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I'm a keyboard nerd.. After nearly 15 years on an Advantage, I went down the rabbit hole all the way down to 34 key boards, and everything in between. But you know? The *best* developers I know, use a cheap keyboard, usually a Dell one, that you can find closets full of and have never thought about switching. Funny. I've bought of a few of these devs nicer mechanicals as gifts, and they've never been appreciated.

The same happened here. Also approved.

It's nice that some people have the option to do this.

"Clanker" has outlived its cuteness. Armin and Mario are intelligent guys, then I hear them say clanker on the podcasts, whatever... Enough already ;)

I do like OpenCode, and have been using it in and off since last July. But I feel like they’re trying to stuff too much GUI into a TUI? Due to this I find myself using Codex and Pi more often. But am still glad OpenCode and their Zen product exist.

A couple months ago, the battery in my Sony wh1000xm3’s failed to hold any charge at all. Was an easy replacement tho and they’re as good as new.

50s here. I love building and designing software to solve problems. For years now I haven’t liked the actual coding part. AI has given me a super power.

I do this with an extension. I run all bash tools with bwrap and ACLs for the write and edit tools. Serves my purposes. Opens up access to other required directories, at least for git and rust.

I think I published it. Check the pi package page.

Do you feel the same way if the CLA is to assign copyright to an non profit foundation that is a steward of that open source project?

This initially excited me, but its pretty poor compared to what Chrome and Chrome based browsers provide.

I want profiles. For example, work and personal. Different bookmarks, different plugins. Even some different settings.

Not free after a certain point then gets expensive fast as you move out to CDNs.

I recently tried Vibe (https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe) from a recording of a meeting taken on one side. It was able to identify the speakers. As Speaker 1, 2, etc. But still useful to see.

I’m grateful for the likes of you out there.

I fall into the 25 year of experience category. Probably a few more. For me, this agentic coding couldn’t have come at a better time. I still love thinking about solutions to problems and creating those solutions. I’m becoming less and less interested in the implementation details of those solutions.

I tend to use Claude Code in 2 scenarios. YOLO where I don’t care what it looks like. One shot stuff I’ll never maintain.

Or a replacement for my real hands on coding. And in many cases I can’t tell the difference after a few days if I wrote it or AI did. Of course I have well established patterns and years of creating requirements for junior devs.

Both of my wife's parents died with cancer in their 60s before MAID. These days we're seeing the parents of others, and even our peers choosing MAID. It breaks my wife's heart every time that MAID wasn't available to her parents.

Solid-Start.

I work on a fully open project that sustains itself… And we really push for a ticket before any major work is done just to make sure it fits our scope.

At the end of the day most contributions come from people as part of their job, and they move on. We’re left to maintain it.

I don't want to hijack this thread, but what does Django do?

I ask, cause I have a service that is a Rust backend (kind of specialized in what it does) + a SolidJS frontend... But I've seen a potential area for growth, I didn't imagine at first, and that would be stuff like user profiles, authentication, and managing stuff. And I really don't want to cut all this more "CRUD" like stuff in Rust and an SPA. I don't know Ruby, but have done some rather large Python projects in the past, just never ventured into Django land.

A great tool I still use everyday.

I've been using Restic since 2017 without issue. Tried Kopia for a while, but its backup size ballooned on me, maybe it wasn't quite ready.

I do the RedHat side of support for our open source project. And when I do have to spin up real RedHat for something, it’s always a pain of fixing up some licensing or another.

I use Callcentric for this. Ported a land line over years ago. It now has SMS which I can do using the Callcentric app. And it forwards voicemails to me with email. Otherwise I don’t use that line for actual calls anymore.

Can you expand on that a little?

I've asked if this practice is OK or normal in the past. People really don't like it, and I think we're trending away from it.

I lump participating in Hacker News comments as social media.

Not special. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

I often reach for Rust when Python could do, but it’s a bit bigger than a one page of code program. I also forget I’ve been doing Rust nearly full time since late 2015. And before that 15 years of C and understanding memory, etc. Maybe we’re just a rare breed.

Thing is, if that applicant comes in that we just can’t refuse then we might create an opening. Which kind of goes back to my original question.

What would have you apply?

I'm old, been in this business a long time but never really on the hiring side. And the few job switches I've done have all been because a contact convinced me to come on over sorta thing.

We try to get back to them asap with a message along the lines that they don't have the skills we're looking for right now, but will keep them in mind for a few months should things change.

We've yet to catch a superstar with this strategy.. I wouldn't even call it a strategy. At one time we did have these positions open and ready to fill, we just never took them down after filling, just to see what trickles in.