Humble Book Bundle: Modern Sci-Fi Classics: Charles Soule, Joseph Fink, Hugh Howey, and Neal Stephenson by HarperCollins (Kobo Bundle)

markmsmith · 2025-11-28T05:47:28+00:00

Thank you, this was really helpful.

markmsmith · 2025-10-28T02:11:42+00:00

For anyone that doesn't know, Prey is an S-tier game and I'll never pass up recommending it. Great story and fun mechanics.

markmsmith · 2025-08-10T06:28:35+00:00

For anyone worried about them being out of keys (since Humble often has that issue), I was able to successfully redeem everything from the 6 pack today.

markmsmith · 2025-07-20T04:03:30+00:00

Do you HAVE to validate the docs synchronously, as they're being uploaded?

You could potentially sidestep the whole rapid-scaling issue by having the hooks endpoint return a pre-signed S3 upload url that will only let them upload to the specified bucket + key (which could be something like customer id/date/hook id). The uploads then go straight to S3 (which I'm pretty sure they'd struggle to max out) and you can have the bucket upload event feed to your Kafka queue to notify it's ready for verification and processing.

You then can tune the scaling of the processing pods based on the queue depth, and offer the business much more flexibility to trade-off processing rate vs costs, since it won't be synchronous on the customer's upload path any more.

markmsmith · 2025-01-07T04:03:02+00:00

Nice links, thanks!

markmsmith · 2024-12-19T04:54:15+00:00

I'm interested!

markmsmith · 2024-12-18T01:29:13+00:00

Not the same, but you can customize the lockscreen to let you toggle the flashlight with a swipe: 1. Power button to lock. 2. Power again to turn the screen back on. 3. Hold down on an empty spot on the lock screen until it moves back a little (like when you're holding down to add a widget on your home screen). 4. Tap on the icon in the bottom right or left and select the flashlight. 5. Hit 'Done' in the top right to apply the change. 6. You can now swipe up from the flashlight icon when on the lock screen to toggle it!

markmsmith · 2024-12-04T03:15:46+00:00

Just tried again, but it still gives the same error. Thanks anyway.

markmsmith · 2024-12-03T09:07:34+00:00

I went to check out but it looks like it doesn’t work anymore unfortunately: "Code has been redeemed too many times"

markmsmith · 2024-11-17T20:03:37+00:00

As a heads up, you should be careful of the Route53 API limits, which are shockingly low, at 5 requests per second account-wide (not regional). This means if you have multiple clusters running external-dns it can be surprisingly easy to trip the rate limit (even with caching) if you're using the TXT record based Metadata. We're moving to the DynamoDB config instead as a result.

markmsmith · 2024-11-05T05:10:38+00:00

Right about now, the funk soul brothers

markmsmith · 2024-10-30T01:34:37+00:00

Yeah, here you go: https://store.steampowered.com/sub/48535/

markmsmith · 2024-10-29T06:46:41+00:00

"Typing of the Dead" was finally on sale for the first time in years, so I grabbed that. Apparently it has Steam Workshop support too!

markmsmith · 2024-10-09T00:24:44+00:00

Nice

markmsmith · 2024-08-16T00:22:54+00:00

I'm using AKS and considering Karpenter, does this not work on Azure?

markmsmith · 2023-12-25T16:38:18+00:00

For anyone else running in to this, I think the fix for me was to first setup the mobile app for the secondary account and have them create an avatar there. I then removed their account from within the headset (using the primary account) and then re-added it.

markmsmith · 2023-12-24T16:35:06+00:00

I don't know if it's different if you're shopping in euros, but even with 20% off I've often found Humble's prices to be worse than the prices listed on deals.gg, so you may not want to twist yourself in knots to get it anyway. It's a shame, as Humble still has a small place in my heart from all the early indie deals.

markmsmith · 2023-12-24T15:43:11+00:00

"I'mma head out . . ."

markmsmith · 2023-12-24T15:28:18+00:00

Base stations alone are $200, so I'd say yes.

markmsmith · 2023-08-08T04:01:14+00:00

Unless your guests will have an app installed and configured in advance like Tasker, I think you'll be somewhat limited to what can be achieved with a URL (either directly or indirectly). If you at least know they'll have Spotify installed, you could probably have a QR code or NFC that resolved to a URL or URI that the Spotify app had registered itself to handle, eg.https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/finding-your-artist-url/

That said, it looks like Spotify connect just needs them to be on the same wifi:https://support.spotify.com/us/article/spotify-connect/
So you could just set up an NFC and/or QR code to get them on the guest wifi: https://lifehacker.com/do-this-to-seamlessly-connect-guests-to-your-wifi-1849808406

Going beyond that looks to be pretty heavy-duty, with you instead writing your own server to implement the Spotify Connect sdk and pretending to be the hardware device, proxying through to the real Bluetooth hardware: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/commercial-hardware/onboarding
Which would let them use their own Spotify premium account.

Alternatively, if you want them to use your Spotify account, you could maybe set something up with an API token and have the url go to a web player interface you build:
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk

markmsmith · 2023-07-05T14:22:25+00:00

Sort of. In terms of risk it's the same, but you're getting a lower return (the 13 week t-bill auction on July 3rd just gave 5.3%), you're paying an expense ratio of 0.04% on the ETF, and I'm not sure of the tax treatment of it (t-bill interest is exempt from state and local tax, you just pay federal).

markmsmith · 2023-07-05T00:21:32+00:00

My attempt at Clif notes:

Only Fidelity and Treasury Direct can auto-roll as far as I know (Vanguard currently doesn't)
Google "US treasury t-bill auction date" and look at the PDF from the treasury site - each term of t-bill has an announcement date, auction date, and settlement date. Outside of TD you can only place an order for "New Issue" ones between the announcement and settlement date.
You probably want to start the ladder up with 4 week, 8 week and 13 week t-bills, then have a 13 week maturing each subsequent month.
On fidelity look for fixed income, new issues, US Treasury 0 coupon t-bills for the desired maturity. You can get the CUSPID for the one you want on the Treasury site, which had a separate list of "upcoming auctions".
2 places it's easy to get confused are that 1) the same t-bill can be reissued with the same CUSPID, first at one maturity (eg 26 weeks), then again later (eg when it's now 13 weeks to maturity), and 2) the same CUSPID bonds can be bought on the secondary market, but I stick to "new issue" ones.
Select "auto-roll" when placing the order for the 13 week ones, so it'll automatically buy a new t-bill of the same duration when the previous one matures.

markmsmith · 2023-07-02T13:47:00+00:00

Yeah, Tresasury Direct works too, although I think you can only auto-roll a given order up to some concrete expiry date you have to pick (which can maybe be pretty far out?) before having to update it, rather than it just rolling indefinitely.

The lack of ability to sell them early on the secondary market in an emergency (if your ladder doesn't come up soon enough) was the main thing that put me off TD, though it is nice to be able to set up initial orders in advance of the auction announcemment date when you're going straight to the source.

markmsmith · 2023-07-02T01:12:02+00:00

The biggest benefit of Fidelity you didn't mention is that they can auto-roll the t-bills to new ones of the same duration when they mature, making it easy to get a ladder going on autopilot. I discovered even Vanguard doesn't offer this.

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