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> As for writing, well, I have been working on this little blog post, on and off, no joke, for six years. This was the reward for reading through.

Speed is the rationale. I have zero hesitation to deploy and am extremely well practiced at decomposing changes into a series of small safe changes at this point. So maybe it's a single spelling …

But download all of them? There is a line here where it becomes absurd to me.

Agreed. It sounds like they never made it to the distributed architecture they would have benefited from. That said, if the team thrives on a monolithic one they made the right choice.

Wow. Their experience could not be more different than mine. As I’m contemplating the first year of my startup I’ve tallied 6000 deployments and 99.997 percent uptime and a low single digit rollback p…

They may not need to go so far as this to protect their service, but I would accept that any access required occasional authentication. Unfettered, unlimited anonymous access seems dubious in this “I’…

If software actually is 90% cheaper to build in 2026 there will be 10x the simple apps and abandonware to follow. Throwaway software like throwaway phones. It’ll be weird.

Oh, i’m quite sure it does. In fact, it’s a central thing in so much of psychology. The only difference is how you get there. Some people can just ignore and others take more effort.

Bad business people have been blaming outside forces for their failings forever. Taxes! Regulations! China! The Algorithm! It’s a symphony out there.

But privacy in public in general isn’t a thing, right?

I don’t care how this makes the world a better place, because it just does.

That’s one reason I’ve preferred .Net. Put ahead of time compilation on top and it is glorious.

Where did the mud inside come from if it was still sealed?

Arguments for both are derived from, but not explicit in, the Bill of Rights. Privacy has broad points of support while anonymity is primarily attributed to the First Amendment, but only in narrow cir…

Also not a lawyer but anonymity case law is a mixed bag to best, and more practically speaking very narrowly targeted compared to privacy.

Don’t confuse privacy with anonymity. One is a right in the US, the other is not.

Not to build, but to build and maintain. We never budget for maintenance (we as in companies and governments).

Given the cost of out of home childcare, three kids more than pays for a nanny. Even two can. Not exactly a “rich” thing, just a matter of “scale” (in YC terms).

So the lesson is that IQ tests are unreliable? Weird. Smart comes in a lot of flavors.

The article is basically making the point that deploying bits of runtime code, even something as simple as a single purpose cloud function, is unnecessary and makes work. The examples of using StepFun…

When it first came out the developer experience was awful but it’s come a long, long way. JSONata is definitely a big part of that, along with the workflow designer being available in VS Code and tole…

Agreed. Building a custom protocol seems “hard” to many folks who are doing it without any fear on top of HTTP. The wild shenanigans I’ve seen with headers, query params and JSON make me laugh a littl…

TCP being the “default” meant it was chosen when the need for ordering and uniform reliability wasn’t there. That was fine but left systems working less well than they could have with more carefully c…