Hah, yeah I got a Debian floppy and then tried to install packages over DSL. Somehow it didn’t immediately kill my interest in Linux, eventually ran OpenBSD as my server for a while.

If you haven’t played with Pulumi (for configuring cloud services) and Ansible (for local services, shell commands, apt installs etc) you may enjoy them as a way to capture / re-apply configuration.

I do do interviews too. It’s a lot of time and work. A well designed interview can and should be a realistic, rewarding problem solving session where you get to try out collaboration with potential colleagues.

Cheating leetcode interviews with AI doesn’t seem that innovative to me, just adding dishonesty to a broken practice. Destruction is always easier than creation.

Also, as someone who frequently designs and runs SW interviews, it’s totally possible to run interviews that test actually important SW skills like OO design, error handling, and using APIs, which AIs still fail handily.

If you want to do something cool, make an AI to refactor your codebase for maintainability and security.

Hmm, it’s been a while, maybe I’m misremembering. There were definitely some categories of Plex content not from my library that kept reappearing on the home page of my server, despite trying to get rid of them a few times. Maybe they weren’t actually paid, I just assumed they’d only be pushing something if it was going to bring them more revenue.

The other thing that made me want to jump ship extremely fast was when they started sharing your recently watched items with other users, without asking.

Even with Plex pass they were really pushing their paid content. Much happier with Jellyfin, and it was very easy to switch.

No no they’re not “wrong,” they’re slouched in defeat because someone stole their keyboard, mouse, and desktop, leaving them with only a 1280x760 DVI monitor.

Good point about a default deny approach to users and ssh, so random services don’t add insecure logins.

The one db I saw compromised at a previous employer was an AWS RDS with public Internet access open and default admin username/password. Luckily it was just full of test data, so when we noticed its contents had been replaced with a ransom message we just deleted the instance.

Didn’t expect the snake to turn the box. Excellent loop.

I have ESP8266 WiFi modules running Tasmota firmware for a few parts of this. Some report temperature (and humidity just for fun), I like DS18B20 sensors better than SHT30s which seem to have a bit more self heating. Then I also have Mitsubishi mini split heat pumps for which there’s a Tasmota control library. MQTT for communication + HomeAssistant for UI + AppDaemon for automation scripts in Python.

Examples of the UI in HA:

Me debugging SQL syntax errors in complied dbt models.

I really enjoyed working with SQLDelight when I was briefly writing a Kotlin backend, sadly it wasn’t complete enough. (It “generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from your SQL statements.”)

Reminds me of AWS Lambda. Gateway Error 502 you say? Gotta go digging in the application logs!

I started messing with Linux, then became a developer. Whatever draws your interest!

Yeah, every time I find some weird annoying behavior or some missing feature in MySQL, PostgreSQL is doing it right.

That said, also ask yourself if you really need a relational database, or whether an object store or append-only / timeseries db would fit better.

“Will I have root on my dev machine” is on my list of interview questions, now.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/desire_paths Thanks!

And there’s a whole community for them! Not sure how to link to it though.

Ugh, yep!

Though in this case I guess there’s the benefit of engraved numbers providing accessibility.

Seems cool!

Does it handle sharing a task list between people? Or syncing between multiple clients / handling concurrent edits?

I see the manual says keyboard commands are the main way to control it. Does it work in mobile?

Looks like you’re putting lots of work into it, thanks for sharing.