Readit Newsthejosh commented on Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region? statusgator.com/blog/aws-... · Posted by u/colinbartlett
Ass covering-wise, you are probably better off going down with everyone else on us-east-1. The not so fun alternative: being targeted during an RCA explaining why you chose some random zone no one ever heard of.
Bandwidth cost is also another major reason.
thejosh commented on Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web tweeks.io/onboarding... · Posted by u/jmadeano
WOW.
Okay, this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche, as you mentioned it's kinda a combination of things like Stylus/uBlock Origin filters and custom filters/etc. This is really needed, as for example GitHub code preview is completely and utterly fucked, to put it lightly. Showing symbols, not being able to select code properly without weird visual glitches happening..... requires a bunch of scripts to fix. (https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/54962).
What's your funding plan? You mentioned paid plan, but what's the actual benefit for users that they would pay for this? (I totally would, FWIW).
Do you foresee companies who need to build special widgets for whatever reason for random websites they use as kind of "Extension light" alternatives - your product reminds me of Retool (https://retool.com/), but for website tweaking.
Very cool product, love the ability to do "extra things" which will fix a whole bunch of websites I use everyday that I CBF'd either making an extension to fix or battling the uBlock/stylus filters.
Discoverability will also be needed, kinda like [karabiner elements complex modification rules](https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/)
edit: no firefox support, sadpants.
thejosh commented on Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access github.com/Snowflake-Labs... · Posted by u/plaur782
Ok. And this flexibility is only really possible since they did a lot of work to make external and internal tables roughly equivalent in performance.
Yeah, performance depends.
I think a hybrid approach works best (store on Snowflake native and iceberg/tables where needed), and allows you the benefit of Snowflake without paying the cost for certain workloads (which really adds up).
We're going to see more of this (either open or closed source), since Snowflake has acquired Crunchydata, and the last major bastion is "traditional" database <> Snowflake.
thejosh commented on Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access github.com/Snowflake-Labs... · Posted by u/plaur782
You people can’t be serious, right?
Ok so I build my data lake on s3 using all open tech. I’m still paying for S3 for puts and reads and lists.
Ok I put it on my own hardware. In my own colo. you’re still paying electricity and other things. Everything is lock in.
On top of that you’re beholden to an entire community of people and volunteers to make your tech work. Need a feature? Sponsor it. Or write it and fight to upstream it. On top of that if you do this at scale at a company what about the highly paid team of engineers you have to have to maintain all this?
With snowflake I alone could provide an entire production ready bi stack to a company. And I can do so and sleep well at night knowing it’s managed and taken care of and if it fails entire teams of people are working to fix it.
Are you going to build your own roads, your own power grid, your own police force?
Again my point remains. The vast majority of times people build on a vendor as a partner and then go on to build useful things.
Apple using cloud vendors for iCloud storage. You think they couldn’t do it themselves? They couldn’t find and pay and support all the tech their own? Of course they could. But they have better things to do than to reinvent the wheel I.e building value on top of dumb compute and that’s iCloud.
After running Snowflake in production for 5+ years I would rather have my data on something like Parquet/Iceberg (which Snowflake fully supports...) than in the table format Snowflake has.
It's not that deep
thejosh commented on Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access github.com/Snowflake-Labs... · Posted by u/plaur782
Locked in? I mean they’re your partner. As long as you’re deriving value from them the partnership is still valuable no?
Everytime you want to query your data, you need to pay the compute cost.
If instead you can write to something like Parquet/Iceberg, you're not paying for access your data.
Snowflake is great at aggregations and other stuff (seriously, huge fan of snowflakes SQL capabilities), but let's say you have a visualisation tool, you're paying for pulling data out .
Instead, writing data to something like S3, you instead can hookup your tools to this.
It's expensive to pull data out of Snowflake otherwise.
thejosh commented on Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access github.com/Snowflake-Labs... · Posted by u/plaur782
Honestly. Just pay snowflake for the amazing DB and ecosystem it is. And then go build cool stuff unless your value add to customers is infra let them handle all that.
Sounds great until you're locked into Snowflake - so glad iceberg is becoming the standard, anything is great.
The trap you end up in is you have to pay snowflake to access your data, iceberg and other technology help with the walled garden.
Not just snowflake, any pay on use provider.
(Context - have spent 5+ years working with Snowflake, it's great, have built drivers for various languages, etc).
I went in fully expecting it to be the top result like how it's been in the past but couldn't find it; sorted by new, couldn't find it. It seems like Heroku is not what it once was.
"May your SaaS never be purchased by Salesforce."
thejosh commented on Code Smarter, Not Harder: Developing with Cursor and Claude Sonnet jstoppa.com/posts/artific... · Posted by u/jstoppa
I would love to see someone on stream use AI really effectively.
I really try, but for the life of me, I can’t get AI to generate anything useful beyond simple tests.
They’re still autocomplete++ for me.
Autocomplete++ is the killer feature for me, especially for more tedious thingsike SQL column naming.
thejosh commented on Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features github.com/quackduck/devz... · Posted by u/humanperhaps
I have a Raspberry Pi running a read-only server where some friends and I have a "poor man's IRC" chat, in that we all log in from Termux and post messages to one another using `wall`. It's absolutely ridiculous and I love it.
It's one of those things that if you need to ask why, you'll never understand :-)