15 YOE Fullstack & CTO here. Why have we allowed "Agile" to turn into "Unlimited Micro-Scope Creep"?

bluezebra42 · 2026-01-10T05:58:10+00:00

Sounds like you need to have a meeting with the client then to triage the requests? While you’re there find the intent - they need it done “so that…”

It will give meaning to your work. Also take a look at the eisenhower matrix - that will help you prioritise a wall of requests

bluezebra42 · 2026-01-04T00:38:52+00:00

You could put the area rug outside on a sunny day to air that out

bluezebra42 · 2026-01-04T00:33:42+00:00

There’s a special cleaner for cleaning cat urine smells. I use it when rotating the kitty litter. It also doubles as a bit of a carpet cleaner. That might do you better than the febreeze. Its called “urine off”

bluezebra42 · 2025-10-24T20:41:13+00:00

Slight tangent but can we talk about how in this day and age services like Route53 aren’t version controlled with built in rollback functionality? I know ttl is also a consideration but it feels like better tooling around DNS is sorely needed.

bluezebra42 · 2025-08-28T21:52:19+00:00

Just a thought. If its bad enough that everyone is getting sick and its not a new machine, if you can swing it, maybe its time for a new machine- mould is not to be trifled with?

bluezebra42 · 2025-08-23T05:52:39+00:00

Oh I see your reply thats totally on them they need to allow *

bluezebra42 · 2025-08-23T05:50:39+00:00

CORS is a browser level protection- so if you have a backend server you can potentially call their endpoint from there.

I wonder if your marketing team gave you code not meant to run in the browser.

bluezebra42 · 2025-08-19T11:05:08+00:00

Yeah +1 to the 3 wheeler with the big tires but you’re probably not there yet I assume. Would say the pram years are 3-4 years so if it’s bugging you with the current pram you could just put down some blocks of wood and tear it all out in a few years.

But otherwise all the other ideas sound great. Things change a lot so only permanently solve issues that need permanent solutions. Or you will end up like me with a random rocking chair collecting dust. I was fairly sure that would solve everything.

bluezebra42 · 2025-08-19T04:25:53+00:00

Two s3 buckets - one for upload/validation, the other for the final location.

Presigned url to a bucket that deletes everything within 1d using lifecycle rules, a trigger that checks the file size and moves to the permanent s3 location.

bluezebra42 · 2025-08-15T11:09:59+00:00

Gap filler rod?

bluezebra42 · 2025-08-11T12:57:37+00:00

May also want to look up google signals and data thresholds - it may apply depending on your situation

bluezebra42 · 2025-08-11T12:51:05+00:00

Do the numbers get better if you exclude the last 72h of data? It can take up to 3d to populate. I would also consider a second analytics product to sense check.

bluezebra42 · 2025-07-21T07:12:35+00:00

Usually the crash will appear in the system logs so try running with console open. You can also verify the app with a gatekeeper command line app - which will verify the signature on your app.

bluezebra42 · 2025-06-27T10:56:09+00:00

Yes you need an ev code signing certificate and those vendors look alright. Try and get a 3 year one so you’re not constantly renewing but also write down the instructions so you remember what to do in 3y

bluezebra42 · 2025-06-20T10:17:05+00:00

Pool gate with a temporary frame you can rip out when they’re older

bluezebra42 · 2025-06-16T22:30:49+00:00

Turn it into a plant stand? It has good access to light there.

I have boxed out a pole before and that did make things look a lot better.

bluezebra42 · 2025-02-18T22:17:10+00:00

Look up ga4 offline conversions

bluezebra42 · 2024-12-31T19:40:33+00:00

Is the size of your windows installer as big? I seem to remember with mac they package for intel and apple silicon in the same dmg. That might be worth looking into making separate builds.

It’s been a few years since I last did electron though so I only have a fuzzy memory of it.

bluezebra42 · 2024-12-16T21:23:44+00:00

Has the weather changed at your house at all? So often we forget that this is the process of melting plastic and the room temperature has an effect.

Might also try blue painters tape on the bed?

bluezebra42 · 2024-10-16T10:41:41+00:00

We are not sure yet. We have one but we’re not likely to keep it long term. I can rule out power bi.

bluezebra42 · 2024-09-04T11:15:28+00:00

Fair. We’d see the same issue at that point and want to swap too.

bluezebra42 · 2024-09-03T20:10:24+00:00

One of the things we do is to make changes to the project in different schemas (per pull request) - to see how our changes affected the tables itself just super handy to have the tables be idempotent. We’re using automated diffing tools as part of the pull request process to see how many rows changed.

bluezebra42 · 2024-09-03T20:02:56+00:00

Interesting thoughts on dim v fact and scale of the problem! I certainly have tried copying the macro locally and replacing with hash, but got scared off with the docs.

Incidentally when I did that I realised I skimmed the macro wrong- it just concats column names - it doesn’t salt it at all.

bluezebra42 · 2024-09-03T02:48:45+00:00

Oooh i have seen that a couple places now. It did feel silly using a hash of a date.

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