James Healy
@james.social.yob.id.au.ap.brid.gy
string concatenator, cyclist, runner (!), reader, engineering things at @buildkite, formerly @greensync and @ConversationEDU
[bridged from https://social.yob.id.au/@james on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://social.yob.id.au/@james on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Hah! I love Neal Stephenson’s description of AI slop as “written by a clanker “
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z
A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containg recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.
nealstephenson.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Hah! I love Neal Stephenson’s description of AI slop as “written by a clanker “
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z
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Nobody should be allowed to get out of fifth grade without demonstrating their mastery of reply-all.
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Nobody should be allowed to get out of fifth grade without demonstrating their mastery of reply-all.
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August 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
*adds another entry to the Cloudformation is a dumpster fire list*
July 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
*adds another entry to the Cloudformation is a dumpster fire list*
The replit AI deleted my production database sorry is fake right, designed to go viral? No one is actually running a non deterministic autocomplete machine with credentials for production…..
July 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The replit AI deleted my production database sorry is fake right, designed to go viral? No one is actually running a non deterministic autocomplete machine with credentials for production…..
People in this cafe are looking a me funny for laughing out loud.
This was written for my vintage of software nerd: nailing the mix of cultural references, nostalgia for when we understood the things we were building, and skepticism of new tools.
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
This was written for my vintage of software nerd: nailing the mix of cultural references, nostalgia for when we understood the things we were building, and skepticism of new tools.
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
The Copilot Delusion
Chapter 1: My Coworker, The Programmer A shell of a man—more of a parrot than a person. My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different planets. We shared a keyboard, but not a
deplet.ing
May 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
People in this cafe are looking a me funny for laughing out loud.
This was written for my vintage of software nerd: nailing the mix of cultural references, nostalgia for when we understood the things we were building, and skepticism of new tools.
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
This was written for my vintage of software nerd: nailing the mix of cultural references, nostalgia for when we understood the things we were building, and skepticism of new tools.
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
Sounds like some interesting performance improvements in Postgres 17/18 for active record flavoured queries. If only I was using rails at the moment…
https://andyatkinson.com/big-problems-big-in-clauses-postgresql-ruby-on-rails
https://andyatkinson.com/big-problems-big-in-clauses-postgresql-ruby-on-rails
Big Problems From Big IN lists with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL
Introduction If you’ve created web apps with relational databases and ORMs like Active Record (part of Ruby on Rails), you’ve probably experienced database performance problems after a certain size of data and query volume.
andyatkinson.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Sounds like some interesting performance improvements in Postgres 17/18 for active record flavoured queries. If only I was using rails at the moment…
https://andyatkinson.com/big-problems-big-in-clauses-postgresql-ruby-on-rails
https://andyatkinson.com/big-problems-big-in-clauses-postgresql-ruby-on-rails
weirdly tactical blog post, but it was odd that I couldn't find this anywhere when I needed it: Querying AWS CUR v2.0 data using Athena https://yob.id.au/2025/05/17/aws-cur-20-athena-table.html
AWS Cost Usage Reports 2.0 in Athena · James Healy
yob.id.au
May 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
weirdly tactical blog post, but it was odd that I couldn't find this anywhere when I needed it: Querying AWS CUR v2.0 data using Athena https://yob.id.au/2025/05/17/aws-cur-20-athena-table.html
Interested in helping drive renewable energy uptake? We have multiple mid+senior engineering roles open at Amber atm: mostly in product teams, but I have my eye out for a platform shaped engineer too. Located in AU and UK, typescript and serverless experience a nice-to-have […]
Original post on social.yob.id.au
social.yob.id.au
May 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Interested in helping drive renewable energy uptake? We have multiple mid+senior engineering roles open at Amber atm: mostly in product teams, but I have my eye out for a platform shaped engineer too. Located in AU and UK, typescript and serverless experience a nice-to-have […]
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Photo from The Age taken at a pub event for Kooyong candidate Hamer with Dutton. She looks like she’s contemplating the horror of returning to life in fintech and he looks like someone just asked him if he still wants to live in Sydney if they win government.
May 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Photo from The Age taken at a pub event for Kooyong candidate Hamer with Dutton. She looks like she’s contemplating the horror of returning to life in fintech and he looks like someone just asked him if he still wants to live in Sydney if they win government.
Labour and Monique Ryan are sending me SMS reminders that prepoll in Kooyong is open from today, but I haven't lived in that electorate since 2009.
I wonder where their elector data is coming from?
I wonder where their elector data is coming from?
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Labour and Monique Ryan are sending me SMS reminders that prepoll in Kooyong is open from today, but I haven't lived in that electorate since 2009.
I wonder where their elector data is coming from?
I wonder where their elector data is coming from?
* 2x yubikeys with firmware 5.2.x and only 32 TOTP slots
* 2x yubikeys with firmware 5.7.4 and 64 TOTP slots
* a fair amount of hassle ahead of me
* 2x yubikeys with firmware 5.7.4 and 64 TOTP slots
* a fair amount of hassle ahead of me
April 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
* 2x yubikeys with firmware 5.2.x and only 32 TOTP slots
* 2x yubikeys with firmware 5.7.4 and 64 TOTP slots
* a fair amount of hassle ahead of me
* 2x yubikeys with firmware 5.7.4 and 64 TOTP slots
* a fair amount of hassle ahead of me
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Seriously, don’t bother visiting the US until 2029. That's my advice. Plenty of fascinating and more welcoming countries out there.
