Troy Forster
@tforster.com
Fractional CTO, idea factory, tinkerer, cyclist, hiker, vegetarian, and animal lover working from my cottage office in Port Bruce
A baguette needs to be javelined for best effect whereas you can frisbee a naan which means that while distance on a baguette is dependent on your shoulder and effectiveness of your kinetic chain, the naan will travel further even with worse pronation due to physics. Naan win everytime
Sophie Hall@sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 2w agoFinally, someone asking the important questions
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
Did Trump come through with his threat to bore everyone to death with a four hour "speech"?
There are many reasons to despise JIRA, but my current number 1 is that they make it so damn hard to find stories from a closed sprint. Even their built-in AI can't find those stories.
I have lost count of the number of tornado alerts I have received so far today. Easily more than 20.
Trump's "planned" visit to New York for the basketball match has the city in an absolute turmoil. What are the odds he won't show up?
Don't Tell Comedy v2. First one a few weeks ago was quite funny. Have high hopes for tonight.
My hot take is that we should abolish the advertising industry as we know it. Outside of trade shows and catalogs, which people explicitly opt-into, advertising should be banned. No billboards, no banner ads online, nothing. Yes it would completely upend the internet, I'm not hearing a downside.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo agoCompanies that cheat when the opportunity arises will cheat *everyone*: customers, users, regulators, suppliers and employees. You're the product if the company can get away with making you the product: pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/l... 4/
Amazing how I can build an entire app in a day using Cloudflare yet with AWS I spend an entire day trying to get a Lambda to talk to postgres
I find myself steps away from a childhood home, in Wortley Village, at a secret comedy venue. Hoping for some laughter.
Thanks, @remhq.bsky.social for sharing news.kagi.com. I love that they show all the sources used to compile each article.
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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 4mo agoJust discovered @kagi.com's news.kagi.com - what a superb service and exactly something I've been looking for.
GitHub has introduced GitHub Stacked PRs. github.github.com/gh-stack/. We tried stacking PRs a couple of months ago when my peer-reviewer colleague went on vacation, and the experience was not the greatest. I am looking forward to trying out this new tool to see if it improves the experience.
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We’ve reached the mass-production era of coding. Models are trained on the "good enough," but they can't "aim up" at decades of craft. I find myself using AI tools daily, yet I’m constantly tidying up the bloat they leave behind. (1/2)
US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days ino.to/bZEQ3zj The US needs to massively increase rearmament manufacturing. Arms companies will make insane profits. Who in Trump's circle will gain directly, and from insider knowledge? Who will suffer as money is diverted?
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The US fired 850 Tomahawk missiles in 30 days but buys only 57 a year. As munitions run dry, the Pentagon pivots to ground troops in Iran, guaranteeing the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, European gas ...
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EmDash: A spiritual successor to WordPress and plugin security ino.to/1eJRKuu
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed W...
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As a long time Survivor fan I was utterly disgusted by this week's episode. It was an ad for a musician I've never heard of and his promotion of murdering animals for fun. This is not the 49.5 seasons of Survivor I have enjoyed. And don't get me started on his whiny singing voice.
All Americans should root for the downfall of a wicked regime that tries to dictate religion to its citizens. And also the one in Iran.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoHegseth: "May almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight. To the American people, please pray for them every day on bended knee with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ."
It's only agentic if it's from the Agent region of France, else it's just sparkling automation.
2026, when you still have to roll a web server from scratch when working with AWS. I wonder if it would be more expedient to port CloudFlare Workers to Lambda...
Just a heads up to any developers considering LocalStack for AWS. Please avoid it. They have dodgy bait-and-switch practices. It cost me $1500 to learn that their premium offering does not support what they say it does. Their ToS says they don't refund. Despite monthly pricing, they charge annually.
