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Just so everyone in HN knows. I recently passed two months as a dev rel. Congratulatory post accomplished!

4. Needing what is essentially the same tech multiple times to do the same thing.

1. We can see the corners that were cut and have either been forced to do the same or know how it could have been done better. 2. Having to use some piece of tech because of some e…

The story as I know it: Three soldiers wander into a town and watch as the townspeople shutter themselves into their homes. The first two soldiers, out of rations, start to knock o…

Probably not, first thought I had was Lucerne dairy products.

It felt like a natural metaphor.

This should also be a good time to review all of your meetings. One of the biggest delineations between engineering levels is the amount of autonomy afforded. With no juniors, ther…

https://github.com/features/copilot

Take a look at GitHub's Copilot. I used the technical preview and if you're already paying for gh it may be included. It actually helped keep me more focused on the solving aspects…

Are you considering using the esp-idf? https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf I'm developing a product based on the esp32. Once I got my mind around the IDF, it handles a lot of the …

First thought was going blind charging my smart glasses, but: "in the form of safe infrared light"

There have been some good events from this group. https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsDC

I worked with Francisco at Harrison Clarke finding my latest position: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscomadrigal1 Harrison Clarke specializes in SRE/DevOps I'm in Rockville MD,…

I am planning to use it in a project to make the new Congressional API data more approachable for people. https://api.congress.gov/#/ Hopefully make it easy to find all the bills t…

My focus is usually from a game dev standpoint. I might see how quickly I can put together an A* algorithm on a 2d array. Or Conway's game of life as a similar, how easily can I pr…

Happy to see things like CDK acknowledged as a next step, and being adopted. Though I've been fighting for that in my SRE teams. Something that is forgotten with CDK is that you ca…

If you don't upvote it, it will for you.

As a hiring manager, the certs are ok, but the experience is what matters. I always ask engineers this "What do you think about the AWS documentation?" If you've had to actually pa…

You'd be surprised how much efficiency an engineering team can squeeze out of their games with time and motivation. A lot of bloat happens just to get the game out the door and is …

For some background on why not. Nintendo didn't make any money from the PC sales, so it needs to have revenue from this launch. And for Factorio itself, the effort of porting to th…