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A place for non-work-related flimflam, faffing, hodge-podge or jibber-jabber youโd prefer to keep out of more focused work-related channels.
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Hao Wang20 days ago
anyone knows any opportunities from Japanese companies? I am learning Japanese and want to keep the link to Japan after the recent trip ๐
Sajja Sudhakararao20 days ago
Built an open-source SQL diagnostics tool โ paste any query, get severity-ranked findings with dialect-correct DDL across 5 databases. No DB connection needed.
New: findings are labelled with three evidence tiers:
Deterministic โ always applies regardless of data
Schema-verified โ verified against your DDL
Estimated โ pattern-based, verify with EXPLAIN
<https://querytuner.com/> โ free, no signup
<https://github.com/AutoShiftOps/querytuner>
Especially curious whether the evidence labelling is useful or confusing to real users.
Mousa19 days ago
Is your company's data center consumption contributing to carbon emissions? Europe and other regions have experienced several extreme heatwaves due to climate change and other factors. Data centers have been also an ongoing discussion due to their environmental impact.
Wanna get an insight on your company's emissions anonymously? Try my calculator:
mousa-cloud.com/environment-cloud-calculator.html
Wanna get an insight on your company's emissions anonymously? Try my calculator:
mousa-cloud.com/environment-cloud-calculator.html
Eshani Kaushal18 days ago
Hi all,
Quick question, does anyone here run a dev agency or have an old codebase (a shelved project, a shut-down startup, internal tools nobody uses anymore)? Our agency is looking to license such code bases. Please DM me only if this is relevant to you. Thanks!
Quick question, does anyone here run a dev agency or have an old codebase (a shelved project, a shut-down startup, internal tools nobody uses anymore)? Our agency is looking to license such code bases. Please DM me only if this is relevant to you. Thanks!
paulm17 days ago
For people who query S3 buckets with very large numbers of objects, github.com/varveio/swath looks interesting.
I haven't tested it (my needs are simple), and the author used AI/LLM code generation, but I spot-checked two details that give me confidence. The documentation recommends dynamically listing big buckets as a last resort and mentions AWS-idiomatic alternatives. More importantly, this is one of the few pieces of software I've seen that bothers to set the AWS SDK retry mode, a zero-effort way to increase reliability whenever we use an AWS SDK. (See the 2026-05-20 AWS Developer Tools Blog post, "Announcing updated retry behavior for AWS SDKs and Tools".)
I like the way the author used AI not just to generate code but also to explore how other parallel S3 bucket listing tools work. A readily apparent drawback of code generation is vastly increased complexity; there are too many files and too many lines to read. Everything rests on whether comprehensive distributed systems testing is possible and whether the tests have caught potential race conditions.
I haven't tested it (my needs are simple), and the author used AI/LLM code generation, but I spot-checked two details that give me confidence. The documentation recommends dynamically listing big buckets as a last resort and mentions AWS-idiomatic alternatives. More importantly, this is one of the few pieces of software I've seen that bothers to set the AWS SDK retry mode, a zero-effort way to increase reliability whenever we use an AWS SDK. (See the 2026-05-20 AWS Developer Tools Blog post, "Announcing updated retry behavior for AWS SDKs and Tools".)
I like the way the author used AI not just to generate code but also to explore how other parallel S3 bucket listing tools work. A readily apparent drawback of code generation is vastly increased complexity; there are too many files and too many lines to read. Everything rests on whether comprehensive distributed systems testing is possible and whether the tests have caught potential race conditions.
Mousa11 days ago(edited)
Hi guys, I have a question. I'm running a solo consulting company registered in the UK, and I operate on B2B basis. Has anyone like me been able to land projects with US based companies remotely maybe? As per my research and resources I checked so far, I couldn't find any barriers that companies would face in the US to use my consulting services; but if am wrong please correct me. Thank you
Note: I'm not talking about government related projects.
Note: I'm not talking about government related projects.
erik11 days ago(edited)
I thought jellyfish was a new stuxnet until I realized it was Mother Nature.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/jellyfish-hit-french-nuclear-plant-shuts-down-three-reactors-2026-08-11/
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/jellyfish-hit-french-nuclear-plant-shuts-down-three-reactors-2026-08-11/
Amanpreet Kaur4 days ago
getting your aws/azure/gcp spend into your own database sounds easy, just export it and load it. the annoying part is the cloud keeps rewriting the current month's numbers, so if you're not careful you end up double-counting and your totals don't match the actual bill.
decent writeup on doing it without that mess. worth a read if you're building your own cost reporting.
dev.to/โฆ/cloud-cost-api-pulling-reconciled-aws-azure-and-gcp-spend-into-your-own-warehouse-csv-jsonโฆ
decent writeup on doing it without that mess. worth a read if you're building your own cost reporting.
dev.to/โฆ/cloud-cost-api-pulling-reconciled-aws-azure-and-gcp-spend-into-your-own-warehouse-csv-jsonโฆ