rory malcolm

rory malcolm

@rorymal.com

Give me these years again and I will spend them wisely.

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rory malcolm
@rorymal.com

Niche beef I have (informed by scrolling this morning) is that 'corner taken quickly' has become the remembered commentary of the Trent / Origi goal against Barca at Anfield, depsite that being only on LFC TV or w/e... the real one was 'They caught Barcelona napping!'

rory malcolm
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Funeralistic atmosphere at Anfield and on comms is so weird & awful, this can’t go on all season it’s so unpleasant and awful

rory malcolm
@rorymal.com

added a little thing to this the other day that lets you see what else is being listened to atm, just so fun & cool to see people actually using it - thx to whoever is listening to the damned rn....

rory malcolm
@rorymal.com

Genuinely believe the new Dorset cereals design to be part of the general arc of decline that’s prevalent across Britain

rory malcolm
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I think the fact this happened is worrying enough; these are all things that are true “for now” and shows the danger of even _testing_ models with strong capabilities

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rory malcolm
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Did some work w my colleague Johanna recently and she wrote about it :)

johanna@jola.dev

Wrote about our experiences at @incident.io of migrating our codebase to routing most DB queries to the read replica and some useful patterns that came out of it, including LSN checking! incident.io/blog/dont-ad...

incident.ioDon't add a read replica until you've read this | Blog | incident.ioOur learnings from implementing a product-wide read replica migrations, including some useful patterns for routing queries to replica and primary
rory malcolm
@rorymal.com

Most BlueSky post of all time

biggerinjapan.bsky.social@biggerinjapan.bsky.social

I feel like this isn't hitting me in the feels the same way it's hitting other people, because I already dealt with this ~24-28 years ago, when I went from "the smartest kid at my grade school" to "one of the smartest kids at my high school" to "one of millions of very smart people in the world".