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"Don't bite the hand which feeds you" is a common phrase for what you described.

In my experience (20yr) good managers don't need any feedback. They were good because of clear communication as to what both parties expected of each other. Bad managers rarely listen to feedback and few make changes.

At my current role I'm thankful for the high level of autonomy received and being shielded from anything not relevant to my primary tasks.

I'm constantly asked to do "side quests" for others due to being a subject matter expert in several things (relative to my colleagues).

Every request gets the same answer - if my line manager agrees to it then I shall help - provided it does not get in the way of my primary tasks.

IMHO unless you own the company, your number one customer should always be your line manager.

Which is where TDD can really help.

Write tests first and keep revising your code - making plenty of mistakes along the way - until the tests are green.

The quicker the test failure feedback loop, the quicker you'll fix the mistakes :)

The most important thing to me about remote communication is making time for "coffee catchup" to chat about non-work things.

We literally sit down with a fresh coffee for 5mins just as we might when crossing paths in the office. Find common topics among colleagues to shoot the breeze - football, video games, cars, etc.

Soon you'll have cross-team relationships with people who might never work directly together.

GTA + Moving Shadow record label... legendary for showcasing d&b to a wider audience.

https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Moving_Shadow

For those interested I can highly recommend the "Moving Shadow Sampler Series" mix anthology [0]

[0] https://www.discogs.com/label/396717-Movingshadow-Sampler-Se...

Fantastic blog to read - thanks!

I sent it on to my father who spent time in Antarctica during the early 80s so it'll probably jog some memories to tell me.

FAANG salaries for developers are often double, if not treble, those of upper management where I work.

There's absolutely no reason to feel like a loser on €65k.

In tech it's easy to forget just how lucky we are with salaries.

DJs who use rotary mixers are great to watch. They're like precision surgeons gently blending EQs while also handling vinyl. Impressive stuff to me!

Xones are more like specialist precision tools that can be tweaked to a fine degree.

Pioneers have many options to quickly bail out of a train wreck mix!

Allen & Heath Xone 96 (or previous 92 model) mixers are very popular in the techno world.

Pioneer DJMs have dozens of FX combinations to aid with fast/fancy transitions, whereas techno/trance (and similar) genres that rely on long smooth blends like the extra EQ channel and filters.

I don't know any hip-hop DJs that use Xones?

The Xones are also analogue vs digital Pioneer mixers which also plays a part in audio quality, especially if the source is analogue (vinyl, rack modules, etc).

I'm happy with my Pioneer DJM-750mk2... but also happy to exchange a kidney for Xone:96 :-)

Preventative maintenance is a thing in both software and hardware world.

It's often lower risk to apply frequent smaller changes than wait years for one enormous "bundled" upgrade.

To "conflate" is when two or more things are merged into one.

In tech we usually assume "confluence" means the Atlassian product, not "a merging of several items".

Touring used to promote record sales when their main revenue was the music media itself.

Thanks to Spotify (and streaming media in general), where music is almost worthless, artists need to tour and sell merchandise just to keep break even.

It's a sad state to be in really :(

Introverted people existed long before WFH / hybrid employment and they attended office meetings in person.

Unless everyone was blindfolded, how is a remote meeting with webcams any different?

Camera switched on shows basic respect to the others attending and at very least demonstrates some engagement in the meeting.

Relationships - in the work setting - stem from building trust that you can do your job/deliver as promised, and how your actions impact the careers of others.

A colleague might be a fun character telling stories over a beer but also professionally useless.

If a colleague invited me out for a coffee - and we didn't really know each other in the office - I would be suspicious as to their motive.

Even if I'm WFH I'll wear "office clothes". It makes me feel more "professional".

In my brain this makes a clear separation between "home" and "office".

From my experience working in tech over the last few decades it's often been the "difficult" developers who refuse to switch their webcams on during meetings (excluding larger company town hall, demos, etc).

People don't realise quite how much communication is done through body language.

OP - what privacy concerns do you have using a webcam with colleagues? Functionality like blurring backgrounds and having "wallpaper" via software is very good these days.

I've been in tech 20yr now without a degree (or even good school results) and this sometimes gets picked up during interviews (in a positive way) because it's less common.

First job was 1st line tech support and moved up the Ops IC ladder ever since.

Still to this day tech is one of the few industries where you can go far (and be financially rewarded) despite lack of academic background.

Thank you for your work. I used to have an old Canon which I flashed with Magic Lantern :-)

The source code itself appears to come from a cracked version [0]

   supplied by deadbeef\n\n\

   cracked by rOn\n\n\
 
   32kb cool intro by lone";

[0] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/blob/community/Src/W...

Edit: Apparently it's an Easter Egg! Credit to bri3d for research

“hacking” is the challenge of making something work in ways it was never intended - for example unlocking a car with wireless entry using a laptop and DIY electronics instead of the normal car key.

Doing it to your own car is obviously very different from stealing someone else’s, however it’s not illegal to “hack” your own car. The theft part is what gets you in trouble.

Colima has been great to support x86 images on Apple Silicon like OracleDB 19, instead of building arm64 images.

The flexibility of container runtimes and host architecture (via QEMU) has proven useful.

If you accidentally burn cash you cannot recover it. The paper in your hand isn't replicated in another place.

Humans have been unable to recover from mistakes since day zero

Was that the old latin publication where Pontius Pilate had his weekly column?

The reader demographic is more likely to run adblockers because installing them is trivial to us - in the same way a reader of a cooking website discussing flour products can probably bake a cake with their eyes closed (I on the other hand would probably burn down the kitchen).

99.9% of visitors probably have zero clue how to diagnose the problem so it makes sense to have a _friendly_ message acknowledging something went wrong to reduce panic.

Behind the scenes there might be extensive logging & monitoring for engineers to triage the issue.

Virtual crate digging on Discogs.com is still by far the best way to discover music.

Artists, record labels, producers, technicians (mastering, vinyl cutting), distribution channels, etc. are all there just a click away.

Who did/does you favourite artist share a label with? Who else used the same recording studio? What other aliases does an artist use? What other bands/groups have they been in?

Combined with the embedded YouTube player on the release page it's a gold mine.

Every week I'll spend hours down the Discogs rabbit hole - often adding missing YouTube videos to contribute something for future visitors.

Duplicate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41288958

> xparent

Do you mean transparent?

Thanks! I was given a blank canvas and asked to build a platform which aligns with the company’s “cybersecurity” vision. They want more teams to align on how they build/deploy/manage products in a PCI regulated environment.

It’s quite challenging given I literally have 50 different “internal customers” (teams) who do things in their own silos - and have done for the last 20 years.

Definitely a marathon not a sprint and will take years to complete.

Try Spek [0]

It's a popular tool for verifying the quality of music downloaded via P2P platforms. Re-encoding YouTube rips is popular - especially bootleg tracks - and this helps weed them out.

[0] http://help.spek.cc/