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New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

YesThatTom2 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:58:08 +0000

Drat! I hoped this was going to cover the internal battle where Google executives trying to stop JPEG XL and how engineers finally convinced them to change their minds.

My guess: the engineers didn’t win the argument. The executives just gave up once all the other browsers had added support.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125"

YesThatTom2 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:11:43 +0000

Etsy’s SRE team invented statsd in 2011

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)"

YesThatTom2 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:36:32 +0000

The talk he gave at Usenix LISA was one of the best ever!

(LISA is now SRECon)

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

YesThatTom2 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:45:40 +0000

Don’t forget about Lotus Network Notes!

It was one of AT&T’s attempts to “kill the internet”.

The people working on it were down the hall from me when I was at AT&T.

It only worked on Novell networking. I asked how they plan on dealing with various Novell limits and they’d respond with blank stares.

The plan was to restrict it to only work on AT&T networks. So, it was more of a marketing ploy than a technology.

When I’d ask “how could this little project beat the internet, which is huge and growing exponentially?” And was told basically they believed if they could act fast enough, nobody would know the internet existed.

And people wonder why I had no faith in AT&T management.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/at-t-dumps-n...

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"

YesThatTom2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:31:50 +0000

> This change does not affect Google Workspace aliases or other Gmail addresses you own.

I bet most people complaining about this change don’t even know this feature exists.

Right now you can forge email from any email address you can verify ownership.

Most of those emails will end up in a spam folder.

This doesn’t affect email addresses that Google controls DMARC records for.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Launching Route 53 Files"

YesThatTom2 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:51:01 +0000

This is FANTASTIC! I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.

Have you seen DNSControl?

If you want a serious alternative to the Route53 API, there's an open source project called https://dnscontrol.org/ DNSControl. It's like Terraform for DNS but it doesn't suck like Terraform.

Version v5.0 just shipped. It's a major rewrite that makes it much more extensible.

https://github.com/DNSControl/dnscontrol/releases/tag/v5.0.0

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "The Amazon tax"

YesThatTom2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:59:49 +0000

Maybe instead of being an author your should have had the foresight to be Jeff Bezos.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

YesThatTom2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:29:09 +0000

Can they do something similar so that caps include the full date/time? I hate when caps are perpetually “1 hour ago”.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy"

YesThatTom2 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:55:00 +0000

So… what language do you use?

No (useful) language is simple. Claiming go is not simple without naming a language for comparison is a party foul.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

YesThatTom2 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:46:35 +0000

The difference is now the US has a leader that is actively encouraging its downfall.

Unethical Ways to Manage Technical Debt

YesThatTom2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:44:04 +0000

Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3830399

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260936

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

YesThatTom2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:16:33 +0000

(Replying to my own post). Also, it’s gotta be mentally draining to be told by the president they have to win but also always let Russian attacks though.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/defens...

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

YesThatTom2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:09:47 +0000

I suspect the Cold War of cyber warfare that is happening is orders of magnitude bigger than the public knows.

Imagine knowing this and not being able to get emotional support from your friends and family.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

YesThatTom2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:07:39 +0000

That turned out to be false. Normal attrition / vacation time.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros"

YesThatTom2 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:01:03 +0000

SPF flattening is difficult to get correct and then you have to check it every so often to update it.

DNSControl automates this. https://docs.dnscontrol.org/language-reference/domain-modifi...

(It’s open source)

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

YesThatTom2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:47:10 +0000

"The best way to teach something new is to compare it to something the audience already understands."

Could someone take the example, reduce it to a non-generic version for two types I DO understand, then show that with the new feature I can collapse them into the Box/Map example in the doc?

I have 10+ years of Go experience and I can't make heads or tails of "(b Box[T]) Map[U any](f func(T) U) Box[U]"

Controlling VSCode from the Terminal

YesThatTom2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:54:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yesthatblog.com/post/0155-controlling-vscode-cli/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364114

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Peter Salus has died"

YesThatTom2 — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:03:25 +0000

He was also executive director of both the USENIX Association in its very early years.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

YesThatTom2 — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:50:19 +0000

“Dictators stay in power until there are food riots” is what every sociologist I know tells me.

I hope the “riots” are in the form of voting.

New comment by YesThatTom2 in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

YesThatTom2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:36:16 +0000

Ada was also ignored because the typical compiler cost tens of thousands of dollars. No open source or free compiler existed during the decades where popular languages could be had for free.

I think that is the biggest factor of all.