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Happy New Year from the foothills of the Cascades in Washington state!

Vibe coding helped me build several small games for my daughter and unlocked her interest in programming.

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2026 - it's going to be a great year!

Cloudflare for the domains that it supports.

Another Lamy Safari fan here. It’s my preferred pen amongst the others in my collection. Though, I just discovered the Lamy CP1, which feels like a sleeker version of the Safari. I’m giving the CP1 an honest go right now.

Actual blog post from Microsoft: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/09/18/paint-a...

1-click link to Uniffi https://mozilla.github.io/uniffi-rs/

Obligatory Oatmeal comic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill

There is an open source UI for querying based on SBOM called DependencyTrack (https://dependencytrack.org/). Commercial offerings exist from vendors like TideLift (https://tidelift.com/).

Order sushi like a CEO https://youtu.be/-gdjieGyB5s

Pricing is at https://openai.com/api/pricing/

Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28530963

Somnath temple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnath_temple

I’d guess there’s a statement in the source code somewhere like

  if user == ‘jeff bezos ’

  if user in (‘jeff bezos’, ‘andy jassy’)

This is first time an Amazon CEO has changed so infrequently used code paths are going to be exercised.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364569

Apple acquired buddybuild in 2018 (https://www.buddybuild.com/blog/buddybuild-is-now-part-of-ap...).

For CI/CD providers, it depends on how they offer the underlying macOS environment. If they target enterprise workloads that have stringent compliance needs, then this offering is a net benefit especially if the enterprise is already on AWS. The cost isn't cheap but there are many ways to price it as a value added provider.

Is that Elon Musk working on his jetpack personal transporter? <grin>

More seriously, if you are so inclined to build your own, here are instructions: https://timwylie.com/files/jetpack/building.pdf

I tried but quickly decided that I wasn't sufficiently motivated.

One of the best Excel tips video I’ve seen is by Joel Spolsky - aptly named “You suck at Excel”. I’ve been an Excel user forever and this video taught me about features that I never knew existed.

Have a look: https://youtu.be/0nbkaYsR94c

I read a blog diary by someone that took the train from Vienna thru Russia, then the closed (in 2008) border town of Tumangan, and then to Pyongyang. They spent multiple days touring Pyongyang and thereabouts in what appeared to be a strictly guided tour. Fascinating read.

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/

originator of video game systems (U.S. Patent No. 3728480) that now nurture a $15 billion a year industry.

Article needs a 2010 tag. Wikipedia[1] states the 2018 estimate is $135 billion.

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry

Got it. I’ve typically seen Operational Transforms brought up as the alternative to CRDT for real-time collaboration. But, if you don’t need to solve for that use case and the format is JSON, it’s a different problem to solve and you don’t need that journal of changes.

If you have code available in the public domain, I’d love to see it.

I've ended up using other less sound (more prone to failure), but more practical methods of doing sync.

Could you share the alternative methods that you’ve used?

Looks like I posted a early draft. The latest draft is at https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-core-coral-03

tldr from the article: possibly, I don’t know.

I’d love to see your implementation.

You can have millions of consumers read concurrently from a single SQS queue. Messages that are read remain in the queue up to the configured retention period or until a consumer calls DeleteMessage.

Source: I’ve built very high volume services that continue to run production workloads and use SQS as the buffer between components.

Are there specific sellers that you follow?

Very nice! You should publish it to the Serverless App Repo (https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/serverlessrepo/)

Long version of this story - https://onezero.medium.com/the-influencer-and-the-hit-man-6c...

Colm and Marc frequently post great threads about distributed system design on Twitter. Definitely worth a follow: https://twitter.com/mndoci/status/1202641319643869184

And on a personal note, I’m astounded and so lucky that I get to work with these amazing engineers!

Jeff Barr's post - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-braket-get-started-w...

Neat article.

If you’re interested in more material, there is also Ruslan’s phenomenal 17 part series that walks thru how to build an interpreter.

https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/