napsterbr
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Comment · 7 days ago
Coincidentally, I shared a (somewhat) related post about this just now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50232637
As much as everything is changing, the underlying principles tend to remain the same. I have found that focusing on them, as opposed to the changes, has helped me cope with the "impeding AI dystopia".
Comment · 2 months ago
I worked at Distru a few years back; I have nothing but positive things to say about the team. Good culture, great people, solid engineering principles. This is a good opportunity, especially if you are into Elixir.
Comment · 3 months ago
There is a world of difference between well-written human text and sloppy walls of AI-generated text. There's nothing wrong in using hyphenations or emdashes -- I use them myself! That's not the point of my comment.
Comment · 3 months ago
One of the recent AI tells other than em dash is the excessive usage of hyphenated words:
> multi-tenant-safe cache keys
> on a server-rendered app
> byte-for-byte identical (classic)
> gets a cache-speed response
> cached-file-extensions list
Honestly, this is terrible. I had to add a "use simple words only, don't hyphenate unnecessarily" warning to my Claude config. After a full day of work, having to read these Claudisms all the time make a noticeable difference on how tired you get. It gets even worse when Claude starts to make up its own vocabulary.
Comment · 5 months ago
Or hacked them...
Comment · 11 months ago
Took me ~30 minutes but eventually I was able to log in, get past the 2FA screen and change a DNS record.
I surely missed a valid API token today.
Comment · 1 year ago
Reminds me of Ash (Elixir framework).
Seems great on paper, but quickly turns into a nightmare. Magic is great to get you up to speed, but as soon as you find yourself having to bend the magic, good luck.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is clearly low quality, non-idiomatic AI-generated Elixir code. So the likely answer is that "you" did not use this at all; AI did.
I review this kind of AI-generated Elixir code on a daily basis. And it makes me want to go back to ~2022, when code in pull requests actually made sense.
Apologies for the rant, this is just a burnt out developer tired of reviewing this kind of code.
PS: companies should definitely highlight "No low-quality AI code" in job listings as a valid perk.
Comment · 1 year ago
Coincidentally I'm working on FeebDB[0], which is similar but for Elixir instead. It can be seen as a replacement to Ecto (which won't work well when you have thousands of databases).
Mostly as a fun experiment, but also from the realization that every place I worked at in the past (small/medium-sized B2B startups) would greatly benefit from such architecture.
Yes, there are massive trade-offs to this approach, and the concerns raised in the comment section are valid. This doesn't mean the database-per-tenant is never worth it. There's a sweet spot for it, and if it fits your business/application, I personally would consider it a technical advantage over competitors.
My goal with FeebDB is to eliminate or reduce the common pain points of database-per-tenant, including:
- ensure there is a single writer per database.
- improved connection management across all tenants (e.g. only keep open at most 1000 DB connections, similar to an LRU cache).
- on-demand migration (all shards are migrated on application startup, but if a shard that hasn't migrated yet receives a request, it will first perform the migration and then serve the request),
- on-demand backups and replication (e.g. the library knows which shards were updated in the last X minutes, so it can trigger Litestream or similar on demand).
- support for enumeration of databases (performing map/reduce/filter operations across multiple DBs)
- support for clustered deployment with "pinned" tenants (for now I'm assuming the IOPS of a single beefy server should be enough for all use cases, but once that's no longer sufficient you can have "shards of shards")
Comment · 1 year ago
I think we are beyond the "theory" phase by now. Just yesterday I saw the president of a country advertising the products of a private company (Trump making an obvious marketing ploy for Tesla).
How can this ever be acceptable?
Comment · 1 year ago
Another interesting self-hosted tracker is https://ryot.io/.
Demo: https://demo.ryot.io/_s/acl_vUMPnPirkHlT
Code: https://github.com/IgnisDa/ryot
(PS: they opted to go in a direction where it also includes some media-related features -- like tracking movies or books you've seen/read -- but this can be disabled).
Comment · 1 year ago
Whatever their play, detect and drop the redirects. Good job on noticing it early on!
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