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There is a federal program for subsidized $10 per day daycare but some provinces have been a bit stubborn in signing up and making agreements with the federal government.

Canada is far from perfect but there is no other country in the world I would ever consider leaving it behind for.

What about 6 federal “agents” beating up and summarily executing someone who is just protesting them on a public street? Is that fascism?

People get really defensive when I point out that they are proud of the things that they don’t know. Willful ignorance and anti-intellectualism is a cancer in anything it infiltrates and SWE is no different.

Justice for Alex Pretti.

Wake the fuck up America.

> For instance, many engineering teams estimate work in t-shirt sizes instead of time, because it just feels too obviously silly to the engineers in question to give direct time estimates. Naturally, these t-shirt sizes are immediately translated into hours and days when the estimates make their way up the management chain.

This is mostly fine when it’s the tooling that does the translating based on rolling historical averages - and not engineers or managers pulling numbers out of their rear.

I would prefer “it is impossible for Microsoft to give the keys because that’s not how their encryption works”.

Great tips and you’re right.

We just flip into an app-side maintenance mode before we run the backup so we know there’s no writes, scp the file and then flip it back. We only do nightlies so it’s not a problem. The shell script is super simple and we’ve only needed to do nightly backups so far so we run it in a cron at midnight when no one is working. Ezpz. Literally took us an hour to implement and been chugging along without issues for nearly 2 years now without fail.

If we ever need more than that I’d probably just setup litestream replication.

Definitely was something surprising that I discovered when building with Sqlite recently. We're tought to avoid N+1 queries at almost any cost in RDBMs but in Sqlite, the N+1 can actually be the best option in most cases.

I had to build some back-office tools and used Ruby on Rails with SQLITE and didn't bother with doing "efficient" joins or anything. Just index the foreign keys, do N+1s everywhere - you'll be fine. The app is incredibly easy to maintain and add features because of this and the db is super easy to backup - literally just scp the sqlite db file somewhere else. Couldn't be happier with this setup.

> People aren't going to forums and social media to hype up their own good code to nearly the same degree as otherwise.

Yeah but Anthropic are and you'd think that if they were doing that the code would be..you know...good?

Claude writes all of their code. It's honestly a damning indictment of "AI is gonna replace engineers" when all the code the AI guys are giving us is dog.

The real link instead of incomprehensible blogspam.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-socia...

My favorite thing about Docker is that it spawned Podman.

Very quaint of them to exempt themselves because they've "proven themselves" already.

Surely they are incapable of producing slop because they are just so much smarter than everyone else so the rules shouldn't apply to them, surely.

Surely this will help with the trust in our institutions that has been completely eroded over the last 5 years.

bow down to our new overlords - dont' like it? banned, with no recourse - enjoy getting left behind, welcome to the future old man

Most of it is slop.

Speak for yourself. I've haven't felt this proud to be Canadian in a long time.

(voted for Poilievre btw).

He was here recently to read the speech from the throne and open his new government after the election. It was quite the event with a lot of pomp and circumstance. Very much welcome during these tumultuous times, and a nice reminder of our tradition and history that makes Canada what it is.

The King of England is not our head of state, the King of Canada is our head of state. It's an important distinction because the Canadian and British monarchies are legally distinct offices. Canada is not subordinate to Britain like it once was as a colony, and our succession laws, royal titles and even the powers of our monarch are all determined by our law and constitution - not British law.

Mark Carney is born and raised Canadian. Just because he has had an illustrious career internationally does not make him any less Canadian than someone who has lived here their entire lives.

React?!

Good grief get me off this sloppy ride.

Offline status means "don't bother me".

> Security engineers will have jobs until software is perfectly secure... and that is going to be a while.

Not as long as you think.

https://cybernews.com/security/standord-artemis-system-beats...

Hey, it's very cool that you've gotten motivated to build again - and please don't take this personally, because this is more about the philosophical and cultural implications of AI and not just this particular post/project.

But these are the kinds of things that pretty much general purpose AI can just oneshot in a single prompt now.

For example, the other day I wanted to know how much caffeine I was taking in based on my coffee intake. So I asked Claude to just build me an app where it would show my current caffeine "load" in my system, and increase it when I pushed a button with the volume of the coffee, and even had real-time decay of the amount of caffeine in my system. One shot.

Anyone can just get these kinds of things made for themselves on-demand. We don't need nice apps anymore, because now software is completely disposable and customized per person. So what is the point of even building these kinds of "fun" tools anymore? Feels like we are essentially doomed to only churn out AI orchestration platforms and fast fashion throwaway b2b sass apps for our coporate overlords now. Lifestyle/small business software companies are basically going to go extinct long term. Just give Sam Altman money and GPT will make whatever you want and who cares if it's actually good or not because you'll just throw it away when you're done. Fast Fashion Software.

AI has taken everything I liked about developing software out of the equation and handed it over to a bot. Now I'm just doing the things that I find mostly annoying (code review, reviewing specs, triaging bugs) and not the things I actually enjoy - writing code and solving problems.

You’d think they would eventually notice their ROI is terrible…?

Isn't showing ads to bots...pointless?

Canadian Prime Minister recently said that he stands by Canada’s NATO Article 2 and 5 obligations with our Eureopean allies.

A subtle signal that war with United States is a possibility.

Trump will use this as a pretext to not only take Greenland but to invade Canada as well.

He has gone utterly mad. Congress needs to act. Yesterday.

He can be both.

Some people don’t want to spend $30 per month to not learn things.

I'm not well versed in Finnish law - but in the USA simply the act of accessing a computer without authorization, even if it not secured, can be a crime under the CFAA. So the company is still a victim, and obviously the patients as well, even if they are incompetent. For the same reason that a person that gets burgled because they left their door unlocked when they left the house is still a victim.