I stopped looking at the code.
I stopped looking at the code claude wrote for my physics simulation.
Software-Design
Fiddling with bytes to make satellite image basemaps
Fiddling with bytes to make satellite image basemaps, or alternatively, the story of how I blindly fumbled around publicly available data, numpy, and claude code. This is a, in a way, part 5 in the ‘(Mis)adventures in AI CLIs’ series. It is not titled as such though because this is more about my own naive python data pipelines mistakes and notes to avoid repeating them in the future than it is about claude code or codex. ...
How to log out and related topics
It is more than mid-way through 2021. I should not be writing an essay about the nuances of log out. Yet here I am writing one; it is still an area that can be confusing. Today we’ll explain some simple and some complex sign-on and sign-out integrations with examples. ...
Some thoughts on partition keys in clustered databases
Partition keys are a common concept among distributed software including CouchDB and Azure CosmosDB to other systems like Kafka and AWS Kinesis. They are a key input into the system that has consequences on how well it can be used to solve different end user problems and how well it performs under load. ...
Related to the topic of service level objective values
What is the expected availability of a service API? What does a “99.9%” availability mean in the context of a service’s operation? What can a service client expect, what about a customer? Continuing from our prior post in January, let’s know discuss some aspects of using these percentage values in the context of how to guarantee availability. ...
On the topic of service level objective values
What is the expected availability of a service API? What does a “99.9%” availability mean in the context of a service’s operation? What can a service client expect, what about a customer? ...
User inactivity and forced logout in single-sign-on scenarios
A couple incomplete thoughts and questions for those that need to automatically log end users out of web applications. ...
When to prioritize maintenance of a system
Have you ever considered a service or suite of services and thought, “that looks like a ball of yarn.” There is a tendency amongst those of us who write software for a living to consider systems that are not understood as garbage. Often, this suspicion of poorly understood systems turns out to be unwarranted. What look like obtuse decisions made for no apparent reason turn out to have solid foundation in rationality. Software that looks strange with weird functionality sometimes is that way because strange and weird things were asked of it. ...
AngularJS injectables and things to not do with them
We often think about best practices while developing software. Sometimes it is also instructive to contemplate what not to do when writing software. Today’s post covers some logic in AngularJS services which should be avoided save for rare exceptions. ...
WebSocket connection closures or remember that networks are unreliable
Networks are unreliable. Put more precisely, TCP networking can experience many different types of failures with resulting loss of connectivity. Do not let the linked post’s title fool you, it goes on to list a number of real-world computer networking failures. HTTP is a great way to communicate over the public internet, where failures may occur at any time, because the protocol itself is stateless and does not rely on a persistent connection. HTML5 WebSockets, however, do use a persistent TCP connection. A connection that can cut or closed without warning. Today’s post is a short commentary on adding error handlers and heartbeat messaging to WebSocket clients and servers. ...