Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

Formerly Tech leading #o11y @Cloudflare, and touching grass in the meantime. In London by way of Wellington 💖💜💙 https://t.co/4stxhc4PUD Straya Joined March 2018

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

@valyala I feel like those proper users must be bot-like as well, right?? There's no way a real person is making 38222 PRs

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To distract my self from *life* at the moment, I spent the last few days translating Go’s text/template into Typescript: github.com/sinkingpoint/g… . Why? *Secrets*, but it’s probably useful in the @CloudflareDev ecosystem somewhere Could an AI have done it better? Probably.

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

Am I the only one that starts to get confused about all the z?? tools around? Zed, Zig, Zod, it's a bit silly

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2 years ago

@gotjosh Absolutely! Would be good to catch up :)

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

Minor personal update: I left Cloudflare and have moved back to the UK. If any of y'all want to grab a drink and catch up then reach out!

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2 years ago

@bwplotka Thanks! And yes, let's!

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2 years ago

@ArthurSilvaSens @opentelemetry I think that's the biggest problem - the data model is _fine_, it's the surrounding components that are weird to work with

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

@boristane Back in my day we had rrdgraph and text based logs and we _liked_ it. Younguns these days with their _events_ and their _context_ - frivolous nonsense! (/s)

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

Feeling some real PromCon FOMO :/ Hope everyone's having fun!

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the real deepfates @_deepfates

2 years ago

I pasted the entire Grug Brained Developer blog into the system prompt and now my code editor is actually helpful

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

@Tugzrida Thank goodness on the lax repeating characters limitation. ABBA fans of the world might not have been able to have their preferred password 😅

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

So this is kind of interesting. They have two types of screens - one that displays just text, and one that has a map. These screens are controlled by the front carriage, so this happens when a carriage with the old text screens is fronted by a newer map screen carriage.

Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

Someone broke JSON parsing on the Melbourne trains 😬

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2 years ago

@roskilli The weird thing is that it _is_ valid JSON... The only thing I can think of is colour vs color. I guess it errs on displaying something rather than nothing

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

Someone broke JSON parsing on the Melbourne trains 😬

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2 years ago

@IanColdwater Well yeah... If we acknowledge how much effort goes into being a good teacher then we might have to *shudders* _pay them more_

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

Today in Linux esoterica: A Netlink socket is always SOCK_DGRAM, even if you _request_ SOCK_RAW. That means that if you do a `read` with a buffer smaller than a message, you'll just drop data. Ugh.

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

It'll be interesting to see if we get follow up security incidents from Crowdstrike after this. If they weren't already, you can guarantee that every nation state will be deep diving into it given the breadth of impact

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Colin Douch @sinkingpoint

2 years ago

@valyala Interesting idea... My main objection is that in table driven tests, the arguments are named which makes it easier to understand the actual logic of what's being tested. In your f-tests, I have no idea what argument is what, especially if we go beyond non trivial functions