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Categorically, yes.

We had a very similar scenario except with Snowplow (I think - this was many years ago) that used to cost silly money per month.

Replace most of it with GCP BQ Schedule Queries.

A few years we hired a "data" team, they came in and prompt introduced the cluster fire that was DBT. Costs exploded, data was a mess. The few bits of data that we owned, we ring fenced and just kept chugging along on GCP BQ Schedule Queries.

KISS.

This phenomenon is not limited to dentists. I've had it with doctors too; for my personally one half wants to put me on statins, and the other half want to take me off them.

My reaction to this is always two fold; firstly cool tech, secondly horrifying invasion of privacy.

At {{job}} we did briefly consider rolling out fingerprint.com, but settled on ja3/ja4 at the CDN layer.

I believe the term is 'superpower suicide'. Amazing to see it in real-time.

I'm surprised at how easily some of you are convinced. It's the midterms coming up; this programme has been abused for years (to my understanding) the timing is a little odd, no?

I don't think this is related to AI. Pre-AI I thought for many years that they have spread themselves too wide and thin. A new IDE pretty much every six months. Unsustainable whilst ignoring their existing customers and products. I think it's inevitable that they've ended up here.

I think they've started to realise that and are trying to reign it in with 'Fleet' and 'Code With Me' deprecations.

I think is pretty sad (not directly aimed at the author).

I walk the dog a lot and I used to always listen to podcasts, but I never felt quite at ease.

It's only when I realised that a dog walk (for me) was a chance to give my brain a rest and let it wind-in-the-branches white-noise reset. It's really important for your brain to do nothing.

So I stopped listening to podcasts, I allowed myself to roam around with my feet and thoughts. No particular aim, sometimes I watch the dog chase squirrels or take a second to find a new route. It's good and healthy, you don't always need to be on.

Empty toilet rolls. That way I can see the connectors and quickly find what cable I need.

There used to be an account on Twitter that was heavily involved in this industry. Every now and then I'd glean some slightly useful information from their posts. My favourite one being "the name verification isn't a thing - you can enter anything". So I've been doing that ever since and it's _always_ passed.

I think all of us have read tangentially related battery articles over the last decade. All of them promise new and magically. None have upturned the market.

I remain sceptical.