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0xd3afon The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls

So happy to see Practical Engineering on HN! One of my all time favourite channels. I implore anyone to go back through the back catalogue of seemingly mundane subject matter (sewers, for instance), you'll be surprised. Great channel, very well done.

0xd3afon Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords

[insert joke about vibe coding a shit auth service]

0xd3afon Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

As a dev of nearly 20 years, a phrase I've often found useful when justifying my hires...

"We can teach them to code, but we can't teach them not to be a dick"

I generally try and decline "tech tests". Ive contributed to open source, and I've got 100 projects I've built from scratch, or as part of a team. I will happily bring my own, and walk through my decisions, and a potential employer can go through them with a fine tooth comb if they like, but honestly, I think those arbitrary tests don’t show off anything about my skillset that I'd actually want to show off.

0xd3afon Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a

Great, now even Minecraft wants me to write tests.