Month summary — June 2024

I posit that most software engineers (particularly those working on infrastructural systems) are destined to wallow in unnecessary complexity due to three fundamental laws.

Every so often I read an essay that I end up thinking about, and citing in conversation, over and over again.

This post is a dump of some rules to follow in this particular design process.

The answers were diverse but I have done my best to broadly divide them into categories and subcategories.

The ten-year-old write-up, along with some later YouTube tech talks, gave me a starting answer: “because performance.

The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory — including some of the FDS computer’s software code — isn’t working.

150+ Learning Sources Organized in a 12 Months Path to Become a Great Engineering Leader

Peter Levels, one of the most stunning Indie Hacker ever.

Do “outline speedrunning”: Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect.

One of the biggest sticking points of being a solo dev is maintaining motivation. I’ve been keeping a journal entry about how to hack my motivation, what works and what doesn’t.

How do you stay informed and advance your own work while also keeping others informed so they can do the same?

That’s the neat thing, you don’t

So it is with great regret that I announce that the next person to talk about rolling out AI is going to receive a complimentary chiropractic adjustment in the style of Dr. Bourne, i.e, I am going to fucking break your neck. I am truly, deeply, sorry.

Sample code and notebooks for Generative AI on Google Cloud, with Gemini on Vertex AI.

Download our quick-start handbook and learn about writing effective prompts to supercharge your productivity using Gemini for Workspace.

Artykuł ten nie porusza stricte tematów programistycznych, którym dedykowany jest ten blog. Jednak OSINT nierozerwalnie wiąże się z branżą security stanowiącą istotną część świata IT.

Did you know that some Python modules can double-up as handy command-line tools?

This article is primarily meant to act as a Python time complexity cheat sheet for those who already understand what time complexity is and how the time complexity of an operation might affect your code.

It’s no secret that the Python datetime library has its quirks. Not only are there probably more than you think; third-party libraries don’t address most of them!

So now the goal was clear: building a Python bot of Italian art publishing 3 images per day on Bluesky.

A feature added in Django 5.0 is GeneratedField, which allows us to auto-calculate database fields.

What I’m arguing in this post is that while full-blown enterprise architecture patterns don’t work well with Django, larger applications can still benefit from a service layer.

The Awesome Document Factory.

Extensions for using Django with htmx.

Glow is a terminal based markdown reader designed from the ground up to bring out the beauty—and power—of the CLI.

The SQL IDE for Your Terminal.

Yes, S3 charges for unauthorized requests (4xx) as well[1]. That’s expected behavior.

Learn how a Landing Zone simplifies governance, enhances security, and optimizes your Google cloud environment for efficiency and future growth.

A cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company.

One challenge in improving is that some aspects of our performance are hard to measure, and getting access to high quality data and personalized coaching can be difficult — we’re not all on track to be professional athletes, after all. But what if we can get some of that insightful data and analysis with the help of AI?