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I love programming (not just playing with code) and making excellent things with code, and electronics and mechanisms. I get paid to be good at it and help others do so as well, and I love that, too. …

I may be wrong, but as I recall it is good form to chain exception filter calls by making note of the return from `SetUnhandledExceptionFilter`. For example, if I want to use `<stacktrace>` and…

I paid for the upvotes but this is all I got.

It’s certainly possible to get such wood, but rare. Harvesting 1% of a timber parcel per year is devilishly hard. Those that do it have all the customers they need and don’t really want to talk with…

Yet another sincere effort to make the easy things easy.

Domesticated? Human beings back then would have been a walking menagerie of pests, right? Seeds and plant matter, mice, mites, flees, pets, and yes if they managed to travel with livestock, them too. …

What comes with people migrating to new environments? New diseases. It’s bizarre to me that hunting is the “regular suspect” in so many imaginations of the far past when the diseases transported by hu…

I’m building a service billed for via usage. As others have pointed out, I have to solve metering for a variety of reasons (beyond billing) and won’t take an external dependency for it. It’s a nonstar…

Wow. This comes off as “yes, pay taxes AND make offerings to me”.

Makes we want to invest some time in whitepuffies.com

Some parts are expensive (EC2, NAT and VPC endpoint proliferation) but others are simple and inexpensive (regional API Gateways, latency based routing, DDB global tables, lambdas, state machines).

The second part might be summarized as “when technology starts to diverge from the business model, or vice versa, both become messy.”

> They might realize Debra has been sitting in that corner, staring at uptime graphs of the internal server farm for 10 years, despite the fact that the company moved to AWS five years ago. Ouch. T…

Sunburn?

My thoughts exactly. If we live forever there is no need for (or resources to sustain) children. That would be bad in many ways. I do totally agree that pouring “discretionary investments” into health…

While it is pointless, I would love driving an excellent electric motor coupled to a manual transmission and rear wheel drive. All the fun, none of the dinosaurs.

How many folks actually use multi-region deployments with automatic failover (e.g. latency based routing in route 53)?

My original, self-assembled a lifetime ago, ZX-81 sits on a shelf next to me as I update insane fleets of processing power on AWS. If I can get past the sentimentality of preserving it, the joy of dro…

A couple of points feedback on this: - It’s important to note that even before a single byte is sent, simply provisioning NAT gateways incurred cost. That’s “reserved capacity”, and should be seen as …

People are awful to each other everywhere - there is nothing exceptional about America there. I agree with you that dignity requires fundamental (not judgemental) respect, and that is sorely lacking i…

It hasn’t much other than scrolling past the posts. Great tool with the usual hype, as we tend to do.

Indeed. One of the hard things to figure out is the keeping the number of roles small while avoiding stars (IAM ain’t GitHub).

For me, setting up connections between SQS, SNS, DDB, Lambda, step functions, S3, Route53, API Gateway in CloudFormation is just a muscle memory. I’m much faster at it at this point that I am at stand…

There are unexplained bugs in my software, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t the work of aliens.

So the light saber with a faulty switch that goes off in your pocket?

> Every time a change occurs to data within the user, the modseq is incremented by one and the new value is associated with the changes. This isn’t what I’d call modern, and isn’t much fun. I’d rea…

Yep, I’ve already implemented QUERY. Sorry SEARCH.

Douglas Fir. Not a weed when over 100 years? Definitely a weed when 100s of seedlings sprout in my garden each spring?

There is an investment path where no loan is taken at all, but while the per-property returns are better (and the approach is sustainable) the amount that can be earned overall is a fraction of what c…

> “I’m sick and tired of working for my money.” That isn’t an origin story I’d ever trust with my investment.