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New comment by count in "I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

count — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:06:58 +0000

Protip: select the items in the canvas you want in your SS and 'copy to clipboard as PNG' instead of a screen shot and you can get transparent PNGs of diagrams or of detailed subsets of a larger diagram easily.

New comment by count in "I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

count — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:05:46 +0000

we have an excalidraw MCP for claude, it can easily do both :) (Excalidraw is basically just fancy SVG)

New comment by count in "I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

count — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:03:28 +0000

Excalidraw has a 1 click 'sloppiness' change. We do drafts and ideation in 'full sloppy' mode, to indicate to the reader that this is not fully thought through, or a final documented decision. Once we've gotten through discussions and analysis, the final diagram is changed to be 'not sloppy', and the font changed from handwriting to a san serif font.

It's pretty effective to immediately communicate to folks that 'this is a concept' approach. Too many people instantly jump to conclusions about diagrams - if it's written down it must be done / fixed / formal.

New comment by count in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

count — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:35:21 +0000

Nah, they're still actively selling/implementing the backing service/tech for other orgs.

New comment by count in "Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads"

count — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:38:13 +0000

How do you sanitize hardware between workloads?

New comment by count in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

count — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:24:10 +0000

My clients (extremely large) AWS based infrastructure experienced no downtime this year. So, if it's based on some random person's clients, it's not clearly better at all.

I don't use cloud flare for anything, so no comment there.

New comment by count in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

count — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:26:30 +0000

I have some reaallllly bad news for you on that front.

New comment by count in "AWS Service Availability Updates"

count — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:35:27 +0000

Same capability is now just a storage class in S3.

New comment by count in "Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty"

count — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:01:10 +0000

Having more money than free time but still wanting a thing to get done. Lots of folks pay good money for hobbies (video games, golf fees, bicycle purchases, etc.).

New comment by count in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

count — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:05:53 +0000

“Everything but a phone” is a tiny tiny percentage of the devices used to consume content on YouTube. It’s not just mobile first, it’s basically only mobile…

New comment by count in "AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong"

count — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:03:17 +0000

There’s lots of those too.

New comment by count in "AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong"

count — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 05:16:29 +0000

Multiple large scale SAP S4/HANA workloads wasting electrons…

New comment by count in "AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong"

count — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:32:11 +0000

TAMs are super hit and miss. We’ve had great ones (hi Nick!) and not so great ones. ($7-10M/mo customer AWS spend, support is a complicated sliding scale % of that, gogo ES!). Non-ES at smaller customers has been universally useless, except at quota increases.

New comment by count in "AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong"

count — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:20:37 +0000

The service teams don’t talk to each other…

New comment by count in "AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong"

count — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:11:59 +0000

Call it bad luck, but I’ve never had a fully successful restore. Drives eat tapes, drives are damaged and write bad data, robot arms die or malfunction. Tapes have NEVER worked for me. SANs and remote disk though, rock solid.

That said, I don’t miss any of that stuff, gimme S3 any day :)

New comment by count in "If you're remote, ramble"

count — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:53:33 +0000

You know, it is possible that other folks feel the same way, and that can be taken into consideration. The meeting we hold is scheduled at the very end of the work day. It's a fun way to decompress and chat about stuff with the team that isn't project related (there is a strict 'no project talk' rule - we have other times/meetings/mechanisms for that). It's wild that you automatically assume the worst.

New comment by count in "If you're remote, ramble"

count — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:34:53 +0000

This is how group conversations happen in person at an office too. I think it's fine, and everybody has reported feeling more connected / less isolated during our periodic polls since we started doing it.

New comment by count in "If you're remote, ramble"

count — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:26:52 +0000

We schedule a 2x a week 15-30 minute no-project-talk socialization meeting for our fully distributed team. It helps a LOT. We also have dedicated rambling channels in slack, active much of the day.

New comment by count in "Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal"

count — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:47:57 +0000

Shortening “Norfolk Southern” to “Norfolk” makes this confusing to read. Norfolk is a city (and former HQ of Norfolk Southern). “Union” isn’t shortened the same…

Also, railroads are already monopoly, it’s not like anyone can lay down new tracks, and operators aren’t required to allow 3rd parties on their networks…

New comment by count in "XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web"

count — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:29:41 +0000

Yeah, I was using Novell DirXML to do XSLT processing of inbound/outbound data in 2000 (https://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/ana20000701.h...) for directory services stuff. It was full XML body (albeit small document sizes, as they were usually user or identity style manifests from HR systems), no streaming as we know it today.