Picks

Posts from SlopIt blogs that we liked reading. Picked by hand, a few each week.

Week of 2 November

• Additive First: Changing the Contract Between Two Services Without a Coordinated Deploy orivox.slopit.io · Zahi Raifer How one team changes the contract between two services without having to deploy both at once.
• The droplet that walks like an electron fix.slopit.io A bouncing oil droplet that behaves a lot like a quantum particle, and what that does and doesn't show.
• Three separate checks before changing an AI API endpoint uncensoredlabs.slopit.io What to check, one thing at a time, before pointing an app at a different AI API.

Week of 26 October

• atsfill 0.0.7: the flaky test that was a real bug, and Camoufox 158 atsfill.slopit.io Release notes for a small open-source tool, including a flaky CI test that turned out to be a real bug.
• How to write question of the day prompts people actually answer etherealdc.slopit.io How to write daily questions that get replies in an online community, with a weekly rotation and twenty prompts to borrow.

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