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Jeff Schnitzer's Blog
28 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 11 stories, 17 comments · first 2017-03-13 · latest 2026-05-10
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…if not, a simple presence check in redis. No hashing or worrying about PII. My rant about this: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/How-to-%28and-how-n...
comment by stickfigure · 2026-05-10 · in Idempotency is easy until the second request is different -
…in my opinion if nice looking code were to matter then aurelia would be a lot more popular: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Opinionated-Compari...
comment by em-bee · 2024-11-30 · in If not React, then what? -
Probably not very: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l... But probably sufficient for a project like this.
comment by stickfigure · 2024-06-10 · in Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn -
…an 8-hour outage when something in the TLD infrastructure broke and their support team was asleep: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...
comment by stickfigure · 2024-01-19 · in Shots: Create Mockups -
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Java Logging on Google Cloud Platformstory by stickfigure · 2024-01-10 · 1 comment
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Java Logging on Google Cloud Platformstory by stickfigure · 2024-01-08 · 1 comment
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You might prefer my attempt at a similar explanation: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/How-to-%28and-how-n...
comment by stickfigure · 2023-12-11 · in Idempotency -
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How to (and how not to) design REST APIsstory by miiiiiike · 2023-11-23 · 19 comments
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How to (and how not to) design REST APIs · stickfigure/blog Wikistory by rbanffy · 2023-11-20 · 1 comment
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he actually writes about that. I happen to like it too. https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/GitHub%27s-wiki-mak...
comment by bitwrangler · 2023-11-01 · in How to (and how not to) design REST APIs -
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How to (and how not to) design REST APIsstory by stickfigure · 2023-11-01 · 148 comments
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…either way that's just a technicality; the sentiment remains the same. Edit: more information here: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/The-Unofficial-Goog...
comment by rlpb · 2023-10-11 · in Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB -
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Intercom is a terrible Mailchimp. So is Mailchimpstory by stickfigure · 2023-09-11 · 35 comments
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…an 8 hour outage when the entire .st domain went offline. My blog entry about it from 10 years ago: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...
comment by stickfigure · 2023-07-21 · in Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of largest Lemmy servers -
…domain names. I suffered 8 hours of excruciating downtime back in 2012 when the .st nic went down: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l... I learned my lesson, I'll take the .com every time, even if I have to get…
comment by stickfigure · 2022-09-08 · in Our five failed YC applications and one successful one -
…determines who has coin. 2. People with coin decide which transactions are valid. 3. GOTO 1 https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Proof-Of-Stake-Wear...
comment by nthacker · 2022-09-07 · in The future of cryptocurrency is at stake in Ethereum’s switch -
…value at stake here, chances are that at some point now, or in the future, it won't go well. [1] https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Proof-Of-Stake-Wear...
comment by latchkey · 2022-08-02 · in Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake -
…to you. Likely a big reason why exchanges, like Coinbase, are some of the largest ETH stakers. [1] https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Proof-Of-Stake-Wear...
comment by latchkey · 2022-08-02 · in Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake -
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Proof-of-stake is inherently self-referentialstory by stickfigure · 2021-05-21 · 251 comments
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Proof-of-Stake Wears No Clothesstory by stickfigure · 2021-05-19 · 0 comments
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Oh, here's my worst outage story: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l... I will never, ever again use a non-.com domain for a business.
comment by stickfigure · 2020-11-04 · in Scary Outage Stories from CTOs -
…and some apps saw a massive cost increase. This further tarnished the GAE reputation. [1] https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/The-Unofficial-Goog...
comment by Shakahs · 2019-02-13 · in Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle -
Jeff and I had an issue once... https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...
comment by latchkey · 2018-05-06 · in Ask HN: What has your experience with lesser-known TLDs been? -
…> http://ebarnouflant.com/posts/4-turn-your-github-issues-into... · Github Wiki for blogging: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/GitHub%27s-wiki-mak... · remove comments and use Pull Requests and Issues for substantive discussion…
comment by j_s · 2017-04-26 · in Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-free alternative to Disqus -
I just use a Github wiki for my blog. I metablogged about it: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/GitHub%27s-wiki-mak... I think the one tweak I need to make is keeping a copy of the blog index in the README.md for the main project.…
comment by stickfigure · 2017-04-23 · in Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments -
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Opinionated Comparison of React, Angular2, and Aureliastory by stickfigure · 2017-04-07 · 160 comments
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Opinionated Comparison of React, Angular2, and Aureliastory by stickfigure · 2017-03-31 · 0 comments
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GitHub's wiki makes a pretty decent blogging platformstory by stickfigure · 2017-03-13 · 0 comments