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Oh how I wish it had been so. The cloud has been a hard sell all along. Also, 20 years ago S3 and EC2 didn’t exist, so maybe it’s been a little less time than that.

When to allow yourself to quit, or when you can quit without being labeled a quitter by people who matter to you? Either way, I don’t think the answer lies with me or my peers on the internet. My opi…

Huge “Thank you!” to Matt and Sentry for writing and sharing this article. Should our paths ever cross, the drinks are on me.

Straight ASL.

As a humble, new user of HTMX I don’t care what noun you choose for it (stereotyping by another word still smells the same). The facts as I have experienced them are a) it’s simple to do simple things…

Yes, the number of unfilled tech positions has stopped growing but the absolute number is still in the hundreds of thousands in the US alone. There is no shortage of jobs. Maybe there will be, but the…

What’s the unemployment rate for software developers? Still basically zero. It’s never moved, but for some reason people seem to think it has. That’s weird.

I suggest that the power of these new language models is that instead of finding “the path of success“ the models can adapt, and learn to accommodate individuals with every respective path to success.…

It’s a bit sad that he doesn’t even attempt introspection on employees having any access to customer data whatsoever. I fully understand this is a normal situation, and that every function will puke a…

Yeah, there are very few APIs that support conditional requests but they’re super important topics and it’d be great to have a way to demonstrate them.

So rate limiting on GET, then, too? How would you prevent abuse while keeping it simple?

I really like the simplicity of this and the approachability for students. If I were still teaching CS I’d be using it as part of the curriculum. Do you support conditional GET AND PUT (i.e. eTags)?…

Now I want to script this. Create a VM, create a project that uses a random package, built it and wait for signs of compromise. Rinse and repeat.

Design software to embrace services rather than eschew them? Who would do that? ;) I enjoy this article (it id a commercial plug, fair warning) for the depth and clarity - most log systems are just pl…

> But even the most conventionally successful of us, young or not, may reach a place in our careers where THERE IS NO OBVIOUS NEXT STEP. I very much identify with the sentiment. I’ve sought out ver…

I’m using some of these techniques to minimize the size of my executables for use with a AWS Lambda and on embedded Linux projects.

Yes, everywhere I possible can. Particularly for targeting CLI programs and Linux daemons.

The implementation isn’t using any modern C# features?

Mashing up CAD design and software dependency management is something I hadn’t considered, and I’m liking it. Many CAD projects might be described as “derivative works” that embed/extend other wo…

I like this for the “sum is greater than the parts” aesthetic, which keeps the door open to so many applications.

That is not what I wrote, and not at all what I meant. A high-pressure "test" is cruel to folks who simply don't test well. Simple as that. Interviews can get at the skills of someone …

Each company I’ve worked with has attracted a slightly different group of applicants, so I find it easy to believe NL would be different yet. Whenever I start thinking the problem is the candidates I …

I don’t accept the premise that being kind and respectful in an interview leads to underperforming teams. My current team is way, way into the “exceptional” range by common measures (DORA, etc). I don…

Exactly. At the other end of the spectrum, having a conversation also exposes the “over prepared”. There are some (few) folks that practice leetcode all day, but that doesn’t translate to team fit and…

I don’t disagree with the sentiment but the tools aren’t the problem, it’s the delivery. A puzzle can might be toxic if it’s a test, but constructive as a gimmick used to explore communication. Likewi…

I would not assume that it is a specific Azure problem from that statement. Many, many teams struggle to take advantage of cloud infrastructure because of habits and knowledge retained for operating t…

The idea of an undo “graph” in memory is something I’ve implemented, and in C++ even, so it was fun to read the article. Couldn’t agree more — once you’ve had it, going back to the linear, often trunc…

Playing Devil's advocate, with an eye on the dwindling resources of the planet, perhaps we need a prize for accelerating the rate at which humans mature (including completing education/train…