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I would love to hear more about your advice and the coaching you are giving to management. We also have a strong push to prove evidence of climbing productivity with clearly state future staffing goals. I would like to advocate for this, at even partially, enhancement and quality of life improvement for IC folks.
I use a CICD tool called Vela.(No relationship to the k8s tool also called Vela.) It's mostly docker all the way down. Reminds me of bit bucket pipelines. Maybe worth checking out if GHA is just too opaque.
I had immich running great for a while, maybe for months. It would seamlessly sync photos from phone to local home server. I was going to setup nightly outbound sync too (1 is none, 2 is some).
I updated the container for usual appliance maintenance. Entire thing is toast. Metadata files can't be read, mounted, permission issues and more. It's been four months since.
On some previous version of Samsung's UI, they followed the Apple trend of splitting the swipe down interaction, one side for notifications and one side for setting. It was extremely confusing. Luckily Samsung included a toggle to revert that change.
Lurking, occasionally commenting, rarely posting. I've read HN everyday since I started working in the industry since March 2016. I appreciate what HN is and the shared culture.
Thanks all, and have a great day.
The loss of Google Reader really does feel like the beginning of the end in retrospect.
Missing search and weird ssh control character issues are my blockers. It's great otherwise!
My team is worried about that too. We've been a java and spring shop for years. We're looking at micronaut, it's similar enough.
When I had someone from another team take a look at broadcom and what they could do to spring, they said the licenses are permissive, it will be fine. Likely not that simple.
I've been paying for NYT for five years. I remember the NYT paywall before that. I've been interested in local news so after my 5th hit in recent memory hitting my local newspaper's paywall, I finally bought a year subscription.
On the other hand, my mom used to read the physical newspaper. She would buy it at the gas station. She refuses to buy any type of news online. So it's unfortunately all Facebook and YouTube news shorts slop for her now.
We used SML in my undergrad compilers course. I really loved the language and I started exploring other languages outside of class after that.
I've used mine as a personal knowledge base that happens to be public. It's silly how many times I've come up in search results months or years later after I'd forgotten having solved this problem before.
A semi-related story: Freshmen year in college, I was about a week ahead in the sci curriculum and I blogged regularly about novel errors I encountered and how I fixed them. During lab late in the semester, I happen to look up into the next row. I found the duo there reading my blog post.
It's unfortunate that the pbtest.org tool links out to a service with an expired cert.
That's probably the same bootcamp that my friend took. I was really excited for them, but unfortunately the bootcamp was of poor quality. No enforced gates, no meaningful feedback on code quality, too little explicit mentoring on tech skills and soft skills, no support finding work at "graduation". That was in 2019, before the markets churned. Those courses were branded as UMN but we're reskinned Trilogy bootcamp materials, and there was ultimately no UMN staff involved except maybe an admin somewhere.
Good riddance indeed.
Our design team has been charged with making a refreshed, design system. That's all in Figma so far. Nothing has touched a real browser or a real device (tablet, phone). I've coached them to _try_ their design system in code sooner than later, to see if it even makes sense in real scenarios. I've coached them that they'll need multiple implementations.
At a technical level, there have been previous attempts for these shared design libraries with reusable components. We're mostly using react. The first generation the design system ended up putting all of these complex components like "Product Display" or "Order Builder" and so on, all driven by props. That resulted in prop explosion and increasingly unreasonable maintenance burdens. It also became effectively locked to the versions of React that were available when it was made - teams could not afford to upgrade either their own apps which caused the library to freeze. A second generation of repeated many of those same mistakes, not composable enough, too tied to a definite version of react, too tied to a definite version of mui, and so on. The tech piece, in addition to the people-problems, is just as hard and important too.
Adoption will be driven by funding, value and time.
Similarly to how someone else shared, I've added a Hacking Time to Friday afternoons on calendar. I've been using this time for over a year. Try a new tool, try a different approach, try cloning another team's repo, experimenting with XYZ, and so on. A lot of that has allowed me to have "just in time" knowledge of topics which helped unblock a team member or provide early recommendations for a new task.
