I’m also a software engineer who doesn’t care about most new tech. I strongly believe that human made objects and software can both reach a state of doneness. For example, books are a technology that’s “done”. Both physical and digital books do a great job at delivering written content, so there’s no need to keep buying the same damn thing every couple years. Phones are similar, yet the new ones just get shittier (no removable battery, no headphone jack). Kind of reminds me of how Microsoft keeps trying to solve the “problem” of programmers being needed to create programs. Powerapps being one of the latest examples.

Based on things I’ve seen I can actually believe this is real. Just goes to show that you can’t trust everyone to have a functional intuition for separating horrible ideas from good ones.

Funny thing about Powershell is that it was controversial inside of MS when it was first created, and the inventor had to really push for it to make it into Windows. Everyone thought people wanted wizards for everything instead. There’s a great Corecursive episode about it. https://corecursive.com/building-powershell-with-jeffrey-snover/

I use it as a search engine but not as my only source. It’s really good at regurgitating the most relevant Stack Overflow answer I might find, which may or may not actually be applicable to my situation. As a rule I never copy paste code directly, I always rewrite it “in my own words”, even in cases where it’s basically the same. If the code it provides is more than 5 lines or so I can almost always think of a better way. I feel like I’d still be better off with a really solid reference manual though, and a recipe book. But they go out of date too fast these days.

Hmm this seems like a solution to an extremely specific problem that may have been created by using docker for things outside its wheelhouse. Why would I have docker automation that I only trust to do specific things?

What do you mean about the metal content in the microwave? Does the larger chamber make it somehow immune to arcing?

One thing I’ve found interesting with AI art is that it’s changed how I look at handmade art. It is similar in a way to appreciating a handmade piece of furniture or a machine compared to a mass produced commodity item. Art that I previously would have dismissed instantly sometimes makes me think for a second about the artist and how it was made, even when it lacks a professional level of quality. That said, I’ve also seen enough AI art that I can distinguish between garbage slop and something (at least a little) interesting made in Comfy UI. There’s always been a lot of low quality art out there, but I think the real issue is with people trying to pass off low effort generated slop as real art, rather than the gen-AI tech itself (environmental impact notwithstanding).

Bold words for someone with a last name starting with those five letters.

But it’s better when it’s deep cold. People just need to get sturdier utensils.

You better be ready to pick up some drum sticks while I hop on the bass guitar, otherwise we can watch music videos on yt.

Just out of curiosity, did the take-home assignment direct candidates to include tests, or was there an implicit expectation of them using TDD? I’d probably be one of those to sound a little dismissive of TDD, though I do support testing for nontrivial functionality. I always wondered if anyone really used that workflow or if it was too idealistic for the real world.

I made some automation in python for common git tasks and use the cli otherwise. I tried a couple like sourcetree and the built in automation for VS but they’re either slow or lack features i’d like.

Yeah, that too! When you have some non technical manager breathing down your neck, you might have a hard time not fumbling around even if you normally could resolve the issue in no time.

I can see how this could be unfair, but working as a dev sometimes does require you to be on top of things in a high stress atmosphere. For example, what if you’re proposing an excellent technical solution in a meeting but some jaded older engineer is hard to convince? If you can’t outline your thinking in that scenario, your solution could be discarded just because someone was louder than you. As someone who used to have performance anxiety, I believe it’s generally something you can and should practice for. On the other hand, if there really isn’t a need for this type of skill, it totally makes sense to avoid creating interview environments where you are filtering candidates based on it.

Yeah! I’m not really a fan of C&C either but they were pretty good. Yeah Guerilla Toss is hella catchy for sure.

Saw them with Primus last year, great show.

Damn, I see a firewire port on there too!

If you’re using vscode you might be able to look through the individual file histories to recover some work.

I never really see people doing this, but I’ve had a great time pitching my tent in the back of my pickup instead of on the ground. You get a perfectly flat surface and some foam or an air mattress make it pretty comfy.

I have a bike I put together with this mindset and it’s pretty awesome. If any component dies I can replace it individually, even if it’s not made by the same company. No reason an electric car couldn’t have the same benefits except that the average consumer doesn’t care about planning ahead