Reading Anathem (I know I’m late to the game) and enjoying it, but can’t stop laughing at this GoodReads review. To be fair, I think the language thing is clever albeit a bit much.
New blog post (for @GustoHQ): Singed, a new profiling frontend for Ruby and Rails
Singed is a swiss-army-knife frontend for stackprof and rbspy by Josh Nichols.
engineering.gusto.com/singed…
Announcing a new gem: fast_count (github.com/fatkodima/fast_co…). It allows to get an accurate count estimation (>>99% accuracy for PostgreSQL) for large tables in a blink of an eye (compared to `SELECT COUNT(*)`, which can literally take tens of minutes or hours to compute).
Lindell: "Prove these files aren't 2020 election network data"
Forensic people: "These are not even network data files period"
Arbitrators: "Pay 5 million"
Here is the arbitration panel’s 23-page decision ordering Mike Lindell to pay $5m to Robert Zeidman, who took up the challenge to “Prove Mike Wrong” washingtonpost.com/documents…
New: Mike Lindell offered $5m to anyone who could disprove his claim to have data showing China interfered in the 2020 election.
A Nevada man did just that. But Lindell refused to pay. Now an arbitration panel has ordered Lindell to hand over the $5m. washingtonpost.com/investiga…
Why would you want to use long-lived refresh tokens that generate short-lived access tokens as commonly seen in OAuth 2.0, versus long-lived access tokens?
Aren’t you simply replacing one long-lived token with another?
Here's why: grayduck.mn/2023/04/17/refre…
Leveraged GPT-4 to reverse engineer a questionnaire and style guide from XBE's last 50 release notes. Combined both into a single prompt, allowing developers to input answers and instantly generate polished, marketing-ready release notes.
NEW: Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot twice by a white man in Kansas City after accidentally ringing the doorbell of the wrong home. The man shot Ralph in the head through his glass door, and then when Yarl was already bleeding out on the ground, shot him again: kansascitydefender.com/justi…
The New York Times articles giving ideas for how to use AI to get stuff done is good. I love the way they condensed our conversation. nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
(The button works great by the way)
Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵
Who else has an FAQ page?
I've been sending ss10.dev/faq in reply to emails from recruiters for the last couple of years now.
Overall, they really appreciate the transparency.