Handy 🧵 measuring latency for various firehose topologies
It's always nice when infra teams have optimized away every other bottleneck + you're down to the pure physics of geography
Note that we can already browse a snapshot by date from ufos:
ufos.microcosm.blue/collection/?...
Haven't thought through whether ordering by handle would be better, but seems worth considering
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"In other words, it is our argument that a potential loss of respectability is not the same as a loss of validity, and we have little sympathy for the argument that respectability should matter."
One downside of having a private data plane (hi @michaelblack.xyz) is it makes it harder for outsiders to debug subtle issues
In trying to figure out whether moderation played a role in some recent notification spam, I just wasted time reading REPLY_NOTIF_DEPTH logic in the wrong repo
"If UI looks good, that means developers had time to polish it, which means that they probably spent a comparable amount of time to iron out the code.
It’s a heuristic, but a reasonable one." -- @tonsky.me
When it comes to identity, people always bother
( achieving consensus is the bothersome part )