It is indeed painful to figure out all the Stripe events one needs to handle. However, for me it’s worth it to do it once, and then be able to handle the interactions between my app and Stripe directly, instead of adding more layers.
Readit Newswhiskey-one commented on Date is out, Temporal is in piccalil.li/blog/date-is-... · Posted by u/alexanderameye
I mean... That's kinda how it works? More than once I've halfway forgotten birthdays of friends who live in timezones to my east, and then sent them a message saying "Happy birthday! (It still is where I am, lol)".
I'm not necessarily defending the implementation, just pointing out another way in which time is irreducibly ambiguous and cursed.
A reminder associated with the birthday can and should be changed if I change time zones. But the birthday date didn’t change so it shouldn’t move to a different day.
whiskey-one commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6
The concept is interesting but without charging it’s a non-starter for me. Also it’s a bit awkward and I’d prefer to use my phone or watch instead of adding a ring.
Founder of Depot here. We provide faster and more reliable GitHub Actions runners (as well as other build performance services) at half the cost of GitHub [0]
Is there a write up on the security of actions or equivalent that explains how they are secure both with direct and transitive dependencies? If this applies to Depot.
I left a large software corp last year to co-found a startup, launching myself in the world of OSS. I couldn't be more grateful to the HN community for introducing me to great concepts and tools!
Yeah, this isn’t great today. We have been exploring Webhook bundles/groups for common integration shapes that make a bit easier to make the right choices based on what you’re doing and hope to have something out here to help soon.
Having to figure out which of the 100s of Stripe event types we need to handle and which ones overlap was the most stressful part of adopting their system. Simplification here is welcomed.
whiskey-one commented on What the hell have you built wthhyb.sacha.house/... · Posted by u/sachahjkl
I dont quite follow. I understand mono vs micro services, and in the last 3 weeks I had to study for system design and do the interviews to get offers.
Its a tradeoff, and the system design interview is meant to see if one understands how systems can scale to hypothetical (maybe unrealistic) high loads. In this context the only reason for a microservice is independent scaling and with that also fault tolerance if an unimportant service goes down. But its really the independent scaling. One would clearly say that a monolith is good for the start because it offer simplicity or low complexity but it doesn't scale well to the hypothetical of mega scale.
Can you elaborate on the fault tolerance advantage of micro services?
For context, my current project is a monolith web app with services being part of the monolith and called with try/catch. I can understand perhaps faster, independent, less risky recovery in the micro services case but don’t quite understand the fault tolerance gain.
whiskey-one commented on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support aiven.io/blog/exploring-p... · Posted by u/s4i
People really overthink this. You can safely expose internal IDs by doing a symmetric cipher, like a Feistel cipher. Even sequential IDs will appear random.
Looks easy on the surface, but the problem is key rotation.
I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them (https://adretro.com).
I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way.
One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-comp-digi-comp-1-table-top...
This is a really cool project! I would love to see a timeline view where the ads from particular decade are shown together, followed by subsequent ones!
When I first saw the scene I said: "This amount of servers is not remotely enough to pull something like this".
When I think of the scene now: "These amount of servers can do much more than the scene portrays".
I mean, most of the tech presented in the series is almost standard operations procedure via mundane equipment now.
Scary.
For me, it’s a question of when, not if this happens in real life.