All that said, I also read HN regularly and I know I don't touch beyond the very tip of the iceberg and that's fine.
This year my employer started using Hacker Rank as a "step in the interview process". During the first dozen or so of interviews, most candidates ended up running out of time and "failing". Well it turns out, if you look at the data for that particular question from HR most candidates also failed. It was a terrible prompt with too much code to write. In our subsequent rounds, we told the recruiters to change those questions out, and regardless of someone passes let us review with them. We told our recruiting team if someone refuses to do let code/HR, that's okay if they have some code they're willing to share and discuss instead.
I have the same desk from Costco. I'm so glad there's a lockout button on the side of mine. My cat would trigger it constantly otherwise.
I use the HACK app, a hacker news reader app, for android. It has collapsing sections and jump to next top level comment. Between these two functions reading long threads even with deeply nested comments isn't too bad.
I have my 401k managed through Vanguard currently. Previously Principal with a former employer. I have other savings and investment in other providers, managed by a financial advisor.
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities offered Gmail to students when I attended '11-'15. They allowed alumni to keep the account and I respectfully used it, though infrequently, and kept my account active with reminders to log into it every 90 days. Late last year they claimed that Google was beginning to charge much more for accounts, and those alumni accounts were going to close.
This isn't the same as the forwarding service, but maybe the overhead wasn't worth it anymore.
I haven't tried it yet but I'm guessing this will fold into a different visual representation in IntelliJ when the cursor isn't nearby. It's not pretty but if it's consistent I guess it's fine.
An anecdote: I hadn't taken the iPad seriously. It didn't have the apps I needed to get things done, either in my personal life or work life. Or it didn't have the physical aspects (why stream on a small screen when I have a TV at home?)
As I entered into a more senior work role, I refused to put work email or teams on my phone. No device management or malware on my personal device.
Instead, I found out that my company let me use an iPad with email and teams and the management software didn't infect the whole system making it nearly useless, and I could even take screenshots. It's not perfect but let me have a lighter daily carry.
All that said, I can't develop on an iPad. I think if I could get an MBA for on the go meeting type work and a mac studio for delivery, that would be fine. But then we're right back to: I refuse to have any of that stuff on my personal device.
I think this is cool. This has given a use case for llm at work, using them to prescreen ideas and generate FAQ material.
First time it worked great even with only a link. Second time I had it generate some comments based on a small prompt and kept telling me something went wrong, alternating between comments and that error state.
Good work!
Samsung often runs aggressive trade-in programs during their launch window. Later, there are first party and third party discounts and deal, plus carrier bundles too.
There's definitely price creep in the iPhone lineup and I'm sure ASP has increased because of it.
Hey, this looks great!
In your readme, in the "A bit of history", it should be `has many fewer features`
On a more technical note, I wondered if you have any stories working with Prisma and Next? It works but every ORM has its pros and cons. My annecdote with the two is on a project recently, I had issues bundling the appropriate prisma packages during a Next standalone mode build.
I read about this last year in the original Cloudflare post. Cloudflare is a darling but I thought this one was dangerous for the web too.
In my market in Minnesota, Diet coke with "plant based sweetener" is being sold in small quantities. I'm sure it's a market test, and probably good timing based on this too.
I recently saw a cool trick with css and tables. Using after pseudo selector with content and the attr css function, the small viewport layout showed the th labels without having to have two simultaneous tables in the dom. I think the downside of this could be accessibility issues, since I'm not sure if a screen reader would see those virtual labels vs literally reading what's in dom.
The cloudflare workers run as "isolates". I think of them as "browser tabs." This post helps explain better" https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containe...
I don't mind WordPress. My company doesn't use it for its marketing sites though, prefers larger more monolithic enterprise options. But it's not a startup either. From what I heard WordPress was not favored because maintenance was difficult (plugins, vulnerabilities, upgrades) and also there was uncertainty about gpl. A while ago some startups I worked were using webflow and instapage for their marketing sites.