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The balance of rest is an important factor that I’ve understood the value of only later in my career. Pausing on a difficult engineering task at the end of the workday in favor of …

Huge fan of this tool for working on GUI implementations, ensuring the color choices and contrasts make sense for users that see GUIs differently than I do.

I use an M3 air for my personal machine which is used for c++ development and music production — it’s an excellent machine and I have yet to encounter a task that would require a M…

IIRC, the US shot down some weather balloons in Jan-Feb 2023. Why not the same expediency with these drones?

Thanks for sharing this. I recently built something similar for a closed source project and am curious how I didn’t run across this library in my research. Briefly: my implementati…

I lost my father to Huntington’s Disease at a young age, and have had to live the 50% inheritance chance reality my entire life. I’ve never been tested for the disease, but I proba…

“Elastique” time stretch algorithm by zplane (0) seems to be a common choice by plug-in companies. Their C++ library is pretty straightforward to use, and most importantly it sound…

The good documentation I’m envisioning refers to standardized comments throughout the codebase (we’re working with cpp, so doxygen in this case), with code examples within the head…

I’ve recently joined a team where the vast majority of the code used across different projects has been written by a lone developer. The code quality is quite good, however, nothin…

I watched the MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms course (0) while studying leetcode a couple years ago. I’d watch the lecture, take notes, and then find some related leetcode que…

After being laid off from my previous employer of 7 years, I found a company to join in my domain that has weathered the storm for many decades and is well-established in the indus…

Agreed. Currently I am on a 3-month sabbatical after being laid off from my previous position of 7 years. While I could have opted for a longer duration, I’ve been happy with the t…

It’s not that the funding changed people, rather those that built the company were either replaced, left, or laid off.

> Culture plays an important role in keeping the people, it's not always about the money. Absolutely. I was at my previous employer for seven years, mainly due to the fantastic cul…

The UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) was passed in November of 2006, as part of the SAFE Port Act [0], which placed online poker into a legal grey area for most U…

I did this at my previous employer for seven years. My peers loved me, but I could tell the executives weren’t a fan of the outspokenness. Last week I was laid off, and while the c…

I like making flashcards for myself for new topics that I study, in addition to notes. Of course bash as a whole will not fit on a flashcard, but breaking it into high-level topics…

While I have found using kanban with personal projects to be pretty beneficial for quantifying progress, there’s something that feels wrong about agile seven days a week between wo…

Dithering modulates the least significant bit of the audio signal, so at normal listening levels it should be inaudible. Of course, one can amplify the silence by 120dB or so and h…

While its true that dithering changes the original signal, dithering is a necessarily evil that prevents quantization errors as a result of downsampling 24-bit+ source material due…

Agreed, sharing a tech spec / architecture decision record outlining the system design and it’s benefits and consequences with the team you’re seeking feedback from is quite effect…

QBasic was my first programming language, which I was introduced to at about 13 years old. Today I am a senior engineer and the passion for programming all started back in that ugl…

> Their investigations reveal that the last certain evidence that Sheila was alive was in August 2019, when she paid her rent by debit card to Peabody for the last time. How in the…

As someone that spends a lot of my work week reviewing code and documentation, here are some initial thoughts that come to mind: 1. break large feature branches into smaller PRs so…