JohnScolaro

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by JohnScolaro 5mo ago
> We had a budget alert (€80) and a cost anomaly alert, both of which triggered with a delay of a few hours. By the time we reacted, costs were already around €28,000. I had a similar experience with GCP where I set a budget of $100 and
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by JohnScolaro 1y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply! I'm relatively new to working on this type of system (large scale, event driven) and half posted because I know there are people on HN way better than me at this, and was curious about their opinion
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Log by time, not by count(johnscolaro.xyz)
241 points by JohnScolaro 1y ago|107 comments
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by JohnScolaro 1y ago
This was shared with me years ago by another developer I worked with. I still reference it today as I continue my external battle with the complexity demon.
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by JohnScolaro 1y ago
Oh I can 100% see where all of that comes from too. I think a lot of Brisbanes secret beauty is well hidden from people just visiting. The temperate rainforests, glasshouse mountains, some of the best beaches in the world all within an hour
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by JohnScolaro 1y ago
What a fantastic write-up. As a Brisbane native and software developer I often feel similarly to the author about Brisbane's software dev scene. Brisbane so often feels like a backwater, with the big dogs down in Melbourne and Sydney,
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by JohnScolaro 1y ago
I made a game called "So you think you know Brisbane?", in which you guess the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. https://johnscolaro.xyz/projects/so-you-think-you-know-brisb... I'm working on expanding it
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LLM Fight Club(johnscolaro.xyz)
2 points by JohnScolaro 1y ago|0 comments
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by JohnScolaro 1y ago
If this is an idle game, why do I need to log in? Couldn't you store the game state in localStorage or something?
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Google's Places API (New)(johnscolaro.xyz)
2 points by JohnScolaro 1y ago|0 comments
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by JohnScolaro 1y ago
I was wondering that too! Surely Airbnb - a company that runs a website - has the capability to put a text post on their own website. Then they'd own the content, and people looking for it could find it easier? It's not a revoluti
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"Data" Sucks(johnscolaro.xyz)
13 points by JohnScolaro 1y ago|8 comments
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by JohnScolaro 1y ago
I recently made a serverless lambda/dynamo webapp following similar patterns and wrote about the experience here: https://johnscolaro.xyz/blog/serverless-python-websites I think it's amazing the python commun
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by JohnScolaro 2y ago
Next.js on Vercel. I don't get enough hits to take me out of the free tier, so I'm fine staying here for now. If it became absurdly expensive, I'd try to either self-host, or move to something else. All the blog posts are jus
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Serverless Python Websites(johnscolaro.xyz)
2 points by JohnScolaro 2y ago|1 comments
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by JohnScolaro 2y ago
I recently made the backend of a hobby Python project run entirely serverlessly on AWS, and reduced my bill from ~$300 a year to $0 a year. There seem to be a million and 1 ways to make serverless python websites, but none of them easy. Tho
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by JohnScolaro 2y ago
I first attempted to use ruff for a small project ~2 years ago, and at the time felt that it wasn't quite good enough to replace the: black+isort+whatever linter combo we were using at work. I've used it a few times since then and
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by JohnScolaro 2y ago
I'm predominantly a backend Python Web developer, and I implemented a match 3 engine in Pygame. See example gifs on my blog here: https://johnscolaro.xyz/blog/pygame-match-3 When I say "match3", I don&#x
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by JohnScolaro 2y ago
Cool website, but I'm in a barbershop right now and can't wave my phone around like a madman to see the map. I'd love it if I could drag the sphere around with my finger on the screen.
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by JohnScolaro 2y ago
Interestingly, all but one of the descriptions on the front page start with the word "In".
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by JohnScolaro 3y ago
I can't wait to play Super Mario in this when someone inevitably makes a 3D rendering engine in it.