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Alex Gleason
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I create software that empowers people online. I'm vegan btw.
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
At the restaurant today the man brought me a skewer and I said I'M VEGAN! I'M VEGAN! And he was like I know sir, SORRY our vegan skewer was so convincing to you. And this is why people hate vegans (me)
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
This cucked Stripe ad perfectly captures the state of the market image
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
Every fucking billboard in San Francisco says "AI" on it.​
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
Vibe coders: stop trying to make your app faster. Everything you do will make it slower. This is the only rule.
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
Lately I keep thinking things "didn't work​​" only to be proven wrong. Past experience is baggage.​ Let go of the preconceptions and realize it just didn't work *in that context*.​ Perhaps a novice has more potential than a senior. Brain isn't full of things that "didn't work."​ View quoted note →
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
Me and @chad did load testing against a bunch of different relay implementations, and so far strfry is in the lead with the ability to support 40k concurrent "users" (according to our K6 test criteria) on a single node. The only downside of strfry is that the database and relay server have to be tied to one machine, so it cannot be scaled horizontally without replicating all of the data across each node. Our K6 setup is here:
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
How things were before is not how things will be
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
Bluesky has been slowly locking down their API, making the data more and more inaccessible
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
Being vegan is one of the most unpopular positions you can take. It's down there with being a pedophile. Except being a pedophile has grown in popularity recently so I think now being vegan might be even more unpopular.
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
In Shakespeare you can now edit the system prompt 🎭 image
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
Who has the highest performance Nostr relay (OPEN SOURCE) vertically and horizontally scalable, full text search, index on every tag, high performance write AND read with horizontal scaling on each, Prometheus metrics? Does such a thing exist? Don't say strfry
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Alex Gleason 2 months ago
God said that you have to milk a cow into your potato.​