That's not a well kept secret, that's just a workflow that almost nobody would accept for their email setup which is the center of most people's digital identify and should always work and not be a duct taped construct to save a couple of bucks.

Here's my top-secret Rube Goldberg Machine that maintains my online identity.

isn't cloudflare webworker and email forwarding infra hyperscaling and highly available?

It's not about the uptime or scalability. Everyone has to make the choice for themselves if they value their time less than $12/year (Or free if Google is an option) for a critical part of their digital infrastructure to set all these moving parts up and keep them running over years.

I'll stick to Fastmail, where if something isn't working as expected I can just email them and get a response from a real human.

Yeah it's highly available until it isn't and then that turns into your problem rather than something like Gmail just working

that's the thing it cannot stop working because webworker and email forwarding is very reliable, email itself has retries built it and soft bounce handling.

Just a heads up I have seen complaints about CF email forwarding completely dropping emails that failed to pass certain SPF validation. They get completely dropped and the worker doesn't get called and they don't get forwarded, rather than in something like Gmail it would end up in spam

It doesn't change the fact that the workflow gp explains is a duct taped construct.

It's hyperscalable and highly available today, until the API changes.

They have 6000 employees located in Ireland including most of their support staff for the EU. They just opened another office in Dublin. They are also there for 45 years already, so not sure where "just a po box" comes from.

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/apple-to-open-dubli...

I think Wallet might be the most used feature for many on the iPhone, especially if they pay with their phone. What makes you think it's looking for a problem to solve?

I think Wallet is great and the adoption in certain areas like boarding passes is almost 100% and it beats digging through email to find some pdf and zooming in on some QR code when you have to present it (Hoping that your screen doesn't rotate in the worst possible moment). Also many big cities support it for public transport and most banking apps allow you to use your credit cards there for Apple Pay.

I guess I consider Apple Pay via Wallet, which I use, to be different from Gym Membership via Wallet, which just doesn't seem worth the effort? Maybe I'm unusual.

Part of it is why carry a physical wallet anymore when your phone (and Apple Watch) can store all of your cards? There are even US States now that let you store your Driver's License in Apple Wallet. (And a version of Digital ID based on a US Passport that works for TSA and sometimes but not always US Customs.) There's an increased ability to leave the house just carrying your phone and not a physical wallet.

In a gym context specifically: a lot of gym wear doesn't have pockets. Being able to leave your phone and physical wallet at home or in a locker and use your watch (which you also use for workout tracking) for every membership card swipe, vending machine electrolyte/protein drink purchase, and gym class ticket can be very convenient.

I don't like carrying physical cards around for every little thing. To me carrying a gym card around is way more effort than storing a QR code on the phone.

Agreed. I use it basically every day. It's almost disquieting how quickly Apple inserted itself into payments, but it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.

In NYC they had issues with the temporary card numbers they give. Apple got special privileges compared to Google wallet, where they were treating the tapping double charging being rejected as erroneous and banning the cards.

I had to switch to a physical card and the MTA advice was to get an iphone

There's many third party apps that can already create passes based on pictures. They are just adding that feature to the OS which is great of course but it has already been possible for a long time, except that there's one more step of downloading an app...but should still be quicker than searching your library every time.

I've used AppSignal for my side projects when they didn't have a free tier yet and really enjoyed it. It's a good balance between seeing important parts of your stack (I've used it with Rails), without being too complicated and overloaded as Sentry.

Thanks for sharing. I have been looking to replace Sentry. It has always been my go to just with its early roots in Python but feels like it misses the mark these days, feels heavy and I don’t really use it correctly. Have also tried systems like Rollbar which is nice but feels too simple. Will try this one out.

I use AppSignal for my side projects AND the two products we have @company. Strikes a good balance between logging/metrics/traces. The hosted OTEL collector is nice!

(disclaimer: I'm a vendor to AppSignal; to add: awesome people to work with!)

Why do you say it's an AI company? It seems like their business is "Distribute your application to self-managed customers" not especially AI focused.

They said they help deployments for "software companies and AI companies" which I thought was an interesting distinction

That's just different customer personas for marketing reasons, just like Vercel has "Build and deploy on the AI Cloud" as their main tag line on the landing page. It doesn't mean they are an "AI company".

I think it's just to get the AI keyword in there.

Sure, but you wouldn't just say "Oh they are a Postgres" company because they use that specific database somewhere in the stack.

