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New comment by alkhimey in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

alkhimey — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:03:16 +0000

The disadvantages of duplication are greatly reduced in the world of AI. From my experience it can easily detect the duplicates and refactor code safely. On the other hand, code without abstractions is easier to read and easier for AI.

With AI, we really need to rethink the clean code principles.

New comment by alkhimey in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

alkhimey — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:22:43 +0000

There is no reason to tie the method of payment together with the method of distribution. They could distribute it through brew along with an optional license configuration. Downloading a cli from a browser is not convenient anyway. You need to copy the downloaded file somewhere that is loaded into the PATH.

And also, software that is downloaded from itch.io app does not require notarization.

New comment by alkhimey in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

alkhimey — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:48:43 +0000

Global services such as STS have regional endpoints, but is it really that common to hit specific endpoint rather than use the default?

New comment by alkhimey in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

alkhimey — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:38:55 +0000

Customers in all regions were affected…

New comment by alkhimey in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

alkhimey — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:03:17 +0000

An update to the internal database. It still did not sunk to developers that data has equivalent risk as code. A400 crashed because of an XML file update. I have witnessed my share of critical bugs caused by "innocent? updates to "data" which were treated less seriously because of this. Management and devs alike should change their conception about this.