Public service announcement: *every* bash script should begin with the following lines. There are no exceptions. This is particularly true if you *think* you have found an exception. You haven't. Don't do it.

This has hit me pretty hard. Brendan and I used to play video games together, chatting almost every day. We saw each other at almost every conference ever. Too many memories to enumerate, but the attached photo comes to mind. This isn't Brendan, this is a […]

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Pet peeve: People who implement retry with exponential backoff without random jitter. The whole point of the exponential is not to make things slower, it's to geometrically reduce the probability of coincidental multi-request alignment to zero. When you skip […]

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