Rob Lang

Take it off the front and stuff it on the back. Nice little loop.

So many companies keep adding complexity to their products, endlessly growing that it becomes so complex that the basics get screwed. Cloudflare can't even serve a Proxy or DNS right now. That's like basic shit.

Trello (Atlassian) also adding so much faff to what was a perfect product.

20% of the internet is having a bad day. Including our minnow of a company! Oh well.

Cloudflare: bet you it's DNS. It's always DNS.

And yet there's no concerted effort to fix it - just load it up with more features.

I know I'm old and all that but it's still astounding to me that I can have a native linux terminal window in Windows without all that cyg-win works-alright-except. WSL is cool. And then I can run docker containers in that there sub system. That's also really cool.

Musk is a bleak human.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

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website: hey we need all your data for security
person: for security?
website: for security yeah
person: and is it gonna leak
website: of course it's not gonna leak do you think we're idiots

website: so hey promise not to get mad

It's DNS. It's always DNS.

Blimey. I'm proud when I cut $500 off the monthly bill at work with some clever thought, configuration and smidge of code!

I haven't forgotten about anchors and # on the end of a query. Marvellous invention.

A good description of what we used to call a "chaos cache". Eventing was a mistake in that domain but architecture flavour of the year. It put me off ever wanting to work in an event architecture again - so much so I asked at interviews.

Post hog ergo propter hog
#aws

It's DNS, of course it is. It's always DNS. The world needs to replace DNS because it's utter shit.

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Status overview

The internet appears to be broken. Can someone switch it off and on again? At least Downdetector can tell us it's bad: downdetector.co.uk

All the sites I'm responsible for are still up but 🫂 going out to my tech brethren that are having a hard time right now.

As I predicted, people are going to stop talking about it and it'll just become a product feature hidden away. You won't know if the analytics were hallucinated or deterministic. You won't be able to avoid it.

Spent an afternoon going through all the company's to assess business+operational+technical risk due to AI. Some are well documented and have sub processors listed etc. Others have only marketing BS. None publicly explain the risks and mitigations.

Firstly, you talk about locking developers into a workflow. While I accept linter warning exist, in the real world you must make them earnings-as-errors or they are ignored and become just yellow noise.

But you then go on to formalise like below. There's no ambiguity there. No room for manoeuvre, no nuance. The whole post doesn't read like an aim, it reads like a formalised rule. You talk about locking programmers in. That's not the real world I've been in.

I agree that a test should test one thing but I think formalising as low as a single assertion is too far. Even the best unit tests have a time cost. If the requirement is "personal details exist" then Assert(firstname) as one test and then Assert(lastname) as a second is too much.

Those of us that joined the net in the UK 1994 used IRC, BBS and MUDs more than the web because there wasn't as much on the web. So the cut off is probably even after that as the web took a few years to grow into something useful. But, yes, the term is now sadly interchangeable.

Future people are going to look back at F12 dev tools, setting breakpoints and running ad-hoc code in the console and wonder why everything didn't just fall apart.

I'm not convinced the mania is quite the same because this technological advance is changing society too rapidly. The bulbs weren't changing society. It's a little more like the dotcom bubble, there was speculation and a fall but the world had changed in the way bulbs didn't.

I'm not saying that healthcare data exchange standards are a worry but also this:

If you want to bring US devs down to Earth, put them on a call with UK devs from small-medium-enterprises. Cynicism-first approach to just about everything because you need that to fight to get good software out the door.

I leaves me feeling wary of using it for security related tasks and that it's not far off being able to fix itself. If it followed its own instructions, it would have seen that there was no UI option and tried the CLI. If it were making its own instructions, it would have gone straight to CLI. 2/2

Amazon's help LLM "Q" can be useful but sometimes it hallucinates features that sound reasonable but don't exist, like "add instance to existing cluster" on a headless cluster.

The replies *did* have a solution that worked. 1/2

#aws #devops #llm #ai

We're a very-basic user of Brighter + Darker (in-memory for now) leaning on the CQRS patterns you provide. We're happy to spend a half day having a play without docs because we're using it "light-touch" rather than full on queuing system. I doubt we're needing the truly sexy new features - yet!

And a Moth is a beautiful aircraft to fly too. My Dad and I built balsa aircraft from plans when I was a kid. The balsa wasn't cut for you, you had to delicately cut out the ribs from the paper plan and pin them to flat balsa sheet. Here he is with a Pitts special mid-80s.