I find that there are simple and self-contained coding tasks that can be completed with just a series of prompts. For those, the simplicity of Claude Code or Q CLI is actually an advantage over the feature richness of an IDE.

The shortest path between two points on a curved surface is a geodesic. Except when a bunch of humans can’t find a way to coexist peacefully. Image is a flight path from Dubai to Baku shared by a family friend. Normally a 3 hour flight, now takes 7 hours.

In the last 10 years, teams from Florida have won NHL Stanley Cup more times (4) than teams from Canada (0). Go figure!.

Recently, I've been discussing throttling with one of our teams. It's a super deep topic, probably deeper than it gets credit in modern systems, so I decided to write some thoughts on the matter:

A few thoughts on using leader election algorithms:.

There's the other extreme too! While reviewing the metrics for Amazon Bracket (AWS service that lets you run tasks on quantum computers) we joked that given their uniqueness and scarcity, they are neither pets nor cattle, but more like family!.

RT @dyanacek: New Amazon Builders' Library article: Resilience lessons from the lunch rush. Fantastic overview of techniques to prevent ove….

Is @TiVo having a massive outage? Neither my DVR nor my iPhone app have been able to connect for the past few days.

Are we approaching a point where choice of (at least written) language is becoming irrelevant? In a group chat today half the people spoke Chinese while the other spoke English. We all understood each other just fine because the app translated back and forth. And really well!.

* Discovered that Neutron Star mergers may produce most of the heavier elements needed for life. * Discovered that Gravity is a self-interacting force, and gravitational waves are impacted by gravity!. Just some that come to mind!.

If you are curious what LIGO helped discover, some that come to mind:. * It confirmed that gravitational waves do exist. * It confirmed that they travel at the speed of light. * It confirmed that Black Holes merge, and dynamics of those mergers match our theories.

I'm biased, but @LIGO has to be the most impressive feat of human engineering to date! . Detecting Black Hole mergers from billions of light years away by measuring spacetime changes of 0.0001% the width of the proton! 10^(-20) meters, hard to even wrap your head around!.

*postseason.

I’m pretty firmly on the Buffalo bandwagon this offseason! I don’t care what people say, it’s still a NY team. And that fan base deserves a Super Bowl after the kind of 90s they had.

RT @spikedoanz: they don't want you to know this, but you can visualize arbitrarily hyper dimensional spaces in your head. just keep stack….

Yikes. Having a fire this big close to dense residential areas is terrifying. Wishing for the best, but looks like it may get worse before it gets better. Hopefully everybody makes good decisions and prioritizes safety. Stuff can be replaced, lives can't.

If the data is not in the cache, the readers don’t fall back to the database. They treat it as an empty read. This pattern doesn’t work in all scenarios. But many datasets aren’t memory constrained and this model tends to work very well, avoiding modal behaviors. 2/2.

Lot’s of options here, but my favorite way to win this game is not to play it! As an alternative to read-through caches, I’m a big fan of materialized view caches. They work by materializing the cache from the change log produced by the source of truth. 1/.

Sick move. But you also gotta respect the defender getting beat so badly, but still recovering to contest the shot.

Double and tripped checked that it's the same exact message, and both apps show only one sent message at that timestamp.