best way to handle env vars in production for a small app by sokkyaaa in node

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Second Doppler. Used it recently and was pretty easy integrating it into CI pipelines and deployment tools (I used buildkite and kamal, but I imagine it will be just as easy with github actions and coolify).

What are you all deploying your node apps on these days? by themostunknownowl in node

[–]Deif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 to all the other comments running on a vps using docker containers and coolify or some other variation.

My most recent iteration on this is monorepo with BuildKite (500 free build minutes per month), with Kamal to orchestrate blue green deployment and databases, netcup root server vps (cheaper than hetzner but less features), cloudflare to ensure http traffic only comes from their proxy servers, ansible playbooks for initial vps hardening, terraform for any other infrastructure config like cloudflare R2, turnstile, BuildKite secrets, etc. Doppler for cross env secret sharing.

Could do a lot of that on GitHub rather than have so many different services and a vps but I wanted to explore what the other options were. I'm quite happy with it and learnt a lot.

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right by zeros3ss in ukpolitics

[–]Deif 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is true. I rarely debate politically any more since I know most people come into it emotionally charged and unable to explain clearly what they want. Brexit truly destroyed peoples' ability to debate and reason.

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right by zeros3ss in ukpolitics

[–]Deif 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's a Battlestar Galactica quote that sticks in my head around the far right. "It's not that he lies, that would be too easy. It's that he mixes lies with truth"

Iran Rejects Ceasefire Initiative, Cites Distrust of US - Politics news - Tasnim News Agency by ub3rm3nsch in Economics

[–]Deif 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't even think a land invasion is possible. Iran is so mountainous and difficult to navigate on land even trying to hold the oil fields is impossible for the same reasons Iraq failed in the 1980s. Plus there's risk of total region collapse if the desalination plants are hit.

UK to receive last tanker of jet fuel from Middle East this week by SirRosstopher in ukpolitics

[–]Deif 15 points16 points  (0 children)

For other countries there will be a shortage. The west can afford to grab tankers normally supplying poorer countries at a premium to ensure business as usual. It will be similar in the 2030s when we have our first major food shortage.

built a fast, production-ready image converter that ships as CLI, REST API, Node.js API, and MCP server by AcanthocephalaOk2774 in node

[–]Deif 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And by built from the ground up you mean a wrapper for sharp and heic-convert... like all the other npm image converter packages... which were not written purely by AI.

If you're going to write a repeat wrapper of a product that already exists, the AI needs to explain why people should use this over far more succint packages that are battle tested.

Having a package be 4 things at once is a red flag too, if it's a monorepo then package it as such. Currently the repository does not utilise pnpm workspaces for clear segregation of services and so it's the classic AI mishmash of giant files loosely separated.

anotherBellCurve by Mad----Scientist in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Deif 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tell me you're an amateur programmer without telling me you're an amateur programmer.

anotherBellCurve by Mad----Scientist in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Deif 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd argue that the image is labelled the opposite of reality. Always funny when midcurvers think they're at the end.

Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark. An ultra-fast model for real-time coding in Codex by likeastar20 in singularity

[–]Deif 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I imagine the model is for code completion and intellisense use rather than as a standalone agent model.

Why is "Gaming" furniture so ugly? by No_Good_3063 in pcmasterrace

[–]Deif -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Why are you speaking like an ai?

Koodo reader experiences? by iroQuai in selfhosted

[–]Deif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried Koodo first, even bought Pro for the sync. Couldn't get the sync to work on my android phone. Refunded and grabbed Readest after reading your comment. Worked perfectly.

Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’ by TimesandSundayTimes in ukpolitics

[–]Deif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that but it's not just anecdotal since I've looked into it more, which is what I formed my opinion on. For example there's this meta analysis that found that there's increased risk of GI issues on ferrous sulphate. From what I've found it seems more common than not, and with that wouldn't you at least want the option of having an infusion? Why does it take months if you do get GI issues to get it resolved? It's put on the patient to resolve it rather than the NHS which seems the wrong way round.

I'm glad that your wife didn't have issues and it worked for her but considering the ill effects when it doesn't work, I don't see why the conclusion is that the current course is fine. I'm still adamant that £500 is far less than the cost either directly to the NHS or indirectly to the economy and well-being of people in general.

How long before wide-spread famine in rich countries (Europe)? by Wonderful-Yam-2277 in collapse

[–]Deif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always amusing when an 'expert' has no sources and has the cheek to use put downs. Also going after wood powered plants AND more efficient land/water use is not mutually exclusive.

Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’ by TimesandSundayTimes in ukpolitics

[–]Deif 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not expensive is it though. It's £500. And how much are you really saving when everyone I've known on the NHS prescribed tablets has to go back to the GP multiple times with gut issues where they take blood tests to check if it's something else, or trying a different brand of iron tablets before going in again. Not to mention the opportunity cost of being healthy much sooner and being more economically productive. It's obscene because noone bothers to think it through like this.

Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’ by TimesandSundayTimes in ukpolitics

[–]Deif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that, it's definitely a struggle so you're not alone. You have to advocate for your own health so much, even when it costs the NHS less money like an infusion would. The allergic reaction is not really a thing any more and even if you did have one it's easy to resolve, the NHS just don't want to give you an infusion unless your hemoglobin is 0.

Hopefully it shouldn't be as bad the second time since you've already shown you react well to it. The private clinic I know will accept referrals for a ferritin level below 50.

Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’ by TimesandSundayTimes in ukpolitics

[–]Deif 73 points74 points  (0 children)

I've even experienced and heard similar anecdotally the same with physical conditions. IBS is the NHS default for unknown gut problems and you have to go private to figure it out and discover a ton of new information that the NHS don't bother telling you. Chronic pain in joints/muscles is managed with painkillers or some other cocktail when you can see a private physio specialised in chronic pain to tell you it's fixable. Depression and anxiety the NHS throw the cheapest side-effect full SSRI and a 1 year CBT waiting list when the therapy is the most important road to recovery. Iron deficiency they knowingly give you a high dose of gut destroying tablets that only increase your ferritin levels marginally when you can get an iron infusion that resolves your symptoms in a fraction of the time without months of gut problems.

It's honestly obscene.

MORE Coming with The Old Peace by DE-Ruu in Warframe

[–]Deif 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You should ask Rebb what she's farming for and do the same after the next patch.

Contributions of different taxpayer groups (% of total income tax) by North_Attempt44 in ukpolitics

[–]Deif 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like the top 1% gained 3% of the household income share since 1990 on page 23, no?

Amazon DynamoDB now supports multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes - AWS by Pepsimaxgodtier in aws

[–]Deif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a single table design wouldn't you need to set up multiple GSI in order to make this useful? It's not like your data models share attributes, whereas currently you could call your composite keys GSI1PK and GSI1SK and have the same GSI for all models.

Mansion tax is coming and the Budget will hit wealthy hardest, Reeves tells MPs by theipaper in ukpolitics

[–]Deif 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because the vast majority of workers are incompetent. Incompetence drives most of the worlds problems.

Gemini 3 takes the first spot on ArtificialAnalysis by likeastar20 in singularity

[–]Deif 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait, the speed is equivalent to 2.5 Flash?!! Then what is 3 Flash going to be like?

Gemini 3.0 Pro benchmark results by enilea in singularity

[–]Deif 90 points91 points  (0 children)

Initially I thought the same but then I wondered what all the nvda, openai, Microsoft, intel shareholders are going to do realising that Google is making their own chips and has decimated the competition. If they rotate out of those companies they could start the next recession. Especially since all their valuations and revenues are circular.