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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 3d

It's DNS. It's always DNS.

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 12d

Blimey. I'm proud when I cut $500 off the monthly bill at work with some clever thought, configuration and smidge of code!

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 12d

I haven't forgotten about anchors and # on the end of a query. Marvellous invention.

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 12d

A good description of what we used to call a "chaos cache". Eventing was a mistake in that domain but architecture flavour of the year. It put me off ever wanting to work in an event architecture again - so much so I asked at interviews.

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 13d

Post hog ergo propter hog
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The Boo-seum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · 13d

AWS is down, post hog

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 13d

It's DNS, of course it is. It's always DNS. The world needs to replace DNS because it's utter shit.

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 13d

The internet appears to be broken. Can someone switch it off and on again? At least Downdetector can tell us it's bad: downdetector.co.uk

All the sites I'm responsible for are still up but 🫂 going out to my tech brethren that are having a hard time right now.

Status overview

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 17d

As I predicted, people are going to stop talking about it and it'll just become a product feature hidden away. You won't know if the analytics were hallucinated or deterministic. You won't be able to avoid it.

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 17d

Spent an afternoon going through all the company's to assess business+operational+technical risk due to AI. Some are well documented and have sub processors listed etc. Others have only marketing BS. None publicly explain the risks and mitigations.

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 19d

Firstly, you talk about locking developers into a workflow. While I accept linter warning exist, in the real world you must make them earnings-as-errors or they are ignored and become just yellow noise.

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 19d

But you then go on to formalise like below. There's no ambiguity there. No room for manoeuvre, no nuance. The whole post doesn't read like an aim, it reads like a formalised rule. You talk about locking programmers in. That's not the real world I've been in.

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 19d

I agree that a test should test one thing but I think formalising as low as a single assertion is too far. Even the best unit tests have a time cost. If the requirement is "personal details exist" then Assert(firstname) as one test and then Assert(lastname) as a second is too much.

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 20d

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 21d

Those of us that joined the net in the UK 1994 used IRC, BBS and MUDs more than the web because there wasn't as much on the web. So the cut off is probably even after that as the web took a few years to grow into something useful. But, yes, the term is now sadly interchangeable.

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 24d

Future people are going to look back at F12 dev tools, setting breakpoints and running ad-hoc code in the console and wonder why everything didn't just fall apart.

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · 25d

I'm not convinced the mania is quite the same because this technological advance is changing society too rapidly. The bulbs weren't changing society. It's a little more like the dotcom bubble, there was speculation and a fall but the world had changed in the way bulbs didn't.

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · Sep 23

I'm not saying that healthcare data exchange standards are a worry but also this:

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · Sep 23

If you want to bring US devs down to Earth, put them on a call with UK devs from small-medium-enterprises. Cynicism-first approach to just about everything because you need that to fight to get good software out the door.

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · Sep 23

I leaves me feeling wary of using it for security related tasks and that it's not far off being able to fix itself. If it followed its own instructions, it would have seen that there was no UI option and tried the CLI. If it were making its own instructions, it would have gone straight to CLI. 2/2

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · Sep 23

Amazon's help LLM "Q" can be useful but sometimes it hallucinates features that sound reasonable but don't exist, like "add instance to existing cluster" on a headless cluster.

The replies *did* have a solution that worked. 1/2

#aws #devops #llm #ai

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · Sep 22

We're a very-basic user of Brighter + Darker (in-memory for now) leaning on the CQRS patterns you provide. We're happy to spend a half day having a play without docs because we're using it "light-touch" rather than full on queuing system. I doubt we're needing the truly sexy new features - yet!

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · Sep 3

And a Moth is a beautiful aircraft to fly too. My Dad and I built balsa aircraft from plans when I was a kid. The balsa wasn't cut for you, you had to delicately cut out the ribs from the paper plan and pin them to flat balsa sheet. Here he is with a Pitts special mid-80s.

Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'll get to the whole video tomorrow - I think I've seen you say very sensible things before on the topic, so looking forward to and Kent thrashing it out.

Small people are using me as a climbing frame today, so it'll have to wait!

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · Aug 31

We don't estimate because I'm never told what the use is. The numbers take on a life of their own, they aren't guesses to understand scale of cost, they go in a gantt chat and become promises. If we're given a deadline, that's different.

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Rob Lang @brainwipe.bsky.social · Aug 29

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