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Flox @flox.dev · 02/10/2026

What happens when you point a coding agent at a real, messy codebase and ask it to sort out the dev environment? Justin wrote up the whole experiment, including what worked, what broke, and what the skills did about it 👇 buff.ly/XCNqiur

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I love showing people using Flox from the IDE!

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Kicking off Planet Nix with Kelsey Hightower and Ron Efroni talking about how the industry is changing with AI and what it means for technologies like Nix.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

First time taking a Southwest flight with reserved seats and it feels really strange to go to just one seat.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Planning in software development has had artifacts and ceremonies that serve a purpose. This is a great summary of strain from AI-generated artifacts and pressure to adopt AI and what it does to erode a long-time carefully constructed culture of writing 6-pagers at Amazon.

bigtechnology.com

Writing Crystalized Thinking At Amazon. Is AI Muddying It?

Amazon’s famously writing-centric culture is being aided by generative AI. What does that say about the company’s culture, priorities, and future?

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I love stories like this one from Gladys West who helped with the foundations of the mathematics of GPS. The story was told so much later, similar to the movie "Hidden Figures." or “The Imitation Game”. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...

nytimes.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/science/gladys-west-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H1A.5iFv.WT0u-GGL7JaP&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I just learned that Loophole Labs found a clever way to dramatically increase Linux container network bandwidth by over 12x. I ❤️ seeing innovation at low levels of the infrastructure stack with big payoffs! loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-for...

loopholelabs.io

Using XDP for Egress Traffic

XDP only works for ingress. We found a loophole that lets it work for egress. Here's how we did the impossible.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

...it's pretty clear that arm64 should be the default instance type choice for RDS or Aurora on AWS.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

(slightly less if you're using Graviton3 which is not discounted quite as much as Graviton2). So unless you have great data saying that your x64 database instance is better on price/performance or there is a compatibility issue in an extension you want to use...

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I've had an open tab for a few weeks (link in comment) that AWS added RDS and Aurora instance type recommendations to the AWS Compute Optimizer. It's pretty wild that you can save somewhere around 10% across a big variety of database instance types.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Used Electrify America L3 charger for the first time and wow is that nice. Usually we charge at home, but this was fast, convenient, and not very expensive while we were far from home.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Quoting from the post: "In layperson’s terms, ZKP makes it possible for people to prove that something about them is true without exchanging any other data. So, for example, a person visiting a website can verifiably prove he or she is over 18, without sharing anything else at all."

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I believe in user-controlled privacy. I'm very disappointed in the lack of privacy laws in the United States. I love seeing this update from Google that they have open sourced a Zero Knowledge Proof library that can be used in support of technology standards that preserve privacy.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Serverless compute offerings have ongoing innovation and Cloudflare is looking more like a PaaS all the time.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Last week Cloudflare launched Containers, which is a significant update to their serverless compute offerings. Cloudflare Workers support is limited to JavaScript and WASM, and this new Containers offering let's you bring a container to their global compute runtime.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I tried Wispr (wisprflow.ai) as a voice input method today on my Mac and it works really well. I really like the UX. They've done a nice job with it. MacOS Dictation also works decently so they'll have to be a lot better than that for it to really catch on.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Citing your sources is so important. I researched cloud network pricing and ChatGPT confidently told me that Azure charges from cross-AZ traffic within a Virtual Network. I thought changed, so I checked. Azure made cross-AZ traffic free in May 2024! Check the citations of these chatbots!

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

There are some amazing new images of a galaxy named NGC 253 that is 11.5m lightyears away that is generated from data captured with with the Very Large Telescope.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

An Incredible read from my former colleague Jack about his experiences trying an alternative job to engineering after being on the HashiCorp rocketship from the beginning. A Year in EMS www.jackpearkes.com/posts/a-year...

jackpearkes.com

A Year in EMS

My experience working as an EMT in LA County.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Some tips, after installing, configure it to start when your machine starts. I had to restart the OS before the | icon showed, which enables you to configure which icons you want to hide. apps.apple.com/us/app/hidde...

apps.apple.com

‎Hidden Bar

‎Hidden lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look. Features: - Launch at login - Auto-hide after 5/10/15/30/60 seconds - Show/hide with global shortcut - Full menu bar mode - ...

