Penny Game Debrief

My new year's resolution is that I want better alerts. I'm using Better Stack for log storage and want to live in a world where every time there's a worthy error, I get pinged. I only want the word "error" to appear in the logs if it's actually something that needs attention. So this Christmas Eve I started going through the logs just searching...

I've been trying to find a good solution for having responsive widgets which people can use to embed show listings, sign-up forms and the like on their websites, and have finally come to a good solution: Web Components (with Stencil to make things easier). It's got an acceptable 97% caniuse rating (Safari having some caveats). The iframe-based...

The new DORA report got released and has 30 pages dedicated to AI adoption. One particular finding stuck out to me: an increase in AI adoption was correlated with an increase in code quality, quicker code reviews, decrease in code complexity, decrease in technical debt and improved documentation. However, it was also correlated with a decrease in...

The new DORA report got released and has 30 pages dedicated to AI adoption. One particular finding stuck out to me: an increase in AI adoption was correlated with an increase in code quality, quicker code reviews, decrease in code complexity, decrease in technical debt and improved documentation. However, it was also correlated with a decrease in...

Note: This one has an HN thread. I lost a Stripe dispute of USD $210 because the customer that purchased tickets from my site used an email that he claimed to his bank was not his. Stripe and the bank asked me to provide evidence that this wasn't fraudulent and I sent them: The invoice sent to the email the customer entered The actual tickets...