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by alexbilbie 15d ago
The good to know points are very strange; looking at London: | Most Londoners socialize in their own neighborhood and rarely cross the river -- pick your area carefully because it becomes your whole world. This just flat out isn't tr
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Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports foreign key constraints(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by alexbilbie 20d ago|0 comments
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by alexbilbie 3mo ago
It is free to become VAT registered and only takes a few days for the VAT number to be assigned and posted to you.
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ExtendDB: An open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter(aws.amazon.com)
5 points by alexbilbie 4mo ago|1 comments
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GitHub Availability March 2026(github.blog)
5 points by alexbilbie 5mo ago|0 comments
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AWS Service Availability Updates(aws.amazon.com)
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Ask HN: How do you detect hiring mismatches faster?
1 points by alexbilbie 1y ago|0 comments
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by alexbilbie 1y ago
There’s going to be a lot of LinkedIn scrapers and tools that are going to stop working if LinkedIn adopt this - a lot of these tools work off particular session cookies you share with them
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by alexbilbie 1y ago
For those who don't know, Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley was a British entrepreneur and philanthropist, famous for founding Freelance Programmers in 1962 - a pioneering software company that primarily employed women working from home,
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Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley CH has passed away aged 91(twitter.com)
2 points by alexbilbie 1y ago|1 comments
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by alexbilbie 1y ago
Its an ancient practise, codified into law in 2012 when the regulatory framework was re-codified from multiple laws like Port of London Act 1908 as well as time immemorial acts like this.
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Ancient law requires a bale of straw to hang from Charing Cross rail bridge(ianvisits.co.uk)
148 points by alexbilbie 1y ago|147 comments
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Inside the Transport for London cyberattack(londoncentric.media)
101 points by alexbilbie 2y ago|85 comments
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Why AWS Supports Valkey(aws.amazon.com)
92 points by alexbilbie 2y ago|112 comments
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Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell(allthingsdistributed.com)
284 points by alexbilbie 3y ago|180 comments
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Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development(aws.amazon.com)
9 points by alexbilbie 4y ago|0 comments
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AWS Activate is now open to all startups(aws.amazon.com)
17 points by alexbilbie 4y ago|5 comments
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Liner.ai – Machine Learning Without Code(liner.ai)
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by alexbilbie 5y ago
Mesg.ai | backend engineer | permanent full-time | ONSITE at our office in London if desired or REMOTE in Europe Mesg.ai helps sales teams around the world research potential customers at scale and send personalised outreach messages that a
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by alexbilbie 5y ago
Mesg.ai | Frontend engineer | Full-time | London We’re building software to help customer facing teams (starting with sales teams) communicate better with current and potential customers. Our tech stack is AWS, go microservices running on K
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by alexbilbie 5y ago
When I applied for my UK driving license I was able to opt in to the organ donation register then
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My Go executable files are still getting larger(cockroachlabs.com)
264 points by alexbilbie 5y ago|169 comments
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by alexbilbie 5y ago
Cloudfront now has native brotli support
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by alexbilbie 6y ago
You can also use ACM certificates directly on nitro-powered EC2 instances too https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/nitro-encla...
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An AWS Region Comes to Switzerland(allthingsdistributed.com)
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Statement of Tim Cook, Apple Inc [pdf](docs.house.gov)
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by alexbilbie 7y ago
I really enjoyed Writing an Interpreter in Go - https://interpreterbook.com/
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by alexbilbie 7y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/contributing-cassand...
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by alexbilbie 7y ago
Rent control is not a neoliberal policy - neoliberalism promotes free markets and de-regulation with which rent control does not align to.
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by alexbilbie 7y ago
That’s a fair point about creating Stipe tokens. In my experience (processing several thousand payments with Stripe daily) when there are blips they do seem to be isolated to specific endpoints/entities.

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