Monolith = the disaster myth peddled by the cloud providers to promote cloud service sales via microservices. Was probably relevant in the 1980s/90s. Modular monolith = what we as an industry have been mostly doing for decades. Micro services = a devrel-promoted clown show

This is such a good article. Essentially it deals with the bullshit of why German-speaking folks are so scared of "Durchzug" and other weird myths around drafts and heat and the lack of air con. Ping ✈️ breanna🇩🇪🇺🇸 swamp hag 🔮🌸☕️🐰✨ - sorry it's German only, but I hope auto

Not really any surprises here. Big tech shedding workers in high-wage country and backfills with cheaper (and less demanding) overseas imports. That's how things go these days. 🤷‍♀️ At the same time, big tech: "Why are our employees not more loyal to us and job hop for higher

100% the whole soham-parekh-gate thing is a Cluely stunt.

I followed this story closely because I like bcachefs as a concept. Linus is 💯 right in kicking them from the kernel though.

I mean, yes - this is first world whinging, totally self-aware. But if the quality of their "Business class lounges" represents how Lufthansa values (or rather not) their supposedly paying business class passengers, it's not a surprise that they lose these passengers to pretty

This is all true. But who wants to live in the UK (unless you have family there) these days? And we all know that economically, most Kiwis would be much better off going to Australia, not just from a groceries point of view. No government whatsoever, regardless of left/right

Linux might not be for everyone, but I believe there's a huge untapped market of potential users who are interested in taking back control of their computer, forsake the comfort of commercial offerings, and level up their understanding of the OS. manuals.omamix.org/3/omacom/87/it…

People keep talking about the “great wealth transfer” when the boomers die and pass on their houses, but it won’t be to their kids. It’ll be to the private equity firms that have been buying up care homes

Like or dislike Ray Chung or Tory Whanau, but Chung spreading email gossip about sex at partys to other councillors is low as fuck.

100% genuine question the answers to which will affect some decisions I make. You are about to build for iPhone and Android but also want to keep the door open to releasing for macOS and Windows. Which tech stack would you choose and why? Please share for reach.

Conservatives: "You shouldn't force me to take a vaccine against XYZ, my body, my decision, my free will." Also conservatives: "You can't abort your pregnancy because <insert dubious reason here>, this is your body but our decision."

Summercon Day 2

There's a leadership vacuum left by National and Luxon, David Seymour seized the opportunity to fill that vacuum. As simple as that.

People don’t care about the future. They care about the current cycle. We this everywhere and it’s the root cause of a lot of our problems in housing, employment, immigration, education and healthcare.

I'm really over all these dating, female and male expectations, virtual ai girlfriends discourses. What happened to people just falling in love? You don't need an engagement ring costing 47 x your salary. You don't need to have a list of 49 million items that all have to be