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tobyhede

@tobyhede@hachyderm.io

Principal Engineer @ CipherStash.
Codes Rust.
Many Cryptography & Databases.
Likes History.
Lifts heavy things, puts them down again.
Plays the drums. Occasionally makes music.
Lives on Gundungurra land in the Southern Highlands, Australia
He/They

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๐Ÿ“ฆ If there is a worse courier than Aramex I would be very impressed.

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๐Ÿ’ฃ Startup idea: uber but for nuclear deterrence. Nation states can subscribe for access to our stockpile of nuclear weapons. If attacked, Nuber will retaliate on the states' behalf.

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๐Ÿง™ This is massive
The Future of MySQL is PostgreSQL:
Today, at Postgres Conference 2024, we introduced a PostgreSQL extension we are developing, which enables MySQL applications to run on PostgreSQL without any code changes by supporting the MySQL wire protocol, SQL syntax, and procedural language.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40094160
https://nextgres.com/res/20240419-The-Future-of-MySQL-is-Postgres.pdf (edited)

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๐Ÿงฑ The Lego D&D set is such a love letter to both Lego and D&D. So many tiny details. Hidden treasure, secret doors, actual traps, lurking monsters, all of it. Even the monsters are the ludicrous classics. Owl Bear, Beholder, GELATINOUS CUBE.

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โœจ All of my problems with Generative AI are actually problems with Capitalism .

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๐Ÿ˜ฑ Atlassian have 5100 microservices in AWS. Sounds amazing.

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โ›๏ธ There is no AI in Team

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๐Ÿค” My hot take is that the xz vulnerability was not sponsored by a state actor, but by a Big Tech vendor. If Open Source is poisoned, vendors can step in to the vaccum at high, high prices.

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I don't even like Marvel.

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Lego changed the packaging to boxes to prevent people feeling the contents. So annoying.

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Something that I find missing in almost every software company is this thing that I'm not sure I've seen explicitly called out anywhere, but I'm going to call it an Engineering Language.

https://hazelweakly.me/blog/engineering-language/

tobyhede,
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@hazelweakly Awesome work.
Feels related to the Ubiquitous Language of DD, but extended much further. Our abstractions become the language of the domain.

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โœจ Special shout-out to Atuin for making ctrl + y the copy command.

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80,000 mostly very young people having a wonderful time at the worlds biggest sing along with Taylor Swift. The whole thing is just so inclusive, diverse, and just so ... nice.

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No wonder the fascists are afraid.

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โš›๏ธ If you think code is a hot spaghetti mess, wait until you hear about reality
https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/

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โšฐ๏ธ It is weird that assassination of specific individuals is very bad but a war that kills people indiscriminately is occasionally necessary for peace.

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โ€œBonnieโ€ never quite stuck. Iโ€™m gonna try โ€œDanaโ€ for a while. I think I look more like a Dana, although I wish it started with a โ€œBโ€!

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@zombierustpunk Bana?

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@zombierustpunk In my mind it rhymes with Dana so I had to think about that for ages

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๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™€๏ธ Every now and then I have the thought of doing more study and then I see $60,000 for a Masters degree and I am cured.

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โš’๏ธ Why not play a game of "Soviet Republic"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/

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It's cool to pile on Kissinger and all, but he was ultimately a single cog in a vast machine of human catastrophe that still churns unabated.

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Today in the future is AI

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The greatest headline of all time

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Halloween is my least favourite personality type.

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@jonoabroad Sexy Halloween is my least favourite personality disorder.

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