Pulumi
Thanks, will definitely look into it. I first used Pulumi when it was just a cloud platform but seems it is a more general devops tool now.
Readit Newskennu commented on The future of Terraform CDK github.com/hashicorp/terr... · Posted by u/mfornasa
Sad to see it go. The philosophy of CDK has been to offer a shared ecosystem between IaC, backend code and frontend code, allowing to share configuration, data structures and libraries between all of them. It has made development more unified and have less redundancy and manual work. Personally I don't want to repeat some stuff in a special Terraform language, if I can find a way to manage the whole application in TypeScript.
kennu commented on Skills I Was Missing as a MongoDB User mongodb.com/company/blog/... · Posted by u/unripe_syntax
Honest question, is MongoDB still being chosen as a new DB technology these days? It feels like SQL won except for specialized use cases. Also looking at stuff like pg_vector.
I feel the opposite about SQL: It is often being shoehorned into use cases that don't fit the relative/transactional database model at all. My own default database is AWS DynamoDB, because it fits 90% of my own use cases quite well and offers a fast approach for iterative development. Recently I've been evaluating how to find the same level of abstraction in open source databases, and MongoDB feels like the closest match. Postgres with JSONB comes second, but manipulating JSON with SQL is not very comfortable and tends to result in subtle problems e.g. when something is NULL.
Scrolling with mouse scroll wheel a few hundred thousand kilometers at a time is so much work that I gave up :-(
kennu commented on Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules rfi.fr/en/france/20250604... · Posted by u/_p2zi
>This system, referred to as “double anonymity”, means the porn site receives only a yes-or-no confirmation that the user is of legal age. The age-check provider knows who the user is, but not which sites they visit.
I don't know the specifics, but seems very reasonable if implemented matches the promise. If it's required also for some non porn sites (social media? gambling maybe), there should be no stigma attached either.
At minimum, the government gets a "ping" when identified citizens visit adult sites requiring the age check, so they can keep a record. In worse scenarios, maybe some identifier leaks through that can also identify which site they visited. And of course, the identification apps can be hacked through supply chain attacks etc.
kennu commented on Why I Use a Dumbphone in 2025 (and Why You Should Too) samueleamato.xyz/2025/06/... · Posted by u/rd_wei
I don't really know what to do with a dumbphone, since I don't get any phone calls or text messages any more. Everything goes through apps, email or web nowadays.
kennu commented on As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook hamatti.org/posts/as-a-de... · Posted by u/ingve
OP here.
I don't often do very complex software plans like that. My working notes are often on a smaller scale like individual features or so. If we need to document the full architecture for the project, I'm happy to do that with digital tools.
But while I'm planning parts of it or designing it, I do better with pen and paper. My main issue with many of the digital tools I've tried comes down to the added friction if I need to switch to a different tool in the app when I switch between circles and rectangles and text and the fact that I find free-hand drawing with mouse really difficult.
> OTOH if the plan is very simple and obvious, and can be drawn out in one go, it doesn't really need a diagram in the first place, so I skip spending time drawing the obvious stuff.
I think there's a middle ground where it might be easy to draw on one go but deciding what to draw and how things work together and what's needed requires iterations and for that, thinking through drawing and writing helps me a ton.
I guess there's many cases where you don't really know how complicated or simple the solution will end up to be, and start drawing it while thinking about it.. I must admit that those are usually the most interesting parts of the work.
kennu commented on As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook hamatti.org/posts/as-a-de... · Posted by u/ingve
I understand the sentiment, but I don't get how you could draw more complex software plans by hand. I usually use Draw.io/Diagrams.net, and the drawings get pretty large and need reorganizing dozens of boxes several times while planning the architecture.
OTOH if the plan is very simple and obvious, and can be drawn out in one go, it doesn't really need a diagram in the first place, so I skip spending time drawing the obvious stuff.
My main issue in the EU is that cloud platform services are not very mature compared to AWS, Azure, GCP. They have some of the basic stuff like VMs and storage, but almost nobody has FaaS and the smaller services like SQS, SNS, scalable pay-per-request database like DynamoDB, etc. I hope these things become available so that it becomes possible to build scalable serverless apps here. Ultimately these services should be standardized like S3 did for storage.
Cursor is not about vibe coding. Vibe coding means you don't care about the AI's code output as long as it works. Cursor is all about efficiently reviewing the AI-proposed changes and hitting Tab only when you approve them. Much of the editing process is hitting Esc because the proposed change is not good.