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Dan Lorenc
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Dan Lorenc
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Your CTO showing the team he can still "get his hands dirty" and debug a production issue.- I'm so mad about this.
Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace 9to5google.com/2023/06/15/goo… by @technacity - Google literally runs a program to pay people to fix bugs in critical OSS projects. Ffmpeg is explicitly in scope. Anyone can just send a fix and fill out a form and get paid. github.com/google/bughunt… This is all so dumb.
- if you’re not rolling your own compiler I don’t trust you compilers have to be one of the most easy things to implement and they're such a core component to any service. Own your compiler.
- Instead of SemVer, I propose RealVer It has three parts, referred to as X.Y.Z. X: Name/number marketing decided. Y: Number of releases since leadership decided we needed a refresh and new name. Z: Number of times we screwed up the last release.
- Is there a word for when you make a piece of software that probably isn't really ready for production use, then forget about it, then someone comes along and builds a critical production system on top of it without asking?
- Replying to @d_feldmanThink bigger! There's gotta be someone that took two faang jobs simultaneously and now has two severance packages.
- The core problem is that k8s allows us to treat containers as cattle, but images are still treated as pets. "Mom, I want this new image!" "Who's gonna take care of it?" "Me!" "You're gonna feed it and walk it and scan it for CVEs?" "Uh huh!" "Even when it's raining?" "Sure..."
- Fun fact: at one point Google had an entire team building a new sandboxing technology just so they could run ffmpeg safely. Later it ended up being used in App Engine and other environments.
- Funding OSS is a hot topic today! I got to spend a lot of time over the last two years working on paying OSS maintainers at @Google. We spent a few million dollars and funded some relatively high profile work, in addition to a lot of smaller projects. A 🧵on problems I saw!
- HAVE YOU HEARD OF NIX? ITS A PURELY FUNCTIONAL DECLARATIVE REPRODUCIBLE PACKAGE MANAGER. ALL UPDATES ARE ATOMIC AND YOU JUST HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO OPERATE THE CLI WHICH IS KIND OF LIKE GIT EXCEPT THE HARD PARTS. IT HAS A CUSTOM LISP DIALECT TOO I CANT BELIEVE YOU HAVENT TRIED IT!
