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Update: See an update on our progress in my August update . I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming . As you....
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This week, I’m staying at a house in the middle of nowhere in Northern Arizona, after a visit to Las Vegas. When I walk from the upstairs bedroom down to the ground floor kitchen, the time zone changes. This is reproducible, reliably. It took me a couple days to notice, since the purpose of this […]
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It’s very fast to build something that’s 90% of a solution. The problem is that the last 10% of building something is usually the hard part which really matters, and with a black box at the center of the product, it feels much more difficult to me to nail that remaining 10%. Closing that gap with gen AI feels much more fickle to me than a normal engineering problem. It could be that I’m unfamiliar with it, but I also wonder if some classes ..
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It’s very fast to build something that’s 90% of a solution. The problem is that the last 10% of building something is usually the hard part which really matters, and with a black box at the center of the product, it feels much more difficult to me to nail that remaining 10%. Closing that gap with gen AI feels much more fickle to me than a normal engineering problem. It could be that I’m unfamiliar with it, but I also wonder if some classes ..
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A friend was telling me about “Dream Teams” at Netflix and I realized that is exactly what I have been trying to build/encourage around me. That is what I want!
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A friend was telling me about “Dream Teams” at Netflix and I realized that is exactly what I have been trying to build/encourage around me. That is what I want!
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A friend was telling me about “Dream Teams” at Netflix and I realized that is exactly what I have been trying to build/encourage around me. That is what I want!
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A friend was telling me about “Dream Teams” at Netflix and I realized that is exactly what I have been trying to build/encourage around me. That is what I want!
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Space, Blogging, & Bitcoin (Issue #161) 2024-04-27 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith This week’s newsletter is out! In this week’s edition: Linux on the ISS, exploring the dream modern blogging platform, Bitcoin economics & privacy, the Bitcoin halving, investigating the strange world of the moon landings Issue details: Title: Space, Blogging, & Bitcoin Issue: 161 Page: issue webpage Another awesome issue of the newsletter..
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On Monday, February 4th, 1985, at the tender age of eighteen, I wrote down in the back of my journal two meagre fragments of the previous night's dreams: I’m at Fred’s and the cab is 45 minutes late. Leaping over an empty oil drum on a highway. This is the first of several hundred dream entries I've accumulated over nearly forty years. Though I'm not entirely sure what provided the impulse at the time to start writing them down,....
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Using AWS CloudFront Functions with a Static Site in Terraform
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www.keithrpetersen.com
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2 years ago
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I recently updated the web sites I’ve been hosting in AWS to finally stop using the “Static website hosting” config. I was also using CloudFront, but letting S3 manage the URL routing. It’s been many years since I first configured an S3 static website, and my Terraform config needed refreshing. Many small changes and additions added up to a lot of work! I factored out most of the resources into a module. Read More
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Using AWS CloudFront Functions with a Static Site in Terraform
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www.keithrpetersen.com
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2 years ago
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eng
I recently updated the web sites I’ve been hosting in AWS to finally stop using the “Static website hosting” config. I was also using CloudFront, but letting S3 manage the URL routing. It’s been many years since I first configured an S3 static website, and my Terraform config needed refreshing. Many small changes and additions added up to a lot of work! I factored out most of the resources into a module. Read More
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On Monday, February 4th, 1985, at the tender age of eighteen, I wrote down in the back of my journal two meagre fragments of the previous night's dreams: I’m at Fred’s and the cab is 45 minutes late. Leaping over an empty oil drum on a highway. This is the first of several hundred dream entries I've accumulated over nearly forty years. Though I'm not entirely sure what provided the impulse at the time to start writing them down,....
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The moral is obvious. You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself. No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. – Ken Thompson His 1984 Turing Award paper on supply chain security is only four pages long and is worth reading repeatedly.
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Of the mental models and rules I use in my life, by far the most useful is to learn only one thing at any given time. If you get it right, you: Ensure work is the right balance of challenging for it to be enjoyable. Avoid stalling due to an overload of uncertainty. Learn better, and faster. This rule works for individuals but is also useful for coaching others, debugging team performance, or helping people grow. As an individual One....
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How do you verify and validate the data coming into your Python web application? What tools and security best practices should you consider as a developer? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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At a recent off-site we ran a simple group exercise that will hopefully make a big difference to the success of the company
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At a recent off-site we ran a simple group exercise that will hopefully make a big difference to the success of the company
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This one looks like a promising read: Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure underpinning the so-called Dark Web. But the real “dark web,” when it comes to Tor, is the hidden history brought to light in this book: where this complex and contested infrastructure came from, why it exists, and how it connects with global power in intricate and intimate ways. In ..
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This one looks like a promising read: Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure underpinning the so-called Dark Web. But the real “dark web,” when it comes to Tor, is the hidden history brought to light in this book: where this complex and contested infrastructure came from, why it exists, and how it connects with global power in intricate and intimate ways. In ..
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This one looks like a promising read: Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure underpinning the so-called Dark Web. But the real “dark web,” when it comes to Tor, is the hidden history brought to light in this book: where this complex and contested infrastructure came from, why it exists, and how it connects with global power in intricate and intimate ways. In ..
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Over the last few months, I've started making an attempt (with the help of my patient coworkers) to more intentionally learn the programming language Haskell. I have professional reasons why this is directly important, but it's also been a good way to challenge some long held assumptions. Being purely functional and lazily evaluated, Haskell lacks traits like implicitly sequenced evaluation, forcing its reconstruction where needed. Sequen....
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See the canonical version of this blog post at the Microsoft Open Source Blog ! Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer History Museum, and then later republished them for reference purposes. This code holds an important place in history and is a fascinating read of an operating system that was written entirely in 8086 assembly code nearly 45 years ago. Today, in partnership with IBM an....
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Ever wanteda watch some video w friends, each using their own device, whether in the same room or while ur far apart? Syncplay 's an app for syncing up video players over the internet (n it's also got a chat function). We're hosting a Syncplay server now at syncplay.artemislena.eu:8999. No password needed, n TLS n room isolation're enabled. Enjoy ^^
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Final MoneroKon talk schedule released, Samourai Wallet founders/CEO arrested and charged, and more...
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Popover provides so many great developer affordances for building layered interfaces like tooltips, menus, teaching UIs, and more.
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Cloud-Native Marvel: Driving 6 Million Daily Notifications!
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blog.developer.bazaarvoice.com
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2 years ago
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Bazaarvoice notification system stands as a testament to cutting-edge technology, designed to seamlessly dispatch transactional email messages (post-interaction email or PIE) on behalf of our clients. The heartbeat of our system lies in the constant influx of new content, driven by active content solicitations. Equipped with an array of tools, including email message styling, default […]
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