Weeknotes 82

import { utility} from StackOverflow

When you want a simple utility function that isn’t part of the standard library, what do you do?

Practical, pragmatic, advice from Jessitron.

Nick Cave is not a fan of ChatGPT for songwriting.

…with all the love and respect in the world, this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human…

I’m feeling increasingly overwhelmed with pretty much everything at the moment. The car troubles that seem to have been dominating my life recently seem to be fixed, but even typing that feels like tempting fate.

The week started badly, but did get gradually better, and ended well. So there’s that.

My podcast listening library is expanding again. It’s not sustainable…

David Baddiel Tries To Understand is lighthearted and interesting listen. But most importantly, usually around 15 minutes. A breath of fresh air in a sea of 2+ hour podcasts I’m already subscribed to.

A reincarnation of their Fan Club podcast, Nick Helm and Nathanial Metcalfe’s Consume and Obey launched over Christmas. I’m glad to have them back. It’s as chaotic and rambling as ever. And I love it for that.

“Basecamp details ‘obscene’ $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud”

DHH on Basecamp’s AWS spend.

We spent $3,201,564.24 on cloud in 2022 at @37signals , mostly AWS. $907,837.83 on S3. $473,196.30 on RDS. $519,959.60 on OpenSearch. $123,852.30 on Elasticache.

And, he compares it to buying their own hardware.

Contrast that with just this one example of insanely powerful iron you can buy from Dell.

Not really comparing apples with apples though, is it. And conveniently leaves out the cost of the people.

With the way Twitter’s going I’m really starting to regret linking to it so often.

My open source contributions continue to impress.

mitmproxy is very cool. I had it setup and inspecting traffic coming from my iPhone in minutes. It’s capable of much more but the basics were great for me.

Which brings me to my latest side project. Will I complete this one? I’m really going to try to complete the MVP this week. I believe the scope is small enough, but I’m probably already hampering my ability to do so by deciding to write it in Rust. I will just have to accept working over good.

Ask me next Sunday whether I have achieved my goal.