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I don't want to invalidate your experience at all, but I find exactly the opposite.

I do a lot of video pair programming, and I feel supremely comfortable screen/video sharing. Getting to work on my own machine with my own IDE and shell set-up, my own hardware in my comfortable home office, 10000% better than awkwardly scratching at a whiteboard speculating about what may or may not work if committed to code.


I've always chosen to go the hard-way (use terraform) for lambda because all my other infra is in terraform, do any of those other frameworks you mentioned interoperate neatly with TF? (I mean in terms of being aware of one another, being able to use similar/same resource tags, pick-up env vars for lambda exposed by TF (e.g rds credentials from the KMS), etc?)


There’s CDK-TF that was already mentioned in another post. Apart from that I’m not sure what you mean with interoperability, because the resources can only be owned by one stack.

For sure stacks created with those frameworks can use resources that are created by Terraform in other stacks. Serverless for example has its own integration with the Parameter Store for encrypted variables, so that there’s no need to use environment variables in that use case. Terraform would then create the Paramter Store keys which SLS could reference.


Having watched the first 20 minutes of the linked video, I'm sure that's what OP wanted to share, but I got next to nothing from it.

The entire talk is about memory layouts and how nothing has a meaning unless we ascribe a meaning to it.

I don't really know what this has to do with types, or type systems, which are an algebraic concern, as far as I'm concerned.


Possibly unpopular opinion, but this generic graphic style seems completely unsuitable for a ERD tool. After clicking the link I was confused for a few seconds how poorly the site with a generic full-screen header of a (very) generic person at a laptop on a desk graphic can possibly be on the front page of HN, put a screenshot of the tool in the hero image.


The website if very confusing, after going through the front page, I still dont know if this is an in-browser app, or a desktop app

I cant click to enlarge the few screenshots (so I cant take a better look)

I cant try the tool without subscribing and creating an account

And I agree with you, replace this generic gif of a a person sitting on a desktop with a screenshot of the tool or something more relevant


Dude, I agree with you, too!


Agree, I can't tell enough about this tool from looking at the website to decide whether I want to sign up or not. I want to try it out, but there's no demo and I'm not signing up just to find out what the product is.

Owner: I say this not to be harsh but as an honest piece of advice: if you want to catch my interest, show me a demo.


I agree 100%. There are quite a few design issues with the site (which isn't unexpected on a DB tool like this), but this generic graphic style is not only not relevant to this application, it's the most overused style out there right now. It actively works against the brand, nothing memorable sticks out.

I'm not trying to be negative, but the site is not doing the business any favors.


I think that's an accurate portrayal of the "ivy league" type unis in the UK. They may not be what they once were, but they have a particular romanticism about them that people aspire to attend them.


Exactly, and often times extraordinarily valuable because they can be used for reverse engineering, or learning how the key signing or DRM works, or can be bypassed.

Of course, most legitimate indie communities stay away from this, preferring clean-room RE efforts.


Would love some pointers too, I've run into it once implement in a way j could t circumvent and was blown away. I'd love to develop the skills to do the same myself.


This comment probably doesn't add to the conversation, so I apologise in advance.

We make extensive use of Sonos and Amazon Echo products in our household and have two young children (3 and 5) the older one doesn't like issuing instructions for the Echo devices because he pauses occasionally and it somewhat aggressively "SORRY, I CAN'T HELP RIGHT NOW".

A bigger problem we've noticed is that things "drift". We've got muscle memory of asking "Alexa, play classical lullabies" or "Echo, play the skeleton dance song". Occasionally though these commands will be "hijacked" by some new content in Spotify or somewhere else.

"Alexa, play music for children" used to play nice kids songs, now it plays some murder-metal album called (one assumes ironically) "music for children", prior to that match, it seems like it was a search, or a playlist?

And there seems to be no way to deny-list music like this. It's driving us off of Spotify in our household, "skeleton dance" plays either screaming metal artists or the cutesey kids song with about 50% accuracy, it seems.

FWIW I had the same problem with Amazon FreeTime where for 5 bucks a month you get access to 10,000 kids shows and games, which is about 9950 more than I had time to vet to check if they were appropriate for my kids.

Please, hold your criticism if you want to berate me for raising kids in a household with voice assistants and tablets, I am trying to balance exposing them to useful technology without exposing them to the underworld of utter shite that is to be found beneath those interfaces.


It sounds like you're describing HashiCorp's HCL2 and Terraform Configs which are at least a graph.

I find using AWS without Terraform to be nearly impossible.


Terraform, or Troposphere, or cfn-modules/Widdix, or CDK.

Cloudformation as a JSON/YAML vanilla config is just awful, and really exposes the inconsistancies between the different services.


Thank you sincerely for one of the most valuable interactions I've had on the internet in recent memory.

Perhaps I've been deceived by how "simple" the schematics for the Pi compute module look, and overconfident after my first experience designing PCBs. There doesn't _seem_ to be that much (that I would need) actually routed on the pi compute module (hdmi, audio, etc, etc, etc)

I always seem to forget about NXP family of chips, but indeed NXP seems to do an amazing job of supporting their products and pricing competitively.

Again, my sincere thanks <3


Reply to myself having done a bit more research

- https://docs.onion.io/omega2-project-book-vol1/omega2-intro.... looks amazing

which I found researching and filtering in Mouser's embedded computing -> system on module page

- https://eu.mouser.com/Embedded-Solutions/Computing/System-On...


You might like this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onion/omega2-5-iot-comp...

Small, runs Linux and it costs $5.


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