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You know FreeTaxUSA uses Direct File on the backend, right?

They built IRS Direct File which was a huge improvement. Then the administration killed it to serve tax prep companies.

> and the same questions keep getting asked over and over. This is a feature not a bug. The people asking those questions are new blood and accepting and integrating them is how yo…

Could you make it use Parakeet? That's an offline model that runs very quickly even without a GPU, so you could get much lower latency than using an API.

literally just 'git rebase origin/main' to insert new commits to main into my branch history prior to the commits I made. No rewrites of later commits required if there are no conf…

What you and I consider routine work, someone who works with mostly Webdev or might consider extremely difficult. There a lot of programmers who have never used a Linux shell, or k…

Installing it on your PC or laptop puts your personal data and ISP subscription at risk, while installing it in a hosted VM yourself requires a bunch of Linux security and networki…

git rebase can do that easily, I do it all the time when prepping feature branches for submission to the main branch

At my workplace we now use Claude Code to parse written specs and source code, search through JIRA, and draft, refine and organize tickets (using the JIRA API via a CLI tool). Way …

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The identity provider is on-device and has to run on phones which don't do hardware attestation.

They can't feasibly do this in the US since many people don't have drivers licenses or passports.

If only this was a game of Victoria 3

The evidence has shown that this thinking is flawed - disruption of jobs in an industry causes a slow, wrenching, scarring adjustment process that increases the load on welfare pro…

Look at the problems South Korea is having, where there are not enough young people to support and care for the elderly. Elders face economic hardship and the healthcare system is …

I speculate this is to help them pass the vendor business risk assessment process at larger customers.

On Discord Mods and Admins are just other users. They're not Discord staff or employees. (Reddit is different, admins are Reddit employees).

For my OSS work that is about $699 over my budget

Issues, CI, and downloads for built binaries aren't part of vanilla Git. CI in particular can be hard if you make a multi-platform project and don't want to have to buy a new mac e…

I have worked at organizations where most engineering and many product decisions were made bottom-up, through written RFDs and ADRs, and horizontal conversations between lead, staf…

In my OSS projects I appreciate if someone opens an issue or discussion with their idea first rather than starting with a PR. PRs often put me in an awkward position of saying "thi…

As far as I can tell it's never been to my detriment. (I don't push others to use it in contexts where it's not my paid job.) I also consider myself an uncritical and proud fan of …

Using Linux as a teenager led to a step change in my family's generational wealth, some incredible personal and professional relationships, and life-defining opportunities for work…

What about "I'm a Linux guy?" I don't pay any company for my Linux OSes. My favorites are nonprofits and mostly interchangeable.