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It’s one of those tools that’s well designed and you don’t need a thousand line configuration file to be productive. The modal editing style is also an improvement over vim/neovim …

Pretty much every engineer needs to use Vim/vi when logged into any server, so from that point of view, this shouldn’t even be a question. I don’t think knowing how to use a modal …

Why quantitative? I have friends at most major tech companies and I work at a startup now. You shouldn’t write by hand what can be prompted. Doesn’t mean the hard parts shouldn’t b…

Well, on the surface it may seem like there’s nothing being created of value, but I can assure you every company from seed stage to unicorns are heavily using claude code, cursor, …

I empathize with this cause circumstances often force us to move to a less than ideal location, but with everyone doing RTO again since 2 or 3 years ago, you slashed a huge percent…

I would say you can take opposite route as well. Become even more of a T-shaped engineer than you were before. For me that meant transitioning to vertical roles (i.e., performance …

>http-request-validator is infinitely superior to “zephyr” Is it though? How are you going to differentiate between 10 different variations of http-request-validator repos on GitHu…

>there’s a serious push to on-device inference What push are you referring to? By whom?

IMO you should just transfer internally to a Deep Learning related team. That’s the path I’m taking, and while I wait for my new start date, I’m reading the important research pape…

It’s been like 7 years since I’ve written any Clojure, but I used to like it a lot. I felt that the ecosystem wasn’t mature enough and the community was quite small in size. Is tha…

>Any software developer can access GitHub and StackOverflow - can they do it in a single shot as quickly as GPT? I think the answer to this question is yes? If the developer can fi…

>It seems like Asian cultures are much less likely to treat housing as an investment Isn’t China one of the most prominent examples of using real estate as investment? There’s even…

Check out https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compila... Author has made complete draft PDFs for both the Racket and Python versions available here. https://wphome…

I would advise not looking at libraries as a beginner; because they’re meant to be as generic as possible, they tend to abuse the type system and are overall a lot harder to parse …

Yeah, gRPC is mainstream at this point -- much better to generate API clients when you can, instead of hand-rolling your own, especially as the number of engineers and teams in an …

I think most people just use the AWS Console. By the way, compared to regular CloudWatch, CloudWatch Insights has faster searches and a SQL-like query language, so it's better to u…

The bay area doesn’t even have homes for 450k. In the bay area it’s more like 450k for each of the 4 friends :p

Correct, it means General Availability. It’s pretty common to abbreviate it (actually, I don’t think I ever see it written out).

Right. Then it might be worth applying to cloud software engineer roles in general, and be sure to ask your interviewers about what sort of architecture they work on. In your case,…

Kind of? I mean, if you’re working on an infrastructure or platform team, and building some distributed database or data pipeline, that would be more “distributed systems”, in the …

Are you sure you’re specifically interested in Raft/Paxos/consensus algorithms? Distributed systems is more general than that. A lot of software engineers working on cloud services…

Over the years I’ve remade my blog several times but these days I try to keep it as simple as possible to maintain. I’ve come to realize the biggest obstacle when it comes to putti…