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[Review] PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
If you are running PostgreSQL in production at any sort of scale, then you need this book on your shelf, as it will lift the lid on some of the things that will make your database sing.
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Five Nights of Vibe Coding: A Game Experiment
I built a game with Claude using vibe coding. The game works and is fun, but I feel no pride of ownership. Is the game my creation, Claude’s, or the millions of developers to which Opus learned to code from? The whole experience has left me feeling rather flat.
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“Well pick it back up”
Monitoring systems for failure is more art than science, with many systems firing off way too many false positives. Getting your arms around this is not easy, but we all need our “fall detection necklace”
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Moved from RackSpace to FastMail
Moving from RackSpace to FastMail as I trial a new email service provider with more features and security.
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Heating the home with heat from servers
Placing cloud servers in individual homes, and turning them into heating systems. Your house will serve as a data center for companies that depend on cloud computing
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US military data found unprotected on Amazon S3
This is definitely one of those situations where someone forgot to throw the switch and make an Amazon S3 bucket secure. Easy done, but grave consequences.
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‘Internet Trends 2017’ Kleiner Perkins Report – my highlights
My highlights of the annual Kleiner Perkins report that looks at the Internet of 2016
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Let Amazon Echo Show you the future
Amazon’s Alexa ecosystem is far more than just novelty voice activated devices. Do not underestimate the vision to which Amazon is painting for us.
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This is what Amazon Dash should have been
Alternative to Amazon’s Dash is announced but runs on the SigFox network.
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Week’s Top Tech 8; 8th – 15th Jan 2017
The second week of the year comes with a number of interesting stories that caught my attention.
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The problem with Amazon’s Alexa
My woes with Amazon’s Alexa as I try to coax into doing things she claims she can do!
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Week’s Top Tech 8; 2nd – 7th Jan 2017
The clocks have turned, and we are now well and truly riding into 2017. However, that wasn’t before we wrung out an extra second of 2016, as one second was added to the universal clock to fix a rounding error.
the legend that is, Alan Williamson
For over 24 years, I’ve shared my thoughts here on this blog whenever the muse strikes.
It’s unpredictable, honest, unedited, and occasionally witty. I’m living the best years of my life, working harder than ever, learning each day and enjoying every second.
