I thought I blew my weeks of effort and lost nights of studying "System Design" with a lousy final interview. But today they called and offered me the role! I am beyond ecstatic and feel reinvigorated.
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the replacements.fyi site now lets you drop a package.json into it to see which dependencies can be replaced with native functionality, or more performant choices 🎉
New in Bunny Shield: API Guardian 🛡️ Turn your #OpenAPI schema into enforceable validation at the edge: → Validate requests before they reach your origin → Enforce authentication → Define per-endpoint rate limits → Optionally validate responses Runs in the request pipeline, no extra hops.
Could it finally be time for chaos with Ed Milliband? Because I want chaos with Ed Milliband
I cannot express strongly enough how much it sucks having to go to London to get my marathon bib days before the actual marathon. What a waste of time and money for something they could have posted. 6 hours I'm not getting back...
Whenever I finish a book I want to find podcasts that discuss it. I haven't found a solution yet, so I'm thinking of building something myself. Thoughts? #booksky
PSA: for 5EUR, you can get TinyStart which does all of what I used RayCast for, for a fraction of the memory budget tinystart.app
TinyStart, a Tiny Launcher and Emoji Picker for Your Mac
TinyStart, a tiny launcher for your Mac. Launch apps, insert Emoji, open Links and Folders, and more.
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Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...
Rejoin is coming
Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.
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I've written a blog post about some of the less obvious things I've learned about Postgres indexes. jon.chrt.dev/2026/04/15/t...
Things you didn't know about indexes
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Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.
kottke.org@kottke.org · 4mo agoHey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
We would like to thank @megacrit.com for another year of sponsorship. This time, upgrading to Corporate Platinum! We were supposed to post this earlier but we were all busy playing Slay the Spire 2 🫡 fund.godotengine.org
I've been putting off setting up some home battery automation to discharge what's left at the end of each day (before recharging on the off-peak overnight rate). I procrastinated as I couldn't be bothered to work out a clever way to avoid discharging energy I'd want to use in the evening. (cont)
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL" "They're already open" "No they're not, they're closed" "Oh, I see now. They're still closed. Let's see if we can correct that. I've taken another look and they're open now" "No, they're still closed" "You're right, they're still closed" "..." "Is there anything else?"
This is how you "break link between the price of gas and the price of electricity": building more wind power, solar, grid upgrades and grid batteries. In March gas set the price of electricity some 65% of the time – it used to be 98% across a year
Ed Porter@edporter.bsky.social · 4mo agoHow often did gas set the GB power price for March? This is a tracker for when the day-ahead price exceeds the SRMC of the most efficient CCGT in the system. It's a proxy for gas setting the wholesale price. It shows that the influence of gas on wholesale prices is declining in GB.
You can now talk to Bunny Database through the terminal 🧑💻 The interactive SQL shell is here — and it's the first piece of the bunny.net CLI. REPL, dot-commands, saved views, secret masking, and non-interactive mode for scripts. Details on the blog👇
It looks like it should be harmless to move, and it would really open things up if you just moved it elsewhere. Let's just... *𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇* That was load-bearing code.
correspondent on cnn portugal: these missiles can't reach portugal but *faint smile* they CAN reach spain
gotta pay for that subsidised slop somehow stop being the product - GitHub is not your friend github.blog/news-insight...
Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
From April 24 onward, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out.
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"Disregard that!" attacks - why you shouldn't share a context window with others
"Disregard that!" attacks
Why you shouldn't share your context window with others
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Thrilled to have been followed by an "autonomous agent" for the first time. But in my fit of excitement, I accidentally hit block.
I wrote about my experience adding a live reload feature to my static site generator, Lumaca. jon.chrt.dev/2026/03/20/a... Yes, the first post on my blog is about the software I wrote to make the blog. It's a rite of passage.
Gleam 1.15 is here, tail calls explained and making illegal states unrepresentable. Gleamweekly issue 81 is ready for your inbox. gleamweekly.com/issues/81/
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finally got about an hour and a half to play with #picoCAD2 tonight! what an absolute treat, can't wait to get some more time in to test the new animation features <3
Finally, my hometown makes national news for something wholesome and awesome.
Iain Soutar@isoutar.bsky.social · 5mo agoA fine British specimen, and a bird.