“Sign in with Apple” allows me to use a random “Hide My Email” address for services that I can’t bother with so it’s absolutely a godsend for me.

In January they laid off 28% (21 employees) which meant they had 54 left after the January layoff round.

Last week they laid off ~43 (as per the laid-off employee’s blog post above).

Does that mean they now have only 9 employees left? Did I do the maths right?

Update: my bad. The last layoff around was January 2023. It has been 1 year 4 months since.

Sorry for not being clear — I meant 43 ex-Gitpodders joined our alumni group. That includes all layoffs to date, people who left or was fired.

I got the Deutschlandticket for May and am tempted to travel from Berlin to Stralsund. Using RE/RB for this journeh takes more or less three hours without any train change (so not having to deal with the possible delay(s) and missing connecting rides), however I do hope the operator supports reserving a seat in advance with this subscription, cause otherwise showing up at the station not knowing for sure I'd have a seat would deter me from using this offer and instead just book ICE/IC (if any).

Very few regional trains allow for reservation. See https://www.bahn.de/angebot/zusatzticket/sitzplatzreservieru...

reserving seats in rb/re trains? Never heard of it.

Yeah, 60GB (“big”) and there is a “large” act’s Docker image whose size is 16GB: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/107#issuecomment-760376...

Silly ask but is this similar to Atlassian Assist? https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220442/atlassian-ass...

Not a silly ask. I’ve seen B2B Success Teams be very successful setting up a private channel for clients and using Atlassian Assist.

This feature isn’t marketed by Atlassian. It Jira Service Desk provides the “backend” to the support experience, providing private comments, threads, the ability to merge multiple conversations that pop up in Slack, and link up support requests to active development in Jira.

The only downside is I believe JSM is limited to 5000 external users. Not a huge issue for B2B Success. Considering a external user is only created when a support request via the :ticket: emoji is used.

Same for me. Extending an internal API with simple queries took me half a day to get my mind around to. Learning about a warehouse system with a bazillion schemas, toggles and cogs and endless conditionals can while a few days of mine and I came out feeling happy and content, and wanted to do more, nonstop.

I am in a similar situation. Lately I repeat to myself: "do not what you can, do what you must" to fight off my fight/flight response. It works about 40% of those situations that I was in.

Being a Distinguished Engineer is the highest there is for an engineer. He moved away from management and max'd out on the engineering track.

https://college.lclark.edu/programs/entrepreneurship/firesid...

Yeah, and Amazon HR might be forced to create newer, higher rungs just for alv (and quite possibly a few others like James Hamilton and Eric Brandwine).

The "self-demotion" is real though, especially since, according to the (much disputed) book, The Everything Store, alv declined Bezos' offer to lead AWS, and the job then of course was Andy Jassy's (who took over from Colin Bryar) which laid the foundation for him to eventually become the CEO-elect of one of the most enduring companies of all time.

I mean, in an alternate universe, alv is the CEO-elect :) Imagine the scenes!

Amazon is great, but it's hardly "one of the most enduring companies of all time" yet. It's not even 30 years old.

It’s a prediction based on its continued meteoric rise and given its net worth.

Just like Standard Oil I guess...

He probably made the right choice for himself, I suspect the CEO role is something he'd want nothing to do with, as it's all meetings, no coding.

I once looked into authen/authorization with Kafka topics and whether one can only be allowed to subscribe to specific ones and came up short with any solution to how to do it with Kafka. From my POV, points: 1 to 4 listed above now have been moved to one single point (Kafka) and its capabilities are a lot limited than those other tools/entrypoints (of data access) mentioned. Have there been new development to Kafka's IAM?

You could inject a custom authorizer and use something like OPA for fine grained access control. See https://github.com/Bisnode/opa-kafka-plugin for an example.

I appreciate these public comments on logistics issues like exchange rate and the sharing of service providers very much. As a freelancer in Viet Nam, this came up multiple times whilst I started out and even though my rate delta was only about 20-25%, that was already something.

Best of luck to you two.