brycelarkin

npmjs search is very slow

Who’s the target market for this?

Tagging documents isn’t really a big problem. Companies typically only have a finite, handful of contract templates that the admin tags manually.

Nice! This was one of the missing parts of the Vercel AI SDK.

They increased prices, but looks like they finally are revamping the service. This is probably the biggest update in years.

A quick look at the Automattic site (https://automattic.com/about/) says they dedicate 5% of company time to WP open source.

Their GitHub has over 1000 repos, likely all WP related. https://github.com/Automattic

I don’t doubt Automattic is not putting in their fair share into the WP community.

I can see Matt’s point of view. Data transfer fees are expensive, especially at WordPress scale. Automattic probably covers a lot of that cost that wordpress.org is incurring and wants WP Engine to pay their fair share.

WP Engine also seems to do some other “not in good faith” things such as change the woocommmerce Stripe attribution from wordpress.org to their own Stripe account.

While the legal dispute is on trademark, I think it’s really on WP Engine profiting on wordpress.org without giving back. It’s not illegal, but blacklisting WP Engine isn’t illegal either.

Automattic is essentially subsidizing a private equity backed company. I’d be upset and frustrated too if I was in Matt’s position.

If you support WP Engine, you’re supporting Silver Lake Private Equity.

Those last 30 seconds of the video, trying to get the demo to work for a group of people is so relatable.

This article just looks like an ad for Bloomberg’s docuseries.

Separate Github profiles for work and personal.

For postgres, you want to use “bigint generated always as identity” instead of bigserial.

Really cool!

When should you use pgvector vs pgvector scale?

Is there any discussion about getting this added as a supported AWS RDS extensions?

Another model I’ve seen is a combination of subscription and usage where there’s a monthly base and then additional charge for usage overages. Example is Sendgrid.

I just used a Vercel template. Literally took 10 minutes from cloning the repo to getting it set up on my domain.

Do you add jobs inside a transaction? Or with a root connection? There doesn't seem to be an out of the box way to add jobs in a transaction.

What do you mean by system domain? Like technical, non-user facing services like CacheService and ObjectStore?

Love the Filthy Frank survival guide!

Wow! Had no idea Shazam existed back in 2003.

For the AWS CDK folks, I’ve been very happy with this library. https://github.com/CloudSnorkel/cdk-github-runners. Love that I can use spot pricing and the c7g instances for cicd.

I was a Mintlify customer 6 months ago and found their onboarding strange. Their Github app asked for permissions to access all my repos and there was no way to get around that. I just wanted to give them access to my docs repo not my app repo. Ended up having to dig through their settings page and revoking that permission after onboarding.

For customer OAuth tokens, I believe you should NEVER store the access token in the database. Only store the refresh token in the database. When you need api access, get a new access token with the refresh token and client secret.

This prevents incidents like the above as the attacker would also need your client secret, which is ideally not in your database.

It’d be like any other database schema change. We commit all schema migrations to git and have cicd run them.

It’s one of the few big projects that still feels “open source” as opposed to corporate run open source.

I think Netflix is a big user / sponsor of the project.

Postgraphile. Postgres + graphql. It really solves all the negative aspects of graphql. Also, incredibly performant. Their v5 release is also a pretty interesting piece of tech.

https://postgraphile.org/

I’d rather take 100% of a million than Fan Duels’ 0% of half a billion.

React/Relay front end. Postgraphile/Fastify backend. Postgres database. Typescript. The most OP type safe stack. One change in your database propagates throughout your stack.

Found discussion here: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/g18m6e/when_to_co...

The recommended way to do egress from AWS is through Cloudfront, which provides 1TB of free egress instead of 100GB as stated in the chart.

Regardless, I feel like AWS is price gouging for egress.

Awesome writeup! Just had a couple comments/questions.

Not adopting an identity platform early on

The reason for not adopting an IDP early is because almost every vendor price gouges for SAML SSO integration. Would you say it's worth the cost even when you're a 3-5 person startup?

Datadog

What would you recommend as an alternative? Cloudwatch? I love everything about Datadog, except for their pricing....

Nginx load balancer for EKS ingress

Any reason for doing this instead of an Application Load Balancer? Or even HA Proxy?

Big fan of Graphile Worker to handle this job. https://github.com/graphile/worker

Discover Cards have a similar feature. One of my favorite things about the card! https://www.discover.com/security/online-privacy-protection/

iOS has a nifty feature that lets you block all calls from numbers not in your contacts.