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The N=1000 Optimization Trap
A few dozen times, I’ve run into problems with what I’m calling “The N=1000 Optimization Trap”.
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Web Things You Might Still Be Doing But Can Stop Doing Now
These are things you might be doing just because of habit.
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It's Time for Browser HTTPS by Default
Hey, good people!
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Boring Verticals and Consumer Grade Software
What’s “boring vertical software”? The software people doing boring, but important jobs have to use to get their jobs done. You have to use it every day to get paid. You use fun software by choice. You use boring vertical software because you have to.
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Responsible Disclosure, and the Scourge of Internal IT
Google’s recent disclosure of a bug in Windows after a seven day hold has caused some complaining. I’m not going to repeat the story other than to provide a little context for this rant, but it boils down to:
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I Can't Make Myself Care about the Speed of my Code Editor
Above a certain minimum usability threshold, I don’t care how fast my code editor performs. I don’t care if it can open a 2GB SQL dump. I care about features that make me more effective while writing code.[^1]
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Stop Babysitting My Permissions
The traditional Unix permission bits aren’t that complicated:
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systemd: I'm Totally Sold
I’ve been out of the “devops” game for a while, since it was just called “admin”. So while I had read about the systemd/upstart wars, everything just kept working for me, so I didn’t pay too much attention.
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pgpool-ii in Practice
pgpool-ii is awesome. We don’t have it in production yet, but have a staging environment and have run it through production-scale loads, and are getting ready. Here’s a few tips:
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Introducing the Nerds
This is the new home of the nerd-rage rants of the meter.md engineering crew. This isn’t an official publication, but will be more interesting.
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