#travel https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/entering-the-us-has-become-more-fraught-here-s-what-you-need-to-know-20250407-p5lpny.html
#travel https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/entering-the-us-has-become-more-fraught-here-s-what-you-need-to-know-20250407-p5lpny.html
Entering the US has become more fraught, here’s what you need to know
Planning a holiday to the United States? Here’s an overview of the strict new Trump administration-enforced immigration border measures.
www.smh.com.au
April 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Seriously, don’t bother visiting the US until 2029. That's my advice. Plenty of fascinating and more welcoming countries out there.
#travel https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/entering-the-us-has-become-more-fraught-here-s-what-you-need-to-know-20250407-p5lpny.html
#travel https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/entering-the-us-has-become-more-fraught-here-s-what-you-need-to-know-20250407-p5lpny.html
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If you care about #aws, this from @Quinnypig is a big deal: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/ec2-reserved-instances-are-being-deprecated/
Tl;dr: Reserved Instances are being quietly deprecated .
Tl;dr: Reserved Instances are being quietly deprecated .
EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated
Something strange started happening at re:Invent last year: new EC2 instances started launching without Reserved Instance support.
www.duckbillgroup.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you care about #aws, this from @Quinnypig is a big deal: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/ec2-reserved-instances-are-being-deprecated/
Tl;dr: Reserved Instances are being quietly deprecated .
Tl;dr: Reserved Instances are being quietly deprecated .
New job, new editor is working out surprisingly well. I’ve been using helix and LSPs for a few weeks, and LSP support has been immeasurably useful while learning typescript.
There’s definitely a velocity tax while retraining my muscle memory though…
There’s definitely a velocity tax while retraining my muscle memory though…
April 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
New job, new editor is working out surprisingly well. I’ve been using helix and LSPs for a few weeks, and LSP support has been immeasurably useful while learning typescript.
There’s definitely a velocity tax while retraining my muscle memory though…
There’s definitely a velocity tax while retraining my muscle memory though…
Peter Dutton insists public servants must return to office full time or lose their jobs, while also planning to work remotely from Sydney if he wins Government […]
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social.yob.id.au
March 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Peter Dutton insists public servants must return to office full time or lose their jobs, while also planning to work remotely from Sydney if he wins Government […]
Past time to dip my toe into the JavaScript world, so I registered an account on npm. 10 years after everyone else, but somehow my three digit username was available?!
https://www.npmjs.com/~yob
https://www.npmjs.com/~yob
npm | Profile
www.npmjs.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Past time to dip my toe into the JavaScript world, so I registered an account on npm. 10 years after everyone else, but somehow my three digit username was available?!
https://www.npmjs.com/~yob
https://www.npmjs.com/~yob
Great speech and Q&A from @simonahac. I’m very happy to be supporting community independent candidates in the coming election via a modest recurring donation to climate 200
https://youtu.be/_g5V7ry-GLw?si=QVGKAeqEo8aYFjW7
https://youtu.be/_g5V7ry-GLw?si=QVGKAeqEo8aYFjW7
March 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Great speech and Q&A from @simonahac. I’m very happy to be supporting community independent candidates in the coming election via a modest recurring donation to climate 200
https://youtu.be/_g5V7ry-GLw?si=QVGKAeqEo8aYFjW7
https://youtu.be/_g5V7ry-GLw?si=QVGKAeqEo8aYFjW7
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The news keeps saying this is “the first cyclone to hit Brisbane in more than half a century” but that’s bullshit because there was that one in 1974…. *pauses* *crumbles to dust*
March 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The news keeps saying this is “the first cyclone to hit Brisbane in more than half a century” but that’s bullshit because there was that one in 1974…. *pauses* *crumbles to dust*
@duckalini parameter store looking more long in the tooth!
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/03/aws-secrets-manager-increases-api-requests-seconds/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/03/aws-secrets-manager-increases-api-requests-seconds/
AWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limits - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limits
aws.amazon.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
@duckalini parameter store looking more long in the tooth!
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/03/aws-secrets-manager-increases-api-requests-seconds/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/03/aws-secrets-manager-increases-api-requests-seconds/
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DeepSeek uses 3DES encryption. In 2025. 🤦♂️
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/deepseek-ios-app-sends-data-unencrypted-to-bytedance-controlled-servers/
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/deepseek-ios-app-sends-data-unencrypted-to-bytedance-controlled-servers/
arstechnica.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
DeepSeek uses 3DES encryption. In 2025. 🤦♂️
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/deepseek-ios-app-sends-data-unencrypted-to-bytedance-controlled-servers/
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/deepseek-ios-app-sends-data-unencrypted-to-bytedance-controlled-servers/
A good plan for every day imho, not only for US inauguration day
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113859430778789760
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113859430778789760
jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social)
BREAKING: I will be ignoring the internet, and specifically "the news", on Monday, Jan 20, 2025. Whatever stupid shit happens, I will learn about in *abbreviated* digest form on Tuesday, rather than following along with whatever mortifying nonsense happens in realtime elevated-heart-rate horror. If it is important, it will come back.
This is self-care and I strongly urge you to consider it.
https://jwz.org/b/ykgn
mastodon.social
January 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A good plan for every day imho, not only for US inauguration day
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113859430778789760
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113859430778789760
