Somewhere, Every UUID Is the Same
Someone on HN claimed they got a UUID v4 collision with 15,000 records. The best response wasn't a debugging tip.
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Someone on HN claimed they got a UUID v4 collision with 15,000 records. The best response wasn't a debugging tip.
The Safety Commitment Anthropic Is Taking to Court
On April 8th, Anthropic filed in the D.C. Circuit against the United States Department of War. Tech press missed it. That's a mistake.
Super Connectors Are Ruining Your Customer Graph
Building customer identity graphs at scale means confronting nodes that touch tens of thousands of records — and deciding that connecting them would make your model worse, not better.
Tomato, Gruyere & Dijon Tart
The key is salting the tomatoes first. Everything else is just assembly.
Potatoes Cooked in Chicken Fat
Not roasted. Not boiled. Something better.
Spatchcocked Chicken with Leeks & Potatoes
Butter under the skin, schmaltz in the pan, leeks doing most of the quiet work underneath. The fastest way to roast a whole chicken without cutting any corners.
Gen X Didn't Want to Be Seen. That Turned Out to Be a Strength.
Gen X grew up before there was a platform for the self. That constraint, it turns out, was formative.
The Drill Bit Taped to the Box
A handmade record cabinet ships from Colorado on a freight pallet, with a drill bit taped to the side for unpacking. This is not how software ships — and that's the point.
Bachelor Party Does Not Equal Marketing Event
The format defines what behavior is possible. Budget is almost beside the point.
Spring from a Brooklyn Rooftop
Late April, downtown Brooklyn. The trees are finally in and Manhattan is doing its thing in the distance.
DUMBO at Dusk
The Manhattan Bridge doesn't care about your timeline. It's been here longer than whatever you're worried about.
Blue Hour Under the Bridge
There's a twenty-minute window after sunset when the city lights and the sky reach equilibrium. This is what it looks like from DUMBO.