TimFogarty

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by TimFogarty 1mo ago
It's so fascinating to me that the graphite cores start out as long floppy strings of graphite. Looks kind of like cooked black spaghetti. I wasn't expecting that.
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by TimFogarty 6mo ago
> The biggest lesson I take is that "social networks" are not about protocols but about how we use the existing infrastructure. It's also not about scale and breadth. Focused social networks around niches can be a breath o
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by TimFogarty 6mo ago
That's a really good point. And I agree that kind of confidence in craftsmanship is something that's missing from agentic coding today... it does make slop if you're not careful with it. Even though I've learned how to g
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by TimFogarty 6mo ago
Yes! Good points! I think what I meant for point 1 was more "outputting something" vs "creating something". In my mind that encompasses materializing something into the world to achieve whatever you wanted, whether you w
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by TimFogarty 6mo ago
That's interesting. I have been thinking about how the vastly different reactions people seem to have to agentic coding could be influenced by what they value about coding. To me it seems like there are three joys in coding: 1. Creatin
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by TimFogarty 6mo ago
I think coding can be an endurance sport sometimes. There are a lot of points at which you have to bang your head against a wall for hours or days to figure out the smallest issue. Having an agent do that frustrating part definitely lowers
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by TimFogarty 6mo ago
Same! After years in engineering management I'm building so many small side projects thanks to Claude Code. I'm creating at a breakneck pace. Claude Code has mostly raised the level of abstraction so I can focus much more on the c
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by TimFogarty 6mo ago
As somebody who used em-dashes a lot pre-ChatGPT, I have genuinely struggled with feeling I should change my writing style to appear more human. I would be happy with a double dash--but many programs autocorrect that to a full em-dash. So I
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by TimFogarty 7mo ago
Some of the most searched numbers are surprising. Why are 8487798767697884826576, 119104105114108, or even 3551 so high up the list? See most searched here: https://numberresearch.xyz/info
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by TimFogarty 7mo ago
I have noticed that my writing ability has atrophied since I was writing essays in school. Now at work most of my writing is slack messages. Writing longer more thoughtful pieces about strategy or performance review has become a slog. I sus
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by TimFogarty 7mo ago
I have been using Tauri for a macOS app I'm making[1] and it has been great. The app is only 11MB and I've had most of the APIs I'd need. However, there are still some rough edges that have been annoying to work with. I think
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by TimFogarty 7mo ago
If you're interested on a dive into building game engines, I've enjoyed some of Cherno's videos [1] on developing his game engine Hazel [2][3]. It's cool to see the amount of work that has to go into building an engine.
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by TimFogarty 7mo ago
Being made "redundant" isn't just an synonym for being fired. It has a specific legal meaning in the UK [1]. When employees are made redundant they are entitled to certain rights including statutory redundancy pay [2]. So it&
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by TimFogarty 7mo ago
An interesting question about Stop Killing Games is if this should apply to software more broadly. If a company shuts down should they open source their product so people can continue using it? There isn't as strong an argument for thi
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by TimFogarty 7mo ago
No, they do not want to force publishers to keep a game online. The initiative just wants developers to provide a way for users to keep using a game after it has gone EOL by allowing users to run their own servers or by no longer requiring
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by TimFogarty 7mo ago
Desktop Commander is new to me so I'll check it out. I'm excited for these kinds of coworking tools that have a lot of leeway to act on systems more broadly. I have been using Claude to create spreadsheets and documents for variou
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
Oh I was just at GopherCon! I was on the Mongo booth.
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
Hey Manish! Congratulations to you and your team on the round! It's a phenomenal achievement. You mentioned transactions... I work for MongoDB so I just wanted to add that MongoDB does have ACID transactions since version 4.0. Distribu
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
Cool! Looks like a really nice interface.
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
Thank you! As an aside, is there a reason you're not using a write concern of "majority"? If you have w:3 in a three node cluster then if one node goes down, writes are going to start throwing wtimeout errors (assuming you ha
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
I think it's fair to say that it might take some time to regain trust. Just want people to know that the software is being improved and large strides have been made in this area.
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
I'm not disagreeing with anybody else's test results. Just want to say that MongoDB has matured a lot and people should test out the newer versions to see how they fare. Kind of in line with the article, I think that people should
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
When did you perform the test? Can you remember what MongoDB version you were using?
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
Plenty of people are successfully using MongoDB for real, customer supporting data at a large scale. There's a selection of users on the website for a start: https://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb (Disclaimer: I work
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
The Jepsen tests [1] have been run against MongoDB - while older versions presented edge-case opportunities for data loss, that's no longer the case with recent versions. The Jepsen tests also specifically test sharded clusters. From A
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by TimFogarty 7y ago
Great article - it's definitely vital to fully understand the tradeoffs of any technology you choose, and not just going with the latest fad. I work at MongoDB, so I do want to mention that MongoDB has changed a lot over the past few y
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by TimFogarty 8y ago
MongoDB will reuse free space when documents or collections are deleted (even though the storageSize stat will remain the same). You can compact the database to release free space to the OS. You can read more about how MongoDB's WiredT
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by TimFogarty 10y ago
There's an easy to understand visualisation of distributed consensus (specifically the Raft algorithm) here: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
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by TimFogarty 11y ago
Hey! This was built at HackCambridge (and it won first prize)! Great to see it here - it's such a cool project.
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by TimFogarty 11y ago
This reminds me of an exploit somebody found last year where they could force facebook to do a DDOS attack for them: http://chr13.com/2014/04/20/using-facebook-notes-to-ddos-any...

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