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building @polylanehq because nobody should be on-call in 2026 | prev @cloudflaredev, @baselimehq (acq), aerodynamicist, physicist
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    @boristane
    Jun 7
    nominal dot dev is now polylane.com :)
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    Polylane · nobody should be on-call in 2026
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    boris
    @boristane
    Mar 2, 2024
    I deleted a few TBs of data from s3 cost me $270 to **delete** data
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    boris
    @boristane
    Feb 8, 2024
    it looks like aws is building a new JS runtime and it has over 10x faster cold starts and is up to 2x cheaper on lambda 🤔
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    boris
    @boristane
    Apr 9, 2024
    TIL cloudflare has a real-time video service build your own zoom
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    boris
    @boristane
    Nov 5, 2025
    anthropic just published a blog highlighting a pattern I've been using for weeks: a search tools tool instead of loading all tools into the context window of the model, I load a "search tools" tool the model can use to browse a catalog of tools just-in-time tool discovery
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    boris
    @boristane
    Nov 2, 2025
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    boris
    @boristane
    May 14, 2021
    I quit my full-time job today
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    boris
    @boristane
    May 27, 2023
    I don't really understand why we keep trying to "estimate" how much time building software would take engineers know it's bollocks tech leads know they are useless PMs know it's finger the air estimations yet so many teams still do this silly dance
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    boris
    @boristane
    May 27, 2023
    software is not about writing code 🤦
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    Chase Roberts
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    May 26, 2023
    Cost of writing a single line of code... Software developer: $8.40 GitHub Copilot: $0.008 Assumptions: Median dev salary = $105k 250 working days per yr 50 lines of code per day Copilot = $100/yr Realistically, a dev oversees Copilot & could ship more than 50 lines w/ 🤖 help.
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    boris
    @boristane
    Apr 17, 2024
    maybe it's not up to you to decide wether changing to main changed something
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    DHH
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    Apr 15, 2024
    "Changing master to main changed less than nothing. Because nothing was or is ever enough in this arena. As soon as this word battle was won, it was just on to the next and the next (and the next)." world.hey.com/dhh/forcing-ma…
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    @boristane
    Oct 21, 2022
    I spoke with a team yesterday that is moving away from serverless in favor of managed k8s on aws it wasn't an easy decision for them and they went through a thorough review of their architecture the reasons they highlighted to me are:
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    boris
    @boristane
    Jul 3, 2021
    made it to $100 MRR
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    @boristane
    Nov 28, 2023
    this is game over single millisecond latency on s3 bruh
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    boris
    @boristane
    Apr 5, 2024
    some news ⛅️⛅️⛅️
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