THIS should be the top comment. So much of our value comes from those bespoke VBA bowls of spaghetti code that get shit done perfectly the same way for the past 20 years that keep the business going. Even the big banks are like this. Someone else said “load bearing excel sheet” that’s pretty good.

Vibe coding a VBA interpreter would be even easier than Excel.

Sounds good. Do it.

For real! I’m so tired of hearing “don’t ask me I just work here…”

I’m going to hope they can figure things out and improve their uptime. It’s so engrained in my teams workflow at this point, tearing it out and switching to anything else would be extremely disruptive.

I did work for a group using Atlassian bitbucket once, and that had its own problems at the time. I’m still pretty sure even a degraded GitHub beats it. That is to say I don’t know what alternatives for GitHub even are

We're using gitlab.com with self hosted runners (that can access lan).

Outages only come from our infra.

Migrating means migrating your ci workflows, but a decent llm can do that easily.

That's the thing what is the alternative feels like we are just at mercy to their outages.

swarmfile supports git, self-hosted runners, is self-hosted swarmfile.com/public/swarmfile/swarmfile-server

Did a swarmfile write this message

A real human did :)

You could self-host GHE. Or Gitlab. Or Forejo.

Conditional comments are still part of HTML email templates. Though soon will be dead I hope. Thanks "classic" Outlook!

Do any web servers have meaningful updates? It’s pretty standard stuff. IIS can do quite a bit of the same things. It’s common in my industry. We set up URL rewrites, reverse proxys, asp.net, even node.js or python (flask) based apps using WSGI. Separate app pools for everything all on the same server sometimes. It’s never been a bottleneck because it’s pretty streamlined code. Haven't had any security issues with the web server ever. It’s nice there is a GUI but when you start looking at the configuration (xml based) a lot of the directives are familiar if you’re used to nginx.conf or httpd and with htaccess (web.config) in site directories.

I am always a bit annoyed with having to install URL rewrite module by hand as it is not included in windows server installation checkboxes.

Not OP but the API limits are for the earth imagery tiles which cost paid credits from Google. Not the flight info.

I think they were talking about the Flight Wall, which doesn't use Google Earth imagery, only flight data

The event could be when fair pricing comes from the model providers. We're still at the cash burning stage. When the economy crashes a little and departments start monitoring their spending, and the prices for inference are 10x what they are, there will be less tolerance for employees to substitute constant AI usage for understanding.