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hervem··on Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI
> but the gap is still massive even if you switch to comparing the number of tokens.

Token doesn't have the same meaning at OpenAI vs Anthropics, they use different tokenizer. How can this be used for comparison?

hervem··on I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits
Nothing stop to us to introduce something like `Co-authored-by:` but for AI, like `AI-Assisted-by: <harness/model>` / `AI-Paired-by: <harness/model>` / `AI-Copiloted-by: <harness/model>` / `AI-Automated-by: <harness/model>`.
hervem··on I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits
Never saw this in my experience even not sure it is legal in a license way. Why not following the typical comment with the source URL and author's mention + adding license / header in the third-parties file/folder?
hervem··on What a developer needs to know about SCIM
I don't get the `SCIM doesn’t really have anything to do with data retention.`; if SCIM store data to sync between diff. integration / backend / ERPs / tools it is possibly impacted by data protection law like GDPR and co.
hervem··on Show HN: I wrote a book about running great SaaS technical sales calls
50 pages, a book? By all fairness, we don't have the same definition of book. Maybe notes, story, anthology, novelette?
hervem··on Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning
I believe that Eng. Manager and HR are mostly at fault for it, confusing seniority and familiarity as creating and giving higher title to keep people without doing the requirement part of the job: accessing the title, drawing a ladder linked to a skills matrix.
hervem··on Scrum is the Symptom, not the Problem
And then one authors of the book state: "if you know nothing about Scrum, implement everything as in the book, otherwise adapt to the situation and the team. If not you will surely fail [...]"

But being "Scrum.org certified PSM", how do you see your colleague from scrumalliance.org?

hervem··on Docker Is Having an Outage
They surely tried to release the "V3-beta not beta"... Or the 2.9 which is a pre V3-beta xD
hervem··on Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world
Like digitalization? Like Solar Panel building (in 2022 like 80% where imported)? Or like in the past about credit cards? ("we don't want plastic money" moment)

> Like renewable energy? 1st quarter 2024: 58,4% electricity from renewable energy. Up from 48.5% last year.

Generation, not consumption* (but still great!!)

hervem··on The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
> I call this approach the "API database architecture"

Why people can't search for an existing term before creating a new one, it just add confusion into bucket which already contains "DB as API", "DB over API", "DB 2 API", "DB 2 REST", "DB low-code API"

hervem··on In software architecture you have to recognize when you're adding a rocket stage
It's more lack of "second thoughts" skills and possibly lack of State of Art and Decision Records; it is impossible to learn from failure if no trace exist or no one knows who did the decision.
hervem··on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is so buggy you can't install the OS [video]
How did you upgrade it? As I know there is a blocker bug which isn't fixed yet.
hervem··on Ubicloud: Open, Free, and Portable Cloud
I directly thought about G-Core :/
hervem··on Vietnam to collect biometrics – even DNA – for new ID cards
Except that Viet. gov. isn't really good at putting directive..

During Covid, Vietnam had ~20 official applications to track vaccination and half of them could give travel/move certificate. And to not stop, every city & district did manage differently "inventory" from application, google form, excel over Dropbox to hand managed paper.

To finish, I don't even imaging how it could end; IT security speaking.

hervem··on EffVer: Version your code by the effort required to upgrade
I read effort and versioning, got some PTSD from Scrum remembering how team (max out to 6 p.) never succeed to have an effort scale.
hervem··on Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023)
Or just like MPL too :-)
hervem··on Remote: Windows 3.11 Administrator (m/f/d)
Not even sure AI could help about it, those software might run over system where the documentation never got out from physical paper support, maybe even hand notes.

Talking Win 3.1, it means using Quick C / MFC 1.0 and co. that I image no today AI would learn as deprecated.

hervem··on Remote: Windows 3.11 Administrator (m/f/d)
Not even sure it is possible: Visual C++ for Win95 can't target Win3.1 (as I remember) meaning just building will be something.. Talking about CI/CD software working on this target kinda sum-up to 0.

I am already surprised that a company still support this target knowing that most dev tools for this platform are more found over enthusiast website rather than Microsoft itself. And having hardware for making these tools running too!

hervem··on BFF, Backend for Frontends
GraphQL got out just some years after BFF introduction, but even today BFF works nice while having a monolithic after that it brings a lot of hell / problems..

In distributed cases, BFF makes it a lot harder: aggregation or federation of API which are far way more complex subjects. (how to works with teams, who define data constrains, how to ensure data constrains are followed, etc.)

hervem··on Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords
And AppStore distributed application which are by default isolated, removing some feature too. (custom shortcut for example).
hervem··on Dependencies Belong in Version Control
What about working over a way to build a dev. env. correctly? ansible, container, dev-container..

Git shouldn't be used for backing all dependencies, tooling, and OS.. And while we are at it, do we track git itself in the "toolchain"?

hervem··on GitHub Actions Are a Problem
The authors speak about how hard it is nowadays to provide a CI extension to the major platform including GitHub, Azure DevOps and Gitlab. (and others)

Wanting to run locally a developed extension is totally legit as some can be really tricky and depends on the behavior of [runner & OS].

hervem··on GitHub Actions Are a Problem
> GitHub Actions is based on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server's CI, and later Azure DevOps

Yes and no, ADO Agent (https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent) is far more secretive and "black-box" alike. Like stuck in old version of NodeJS, Powershell, API without documentation or even enough tests/samples...

hervem··on GitHub Actions Are a Problem
Not sure if related, but recently read about https://github.com/Cicada-Software/cicada which looks like to abstract GithubCI and GitlabCI.
hervem··on Architecture Considerations for platform engineering teams
I hate this new name of "Platform team", newcomer state that they existed for long under "System team" and mid-follower of the tech. world will state that it is the vision from "Team Topologies" book (from Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais).. Still this post doesn't even take part of any.. Again, another miss fired direction in my 2cents.
hervem··on Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains
Just wish they add a wagon dedicated for suitcases and others large or heavy stuff that don't fit in the cabine.

Otherwise, I like these night-trains :-)

hervem··on Death by a Thousand Microservices
Wait, micro-service and sharing same DB? Did I miss something?
hervem··on Employees in Asia are spending most time looking busy at work, says Slack report
I am sad not seeing other countries like Vietnam (with high presence of consulting companies), Thailand etc..
hervem··on Microsoft is trying too hard with Edge
When Edge came out, I took like a lighter version of woolyss chromium with Ms integration/tracking. While they added many nice features like tab grouping, collections, workspaces, sleeping tabs etc.. The last move of adding ads in these previous sub-menus make me nervous.