The curious task of "Engineering" is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
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Joined July 2009
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Nathan Van Gheem retweeted
people like to think this (especially indies), but the reality is saas is less about the tech, and more about liability reduction
folks have been able to self-host sentry for all of time, why don't they?
nothing changes- bad businesses continue to be bad businesses
had dinner with engineer lead at a startup last night
told us their saas vendor tried to double the price from $70k a year to $170k a year
CTO was like in slack on the call "i think we can have claude write this"
3 week sprint
cloned and replaced vendor
told sales org trying to gouge them they done
sales freaks out "how do we solve this"
this is going to happen so much in 2026
Nathan Van Gheem retweeted
“Celebrated are the minimal dependencies, the humble function that just quietly does the job, the code that doesn't need to be touched for years because it was done right once.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/24/b…
it's 2024 and argocd still shows "Failed to load data" while loading the data and eventually showing the data
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Okay, helm is fine but are we all really still okay with the helm templating language?
It's really just not good and we're all just continuing to use it
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This site is so silly sometimes I wish they'd change the ❤️ to a 🤣 and we all just laugh at the crazy
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I don't care at all about typescript or not
I just don't understand why he cares about something this pedantic as this while he is running a company
"So farewell, TypeScript. May you bring much rigor and satisfaction to your tribe while letting the rest of us enjoy JavaScript in the glorious spirit it was originally designed: Free of strong typing." world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is…
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The CVE industrial complex
News: CVE-2020-21469 is not a security vulnerability postgresql.org/about/news/cv…
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Wonder what it says about me that a ton of my "for you" tab is .NET
Are they the only ones that like talking about software architecture?
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Python AsyncIO and FastAPI understanding is still lacking
It's rare to run an interview where the candidate understands AsyncIO and how it affects what you do with FastAPI.
So many foot guns. Fine for small projects/toys but a mess for any system in prod written by naive engs
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Nathan Van Gheem retweeted
If you're unable to create a majestic monolith with basic programming tools like encapsulation and namespaces, you don't have what it takes to improve upon the situation with a distributed swarm of microservices. Your spaghetti code will just be on five different plates.
Nathan Van Gheem retweeted
Amazing video from @CodeToTheMoons talking about the power of vector databases for knowledge search, and how Nuclia and NucliaDB are changing how companies find answers from their documents and video. Don't miss it!
youtube.com/watch?v=awIm3rQO…
Nathan Van Gheem retweeted
★ Just published a new episode of Svelte Radio: Eric Brehault and Nuclia. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/6b9305…