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Want to hide annoying cluttered menu-bar icons in MacOS? Hidden Bar is a simple, free, and OSS utility that hides menu bar items behind a simple expander. When you don't need to use the icons, they are hidden from view. youtu.be/Y8OmjbySFao

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Yes, the lens is very finance-centric, but I found it super helpful as a base set of personas that are applicable across many aspects of cloud. Kudos to the FinOps org for putting this together and sharing it. www.finops.org/framework/pe...

finops.org

FinOps Personas

The FinOps discipline covers many different personas. Understand more about them, their roles, and requirements.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Ever needed to describe personas and roles involved in cloud decisions? I met the FinOps.org team at a conference and after looking around their website, I found that they had mapped out the Personas really effectively for various people at organizations that work on cloud.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It’s really common to use Postman to try and test APIs. Thanks to Corey Quinn’s weekly AWS newsletter to highlight this article. Be careful what you share with Postman because they are logging your secrets. anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-l...

anonymousdata.medium.com

Postman is logging all your secrets and environment variables

I was originally investigating this report that Postman is not HIPAA compliant. I found that Postman is not just wholly unsuitable for…

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🚀 Heading to @AI & Big Data Expo next week? I'll be @Vultr booth 152 🎤 I’ll be speaking about Move to Vultr in Minutes, Not Months, highlighting how FluidCloud and Vultr are working together to power cutting-edge AI infrastructure. 📅 Stop by to learn, connect, and explore what’s next in AI. #AIExpo

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

There are some political aspects that frankly should be ignored because the most meaningful content in this long interview is the global impact that can be made to save literally millions of lives and substantially improve standards of living across the world.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This Bill Gates interview is a fascinating read on the state of global philanthropy.

nytimes.com

The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today's Gemini let-down inside Google Sheets is expected, but still pretty disappointing.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Why are you doing that to yourself?

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Redmonk's Rachel Stephens has a great post describing how the job and expectations of the Product Manager is changing with AI. Recently, Toby from Spotify shared a company letter to employees that said AI is now part of their evaluation criteria. (1 of 2)

redmonk.com

Vibe Coding is for PMs

Vibe coding is an extension of developers ability to tinker using LLMs, but its true power will come in enabling adjacent personas like product managers to more closely collaborate with their dev t…

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Today I transfered a domain name from Namecheap to Cloudflare. The name says it all, they should be cheap, but they charge 70% more than Cloudflare for a .com! Even though I had to divert time to do it, it's a principles thing to me. The internet, cable, and phone providers all do it.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I disagree about Cursor, the product excels at the experience of exposing the power of the models and supplemental info (RAG, MCP) in an optimal way. They can differentiate on experience and then build momentum to create other moats.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Got my first local MCP server example running today in Claude Desktop. The tutorial is pretty straight-forward. modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/s... I've seen some criticism from people I trust that MCP will be like SOAP and ws-*, but so far looks like it's enabling some cool integrations.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Please, I want to know also even if it’s just vibes or cliff notes

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Here is their latest blog on the new offering with "way better than Aurora" performance: planetscale.com/blog/announc...

planetscale.com

Announcing PlanetScale Metal — PlanetScale

Database goes brrrrrrrrrrr.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm super impressed with PlanetScaleDB's latest metal offering and website design. The performance numbers are incredible. Their main landing page is primarily text and super developer friendly. Kudos to them!

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It's not easy to migrate from a lot of legacy user/passwords to a social login or Passkey. What a mess.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The UX is different on each site, browser, and Password manager and it totally sucks. Took about 25min to change a single password for an older person I was helping while they had their iPad and Phone out to try and do this (so they could copy/paste across devices).

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

LastPass breach is so damaging years later. Recent news is that hackers have cracked LastPass Vaults from the hack over a year ago. I'm savvy enough to change passwords on my own, but people in my orbit that I'm helping struggle with the basics of changing passwords.

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James Bayer @jambay.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Or probably even better, use a tool like Buffer and post everywhere and engage with good faith people so the message gets broad reach. Would you rather your news story gets picked up by the AP or is only published in a single local newspaper?

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