Devon Aguirre

Recent Next versions have experimental support for running middleware on the Node runtime, which would make the error go away without changing your imports. I would still not reach for it here - opting middleware into Node means your redirect for anonymous users now pays a Node cold start on the path of every request, which is a worse trade than replacing one JWT library.

Before optimising, work out how many requests actually hit a cold instance. Add a module-scope const bootedAt = Date.now() and log Date.now() - bootedAt < 1000 as a boolean on every request. On our app the answer was 1.8% of requests, all of them internal health checks and a monitoring probe, and no human had experienced a cold start in a fortnight.

If yours is 2% and none of them are your signup flow, you have a metric, not a problem. If it turns out the first person of the morning is always a customer, that is a different post.

Interface, one condenser, closed backs, a solid stand. Spend the rest on a duvet, a rug and two hours of moving furniture.

Compare rent against interest plus maintenance plus insurance plus tax. The principal part of the payment is not a cost, it is savings you are forced to make. People who skip that step conclude renting always wins and people who ignore the rest conclude buying always wins.

Rust. Treat every scratch you make while cutting and every bare edge, on the day you make it. I left a cut edge around a window for one winter and paid a bodyshop to fix what would have been ten minutes with a brush.

The 15 minutes in the freezer before searing is the step I would never have done on my own. Grey band was maybe 1mm this time.

That is a fair point and the reason I bought thin steaks was that they were on offer, which is not much of a reason.

Do not buy one jacket for a Manchester year, it does not exist. I tried a laminate three-season jacket for two summers and sweated through both, then bought a cheap mesh jacket with a decent armour set and the whole problem went away. Two jackets at 200 each will serve you better than one at 400, and the mesh one is the item you will still like in five years.

The 11,400 number is worth breaking down before you optimise it. Ours was 9k and about 3.5k of that was two tools with enormous nested parameter objects for filters nobody used. Trimmed those two schemas to the four fields that get set in practice and the whole budget dropped by a third without removing a single tool.

Also give it three months before judging any of them. The first two sessions of anything are always awkward and that is not information.

Agreed and I should have said so. A coercion without a counter is a bug you have agreed not to look at.

Also just accept both and normalise. You are validating at the boundary anyway:

const labels = z.preprocess(
  v => typeof v === 'string' ? v.split(',').map(s => s.trim()) : v,
  z.array(z.string())
)

This is not giving up. A retry costs a full round trip, two steps of context and a visibly confused agent; a coercion costs four lines. Fix the schema too, but stop making the user wait for a round trip over a comma.

Also check whether something else in the same deployment is quietly using the direct connection. Migrations, a seed script, a health check, or the ORM itself for schema introspection - several of them insist on a direct URL and will use DIRECT_URL if it exists in the environment. If a migration runs on deploy while the burst is happening, that is 20 direct connections arriving at the worst moment.

Easiest way to prove it: select count(*), application_name from pg_stat_activity group by 2 during the burst. If you see anything other than what you expect, there is your second client.

Agreed, and print the table once and stick it inside a cupboard door. Beats trying to remember whether it was 12 or 30 minutes at a given temperature.

I washed mine with normal laundry detergent because I could not be bothered to buy the special stuff, and it did not leak straight away, it just stopped beading. Two months later I found out what that means in a downpour on the M6, which is that the outer soaks up about a kilo of water and you get cold from the inside out even though technically nothing came through. The wash itself is fine. Skipping the reproof is the mistake, and it cost me a genuinely miserable hour.

I know two people who do this full time and neither of them would recognise your cousin's description. Both treat it as a job with capital requirements: six figure accounts, defined risk per trade in the small fractions of a percent, and roughly a third of their months are losing ones. Neither has ever described a daily income target, because a daily target is what makes you take a bad trade at 3pm to hit the number. That framing alone is the part I would push back on.

Built about twenty machines on carpet over fifteen years, no strap, no dead parts. That is not proof it is safe, it is proof the odds are decent, and I would still say what everyone else is saying: touch the case, work on the box, don't be a hero about it.

Wrapping the sharp end in a folded paper towel before sealing works too, saves the second bag.

Check where the armour actually sits when you are on the bike, not standing in the shop. Mine rode up on the forearms in a tuck and left the elbow pads halfway to my wrist, which is a very expensive way to carry foam around. The good ones have a strap or a sleeve that holds position.

That reframing helps. So the useful question is what is the minimum that keeps me safe, and the rule is just the point where I should worry.

Two safety habits before any of the tools. Pull the plug lead off before your hands go anywhere near the blade, and drain fuel outside into a proper can, not into a bucket in a shed with a water heater in it. Neither costs anything and one of them is the reason I still have all my fingers.

Disagreeing with publishing a number at all. A number on a pricing page is a commitment you will be held to on your worst week, and it buys you approximately nothing at the point of sale, because nobody has ever chosen a twenty pound tool because of the support SLA on the marketing site. What people actually want is an acknowledgement and an honest estimate in the reply itself. Say nothing on the site, over-deliver in the inbox.

How bad is the heating bill in practice? That is the number I cannot picture.

That is exactly the kind of thing I would have found out afterwards. Adding both calls to the list.

The CDN point reframes it. I had been treating cacheability as a nice-to-have rather than as the thing that decides the capacity question.