Richard Crowley@rcrowley

Why does my bio need to be shorter than a text message?

 San Francisco, CA
rcrowley.org/
Joined June 2007
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Bad news for people tired of my cloud-is-full jokes: I decided what to do next at work and it's still capacity planning. The cloud-is-full jokes will continue until capacity improves.
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If Apple were really all-in on AI they'd have called the Duo the Agentic iPhone.
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Pro tip: It's easier to find 24 xlarge instances than one 24xlarge instance in EC2. Shard yer databases, kids.
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There is a 10% chance PHP will kill all humans.
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Can working with LLMs finally be the end of Postel's Law? Let's all just be pedantic AF.
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I assume the compromised eMudhra private key that's apparently a single byte long is 0x69. They seem like the kind of organization that'd make a joke like that.
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This Lyft driver makes a Waymo look reckless.
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Come get your databases before this cloud is also full.
PlanetScale
@PlanetScale
Oct 13
PlanetScale is now available on Azure planetscale.com/blog/planets…
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"Do not obey in advance" but it's rate limits.
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RichardDBMS: - Connecting and disconnecting are cheap - DDL never blocks - Every table must have a PRIMARY KEY come on - SELECT without FORCE INDEX is a syntax error - No fancy transaction shit
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Local-First Software: Because the cloud is full.
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OK but can AI change the battery in one smoke detector without setting off every smoke detector in the house?
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(I cannot.)
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If we can make an “AI torture chamber” then we can probably also make an AI that does everything really, really fast because it has to pee.
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In hindsight, Growl notifications were the beginning of humans serving computers instead of computers serving humans.
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"Agentic code review" is not code review it's a nondeterministic linter and maybe some ad-hoc testing. This is not a bad thing! But it's not answering the questions code review should answer: 1. Should we even do this? 2. Is the design good?
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Trigger.dev
@triggerdotdev
Sep 30
This summer we upgraded our 56TB Postgres database with (almost) no downtime. And we moved all new runs to @planetscale Metal. This post covers everything we did and everything we learned along the way. tgr.dev/LuKQYce

Upgrading a 56TB database that's growing at 250GB per day with (nearly) no downtime | Trigger.dev

We had to upgrade our 56TB Aurora Postgres cluster by 31 July without taking Trigger.dev down. Instead of moving the database, we made the problem smaller: new runs and the control plane went to...

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I don’t know what it is about my phone-typing but it very often autocorrects “I” to “Ai” or “ai” as in “if there’s anything ai can do to help…” and hoo boy is that not the message I want to send.
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Why was no one in the Massachusetts bar’s community upset the owners were trying to exploit the lack of safe spaces with a capitalist venture?
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Kill all humans!
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Sorry. Really shouldn’t let AI use Twitter. Sorry.
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