jdwyah

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by jdwyah 14d ago
oo yeah. entitlements is a huge one. Sooooo many orgs are in an absolute rats nest of confusion because half their entitlements are in something like an auth system, half are in something like billing and the third half is hacked into featu
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by jdwyah 14d ago
heh. yes. First one got acquired. But also I wish I'd built it differently from the start (git based, other lessons learned), so started over. It's true that it's a pretty simple thing, but you do want them to be of the utmo
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by jdwyah 15d ago
Strongly agree that Config & FeatureFlags are two different things. But as I've tried building tools in the space: man is it difficult to really nail down what the difference is. For Quonfig I landed on: - Data model wise they are
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by jdwyah 15d ago
I am on my second feature flag startup, but I also somewhat agree with this. Every project should have flags, but many projects need just the basics and a service is overkill. Rolling your own JSON still feels like something we ought avoid
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by jdwyah 27d ago
Also not mentioned here was the map. A real physical map and then shooting the sun to get your latitude. I loved this. Being truly lost in a game was wild.
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by jdwyah 1mo ago
Working on a 5 min multiplayer dungeon https://escapethe.app which the kids say “is actually fun”. And taking a second crack at a feature flags with https://quonfig.com because I seem to be unable to put this problem
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by jdwyah 2mo ago
always this. I had a $5/month thing. Made a $20/month option that barely had more features. Sold lotsa seats. Rewrote it. $10 and $50 plans. $50 is most popular. But a day after I launched I got a new payment for $360. Damn, I th
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by jdwyah 4mo ago
Man, glad I chose WorkOS instead. I’ve been a happy camper there but have wondered about Clerk bc it felt hotter. Turns out hot isn’t always good.
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by jdwyah 6mo ago
I used GSD for a bit. It was helpful for a side project where I constantly forgot where I was in implementation. Helpful to be able to just say "Do the next thing" I would imagine that for a non-engineer trying to code it would be
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by jdwyah 1y ago
the duration one in particular bugs me. I work on a dynamic configuration system and i was super happy when we added proper duration support. we took the approach of storing in iso duration format as a string. so myconfig = `5s` then you ge
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Ask HN: How do we even technical interview anymore?
4 points by jdwyah 1y ago|2 comments
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by jdwyah 2y ago
There is something too this, though jumping all the way to DIY is unnecessary. Context: I run a FF company ( https://prefab.cloud/ ) There are multiple distinct benefits to be had from feature flagging. Because it's the
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by jdwyah 2y ago
If I could go back in time I would stop myself from ever learning about gRPC. I was so into the dream, but years later way too many headaches. Don’t do it to yourself. Saying gRPC hides the internals is a joke. You’ll get internals all rig
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Using Spanner as a Better Postgres(cloud.google.com)
4 points by jdwyah 2y ago|1 comments
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by jdwyah 2y ago
Spanner has been a terrific part of our architecture. It's a great piece of tech and very impressive from a cost/scalability/ease-of-use perspective. It's particularly worth taking a look if you have a postgres table tha
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by jdwyah 2y ago
This is such an awesome idea. I remember spending an extra $30 to at 2am to overnight "Gripe Water" in the hope that it would get my kid to sleep. #takeMyMoney
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by jdwyah 2y ago
"A breakpoint for logging is usually scalability, because they are expensive to store and index." I hope 2024 is the year where we realize that if we make the log levels dynamically update-able we can have our cake and eat it too.
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by jdwyah 2y ago
I have such a distinct memory of being at a friend's house and seeing the California raisins. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Feels like 100 years ago.
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by jdwyah 2y ago
Perplexity has definitely stolen >10% of my search traffic. Just got meta glasses. Curious whether they'll steal another 15% of my traffic. Primarily the "looking up a random fact for my kids" volume.
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by jdwyah 2y ago
“But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was.” If you’re lookin for a book that has absolutely kept this sense of wonder, “Immune” by Philipp Dettmer has this in spades. Highly recommended.
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by jdwyah 2y ago
super easy. fun to play with. fast. we screwed around with it on a live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/3YhBoox4JvQ?si=dkni5LY3EALnWVuE... If you're writing something that will run on someone's local mac
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A Ruby on Rails OOM Mystery(prefab.cloud)
3 points by jdwyah 2y ago|0 comments
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by jdwyah 2y ago
I had a day of it last week, debugging Rails / Kubernetes / Memory usage & OOM kills. I wrote it up so that maybe you can avoid my fate. I won't spoil the surprise, but I did end up with one takeaway that I'll rememb
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by jdwyah 2y ago
Jeffrey & I build a rate limiter in Ruby: - visualizing a rate limiter - leaky bucket vs token bucket - capacity vs rate - dynamic rate limits - use cases for rate limits
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by jdwyah 3y ago
So yeah, some assorted thoughts: 1. Some of these are primarily updated in a UI, some are driven from some other system. Flags are customer UI, but Auth is often customer's customer (admins setting RBAC) or derived from SAML Role &#x2F
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by jdwyah 3y ago
100% I'm really interested in getting stronger opinions here about how to set people up for success. Being the founder of a feature flag company I feel like I'm a rope dealer. I'm really interesting in providing good authoriz
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by jdwyah 3y ago
yes, this is needed too. Specifically for real usage based systems, how do we get these limits to apply all the way down to our API rate limits / filters? And how do we output the usage of these things back to the billing system for me
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by jdwyah 3y ago
Totally agree on the response time. OpenAI etc have been non starters for me. I'm excited/experimenting with attaching https://ollama.com/ though. It is so much faster it's starting to feel ok. A lot changes
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by jdwyah 3y ago
yeah, the overhead of another system for people to understand is non-trivial. So your accounts can have N plans. Do each of those plans map directly to a sku that they are paying for?
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by jdwyah 3y ago
My thoughts on bringing structure to product entitlements that will help you avoid some of the common pains associated with modeling entitlements in feature flag systems.

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