kwakubiney

What’s happening in May?

I love it. I use it all the time to communicate to my agents via opencode.

Might be a noob question, but why can't EVs have solar panels on them directly so they can get charged just by moving around? Or why can't we have SVs(Solar Vehicles)? Why do we have to use solar panels on EV stations rather than just having them on the vehicles themselves?

Interesting. Currently building something simpler with outbound[1]. Decided to go with gRPC instead, but mine is mostly focusing on developers, for basic HTTP service reverse tunneling.

[1]https://github.com/kwakubiney/outbound

Nope! This is for development purposes only. Say, for example, you have a frontend team that wants to connect to a service, and that service talks to other services to get a response, and you sort of want like a central point of connection for the frontend team just for development purposes only, not for production.

I’m working on a small deployment tool called push2start[1]. The goal is to make Docker Compose apps easier to deploy from a laptop to a remote server without a lot of custom scripts. Right now, I’m trying to keep Compose as the source of truth and avoid creating another mini orchestrator. You point it at a compose file, it transfers only the images that need to come from local, then deploys and gives status, logs, and restart controls from one CLI.

[1]https://github.com/kwakubiney/push2start

every DERP server used by your tailnet must be accessible by every node on your tailnet at all times, otherwise you get hard-to-debug netsplits.

What would allow a given pair of nodes access a peer relay? Isn’t the peer relay by default also accessible by every node on the tailnet since it’s in the tailnet as well?

Remixify[1]. What I mean to do is target DJs and people who love to own their playlist curating process. We aim to help people find remixes to their favourite Spotify playlists. Alt versions, club mixes, remixed versions, whatever. Come build your new experience.

[1] https://remixify.xyz

Naive question maybe but how haven’t the models been trained on your answer if it’s on SO?

Complications and Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. Made me appreciate modern medicine more. One other l book that shifted my thinking completely about AI and how far we are from AGI: A Brief History Of Intelligence by Max Bennett. Evolution is a heck of an algorithm.

Also read Apple In China. Was pretty interesting to realize how much Apple (and China) are what they are because of how much they poured into each other

Oops! Seems to load for me. Does it still hang for you?

Glad it fits a case you have! Always open to feedback too!

I'm building a utility to help DJs find "play-out" versions of tracks they already like[1]. You can play with it here[2]. Streaming services are optimized for Radio Edits. But to actually mix a track, I usually need the Extended Mix, Club Edit, or a specific Remix. Manually searching for the "DJ version" of every single track in a 50-song playlist is tedious administrative work that kills the joy of digging.

Remixify automates the search while leaving the selection to you. You paste a Spotify playlist URL, and it helps you or provides you a good starting point for digging. It groups the results by the original track so you can quickly preview and save the versions you want to a new playlist.

We don't try to recommend new music or use AI to guess your taste. It just finds the usable versions of the music you already selected.

[1]https://github.com/kwakubiney/remixify

[2]https://remixify.xyz/

Feigning confidence might even be the hardest part of this all.

I resonate highly with this. Especially when brainstorming ideas with my manager. He's very quick with suggestions, and I am always saying ehhh I don't know let me think about it. I have realized that him giving me ideas quickly to iterate on is beneficial because I am always able to refine it. I still do think it is a deficiency in some sense as I would have loved to be one of those guys who could just grok stuff instantly and contribute quicker

Let me give you guys a perspective from someone who did Electrical Engineering in Africa. There are hardly any job openings centered around electronics so the programme/curriculum is Power Engineering heavy. Most of the professors did research around this area, and there were very few who did anything in the sciences. I had the chance to pick some electives from the Computer Engineering department, but this was just during my third and final year of university. Unlike OP, I did not have an issue breezing through circuit problem sets, though they felt very repetitive, I was not bad at it, nor did I fail any classes.

I had an eye opening experience when I had my first taste of programming when I took C programming in my second year of university. What do you mean I can run a command and see instant output? Amazing! This was not the case for my electronics and power engineering lab sessions. We were using equipment that had been around since the 80s with little to no supervision. Just a bunch of routine "experiments" which I can barely remember any of. In my third year, I took Digital Computer Design (a C.E elective) and I realized I had been wasting my time learning about how the power grid in my country works. I tried my best to salvage as much as I could by picking more C.E electives, albeit not many available, did as best I could.

Everyday I wonder, how different would my life have been if I studied CS or even CE, I do not know. But, I appreciate the little this journey taught me, that you can always squeeze lemonade out of whatever lemons life gives you. I see my old EE notes now and they don't make sense to me, but I appreciate the happy chills solving circuit problem sets gave me. I work in software now, and I get that 1000x more, and that is how I know I made the right choice.

Haven’t felt it in so long, but it’s what keeps the bills paid

I don't think we will get to a point where we can safely mitigate the risks associated with this. It is almost futile to pull this off at scale, and the so called "benefits" are not worth the tradeoff.

I don’t know how I feel about the assumption that model training isn’t an engineering problem

Nice project. Filtering took forever though.

Not a very friendly API

Ah right, but this does not support bidirectional streaming so I won't be able to get the remote stdout on the client, I guess.

Is there a way I can use this to run remote commands on another host? Something similar to what ssh does?

Thanks

I use it to practice Leetcode problems

I would love to get my hands on this, please share if you can :)

Sorry to hear. I have never worked for Google or any corporation of that scale but I got my fair share of a harsh layoff two years ago (at a reasonably small company). The company used to run a hybrid shift, with specific days for remote and onsite. We got a mail (from the higher ups) a day before saying no employee should show up at the office the next day, under the guise of a fumigation exercise. The next day shows up, I am in a meeting with my colleagues (a regular standup), a fraction of my teammates receive an email with an meeting invite link. We join the meeting, our mics and cameras were automatically turned off by the host/organizer, the CEO's face spotlit in the meeting, he then delivered the news in a very cold way, the meeting ended, we were logged out of all company accounts in the next 15 minutes, that was the last team meeting we had :)

Yeah pretty fair to say. The company is in a domain where accuracy is very important and crucial because we deal with people’s money, but most products are also in a market where competition is high so moves must be made quickly.I have not been there for long but it seems in the beginning, the foundation laid because of fast shipping culture has caused all these problems.

I think this goes in line with companies as a whole as well. I work at a place where features are pushed at a very very high speed and we have realized that the tradeoff is us missing pretty crucial edge cases in our development. Now i’m not sure if people have worked in a place where they shipped products fast but were able to minimize bugs but i’d love to hear how your company achieved that. Is it even possible? Does it all come down to hiring to suit your fast paced needs?

I think I can help your team out. Do you support relocation?