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Reading "Feedly became unbearably slow" for nth time.
Guessing that is at least partially caused by the freemium model? From what I can tell they advertise 15M users but more like 100K paying.
I'm good with subscription-only for Yupdates but I bet it's going to affect traction
ALT Yupdates Cost model A significant portion of your subscription goes towards our well-provisioned server fleet, cache clusters, and databases. Instead of relying on ad revenue and its perverse incentives, the unit economics of each subscription covers the additional load. We're able to buy premium resources and keep buying them as we grow.
I knew it had millions of users, but didn't realize Google Reader had hit over 30 million. A shame that is still a "rounding error" at Google.
theverge.com/23778253/google…
"Moving to Hpc7g offers up to 70% better performance and almost 3x better price-performance compared to the previous generation AWS Graviton instances for compute-intensive workloads. They also consume up to 60% less energy for the same work"
aws.amazon.com/blogs/hpc/app…
Separating services out is not guaranteed to be the wrong design or anything, but identifying externalities and where complexity is shifting to will lead to better decisions.
xitter.cf/seancribbs/status/1669…
"GPT-3 is a double-edge sword: In comparison with humans, it can produce accurate information that is easier to understand, but it can also produce more compelling disinformation"
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Tim Freeman retweeted
An aspect of participating in the FOSS ecosystem that I struggle with a lot is dealing with the excessive entitlement people who have barely commited anything to contribute to the commons and how they use it against the people doing the work.
Speaking of CAPTCHA, I added @Cloudflare Turnstile to yupdates.com/try/
Now there's no email needed to check it out.
Had a good experience setting up Turnstile. The fact that for most people it's completed automated is a big plus. No crosswalk puzzles to solve, etc.
Tim Freeman retweeted
We're extremely excited to introduce the Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action that will dramatically speed up your Nix workflow runs with a single line of YAML. No signup, SaaS membership, or additional Nix config required.
determinate.systems/posts/ma…
Tim Freeman retweeted
I am going to start a podcast about Postgres extensions.
Postgres extensions are not well understood, and I want to make them understandable by talking to the people who create them.
Extensions are so valuable to me and to the broader community, and awareness deserves to be brought to the world.
If you’re a Postgres extension creator, and you’re interested in doing an interview with me, reach out. – at South San Francisco, CA
I saw discussions popping up (again) on database ID choices and it made me think of how I'm using strongly typed IDs for better parameters, return types, logging, and cross-boundary sanity checking.
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The idea is simple:
- Add a type prefix in the ID string
- Only accept IDs from other subsystems if they have the correct prefix
- Create actual classes/types for this in your language
- Enforce rules when parsing/creating
Do you remember Etherpad? etherpad.org
There was a brief period where it seemed like everyone was using it, talking about it, and even posting recordings of themselves drafting posts in it.
