Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 01/01/2026I am shocked there is no man page for "New Recording 135" 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 01/01/2026gotta love whatever is wrong with the "Services" menu in Voice Memos. 200
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 10/05/2025youtu.be/wLb9g_8r-mE?... such a good interview. Could listen to Jony all dayyoutu.beA conversation with Jony IveYouTube video by Stripe 030
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Now that's a deep divemedium.comAWS CloudFront Deep DiveMaster AWS CloudFront: Boost content delivery with caching, Lambda@Edge, WAF, and global edge locations for low latency & high performance. 020
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 08/05/2025woah that Cloudfront SaaS manager thing looks like everything I've ever wanted. Can't wait to try it 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 12/03/2025golang embed.FS is the cooooolest thing: pkg.go.dev/embed#hdr-Fi... going into something like "hmm I wonder if this would be doable" and not only is it doable, it takes like 2 lines of code 170
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 11/03/2025this makes me feel like I got my CSS knowledge from a museum. I had no idea bout :is and color-mix. The possibilities 🤯 140
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 08/03/2025As a small company with a global footprint we couldn’t do what we do without a cloud platform taking care of a lot of things for us. As nice as it’d be to ditch the cloud or even support local data centers it would slow us down drastically 000
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 08/03/2025For example we had a database that had a 300GB table we didn't use while the entire remaining database was only maybe 20gb. And we had 30 days of backup retention for some reason, as in 9TB in backups. Also had a 2TB dynamodb table of which we only used 0.3%! 100
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 08/03/2025oh lol disregard the current day! I should've trimmed that from the screenshot. Got like a 50% reduction maybe by just cleaning up things that have "grown" over the years but didn't serve much of a purpose. Also routing more of our traffic through cloudfront which has cheaper egress! 110
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Can't help but think about this every time I see something related to apple intelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0V5...youtube.comApple Intelligence is for the Stupid OnesYouTube video by CNET 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 07/03/2025by sheer coincidence, every piece of code i touched lately needed a regex in some way or another and its so satisfying how my brain went from "what the heck is this" to just reading regex in realtime. brains are cool 020
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 28/02/2025step 1: setup dynamodb table with keys not suitable for making targeted deletes step2: let it grow to 500gb step3: trouble & bills 000
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Optimizing our scroll-triggered animation logic ended up looking like a science fair 000
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 27/02/2025How we're doing global cache invalidations in 1s with "no infrastructure": 1. user publishes site 2. we generate a short random key 3. save it to dynamodb table 4. dynamodb does global replication 5. edge uses key in request hash for cache 6. ... 7. profit 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Last year we spend most of the time rebuilding our core product at the expense of the legacy version not getting any updates. The efforts are finally paying off with us being able to crank out long-awaited features in no time 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 26/02/2025oh dang just tried out the new github runners and almost cut the ci/cd time in half for what's gonna cost us like $30 a month 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 26/02/2025no matter what you do, sooner or later you'll get another strange npm lockfile/build/cache/etc issue. Nobody is safe 110
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I feel like spotlight search is somehow getting worse with every macOS update so I finally tried raycast and holy shit is my life immediately so much better. 120
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 24/02/2025If you're a SaaS with a small team and need some user-facing analytics without much fuss I cannot recommend clickhouse enough. I switched all of our stuff over from a legacy system in two days, including migrating all existing data and rewriting all the queries from scratch 110
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I once wrote my own database engine. Partly for fun but also because I was missing a time-series database option that wasn't all like "datalake, petabyte, enterprise, call us for quote" So glad I found @clickhouse.com. It's everything I ever wanted 💃 Now I can put my questionable attempt to rest. 100
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 22/02/2025oh heck does that mean my company is..... "sufficiently popular"? 😅 100
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 22/02/2025wait I just signed up and it shows me three years of historical data? I am perplexed. How does it know 100
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 21/02/2025What's that tool your using for the historic vitals data? Looks amazing! 100
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Life hack for small teams: keeping a log of things you're doing day to day. This helps everyone stay in sync and tbh it helps me remember what I've been up to. Can also help with short-term planning and reducing overall cognitive load 230
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 05/02/2025slack webhook avatars are an important form of artistic expression 040
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 05/02/2025just a smaaaaaall little feature we've been working on that spans nearly all of our services 👀 130
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 05/02/2025it baffles me when small companies send their marketing email from a no-reply address. Like don't you want to hear from the people you're trying to talk to? 020
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 02/02/2025In software if you're thinking you'll just quickly do this one easy thing. Prepare to not 020
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 22/01/2025fun fact which I think is really cool for a startup of our size: we have a 1:1 staging copy of our ENTIRE infrastructure: app, api, databases, load balancers, cdn, edge network... Our product has a lot of moving parts and this setup allows us to test how everything works together before deploying 040
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I love working on the weekend because it feels there's less of an expectation of me getting any work done. Which is ironic because i'm my own boss 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 18/01/2025The way Disney+ messes with you when you try to cancel it should be illegal. Obvs they're not alone in this but jeez 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Day two of practicing motion graphics! Pretty cool huh? 😅 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Really getting into motion graphics these days 🤣 I mean jokes aside I did this within 15 minutes of opening the animation app for the first time ever so not bad. 030
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 16/01/2025restarting a service with a 648 day uptime. Wish me luck 🙏 030
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Really starting to appreciate senja.io (no affiliation). Such a nice tool for getting, managing and displaying testimonials. Not 100% polished but definitely great already and good enough for production 020
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 09/01/2025We finally redesigned our signup screen because it's mostly been unchanged since 2018 🙈. Conversion rate is up 12% ⬆️ and conversion time is down 16% ⬇️. Not bad! 030
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Intercom has become one of my favorite saas tools. I think I used to dismiss it in the past due to its price but it now definitely seems worth its price even though its a bit expensive. still got a lot of shortcomings but still fun to use 020
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 02/01/2025this is one of the most fun ways I have seen AI used so far www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytom...youtube.comControlling Blender with my voice using LLMYouTube video by Polyfjord Deep Dive 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Did you know that you can make your life 10x better just by adding your favorite gremlin to your infrastructure diagrams? 010
Alexis Taylor @alexi5.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Finally sent a product updates email after barely sending anything all year. Every time I do I feel like somebody's gonna be mad at me 😅. At least we got a decent setup now for email composing and sending 020
