๐จโ๐ป CTO @GreenManGaming | Ex-Twitter, AWS, Sainsburyโs ๐ฎ Levelling up tech, teams & the occasional RPG ๐ก Complex problems? Consider them patched
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Lee Packham retweeted
My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph
Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints
Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com
Lee Packham retweeted
I told Claude to make a video about what it's like to be European
One day later...
Lee Packham retweeted
Hey. We have made some changes this morning, and playing on the beta from the EU should feel much smooth now. Thank you for your patience, and for your reports!
Lee Packham retweeted
I built up a ton of work I wanted to do as I waited for Fable.
I completed all of it in a day.
Idk what to do now
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I heard the reason why Amazon reported on Fable to the government is because Fable was unable to fix how bad AWS's UI is.
Lee Packham retweeted
Just to be clear:
Microsoftโs GitHub was compromised when a Microsoft developer using Microsoft VSCode installed a rogue extension from Microsoftโs VSCode extension library, which is moderated and hosted by Microsoft.
I guess Iโll be reevaluating my life choices.
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Is it just me, or did todayโs incident leave @awscloud looking unsettlingly perplexed by the emergent behavior of their own systems?
Lee Packham retweeted
In 2015 Elon wanted us to continue using MSFT SQL Server because "it's more performant" than alternatives. We presented literal proof that his assertion was incorrect. He persisted. We just moved all the important shit off sql sever anyway and no one ever told him. Moron.
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๐ Pegasus 2025.1 is out!
The first release of the year is a big infrastructure upgrade that sets the stage for future development.
It upgrades Python, Node, almost every dependency, and introduces new build flags that make it easier to turn on/off certain features.
Lee Packham retweeted
The main reason that everyone's talking about Laravel and no one is talking about Django?
It's not features, quality, speed-of-development, or anything you might expect.
It's marketing.
Laravel has always been about businesses, while Django is OSS/community-first. You can see this in the leadership, and it permeates through everything: fundraising, governance, roadmap, etc.
Laravel now has 57 million reasons to get you to use it while Django is still run by a small group of smart, dedicated, and mostly-nerdy coders living off donations.
I think there's a huge opportunity for Django to gain more adoption and mindshare. The framework and ecosystem is so, so good, but it feels like it's falling behind the likes of Laravel and Rails because no one knows how to pitch it well.
I believe with a small amount of improved tooling and marketing we could convince a lot more people to use Django and they would love it.
Currently thinking about how I can do my part towards making that happen.
