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So I wouldn't mind to lose my job for almost any other reason. Bad market, company pivot, even my own stupid mistakes... fine, thats life. But losing it because of the love I put in my open source projects? C'mon man,…

I asked Claude: > In "The pre-release suffix indicates a version is a pre-release. Pre-release versions sort before the corresponding release versions. For example, v1.2.3-pre comes before v1.2.3.", Why do they mention…

Hi. I'm looking for a programmable watch with wifi. Ideally I should be able to write custom programs/apps for the watch to display whatever I want to on them (e.g., make the watch make an https call to a server,…

So the other day I read the post https://brandon.wang/2026/clawdbot, and what surprised me wasn’t the AI part of it, but how busy the author is. I really believe he needs all that AI help to get on with his life,…

A year ago or so, I went through the "classic" tech interview. Not faang, but not an unknown company either, so something one or two levels below faang. Good pay, lots of senior+ engineers, and a tough environment where…

So, I'm not sure what kind of developer I am. I would say that the following is what defines me: - I read tons of technical books and manuals. I don't remember all the details of course, but if at work some problem…

I'm not sure if it's just me getting older or what, but something strikes me as odd about the future of programming and software engineering: LLMs are impressive, but you have to pay to use them. I can't recall another…

I have forty-something days to enable 2FA on my GitHub account. Nothing against 2FA in general, but GitHub requires me to either provide my phone number (for sms), or install apps (GitHub app or one to get 2fa codes).…

When talking about "systems design" people usually refer to books like DDIA, System Design Interview, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, etc. I find these books very theoretical and while interesting, I…

I've worked in the past with PHP, Java, Python, and JS/TS. The worst aspect of typed programming languages in large codebases was, without a doubt, the lack of types. The biggest issue with Java and TS wasn't the…

Perhaps it's due to the current market situation and the bunch of layoffs that happened in the last years. I feel like software engineers (seniors and above, mainly) are less "friendly" overall. I mean: - if you go and…

I have noticed that no matter what kind of company I work for, I have developed this sort of disdain towards my employer. People talk about “owners” vs “mercenaries” and I think I identify myself as the latter, but on…

So, I have been thinking about projecting my computer’s screen to the wall via a projector. My wall is like 3 meters away from my computers desk. 1) I would like to do this to reduce eye strain. Would this approach even…

My main requirements are: - I want to read mainly PDFs (tech books, papers, etc.) without having to zoom in/out (which is quite slow in e-ink readers). So, the size of the reader matters (the bigger the better, but not…

I work as a software engineer, and in my team/area it has been decided to start writing new microservices using Kotlin and Spring Boot. The other option was using Golang, but unfortunately (at least for me) it didn't…

I have over 17 years of experience working as a software engineer. In interviews I often face the following challenge: some companies love people who are team-oriented (e.g., when describing challenges you have faced…

I've been working for a tech company for the last year doing stuff that I would consider are "lost causes", this is, we work on products that upper management wants us to work on, but that in reality have little impact…

I've read that OpenAI is working on watermarking ChatGPT outputs so that it's easier to recognize them on the wild. Obviously, this would be a great feature for companies/organizations that want to avoid AI content on…

Let’s imagine I want to publish my awesome open source project so that others can contribute, use it for personal usage and all those good things. But I want to explicitly deny usage of my project as training data for…

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847479 it seems that ChatGPT was able to "execute" Python code (https://www.engraved.blog/content/images/2022/12/image-10.png). I somehow understand how ChatGPT can generate…

So, if you agree to work from the office and on “hardcore” mode, wouldn’t that imply that you are saying goodbye to your family in practical terms? A simple back of the envelope calculation assuming that “hardcore”…

- bachelor and master degree in computer science - around 8 years of experience - pretty average developer (can deal with Ansible, the command line, MySQL, Go, Vue, and tons of other toys; can talk about Turing…