Aaron Robinson

@QuinnyPig "Corey, we were OK with you using it as a database, but why did you have to go and mount a file system against it?"

Not true for when you accidentally get a $50k Route 53 database bill surprise, I tell you hwat. They very much want to talk to you then.

@jeremy_daly In addition to, or instead of, their Boston show? :) kids...

Teenagers. 🤨

@kentcdodds You're right! ;)

I just learned an expensive lesson with Opus. Just because it's a better model doesn't mean you can get away with bad prompting 🤦‍♂️

Trying out opus and it said "You're right!" and I'm just so thrilled it didn't use the word "absolutely" 😂

@everywhereist @AmericanAir Time to just report them to the appropriate authorities? carta-diritti.enac.gov.it

Legally, she's owed 75% of the price of the downgraded ticket. @americanair has lied, told me that this isn't true, told me that another airline was responsible (???), offered her $600, and now say she is owed nothing. I'm honestly and truly appalled.

For those of you following my saga w/ @AmericanAir, they still refuse to compensate my mother for downgrading her on an international flight (we booked her business to make it more comfortable as she's disabled and was flying back for my uncle's funeral. They put her in economy.)

@wesbos For this type of env var where the endpoint is paired with creds, I've taken to encoding it like a db connection string... user:pass@endpoint/env, single secret value parsed by a regex.

I used to stick them in env variables, but I once ran out of space on AWS, so now I try keep my keys and values short and necessary. Something like this I'd hardcode and add the ability to overwrite if needed

Are you sticking API endpoints in environmental variables? Or flipping them in config like this?

@getifyX All good. Happy to help.

@idealaunchtech wow, that's an amazing (and simple) fix. I never would have guessed that. but sure enough, MDN *does* have a performance note about this, I just missed it. thank you so much! can I offer you a small bounty as a token of my thanks?

If you're particularly adept at benchmarking and micro-optimizations of JS code... I've got a challenge I'm struggling with: gist.github.com/getify/22b9774… That's a detailed explanation of the situation and what I'm needing help with. Appreciate any assistance or spreading the word.

@getifyX ...and doing the same for the utcFormat and tzFormat instances declared inside computeTZOffset gets me the full order of magnitude. (Might need curry our the timezoneLabel param if its value isn't going to always be HOST_TZ?)

@getifyX Creating a top-level instance of Intl.DateTimeFormat and using its format method in formatLocaleDate cut the runtime in half for me.

@RickStrahl @MarkdownMonstr Neither showed the tab contents for me. I just went back to 3.0.0.26 this morning. Also re-enabled the WebView check just in case. The check on that triggers the dialog, but the WebView upgrade seems to die silently? So at the moment, MM 3.0.0.26 and WV 109.0.1518.115.

@idealaunchtech @MarkdownMonstr Did you install 3.0.0.27 (the preview) or 3.0.0.26 (current 3.0 release)? I had hoped that 3.0.0.26 would work as it uses the older WebView control.

I could use some help w/ @markdownmonstr from those running a Win7/8 machine The WebView2 no longer supports versions pre-Win10. I'm curious if the 1.0.1901 version just dropped breaks on Win7/8. Could you try download the *pre-release* version from: markdownmonster.west-wind.com/download

@RickStrahl @MarkdownMonstr Uninstalled 3.0.0.26, installed 2.9.14.0, tab contents are working. 👍

@idealaunchtech @MarkdownMonstr Thank you for checking. Can you uninstall that version and install the non preview? That should still work…

@rickasaurus xkcd.com/927

Only reasonable way forward is to make your own new auth system and add it to the list

@jeremydmiller Glad he was on the first train? :)

Happily dealing with the cognitive dissonance of being very nervous about my college freshman doing his first year overseas while also very excited for him as he just sent us a bunch of pictures from his weekend trip to Edinburgh

@KenJennings #TeamCarnitas

The burrito place just asked me if I wanted to change my order to chicken or wait half an hour for new carnitas, and I sat there staring into space for 30 seconds like Jack Benny doing the “your money or your life” bit.

@Popehat Northeastern NUBound. They acquired a school next door to Tower Bridge. (Can only pack in so many freshman kids in Boston...) When your son does get it, pay attention to the entry dates on the vignette. Some of the NU kids had to take a train to France and back to get restamped.

@Popehat Yes, just back Monday from dropping DD off for Northeastern London full-year program.

@Popehat Possible to get an appt at passport agency and get a 2nd passport?

@Popehat It was 10 days from our biometrics at VFS (Boston) until the Visa arrived via UPS. Received an email that the CAS# was used the day before that, the only hint that there was movement.

@davidfowl After 6.006 is 6.046 youtube.com/playlist?list=…

MIT open courseware is pretty good youtube.com/watch?v=ZA-tUy…

There are lots of intro to coding classes, but is there anything they helps with “thinking in algorithms”?

@slace @The_Pi_Hole You could hard-code her DNS, so that she's not using the PiHole? I'm also using an app called flutterhole that makes it easier to temporarily disable blocking.

Is it possible to have @The_Pi_Hole run in a "watch only" mode? I'm looking to add it to our network but I want to observe the impact before it would have before fully enabling it (nature of my wife's work means that she kind of needs some ads)