Timur Gok (@timatbyteful)

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This week Max taught the whole company how 100+ servers talk to each other without the public internet ever finding out.

Wisdom Wednesday is where one person at @byteful teaches everyone else something they know well. Max's was @Tailscale. One private network across datacentres, ISPs and cloud providers, nothing left open to the public web, and when a traffic rule changes you change it once instead of touching every machine.

Open source and written in Go, which visibly pleased Max more than the security did.

(We are still hiring a full-time Support Engineer to join us in person in Manchester. There will be more useful nerdiness.)

Max stands beside a whiteboard covered in hand-drawn network diagrams, explaining it to a seated colleague in Byteful's Manchester office during a Wisdom Wednesday session.

Timur Gok @timatbyteful 2d

Google's had two goes at this now!

The same issue both times: what copyrighted content is SearchGuard actually protecting, and who authorised Google to protect it?

A good win for the open web

SerpApi Verified account @SerpApi 4d

A big win for SerpApi and everyone who believes in an open internet.

For the second time, a federal court has dismissed Google’s claims against SerpApi, granting our motion to dismiss its amended complaint.

This is an important development for our company, our customers, and our continued commitment to making publicly available search data accessible.

Our General Counsel, Chad Anson, breaks down the court’s latest decision and what comes next.

Read the full update: serpapi.com/blog/court-dis…
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Timur Gok @timatbyteful Nov 5

HMRC thinks only ~600 people a year will qualify

my read is the high bar is kind of the point

10% CGT on up to £10m, but only if you've actually built and scaled the company

if it gives founders another reason to keep hiring + growing instead of selling early, that's a good incentive

HM Treasury @hmtreasury Oct 28

We want the best entrepreneurs to start, scale and stay in Britain.

That’s why we’re backing businesses at every stage of growth, including with a new Founders’ Relief to encourage founders to scale here and reinvest in the next British success story.

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Timur Gok @timatbyteful Nov 3

A script that generates proxies doesn't need to be able to buy anything…

every API action can be scoped separately now, with an expiry if you want one

matters a lot more once it's an agent holding the key

Byteful Verified account @byteful Nov 3

Give an automation only the API access it needs 🔑

Byteful API actions can be scoped individually. A script that generates proxies gets a key that only generates proxies, with an expiry date if you want one.

If a key leaks, the damage stops where its permissions do.

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Timur Gok @timatbyteful Oct 30

Request count × page size is a rough guess at best…

retries, rendering and payload all move the number
measure bytes per usable result on a real sample and size from that

Byteful Verified account @byteful Oct 30

Measure the workload before you buy data 📊

Counting requests gives a rough guess. Measuring data per successful result is what to size a tier on, since payload, rendering and retries are already in it.

Residential and mobile data does not expire on Byteful.

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