I was being flippant

Only in certain bubbles, which certain people have trouble realising they're in

I don’t remember the last time I bought a ticket at the cinema. I like picking my own seats online.

In most European countries you only get reserved seats at big multiplex cinemas, stuff like Cinestar, NOS and so on.

On the European Cinema network [0], reserved seats is a long gone concept.

So not always a given that seats can be reserved online for cinema, depends on ones location.

[0] - https://www.europa-cinemas.org

Here in Oslo, Norway I only know of the local cinematheque which doesn't do reserved seats. All commercial theaters have reserved seats, even for the small screens with just a dozen or so seats. Been so as long as I can remember, so several decades.

So yea, location dependent.

I don't recall having been to any cinema in denmark ever that did not do assigned seats. They won't check if nobody complains, but is is printed on the ticket.

In Switzerland it's a mix. The theater we use most frequently doesn't have assigned seats.

I've been to several European Network cinemas and always gotten reserved seats

Dresden is truly blessed with cinemas and has four European Network cinemas. Three of those have assigned seating, though none do price discrimination based on where you sit. Culturally the assigned seating isn’t taken very seriously in those four cinemas, though, to the point where staff in one cinema sometimes tells visitors that they can sit somewhere else if they want to. In practice we still try to get seats where we want to sit and stick to them (front/middle, away from other people), though if people come in and sit right behind us we might change rows.

With new ticketing systems and online booking being introduced I think there has been a shift towards assigned seating. I remember the first time I was in a Dresden European Network cinema (Schauburg in 2015, that’s the oldest cinema in Dresden, 1927) and there either being no assigned seating or a seat printed on the ticket that no one cared about. We also weren’t asked where we wanted to sit. That has changed with a new ticketing system and now we are always asked about where we want to sit.

I think these ticketing systems come with assigned seating and that’s also a factor in assigned seating being introduced.

Notably, the one cinema that doesn’t have assigned seating also doesn’t offer online booking or reservations at all.

The four big multiplex cinemas in the city have assigned seating and do price discrimination based on where you sit – so it’s taken somewhat more seriously there.

So, yeah, my guess would be that the role online ticketing and the respective software/service/devices those cinemas use for that do all play a role in what role assigned seating plays and those can also trigger a cultural shift from sit where you want to assigned seating. (I have vivid childhood memories of my hometown long before online booking with price discrimination sections but no assigned seating in cinemas.)

I can assert that none of those I usually go have reserved seats, what they do have is reserved tickets.

I guess it depends then.

That's not true, I frequently reserve seats at the "Yorck" cinema chain in Berlin which is part of Europa Cinemas and has seat reservation.

Yeah, whether I go hinges on the seats available.

Because usually the people who lose their jobs are people who do not adapt to the market.

Right now it's not clear in which direction everything is involving and that's why people experiment with handing all their data to random agents, figuring out how to store and access context, re-use prompts and other attempts to harness this tech. Most of these will maybe be useless in a year as they might be deeply integrated into the next wave of models but staying on top of the development has always been part of the fun of working in this field.

People are building bots to do the most legible thing possible which is feature in X amount of time. But it doesn't matter if the bottleneck is human thinking time required to output quality code rather than X amount of code written.

I am so much faster with the bots. If you're not faster with the bots then either you write very very little code, or you're doing it very wrong. Tactically they outsmart me 10-100x if you account for the write speed. Even if you just consider the knowledge of languages, libraries, patterns they clearly outperform me. Strategically I do not trust them at all, poor things suck at it, mainly because they always try to take the shortest possible path to the current destination.

And if you think that your personal protest against the automation will in any way affect the direction in which the industry goes then you're delusional. You would have to start something like a political party and collect way more people.

Wake me up when LLMs help me write better code and let me understand the codebase, and not before. Not faster, not more productive, but a more comprehensible codebase that I can reason in my own head.

Otherwise, if they write so much better code, than it's pointless to have a human in the loop.

You will develop quite a lot of illnesses sleeping for this long, but your choice I suppose. Who knows, maybe it happens as soon as next year. I would strongly suggest living a life, any life really, instead of waiting like that.

I use LLM, extensively in fact. I just don't see the value in using the LLMs the way people are using it right now.

Monero got delisted there

Not in the United States.

https://www.kraken.com/learn/buy-monero-xmr

A website that's specialized into running unconfirmed rumors for clicks, shocking!