I had an issue on the toll payment device on my car, so I was expecting some 'pay now or you get a fine' message. I got one on my phone, but when I logged in directly to the toll company website my account was in the green. I was _so_ close to following the link I just got lucky that I prefer using my laptop for admin rather than my phone.
I really enjoyed this, and following the link to the Antithesis talk was really interesting as well [0] as it goes in to some of the pitfalls of random testing and some of the properties that you'd like out of a good test system. This is a field I'm really interested in but it seems hard to grasp.
This would have been very useful at my previous job. We had a gdrive folder with '2024' or '2025' with a bunch of google docs with no inter-linking between them. If you were lucky the title would be vaguely related to the topic you are working on, and maaaaaybe there'd be a link to prior work. Frequently I'd look at an RFC, see no approvals but then find out it _had_ been approved but nobody actually updated the document. Infurating.
I'm not sure the reason for friction. These are developers, they know how to use git etc, but management prefers google docs I suppose (previous iterations were confluence, then markdown on github).
I'm glad to hear you would have found it beneficial!
I've definitely seen the same patterns at companies (and even introduced similar patterns).
The proposal linking was inspired both by IETF RFCs and by Jira issues. I love how both systems provide semantic meanings to such links (X obsoletes Y).
I do hope to marry the engineering love of markdown with management's love of WYSIWYG. Currently the proposal editing process is done via a syntax-highlighted markdown editor but in the future I'll add a WYSIWYG editor, then let users select a default mode.
To be honest (and I'm just some rando so feel free to ignore me), if you have an MVP I'd say forget about development and sell what you have. You're already better than what I've seen in industry. If anything, being able to take an existing decision database and onboard it to RFC Hub (even if done manually) would be a better sell than WYSIWYG to enterprise customers.
You convinced me tonight to implement a feature: pasting content from Google Docs now gets converted into markdown. For example bold becomes *bold*, heading 1 becomes # Heading. It'll even find monospace fonts in a paragraph and add `code` ticks or monospace on dedicated lines and convert into ```code blocks```.
Faster automation would of course be nicer, e.g. providing a Google Drive directory and slurping all of the docs up, but that'll take a bit more time.
An interesting post from Brendan Gregg on some of the 'AI Brendans' that are circulating. It's an interesting position for him where his writing has formed a useful training set for building auto-tuners for performance, one of which led to a $650 Mil acquisition.
This was a tough read, but reflects my experience using a borrowed laptop over the last few weeks. I frequently have the whole machine slow down when I visit certain sites (geeks-for-geeks is the latest I remember).
I really enjoyed the second part of this where he went over how to give brutal-but-necessary feedback to vendors. I (and I'm sure most of us) find it so difficult to give hard feedback, particularly when you're the only one doing it
I don't have a lot of experience with async to judge this on its merits, but I loved the way this moved from very simple trivial examples, and then gradually built up the motivation for the next section as we went. Zig will definitely be one of the languages I spend some time with next, in a large part because of Andrew Kelley's writing
They also made sloppy mistakes like naming the Proven owner's partner un-redacted in a document they submitted to the court (which is then available through legal search engines). If they were concerned with privacy they could easily have withheld her name.
If anyone is interested in the legal side, I'd also recommend 'Runkle of the Bailey' who has a series on this saga but with a focus on the legal shenanigans [0]
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