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Readit Newsuaas commented on Reading for pleasure falls by 40% in US ft.com/content/5dcf01d6-7... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
Intrigued to learn more. Any links to read more about this? Thanks.
Have you even tried searching for the term?
Anyway, here you go: https://modelcontextprotocol.info/specification/
uaas commented on Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 mbh4h.substack.com/p/neur... · Posted by u/keiferski
You're suggesting their arent any other authors who have taken over a decade to write a book? Prousts' In Search of Lost Time took 13 for example.
You are ignoring the part about being a linguist, though. Spending 10 years writing a book is also not quite rare.
uaas commented on Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved blog.pragmaticengineer.co... · Posted by u/thunderbong
1. Leadership doesn’t want to burn engineer cycles on undifferentiated features.
2. Management doesn’t get recognized for working on undifferentiated features.
3. Engineers working on undifferentiated features aren’t recognized when looking for new jobs.
Saving money “makes” sense but getting people to actually prioritize it is hard.
Well, saving money is a differentiator, and one of the best things an engineer can put on their CVs.
Seems like you’re looking for a glorified ping/prober? There’s blackbox_exporter for Prometheus that works great.
Good ol’ Prometheus and Grafana stack (Loki for logs, Tempo for traces) is perfect for smaller projects. You can also explore having OpenTelemetry collectors in the middle for more sophisticated processing and if you want to keep an eye on its ecosystem.
This is still the goto OSS stack, and I wouldn’t really recommend looking into smaller projects (usually backed by a single vendor) that are claiming better performance/lower resource usage for the same capabilities, because that always comes with a cost.
Fostrom (https://fostrom.io)
A developer-focused IoT Cloud Platform. The idea stems from pain points experienced while automating an indoor farm a few years ago where I had to spend way too much time building the data collection and analysis infrastructure instead of focusing on the actual automation.
Devices connect via secure MQTT, HTTP, or WebSockets and send structured, typed data. Each device gets its own sequential mailbox for messages. You can trigger webhooks or broadcast messages to other devices based on incoming data, powered by programmable actions.
Just deployed to production. Currently working on Device SDKs (coming very soon) and time-series analytics. Check out the platform, we're in technical preview now. Happy to answer questions and appreciate any feedback.
What is your plan for time-series analytics?
Google has a bunch of internal languages that are only used within it, don't enjoy a wider adoption, and get deprecated.
Facebook created Hack, a version of PHP with a quite nice static type system, which is virtually not used outside it. They also had an early statically typed version of JavaScript, called Flow, which enjoyed a limited success, but was supplanted by Typescript.
Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Smalltalk, etc all enjoyed some success in specific narrow domains, while influencing heavily such mainstream languages as Python, Java, Typescript, Rust, and, well, Go.
Compared to this, Go is unreasonably, blindingly successful; it's now all over the place, but that was hard to predict back in the early days of the project.
> Facebook created Hack, a version of PHP with a quite nice static type system, which is virtually not used outside it.
Well there’s at least Slack, and another huge project (which has eventually migrated away from it once PHP has improved) with tens of millions of users. There has to be others, too.
uaas commented on Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market maxrozen.com/on-four-year... · Posted by u/mtlynch
I was thinking the same, and switched to EUR price only, cause I’m in Europe. Payments dropped off like it’s a free fall. Added double pricing (EUR and USD), and got back to acquiring customers, and the majority of my purchases are in USD.
Is it painful in terms of accounting? Yes. Do I lose money on conversion rates? Yes. Am I making more money? Yes.
Unless you exclusively target a particular market, most people in US might not even know what EUR is. For them it might be the same as Zimbabwean dollars to you.
> … most people in US might not even know what EUR is.
Really?