sj26

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by sj26 1y ago
Turning our snowflake infrastructure into an autoscaling fleet via a packer + terraform pipeline was one of my first projects at Buildkite back in 2016: https://buildkite.com/resources/blog/terraform-techniques-wi.
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by sj26 1y ago
I'm Sam, a founding engineer still at Buildkite. I've been quite vocal that this was short term gains for long term pains. We're in the process of fixing this - we're working on a free tier and a more accessible paid pla
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by sj26 1y ago
I think he basically did this too.
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by sj26 2y ago
Interesting discovery: PG::FeatureNotSupported: ERROR: ddl and dml are not supported in the same transaction
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by sj26 2y ago
If anybody likes to play with Ruby on Rails, I've published a bare bones active record connection adapter: https://github.com/sj26/activerecord-dsql-adapter
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by sj26 2y ago
Mea cupla. Fixed.
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by sj26 2y ago
I actively endorse https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog if you want something more Go-flavoured or operationalised. But it is also "complete."
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by sj26 2y ago
Hiya! I'm the maintainer. It's true I don't do much to it these days. But that's because it's complete. There are lots of things I would love to do to improve it. But none of it would dramatically improve what it d
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by sj26 2y ago
It's not designed to go in your Gemfile gem install mailcatcher :-)
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by sj26 3y ago
It Depends(tm). If you're using a system which is built for distribution, random is great. When you're leaning on a Postgres database which has powered your startup through scaling but expects right-leaning btree indexes, it'
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by sj26 5y ago
Somebody already has, for perforce: https://github.com/improbable-eng/perforce-buildkite-plugin
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by sj26 13y ago
alias rm="rm -v" helps.
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by sj26 14y ago
Cost/benefit. There are always going to be security holes in anything we make. We can be a bank and focus two feet ahead on making sure everything is as secure as possible, or stay aware of security (and not do anything stupid) while moving
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by sj26 14y ago
This was my first thought, and seems likely. They do several forms of analysis on their cache. It could even be some engineers running tests or queries that require rendering the page or at least bootstrapping the DOM.
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by sj26 14y ago
Agreed, although apparently this has been tried a few times without success. Do it next year!
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by sj26 14y ago
Entirely home–grown CSS with transitions via Sass/Compass by the ever–wonderful http://levibuzolic.com/ .
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by sj26 14y ago
We used Slim for findthin.gs—it's faster, has much better whitespace control, and, imho, better achieves Haml's reduce noise, increase beauty aims. But there's no contest about Sass and CoffeeScript being amazing.
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by sj26 15y ago
This reminds me waaaay too much of ASP.NET's oh-so-wonderful __VIEWSTATE.
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by sj26 15y ago
https://github.com/sj26/rbenv-install
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by sj26 15y ago
I was just about to go an do this. Has anyone else yet?
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by sj26 15y ago
So could most of us, but then again you could do something interesting with your weekend instead.