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DumbStarbuckson Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

It depends how familiar you are. I could probably knock that out in a day with the CDK.

DumbStarbuckson Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

You unfortunately get what you pay for.

AWS is more expensive than God, but I'll be damned if you can't have a throat to choke in less than 10 minutes whenever something like this happens.

DumbStarbuckson Let's Encrypt has issued 3M certificates in one day

Companies losing money from processing certain renewal doing espionage.

DumbStarbuckson Show HN: Auger, know the ROI on SaaS products before you buy

it should. that’s hilarious

DumbStarbuckson The Development of the C Language (1993)

> People who know how to use C rarely if ever have problems with undefined behavior.

I think the CVE database would disagree with that statement.

DumbStarbuckson The Concise TypeScript Book

It's comments like this that make me feel better about my own decisions.

Because if that was the only benefit typescript had, it would be a win. I mean that was the whole point with JSDOC.

Anything that shortens the feedback loop from writing the code to seeing if it works is a win.

This is the equivalent of saying, "I see many people switching jobs for no reason other than to make more money". Like... That's the not the only reason but it's a big one.

Then you get into algebraic data types, and encoding logic constraints into the type system, and you can make entire classes of bugs impossible to write.

Type systems are about safety and productivity.