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I will never buy a Sonos product, and no one else should either.

If a person is walking north, about to walk past a parking space, and a car is heading south and signaling left, it's very surprising to see the car pass the person by, then sudden…

Watch out for bikes and pedestrians please. Few people expect a car (especially on the other side of the street/lane) to drift by a space then reverse into it after passing it by.

~100,000,000 bytes! That's a lot of "state".

You're not working for "less than what someone thinks your worth", you're working for a price set by the market and an assessment of what level of quality your work is. A developer…

When you hang yourself with C, at least you're hanging yourself with something real. It's more embarrassing to be done in by a misunderstood abstraction in a high-level language th…

Being a useful resource doesn't have to be miserable though, especially if your role is more akin to a chainsaw or rocket engine than a stapler.

Give it a try! Specifically I was using WebRTC audio in both Firefox and Chrome, with 2-3 tabs open, and Visual Studio Code open separately.

I wish it wasn't true, but Firefox seems heavier on low-spec Linux laptops. A while back I was writing code on the road on a $200 HP Stream running Ubuntu, and I needed multiple ta…

If a more productive team emerged naturally from incentives available to everyone, and that team collected large bonuses as a result of proven success, I think the company and the …

In the long run, having a company dependent on a handful of highly-paid superstars is an incredible risk. Moreover if one team's hiring practices create a "class system" where ther…

You can put variable length data into a struct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member

Because when someone builds a hugely popular exotic system in the future, because it is one (1) cent cheaper, you'd end up with code that has to check to see if it's running on suc…

Indeed, that's why I specified putting the members of the C structure on the wire, not the structure as a whole, so it's just basic types in network byte order (i.e. consistent end…

Yeah I know that pain, there needs to be a consistent header with a version in all the messages.

This is a fantastic post, and it looks like this blog is full of fantastic posts. When I have some time I'm definitely going to play around with that code.

This is going to sound sarcastic but it's not: Can we get back to just putting the members of C structures into network byte order and sending that over the wire in binary, à la 19…