jtwaleson

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That certainly helps, but I wouldn't jump straight to "less dangerous", based on my experience with repairing my own hobby old-timer with very little experience. It's easy to overl…

This could be huge, especially for self-driving cars where people will want to do something useful while driving!

Fyi: you come across as condescending and elitist. Not sure if that is what you are aiming for, but I don't think that's the best way to convince someone of your opinions.

True, but you're not able to set up a license plate on these things (e.g. Xiaomi M365) without making modifications. They basically go the same speed as bikes (< 30kmph), so I think the differ…

Here in the Netherlands these things are currently forbidden. We have about the safest road infrastructure for bikes and potentially these scooters in the world! You see some people driving them never…

Heroku / Cloud Foundry offer exactly what the author points towards: a very simple user interface for developers. InfluxDB will of course needs stateful applications so it's not a good use c…

The Mark would be better ;)

I work for one of these companies (Mendix) and no surprise, I strongly believe that no-code/low-code tools are here to stay. What will they replace? Certainly a lot of CRUD programming. That'…

How often does us-east-1 go down? I know of about 4 big outages in the last 7 years but you're making it sound like it happens much more frequently. Is there a list of outages somewhere?

As others have noted, the pricing is really the odd thing here. AWS seems to be moving to value based pricing rather than cost based pricing for some of its niche products. I used to think that Cloudw…

The article mentions that there are major merchant vessels sinking every two/three days! That seems huge. How many deaths per year does that amount to? We're lucky to be in tech I guess.

Geez, incredibly negative and even bitter. Sure, the deployment of Cloud Foundry is complex, but we're running 6 (OSS) clusters in production with hardly any problems in the last 2 years. The qua…

From the title I expected a procedure to test if management & HR will act on unacceptable behavior. The story makes more sense, but could still be a good idea, seeing as how many underperformers a…

This resonates. Same age when I made the move, saw the need in the company and took on many responsibilities without any real experience.

I've been a PM for 3+ years, I switched after being a full-stack developer for 4 years. When I made the move the company had about 150 employees. My experience so far: the role is very broad, and…

We're deploying thousands of tenants to their own postgres RDS instances which are completely overkill for most scenarios. On average we use about 3% CPU... We still do this because of three reas…

A team member is currently on a 7-week vacation. No questions asked whatsoever. This is in NL.

Awesome! I work at Mendix where we've been building something similar for just over 11 years now. Companies in this space (rapid app development for the web) typically target the Enterprise marke…

Cool. I created a similar protocol a couple of years ago but it never got beyond a weekend project, see here for a diagram: https://github.com/jtwaleson/vault The client worked w…

I had the same idea a couple of years ago, but never created a business or a website for it. Here's the one tutorial I created this way (NodeJS + Express): https://github.com/jtwa…

Might be wort pointing out that this is a security patch in the title. Admins are advised to reset many user related tokens (session, email, OTP).

For most use cases that will complicate the system. Keeping everything the same and simple is preferable.

Nitpick for the author, you put twaleson for my quote, should be jtwaleson.

Nothing, and that's great. Something I really enjoy about my current 250 people company is how many things are not arranged properly or at all. This gives me many opportunities to step up, identi…

We've been using etckeeper (/etc is a git repo so you can track changes) plus an after-commit hook to post to a chatbot. We alert on uncommitted changes after one hour via nagios and track a…

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It's for the personal AWS accounts of the employees that leave (the sub accounts in consolidated billing). Not the root credentials for our main account.