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pcloadletter_··on Product Roadmap
It's the only social network I'm really on right now. And AT protocol is pretty neat. I'm glad it's around and will keep using it until something else better comes along.
pcloadletter_··on Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
Good warning for the future... but what about the past? Any thoughts on retroactively looking at behavior for existing OS projects? Seems like an impossible amount of work.
pcloadletter_··on Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months
Two out of how many though? Yeeeesh
pcloadletter_··on Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
Don't worry, soon enough their AI will harvest your site for training content and then downrank your site when it has what it needs
pcloadletter_··on Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)
It is cutesy to use the word "bullshit" but it seems too colloquial to glean any real information from. What do they mean by "bullshitting?" Any sort of misleading? Pretending you know something when you don't? I guess I'm just tired of reverse-engineering your information to make a good clickbaity headline.
pcloadletter_··on FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps
Got it too. Strikes me as extremely disingenuous. I feel like they shouldn't even be allowed to represent this as a decision they made out of the goodness of their hearts. Makes me hate them even more, which is pretty amazing because I had thought we already bottomed out.
pcloadletter_··on Show HN: I made a website even my tech un-savvy parents can use to find a laptop
I did not realize half the payload was the data itself!
pcloadletter_··on Show HN: React Geiger – performance profiling using sound
This is a pretty funny idea. Love seeing this kind of creativity.
pcloadletter_··on Show HN: I made a website even my tech un-savvy parents can use to find a laptop
The "zippy" client stuff comes at a cost: my browser has to download ~150kb of javascript to make this website work. Not as bloated as many sites but more JS than is truly needed for this sort of thing. Likely framework bloat.

Edit: I should say of course you can have zippy client-side stuff without the bloat (for example: just filter the JSON object and update the DOM yourself without a framework!). So it doesn't _really_ come at a cost, just typically the most expedient way a reactive UI is put together uses a framework like React.

pcloadletter_··on Leaving LinkedIn
>So reducing this would be a multi-year project of a sizeable team

Maybe, or just a knowledgable person to dig in for a bit and solve it. On one of my teams when I was back at Microsoft was working on a similarly huge codebase with build times twice as long. We had a senior engineer who was really into build optimizations from a previous job who wrote a tech design, implemented better project splitting in our monorepo, better local caching, and finally cloud caching, all within 3 months. When I left, our builds ranged from 30 seconds to 3 minutes.

It's not guaranteed that it'll be this simple, but I also don't think it's guaranteed it'll be 3 years and several people.

pcloadletter_··on Leaving LinkedIn
And we have cloud caching for the "build from scratch" case so even that can be pretty quick. This all just takes a little time investment.
pcloadletter_··on Leaving LinkedIn
This sounds like my exact experience at another big tech company
pcloadletter_··on Leaving LinkedIn
They seem to be trying to jam AI into a bunch of things now.

As an aside, I work on a product that should be considered feature complete, but PMs keep dreaming up features so they can get promoted. I wish we could just take some time to clean up the horrendous tech debt accrued over the past 10 years of feature proliferation.

pcloadletter_··on Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
You can do this on daedalOS https://dustinbrett.com/

edit: and obviously you can play Doom on it

pcloadletter_··on Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
Ha, I am not criticizing your work at all. It's nothing short of jaw-dropping.
pcloadletter_··on Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
That's a pretty small component and I think folks would find a comparable React component also pretty easy to read. Conversely: https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/blob/master/src/UI/UIDeskt...
pcloadletter_··on Let's Ban SMS 2FA
>When the barrier to adoption and inconvenience to the user is so low

Is it low though? I'm not sure my parents could figure out how to use an authenticator app.

pcloadletter_··on Fake Developer Jobs Laced with Malware
Sounds like the attacker is getting pretty smart about this stuff too. They have a self-hosted registry with the offending package so it can't get yanked from the actual npm registry

>The attackers now host the attack from mave-finance/next-assessment. The malicious dependency is json-mock-config-server which is not listed in the npm registry, but rather is served from npm.mave.finance as before, the registry listed in .npmrc.

pcloadletter_··on Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform
At this point my decentralized social network is RSS. Just the right level of interactivity for me!
pcloadletter_··on Zwift co-CEO resigns amid fresh round of workforce layoffs
Refreshing to see a CEO step down after layoffs for once
pcloadletter_··on How to keep your art out of AI generators
Nasty stuff. Whenever a new generative AI service comes up I have to go find their opt-out form and submit my artwork?
pcloadletter_··on Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought
Reminds me of this https://www.wired.com/story/china-usb-sogu-malware/
pcloadletter_··on Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'
Tech CEOs seem to have realized the really short-term wins drive stock prices up. Feel especially bad recently. Feels like we're going to see crumbling software soon
pcloadletter_··on Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'
I think you're just in for a rude awakening if you expect the Google from 20 years ago. It's no longer a scrappy startup, it's closer to Microsoft at this point.
pcloadletter_··on Potatoes May Be Reclassified as a Grain
Looks like someone hasn't been providing enough kickbacks to Big Vegetable
pcloadletter_··on Somewhere along the way we forgot about software craftsmanship
This is my take as well. Quality is important, but at least in big tech, it's not what's going to get the quick win on the stock market. But when your product is falling apart within a few years, management won't have the faintest idea why. Must be bad engineers.
pcloadletter_··on Somewhere along the way we forgot about software craftsmanship
Agile (TM)
pcloadletter_··on Should you buy inexpensive laptops frequently or expensive ones for longterm?
As a software dev by trade I just kind of assume I am going to shell out a couple grand every few years for a nice laptop. For me it’s just the price of doing business.
pcloadletter_··on Ask HN: Has anyone here learned COBOL for fun?
I think the author was a part of US Digital Service, which works to modernize government systems. Seems like fascinating and frustrating work.
pcloadletter_··on Ask HN: What are the best job boards?
HN Jobs, LinkedIn, Otta
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