James Bayer
@jambay.bsky.social
I love product, infra/security software, and basketball. Living and working in the SF Bay Area.
...it's pretty clear that arm64 should be the default instance type choice for RDS or Aurora on AWS.
September 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
...it's pretty clear that arm64 should be the default instance type choice for RDS or Aurora on AWS.
(slightly less if you're using Graviton3 which is not discounted quite as much as Graviton2). So unless you have great data saying that your x64 database instance is better on price/performance or there is a compatibility issue in an extension you want to use...
September 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
(slightly less if you're using Graviton3 which is not discounted quite as much as Graviton2). So unless you have great data saying that your x64 database instance is better on price/performance or there is a compatibility issue in an extension you want to use...
Long-term, I want to see US lawmakers prioritize a national privacy law. This announcement is a step in the right direction.
blog.google/technology/s...
blog.google/technology/s...
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology to promote privacy in age assurance
Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.
blog.google
July 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Long-term, I want to see US lawmakers prioritize a national privacy law. This announcement is a step in the right direction.
blog.google/technology/s...
blog.google/technology/s...
Quoting from the post: "In layperson’s terms, ZKP makes it possible for people to prove that something about them is true without exchanging any other data. So, for example, a person visiting a website can verifiably prove he or she is over 18, without sharing anything else at all."
July 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Quoting from the post: "In layperson’s terms, ZKP makes it possible for people to prove that something about them is true without exchanging any other data. So, for example, a person visiting a website can verifiably prove he or she is over 18, without sharing anything else at all."
Serverless compute offerings have ongoing innovation and Cloudflare is looking more like a PaaS all the time.
July 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Serverless compute offerings have ongoing innovation and Cloudflare is looking more like a PaaS all the time.
You can read about it here: www.sci.news/astronomy/vl...
And get downloads of the images in various wallpaper sizes here: www.eso.org/public/image...
And get downloads of the images in various wallpaper sizes here: www.eso.org/public/image...
VLT Captures Most Detailed Image Ever of NGC 253 | Sci.News
Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed the active starburst (star-forming) galaxy NGC 253 in thousands of colors si...
www.sci.news
June 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
You can read about it here: www.sci.news/astronomy/vl...
And get downloads of the images in various wallpaper sizes here: www.eso.org/public/image...
And get downloads of the images in various wallpaper sizes here: www.eso.org/public/image...
Some tips, after installing, configure it to start when your machine starts. I had to restart the OS before the | icon showed, which enables you to configure which icons you want to hide.
apps.apple.com/us/app/hidde...
apps.apple.com/us/app/hidde...
Hidden Bar
Hidden lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look.
Features:
- Launch at login
- Auto-hide after 5/10/15/30/60 seconds
- Show/hide with global shortcut
- Full menu bar mode
- ...
apps.apple.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Some tips, after installing, configure it to start when your machine starts. I had to restart the OS before the | icon showed, which enables you to configure which icons you want to hide.
apps.apple.com/us/app/hidde...
apps.apple.com/us/app/hidde...
Yes, the lens is very finance-centric, but I found it super helpful as a base set of personas that are applicable across many aspects of cloud. Kudos to the FinOps org for putting this together and sharing it. www.finops.org/framework/pe...
FinOps Personas
The FinOps discipline covers many different personas. Understand more about them, their roles, and requirements.
www.finops.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Yes, the lens is very finance-centric, but I found it super helpful as a base set of personas that are applicable across many aspects of cloud. Kudos to the FinOps org for putting this together and sharing it. www.finops.org/framework/pe...
Truffle Security also wrote about this last year trufflesecurity.com/blog/postman...
(The) Postman Carries Lots of Secrets ◆ Truffle Security Co.
Postman, the popular API testing platform, hosts the largest collection of public APIs. Unfortunately, it’s become one of the largest public sources of leaked secrets. We estimate over 4,000 live cred...
trufflesecurity.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Truffle Security also wrote about this last year trufflesecurity.com/blog/postman...
There are some political aspects that frankly should be ignored because the most meaningful content in this long interview is the global impact that can be made to save literally millions of lives and substantially improve standards of living across the world.
May 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
There are some political aspects that frankly should be ignored because the most meaningful content in this long interview is the global impact that can be made to save literally millions of lives and substantially improve standards of living across the world.