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Anecdote time: My Eastern European wife and I recently faced the decision of how to go about getting her a green card. At the time we lived outside the US. One option was to enter …

US General class here. I got into it recently mainly to play with digital modes on HF for emergency comms and also because it’s an interesting and unexplored field for me.

There’s precedent for Georgian dissidents fleeing to Ukraine. Saakashvili was living in Ukraine for a while before he returned and is AFAIK still in prison in Georgia. I fled to Ge…

If you really believe that you’d be better off somewhere else, and you’re a US citizen in decent financial shape, you are absolutely not trapped in the USA. I’ve in Europe for 7 ye…

The move that I’m fighting in my company now is hiring bargain basement Indian outsourced heads who are very obviously vibe coding slop. It’s a raw deal for us since we’re paying e…

I’ve experienced this as well. If management is not competent they can’t tell (or don’t want to hear) when a “star” performer is actually a very expensive wrapper around a $20/mo c…

Not the parent, but I take it by going to any pharmacy in Ukraine and asking for it. Prescription not required. In my case it’s part of a treatment protocol for insulin resistance …

You regurgitated Russian propaganda about Russian-speaking people in Ukraine which is clearly not based on your own experience and I provided a counterpoint based on actually livin…

This bullshit Russian propaganda talking point needs to die. “Russian-speaking Ukrainians” are Ukrainians. I was at a birthday party in Kyiv about a month ago, the only non-Ukraini…

I had the opposite problem. They closed my account with very short notice back when they decided to purge all customers with any connection to Ukraine. This was an account for a US…

In almost every restaurant and cafe that I frequent in Ukraine, each table has a unique QR code that links to a site with both the menu and an option to pay the bill. The pay optio…

I too am impressed by Cloudflare Workers’ potential. However Workers supports WASM so you don’t necessarily have to switch to JavaScript to use it. I wrote some Rust code that I ru…

Yes, 1000x this! School for me was a gladiator academy. Useful for producing gladiators I suppose but at the expense of any genuine intellectual curiosity or love of learning. Than…

What you're describing is actually not that different from my own conception of what a senior principal SWE is. Simply stated, I would define that level as a very experienced, know…

When reading BigTech career ladders like this one, I immediately fall into the trap of projecting myself onto the ladder, and getting upset when the level I've chosen for myself is…

That’s a long story. Mostly just a series of unexpected turns and a search for meaning in my professional life. As for why I stayed, it’s hard to believe but even today, modulo the…

It is true that war can rage in a country and people not on the frontline can live reasonably normal lives. I returned to Kyiv in August of last year, and lived for over a year dur…

This is a great visualization. It highlights not only the increased frequency of attacks but the extent to which they happen at night and especially pre-dawn hours. I returned to a…

It's great to see the rapid iteration on this. Congratulations on the adoption so far! It must be so cool to work at a company that is cool with open-sourcing projects like this ;)…

I have personally obtained two Starlink dishes in Ukraine. One I preordered more than a year before the war, which was fast tracked by SpaceX shortly after the war started. This wa…

At my company we’ve written all of our Lambda functions in Rust. It’s a perfect fit with the constraints in Lambda. We did customize the runtime somewhat for our needs but that was…

My company maintains an out-of-tree kernel module for changed block tracking. It requires a full-time Linux driver developer to keep it compiling and working on new kernels. Our mo…

I remember reading this quote in the original print magazine when I was a teenager living in rural Nebraska. For some reason a Safeway in the nearest town had a decent selection of…

I have a residential Starlink terminal in Ukraine, service costs $60/mo. I assume this higher fee is for a higher tier of service suitable for military use where reliability is mis…

That’s been our experience as well. Auth0 seemed like a great deal and we were happy to have such a sensitive component handled by a dedicated third party, but their sales team agg…