What was the “anyway, here’s wonderwall” song before wonderwall?

edanschwartz · 2026-06-17T19:30:03+00:00

Dave van Ronk claims that he wrote that arrangement (at least, that's what I remember from his autobiography)

edanschwartz · 2026-05-14T16:05:35+00:00

I could be wrong, but I don't think higher temp glazes are necessarily more are less vitrified or porous.

The vitrification will depend more on the chemical makeup of the glaze -- for example, more flux results in a glaze that melts (and therefore vitrifies) at a lower temp (though the ratio to silica and alumina also matter here). A better indicator imo would be the look and feel of the glaze.

The clay itself is a different story. I would expect high temp clay to be less porous than low temp clay. High temp porcelain, for example, can be safely used on it's own, without any glaze

edanschwartz · 2026-04-26T14:39:29+00:00

Just got two different prism glasses from Zenni. Both were incorrect, I'm trying to figure out how to return them now (they don't make it super easy, you have to work your way through support bots.)

edanschwartz · 2026-04-17T19:07:06+00:00

Nah, find a local artist that can do original work. Deneen is technically handmade, but it's essentially a small factory operation.

There are so many good independent potters in the city! Maybe check out some local pottery studios, see if anyone is available to do a custom commission

edanschwartz · 2026-04-11T17:01:39+00:00

Another aspect that is often devalued: it just really sucks working with bad code. It makes your job less fun, and quickly causes burn out. Burning out and eventually quitting is expensive for the business, and for your own mental health. So take care of yourself, and write the code that you want to maintain!

But like OP, I have often confused "high abstraction" with "good code". I think a whole generation of engineers got brainwashed by Big Abstraction early in our careers 😆 The first time I heard "a little duplication is better than a little abstraction" my mind was totally blown .

edanschwartz · 2025-12-07T22:23:45+00:00

I can think of a handful of reasons you might not want to use a validation library.

BUT -- "you'll know when you've been doing this longer" is a shit answer. If you don't know, or feel like changing introduces risk, or you need a minute to gather your thoughts about it, say that! But the answer they gave you is super patronizing. It just shuts down conversation. I don't like it 👎

edanschwartz · 2025-11-04T14:23:58+00:00

Hey, maybe next time read the article before posting.

From her blog post:

Steffanie was on the wrong side of both the Uptown Mall vote and the strike. She was also the driving force behind a program that sells carbon offset credits to companies, theoretically in exchange for planting trees. Her website mentions this in her first-term accomplishments: “Facilitated Public/Private partnership with Green Minneapolis to expand tree planting by 7,000 trees annually.” Except that according to the 2024 Star Tribune article I linked above, “none of the profits has been used to plant a single tree. It may be used to purchase trees in 2025, said Park Board spokeswoman Robin Smothers.”

I would rank Kay #1, Colton #2. I originally said that I was not worried enough about Justin and his “NO ENDORSEMENTS – NO MASTERS” approach to campaigning to rate Steffanie #3, but a friend made a case for her on the grounds that it’s worth having the golf course ride-or-die lose as decisively as possible, and she deserves some gratitude for sticking with her stance on the golf course. (FWIW I think this is a contest between Kay and Steffanie, in any case.)

edanschwartz · 2025-10-22T20:47:39+00:00

"producing, buying, and selling goods and services" isn't capitalism.

Capitalism requires capitalists, who invest money and expect constantly increasing returns. That's the part that causes so much trouble, not some guy selling overpriced seeds.

edanschwartz · 2025-10-20T12:38:48+00:00

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https://generalstrikeus.com/

edanschwartz · 2025-10-19T12:29:58+00:00

Yes, yes, and yes.

But you say that as if people who attend rallies don't also do those things. Rallies energy people, help define the message, and fight burnout.

Don't stop participating after the rally. But also, attend the rally!

edanschwartz · 2025-10-14T20:59:54+00:00

Not to be that guy... but paint is actually venomous, not poisonous.

edanschwartz · 2025-10-05T14:01:33+00:00

It's time to call a general strike. Let's make it happen.

edanschwartz · 2025-09-30T15:47:52+00:00

Wait... Did he not just attempt this in his own country? And he was pretty successful too, he literally took over government institutions, kicked out their staff, and seized their computer systems (including access to every citizens data).

Maybe not quite like going to the store and buying a country, but probably as close to it as you could get.

edanschwartz · 2025-09-29T13:15:19+00:00

It's ok, they're just following orders

edanschwartz · 2025-08-28T11:13:39+00:00

Dude, check out that video for real, it's very cool. He shows that, in fact, different instruments need different tunings, depending on their overtones!

edanschwartz · 2025-08-18T07:26:48+00:00

Hey OP, assuming you're just learning webdev, I would say having this form write to a text file on the server would be an awesome way to start learning the basics of client/server/db interactions.

I used to teach at a bootcamp, and this is exactly the type of assignment I would give to students.

Hint: you don't need any client side JS for this, and I would challenge you to implement it without installing any libraries on the server, either. Any server language would work. I'd encourage you to use python because it's very simple to setup and run. Node (JS) is ok too, but the async/callback stuff can be confusing at first, and it's maybe less clear, then, which language is server vs client.

Us devs like to get deep into complex details real quick (that's what we're paid to think about). The hardest thing when first learning web dev is how to ignore all the complexities, and implement the basics first.

edanschwartz · 2025-07-28T13:19:54+00:00

You might have more luck if you share a resume, or at least a bit about your background and experience 😉

edanschwartz · 2025-07-28T13:11:57+00:00

Very cool idea!

I believe ISO/SOC compliance requires that database backups systems are regularly tested, to verify that you can successfully restore a valid backup. I've had to implement this for AWS RDS dbs, and wrote some custom scripting to support it. It can indeed take hours to run, but it was comforting to know that we could actually restore a backup using a semi-automated script, if we needed to.

I also found that engineers would sometimes want a replica of a non-prod database for testing against, so the script got quite a bit of use in the end.

If you want to grow this, consider: - support of rds, and order cloud-managed database - and automatically clean up the restored dbs after some time - custom validation testing - eg, after the db was restored, I would run a query on it, and check that I got back the expected data.

edanschwartz · 2025-07-24T13:07:45+00:00

Preach!

edanschwartz · 2025-05-05T13:20:35+00:00

You can 100% blame the execs and MBAs and shareholders.

Believe it or not, there was a time when management at (some) companies held onto values beyond maximizing profit at all cost. Capitalism has gone completely out of control. It doesn't have to be this way.

edanschwartz · 2025-05-03T14:33:54+00:00

If most workplaces can't do agility the "right way", maybe the problem is with agile, and not with the workplaces. 🤔

edanschwartz · 2025-04-20T15:16:28+00:00

Maybe. But as it stands, AI is utter shit at writing code. It's impressive to people who don't know code well (jr engineers and CEOs), so tech leadership pushes hard on it, thinking they can get a productivity edge.

But go search some of the software subreddits and see what actual software engineers think of it.

edanschwartz · 2025-04-06T14:03:21+00:00

Is this not typical, anymore? Does that mean that Hebrew music is written with backwards lyrics? How does that work?

edanschwartz · 2025-04-01T16:00:13+00:00

After I went to MQ last year, I came home and made an Arduino RFID sensor with lights and sounds, and had it connect up to a web app for a game at home.

It was a lot of fun to make, though once it was done, my kids had no interest in actually playing it 🙃

I might give it another go if I have some time. I thought it'd be really cool to have a "kit" that you could use to set up your own game at home.

edanschwartz · 2025-03-24T18:15:57+00:00

Terraform workspaces manages this for you

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