run an NLB in front of RDS proxy right? It doesn't look like Privatelink supports RDS Proxy directly

Credit where credit is due: AWS' RDS Proxy has eliminated this problem space and it is surprising that nobody else has a similar offering yet

People talking about the SAAS apocalypse don't get this is how it actually happens. - Hi, we can vibecode your product in 2 months, so how about you cut your annual fees down from $500k to $200k for us. So we don't have to make it. - Maybe, but how about we do a license audit, where will sue you for $4m for breaking T&C's in 9 global offices. BTW, have you seen how much time we spent on support, and training, and we're embedded so deeply into every system, it will take you years to get rid of us. - OK, 500K it is, and see your at the F1, we loved your box last year. - It's going to be $600k this year. -OK, but we still get your box tickets? right?

@tqbf markdownpeek.com is a good one. Standalone app plus you can hit space on a md file in Finder to preview it quickly.

Another tool I wouldn't have thought I'd ever need or want, but now I do and I can't find one: a decent Markdown *viewer*. Not an editor; I just want a clean simple fully rendered view of a .md, on macOS.

Please. I can’t take one more death of SaaS take. Every line of code you own is a burden. Why in gods name would you want buckets more? Has no one ever built and run something inside a company before? You (personally) own it forever. How do I unsubscribe from a concept on X?

@martin_casado It Takes Two and Split Fiction with your wife will simultaneously fix and ruin your marriage. A++ experience.

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@SSTurnbull @Civixplorer There are still airstrips on alameda

@Civixplorer Weirdly inaccurate for present day: airstrips on Alameda Island? no. No Salesforce Tower. Treasure Island has been redeveloped. The Oakland side is now filled with huge cargo ship cranes. And the water is never, ever greenish blue.

Aerial view of San Francisco, United States 🇺🇸

@flydotio Is there any way to have a premade base image that my entire team can use? “Create a sprite from a sprite”

Sprites are the Claude dev environments of our dreams. sprites.dev/blog/i-build-e…

@marcjoffe @erik_griswold @metrolosangeles This is similar to the new fare gates where it doesn't eliminate problems, but reduces the likelihood of them happening. The chance of getting into trouble is a deterrent. And anecdotally I have seen station agents stop people and call bart police.

@erik_griswold @metrolosangeles Not sure I would learn anything from that as I am not convinced that our current station agents do that much to reduce crime or increase cleanliness in the stations. I am willing to be proved wrong about this.

Why close BART stations when BART can achieve much of the savings by operating them unstaffed? Many train stations around California operate just fine without on-site personnel.

@LyalinDotCom True, but it’s going to drive down SaaS revenue. The tolerance for a high bill will go down because people will more frequently think “Screw this, I can build it myself”. Sometimes they might be right. Negotiating power goes up in favor of buyers. Some customers will be lost.

99% of people won't be building their own software anytime soon. Please realize its a small number of us here, we're all a bit crazy & we'll find other crazy people Most people want to buy a thing that works & is maintained, w/SLAs The whole software is dead things is not true

@SFBART Appreciate these recent posts @SFBART. I'm realizing that most of us don't know how all of this works and it's great to hear some of the facts. Please keep it up.

BART has not returned to pre-pandemic levels of service. This statement is wrong. We have right-sized service. The cuts to service have saved us $265M, extending the runway of our emergency funds. During the height of the pandemic we closed at 9pm and ran at 30 minute intervals. Then we went to 20 minute frequencies (they were previously 15 minutes) and we got rid of ALL extra peak commute trains (The Yellow line previously had extra trains creating 5-minute frequencies). Ask Antioch, Dublin, and Millbrae riders how they feel about 20 minute frequencies. And Richmond and Berryessa riders have longer waits. The only station that got better service was SFO, and it was at the expense of Millbrae riders. We are running shorter trains, which has caused crowding during commute times and many complaints.

@theo We found ARM builds to be very slow unfortunately. I think it is because they don’t use Graviton CPUs. Unless that has changed in the last year?

nvm, moved to Blacksmith. 4+ minute builds down to 30 seconds.

@gregpr07 A barely equivalent EC2 instance is $286/mo. A Mac mini is ~$600 once and it’s a better machine.

I don’t get it, what is the benefit of this over EC2 instance on AWS?

@ivanburazin @martin_casado @daytonaio I recommend a CLI even if code is more powerful/flexible. Get me to try it in a minute. Then my brain can start making long term wedding plans with it.

@mike_deeks @martin_casado @daytonaio Thanks for the comment will, go back to our web and try to make it simpler 🙏

The sprite model really feels like the future. Basically full linux environments running an AI agent. Full persistent with checkpoints. No need for git. Spin up as many as you want. Just little AI compute gremlins in the cloud. sprites.dev

@ivanburazin @martin_casado @daytonaio It’s possible Daytona is better. I haven’t tried it because after I read the site it felt like trying it was a mini project. Sprites is dead simple and familiar. I ran 5 commands and had a Linux computer where I could run Claude. I instantly get it.

@mike_deeks @martin_casado Apologies my question was more of why do you like them more than @daytonaio or other sandbox for providers?

@ivanburazin @martin_casado My current go to is a thing I vibe coded called Sprout that just does a fast local clone of the repo into another directory and some assorted preconfig steps. It isn't sandboxing but it's good enough and everything just works. Worktrees are a mess, clones are simple.

@ivanburazin @martin_casado Cursor Cloud Agents is what I use currently, but it isn't ideal. I've looked at others like Conductor but haven't seriously used any of them because they are competing with "I can just run this on my laptop right now in 1 second and I know it'll work"

@conquerer_worm Buddy you’re the british guy in this picture.

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