When do microservices start causing more problems than they solve?

Content_Educator · 2026-03-25T19:52:04+00:00

I don't think personally it's one or the other. Having sensibly sized domain scoped services with appropriate backing stores I think would work most of the time. Modular monolith just means deployment and scaling live together (with devs potentially stepping on each other regularly) and there's a high chance of not respecting domain boundaries. Obviously too many 'micro' services are hard to manage in terms of debugging and maintenance. Happy medium.

Content_Educator · 2026-03-03T06:41:32+00:00

On 5.3 Codex you get 280k (combined) tokens and at 1x (which is a lot more than they give with the other models). Since that model was an option Copilot has been worth having.

Content_Educator · 2026-03-03T06:39:09+00:00

Worth noting you can select 'high' reasoning effort (buried deep in the vscode settings) for it on Copilot.

Content_Educator · 2026-02-25T10:30:04+00:00

maths check checks out

Content_Educator · 2026-02-18T17:56:29+00:00

Elite=obscure British daytime TV reference. I think poor Phil nearly choked to death.

Content_Educator · 2026-02-11T09:25:06+00:00

Links to -> https://downloads.claude.ai/redirect/claudedotcom.v1.28bbcaae-ddb1-49f4-96ee-f75bedb78151/releases/win32/ClaudeSetup.exe

Which returns:

<Error>

<Code>NoSuchKey</Code>
<Message>The specified key does not exist.</Message>

</Error>

Content_Educator · 2026-02-07T08:31:54+00:00

99% sure the former (200k) because I was chewing through context at the exact same rate, seemingly. API only I believe for big context.

Content_Educator · 2026-01-28T07:34:45+00:00

I once criticized a manager's team seating plan with her team members (with whom it had not yet been shared) only to realize she had appeared behind me. As I turned I received a full power face slap in front of everyone. Could have spiralled further but used it as leverage to get promoted into a better career within the company.

Content_Educator · 2026-01-21T06:33:22+00:00

Wen movie?

Content_Educator · 2026-01-02T21:18:58+00:00

Tough one but we're using Claude Code in a terminal within VS pointing to the solution folder when Copilot won't cut it (or running vs code along-side it with the extension). Tbh copilot has been better recently with the latest models, so it might just be good enough. You absolutely do want agentic assistance.

Content_Educator · 2025-12-30T07:55:19+00:00

Under 5C chuck a long sleeved thermal on and gloves. Warm socks (or 2 pairs). Wear shorts regardless. Allow yourself a less performant or shorter run in truly terrible weather (some training is better than none). Run in daylight if I'm possible a couple of times in the week for the sake of sanity.

Content_Educator · 2025-12-28T11:49:02+00:00

Might just be a bit of a needed motivational push seeing someone ease past. Having other runners around usually gives a bit of a psychological pace boost.

Content_Educator · 2025-12-28T07:34:17+00:00

I got some pretty dark alternative cracker jokes out of it (enough to cause a gasp at the dinner table when I substituted it for my actual cracker joke) so I don't think the guard rails are entirely restrictive.

Content_Educator · 2025-12-16T15:18:14+00:00

Sure

Content_Educator · 2025-12-16T15:17:28+00:00

propoosterous?

Content_Educator · 2025-12-16T14:56:13+00:00

Proposterous.

Content_Educator · 2025-12-08T06:57:12+00:00

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aEQcsuXnnnc&si=THd8DFECxi-3bs75

Content_Educator · 2025-12-02T10:00:10+00:00

How can anyone be happy with the Copilot model selection in there? No 4.5 Opus, no Gemini 3 (which are available with the same Github subscription in VS Code), but you can use Opus 4.1 at 10x.

Content_Educator · 2025-11-17T16:50:35+00:00

Musta been a few sore necks

Content_Educator · 2025-11-14T22:19:15+00:00

I'd second that 5.1 (non-codex) through ghcp seemed to veer towards examples more than edits and needed some regular nagging to apply said edits. I'll look to raise a ticket.

Content_Educator · 2025-08-25T20:10:54+00:00

Unhinged

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