The personal website of Jeffrey Paul.
I’ve been in Bangkok the last two weeks, and three times in the last six months. The city is incredible. It’s well over 10 million people, approaching that of Istanbul, which is the largest city in all of Europe. After a certain threshold size, you get to a point where anything humans do on Earth happens here. Every instrument that exists is played, every language that is spoken is spoken, every…
In the old days when you ran your startup, you had to focus on your core objectives very closely in the early days. You had a limited number of innovation tokens, and beyond that you had to focus on your core product exclusively. No sysadminning (Heroku/Lambda), no hard drives (S3), no databases (RDS), no CDN (Cloudflare), no geth (Infura).
It’s hard enough trying to decide if you should take a job with an early-stage startup. There’s so much uncertainty: the product, your reputation, salary (as always), and, of course, equity.
I use the fake open source project Minio to store data. It’s an AGPL-licensed S3-compatible server, marketed under the term “open source” for marketing/street cred (despite the AGPL being a nonfree license).
I frequently assert that the Affero GNU Public License (AGPL) is a nonfree license. People always seem surprised that I say this, or say I’m wrong, because the anticapitalist zealots at the Free Software Foundation have endorsed it and have got other organizations to certify it as free software.
I got an alert today for a meeting I have 24 hours from now.
As a certified Hacker News addict (like Slashdot before it), I see a lot of open source projects get publicly announced.
I just visited the Lesser Antilles for the first time, specifically the island of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, during the first week of December 2024.
I have documented and published, for the first time, my personal code style guide. It is a living document (which is why it’s in git) that I will update periodically as I consciously notice more of my longstanding habits and techniques. I estimate it’s 70-80% complete (at least for Go) presently; the other languages included are just stuff that’s off the top of my head.
I have a theory that I believe is supported by enough evidence for you to believe it, as well.