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geoffbp··on Workday to acquire Pipedream
It is a bit like Jira in that it’s flexible for different company use cases, but most people (especially engineers) dislike working with it
geoffbp··on GitHub: Git operation failures
Gitlab has regular issues (we use Saas) and the support isn’t great. They acknowledge problems, but the same ones happen again and again. It’s very hard to get anything on their roadmap etc.
geoffbp··on GitHub partial outage
We’re using gitlab, loads of issues and outages, we want to go to github
geoffbp··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
I wonder if he’s ever had anything positive happen because of it. That list looks like a PITA :)
geoffbp··on Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)
Incident Commander
geoffbp··on When is it better to think without words?
I’ve been spending time learning meditation, which is essentially not thinking :)
geoffbp··on /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
Is there a case where dev null can fail?
geoffbp··on OpenAI acquires Sky.app
First I’ve heard of this app

Interesting..

geoffbp··on Event Sourcing, CQRS and Micro Services: Real FinTech Example
The message on his homepage doesn’t make sense right - it should say IT industry?

> I am a Software Architect, Ex-Founder & AI enthusiast with over 8 years in the IT.

geoffbp··on Free Programing Books
Programming*
geoffbp··on Live Stream from the Namib Desert
Amazing and thank you for sharing!
geoffbp··on What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?
And the Oxford comma
geoffbp··on The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
Such a difficult language to learn! I’ve been learning it for a long time
geoffbp··on She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)
This is pretty bad. Surprised they got away with it for so long
geoffbp··on Writing an operating system kernel from scratch – RISC-V/OpenSBI/Zig
Wasn’t this posted last week ?
geoffbp··on The case against social media is stronger than you think
I fell into the trap over some months of installing fb, Reddit, x, Instagram. It really is amazing how additive they are. I’ve since removed the apps but still have an account and limit myself to using the web versions only
geoffbp··on Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app
“How to recognise skin cancer” link from the menu goes to 404
geoffbp··on Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]
BitchX anyone? I remember self teaching Linux and Slackware.

Idling on irc in some xdcc warez channel - waiting 24 hours or sth for some download to complete.. those were the days

geoffbp··on What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness
Good read! Enjoyed that. I meditate but have never reached that state fwiw.
geoffbp··on What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?
Good article. thanks for sharing
geoffbp··on Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
Physical posture during the day affects your anxiety?

Also any specific thing you do for gut health? Or just trying to eat healthy, no alcohol?

geoffbp··on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation
I’m in south England, cost here is 24.05p/kWh plus standing charge 41.67p/day
geoffbp··on How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024)
I saw this story linked from a twitter post, really interesting. It makes a lot of sense, make purchases based upon data / metrics
geoffbp··on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
My first thought when I saw the age checking in the UK was it’s more of a social monitoring tool than what they say it is
geoffbp··on 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
2025 - year of the Linux desktop
geoffbp··on Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
How many drones would they have destroyed? Couldn’t find that on the article
geoffbp··on Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale
Thanks, good read!
geoffbp··on Basic Facts about GPUs
“Arithmetic Intensity (AI)”

Hmm

geoffbp··on <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)
Image of a construction worker digging
geoffbp··on A Typical Workday at a Japanese Hardware Tool Store [video]
Nice. Thanks for sharing!
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