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github.com 2mo ago

Show HN: PDF 2 Context – Convert PDF text to JSONL files

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www.ewanvalentine.co.uk 8mo ago

I love AI; I hate AI

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ewanvalentine.io 12mo ago

My thoughts on AI editors so far

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ewanvalentine.io 2y ago

On letting go of spite

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ewanvalentine.io 5y ago

Dealing with ADHD in the Tech Industry

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ewanvalentine.io 5y ago

Writing a Database in Go – Part One

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ewanvalentine.io 5y ago

Experience Paralysis: How experience slowed me down

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ewanvalentine.io 5y ago

Debugging Is an Investigation

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github.com 6y ago

Jedlik – A TypeScript DynamoDB ORM

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ewanvalentine.io 6y ago

Microservices in Golang – Part 1 – 2020 Updated

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ewanvalentine.io 6y ago

My productivity workflow, that I don't hate

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medium.com 6y ago

Go types, a short bug story

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ewanvalentine.io 6y ago

The Importance of Picking a Lane

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ewanvalentine.io 6y ago

I'm Writing Serverless Microservices in Golang These Days

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ewanvalentine.io 6y ago

I'm writing JavaScript serverless services these days

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ewanvalentine.io 7y ago

Clean Architecture solved so many of our local Serverless problems

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ewanvalentine.io 7y ago

Exploring Distributed Systems Part 1: Sidecar Pattern

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ewanvalentine.io 8y ago

Building a startup using Serverless and Golang – Part 1

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ewanvalentine.io 8y ago

Microservices in Golang – Part 10 – Summary and Thoughts

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ewanvalentine.io 8y ago

Microservices in Golang – Part 8 – Kubernetes and Container Engine

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ewanvalentine.io 8y ago

Creating Microservices in Golang – part 7 of 10 – Terraforming a cluster

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ewanvalentine.io 8y ago

Microservices in Golang – part 6 of 10 part series – user interfaces and clients

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ewanvalentine.io 8y ago

Creating Microservices in Golang – Part 5 – Event Brokering with NATs

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Microservices in Golang – Part 4 – Authentication with JWT

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Building microservices in Golang part 3 – datastores and docker-compose

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ewanvalentine.io 8y ago

Create versatile Microservices in Golang – part 2 of 10 part series

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Create versatile Microservices in Golang – part 1 of 10 part series

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github.com 9y ago

A CLI tool for switching between Google Cloud projects

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ewanvalentine.io 9y ago

A Brief Introduction to JavaScripts Async Await

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ewanvalentine.io 9y ago

How to *never* complete anything

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My cholesterol improved massively, but over time, a few, such as Omega 3 suffered. But those were ultimately my own fault, wasn't managing it properly. So, I'm absolutely not suggesting there's an issue with veganism, this isn't really why I fell out of it. So I do want to stress I wasn't suggesting people should steer clear of Veganism, just something to be mindful of. Oh, and my cholesterol immediately shot back up again when I stopped being a vegan. So, swings and roundabouts with every diet/lifestyle, I guess!

I found this to be the case. Tried Sertraline for a while, gave me headaches and made me feel sick. Then as part of a new gym plan, started taking Omega 3+VitD daily, and I just felt a sense of calm and peace after a few weeks. The massive uptick in exercise probably also helped. I also felt quite an extreme uptick because I was a vegan for 10 years, and found out I had basically zero Omega 3 in my blood. I suspect one of the main reasons my mental health declined was due to the lack of Omega 3.

Disclaimer, not saying vegans should stop being vegans, just make sure you find a good supplement, and make sure you understand the difference between EPA/DHA Omega 3.

Yeah I'm in a really low Civic Type-R, so when I'm opposite some kind of SUV, and also at a slight angle, was basically at direct eye height with their LEDs. I definitely don't have the same problem with older bulb based SUVs though

Yeah quite possibly actually, I did think at the time if they were angled down slightly, it wouldn't be half as bad. So that checks out. But does show there needs to be some kind of solution for uneven situations like that

I was at a junction the other day, there was some new Audi EV at the other side of the junction and I couldn't see a damn thing. I've got perfect 20/20 vision, never had any form of eye problem ever in my life, and I was completely blinded. I'm convinced if they'd turned the full beams on, I'd have disintegrated.

Raspberry Pi 500+ 10 months ago

Yeah it's the cost as well that's impressive. I've got a Samsung S25 Ultra in my pocket right now, but it cost like... £1200, so I'm less blown away by that somehow

Raspberry Pi 500+ 10 months ago

I've been around long enough to find it absolutely astonishing, that you can now fit a computer with 16gb of ram, 265gb of storage and a quad core processor, with no cooling, inside a keyboard.

Yeah, I get the feeling. I'm torn to be honest, because I quite enjoy using it, but then I sift through everything line by line, correct things, change the formatting. Alter parts it's gotten wrong. So for me, it's saving me a little bit of time manually writing it all out. My colleagues are either like me, or aren't sold on it. So I think there's a level of trust and recognition that even if we are using it, we're using it cautiously, and wouldn't just YOLO some AI generated code straight into main.

But we're a really small but mature engineering org, I can't imagine the bigger companies with hundreds of less experienced engineers, just using it without car and caution, it must just cause absolutely chaos (or will soon).

Not quite an open-source project, but I did a massive blog post series on Microservices in Golang. It sort of became a bit of a defacto starting point for a while, it was an immense amount of work and effort. But I found my inbox flooded with people asking for advice, and honestly, writing about it all made me realise how ridiculous Microservices often are. I could tell many of the people asking me didn't really need them, and I found myself trying to advise them away from it. So I ended up with loads of work, but with caveats all over the place trying to convince people they didn't need any of it.

Then I accidentally wiped the database powering my blog, lost all the content, and had loads of people asking me to rewrite them all. Most people were polite, but there were a lot of pushy and entitled people as well... It's a bit of a shame because it was by far the most popular thing I ever did, and they ended up being a massive pain and regret

Just think what kind of psychopath you'd have to be to demand everyone cancel their Christmas holidays. I honestly think at that point they should have all just quit, and let the project fail to shine a light on the utter failure of the CTO.

"Chance to die: 1 in 952 within a year, 1.5% (1 in 66.1) within 10 years" good grief... I think it's worth me keeping those figures in mind more often. I might be less frivolous with my time, being more actively aware of those stats...