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I have to wonder if this is a potential help for Type 1 diabetics, since their melanin levels seem to decrease[1] as a symptom of the disease? [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24623…

Body camera, but for civilians.

Ultimately cameras and line of sight aren’t necessary. Have you seen what’s on the horizon with, for example, wifi sensing?

Not sure how it works with light fabrics. And in direct sun, which kills phones and watches?

Funny you say that, as I just got back from an eye appointment and in my 50s also still have 20/20 vision (after more than 40 years of programming/staring at the screens).

36% of the US workforce? Stopped reading right there. My experience as an employer tells me they are not entirely trustworthy and that kind of absurd claim confirms it IMHO.

I think there is an understanding that more than two consecutive weeks has a bigger impact on peers than less. As much as I dislike it, I have to say “yes” that the bar is higher at two weeks. It’s no…

Folks don’t ask me for permission for time off, they inform me. I ask if they’ve coordinated with their teammates, if that’s appropriate (sometimes it isn't, given a family event or the like, in …

I thought this might be about XML.

100% - referencing SaaS is just me being narrow minded. Your example hits close to home for me. I feel that the more creative people (like but not limited to technical folks) can try new things withou…

Thank you, the e-commerce example is definitely something I hadn’t thought about. Having high quality imagery helps make sales but comes at a cost. Looking around at some sites I buy from, I think I c…

I’ve just never seen bandwidth be a significant part of the bill for any sass I’ve built/worked for. I’m super curious about this. What kind of sass businesses use huge amounts of bandwdith but d…

There’s always rate limiting. Cloudfront supports it, API gateway support it, and it’s super easy to set up.

I dropped a jaw at the $1,500 per month for the cluster. My mind says 15,000 Lambdas costs basically zero dollars… until they start getting run/used. I think the key thing was the request rate, o…

Personally, I’d just start generating temporal IDs for all content (user or ad) so there was no way to know what the stream contained w/o something prohibitively expensive on the client side. Per…

Does that mean Slack has implemented, correctly, Gmail’s complicated permission model? Glad I’ve never enabled that integration.

Too real.

I started programming in 3rd grade when a teacher kept me in during recess because I was being bullied, and was first paid for programming in 7th grade when I ported a program from BASIC to C and used…

After a lifetime of programming I feel like I still have a pretty-good “keyboard stamina”. I attribute this to not having any habits, let alone bad ones. Or maybe they’re all bad. I’ll explain. I star…

Didn’t have much luck with my question, but I guess I wouldn’t have expected much from a synthetic MBA.

I’ll just repeat what I’ve said before: it’s not about people, it’s about real estate valuation and taxes. The folks making the RTO mandates (CEOs) are, as a whole, completely uninterested in employee…

I recall the expected rate of return on investments (measured over decades) to be closer to 5% than 40%. Nonetheless, compounding does work - it just takes a little more capital and a little longer.

At first I thought this was more clever than it was. Taking people into running downloaded or attached exe files is simple and apparently still effective. But what would be even more wicked, and effe…

Take care. I can’t begin to know your experience. The fact is that I live with an unyielding fear of people. So even as I’m grateful for the joy in the house right now I’m deeply uncomfortable, border…

I have a houseful of giggling, happy teens right now. The ones that are supposed to be suffering so awfully according to some. They aren’t. They have struggles and fears I know of, and many I don’t I’…

I have been doing a lot of work with AWS StepFunctions lately, everything from replacing cron jobs to implementing HTMX backends. I think StepFunctions is an interesting case study (I'm not reall…

When I was in school I played soccer and pole vaulted, at very little cost (which was good as I was one of seven children raised by a single mom - very modest means). The statistics are pretty clear t…

Indeed. I enjoy vacuuming (sorry iRobot) for the mindlessness, repetitive pattern and results. Likewise, mowing and hedge trimming. And, dubiously, I’m building a small wooden boat for something “comp…