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I was talking about the same thing just yesterday. GitHub with its friendly mascot is no longer. It's now just another SaaS platform that everyone including my non technical colleagues are using. Their push towards everything-AI is the exact opposite of what they stood for in the begining. A community of like minded people who wanted to build great tools and loved software. But yet no longer. GitHub now feels like a soulless SaaS that's trying to hook my onto an enterprise subscription and bring my whole team along so we can all do some agentic coding or whatever.
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Software/Hardware Engineer with a passion for elegant and performant solutions. Optimizing kernel code, building secure systems, or crafting efficient network protocols. Experience from bare-metal embedded devices to cloud-native architectures.
Currently based in the Netherlands, but open to anything. If you're tackling challenging projects that demand both breadth and depth of knowledge, please contact me.
Anything you use and use a lot needs maintenance, especially if you rely on it, that goes for you're electric toothbrush as wel as your car. Its a utopica to think EVs somehow need less upkeep.
Sure build quality can be improved here and there, and over the last 4 years I have seen Tesla's cars become better. To me regular OTA updates, up-to-date map, apps, an actual working charging network and range are more important than having all the panels aligned withing a couple of milimeters.
Java is, like its large corporate users, stuck in the past.