Software Engineer | Once a learner, always a learner. Not afflicted with @TheASF
Joined October 2024
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That's the crux of the AI. That's all. All the people who you see going all in in agentic and creating amazing stuffs are who know how to do this even in their sleep
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This is by far the biggest blocker I see in my daily work. Simple replies take ages and when they come it comes with huge para
I still code by hand and I still read code generated by agents. But around me I see what's quoted here.
When I ask questions to some colleagues they answer after 30 minutes what should take a minute. Why? Because they have to prompt their agent. And probably try several prompts as they have no clue about what to look for.
Even more surprising. A colleague asked me how I got an idea that proved interesting. I said I used my brain. This idea implementation was removed by AI agent and I override their code.
We've entered the meat proxy era I'm afraid.
Don't become a meat proxy. Use your brain.
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Holy! Isn't this a crime?
- They pulled credentials from inside their app's container and used them to request every secret on the platform: ours and every other customer's.
- They tried our cloud provider's metadata endpoint, the standard way to steal credentials for the host a container runs on.
- They asked the cluster what those stolen credentials were allowed to do.
- They went looking for our databases and caches by guessing their internal names.
- They port-scanned our whole internal network, all 65,536 addresses, twice.
- It was about 24 commands over 15 minutes, done on purpose and scripted. No app was ever run.
- Every attempt was blocked. Nothing was accessed.
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> Showing me a free offer
> Cannot buy
> Raise issue
> "no longer eligible for this promotion"
> Ok. No worries, maybe some tech issues
> Cannot buy normal Pro plan(without free offer) because it is showing me free offer
> It's like Doctor Strange loop
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I was frustrated with how bloated pgadmin was.
Found out a web client. github.com/sosedoff/pgweb
holy shit. This is so fast and great!!!!
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Even I used to wonder why people paid for email-sending services, even back in the PHP era.
Turns out people always pay for convenience, not tech. You pay money and transfer the headache to someone who specializes in that headache.
Have you ever wondered why companies can charge $15 to send 1000 emails?
I started sending emails with just a TCP connection and OpenSSL to figure it out for myself! evancz.dev/why-is-it-so-expe…
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I've worked be 2 B2B companies in past, and they all agree to this. Every client should get their own database. Application code should never pick the tenant. Tenant should pick the db and application code runs generic code.
Win win for both devs and customers.
4/4 The full breakdown, with code: turso.tech/blog/the-many-dat…
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Finally got time to read this end to end.
Holy! cache misses were the gold mines all along
I built bbtree, the foundation of databases and filesystems, and the fastest concurrent btree.
Code: github.com/XiangpengHao/bbtr…
Blog post & demo: bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/
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This was such a sad read
Latest (and probably penultimate) Building Slack post is up: buildingslack.com/salesforce…
What it's like being eaten by the whale
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Now you can add companies which you think have GOATED free tier 🐐
vincedprime.github.io/genero…
github.com/vincedprime/gener…
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My planning while using this format increased the quality of spec driven development
skills.sh/vincedprime/skills…
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