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Been interviewing for over a decade. Tests like this do not really tell you whether someone is a good programmer, they tell you whether a person has spent a lot of time practicing …

I've been doing something similar. I started with a 3D printer approach, then two cheap aliexpress C-beam linear actuators and finally managed to acquire a 2-axis microscope stage …

As someone who has built multiple custom macro film scanner setups, owns basically very consumer film scanner of note (including the Coolscan 9000 and the Minolta Scan Multi Pro), …

If you really want to, you can have a react app that is just static templates with no interactivity with a simple Node server that just called renderToString and all of a sudden re…

Very funny that you think a build with an entire CMS involved is somehow "simpler". You apparently have a lot of patience for Django's static asset management pipeline, but I do no…

Modern CSS has _some_ of the features of SCSS/SASS. It does not have all of them. But most importantly, many of dependencies one might want to use also make use of SCSS/SASS downst…

What does "most sites" even mean? I do this professionally, and I assume that most of the people replying here do as well. The article we're discussing is written by a professional…

What's rendering the pages on the server? Because if its not javascript, and you still have a frontend build, you have a repository with two separate builds, and builds are expensi…

In web application terms, the "build" is everything that needs to happen to get your application running into production. That means a runtime and dependencies. Speaking of depende…

Building a web application with a UI in a professional context without a frontend build is borderline malpractice. Even a "thin" layer of JS on top requires some degree of dependen…

I don't think the author of this article actually understands the pressures that increasingly drive all frontend development into javascript frameworks, but those pressures are act…

I have several 2-axis microscope stages from the 80s/90s that are driven by brushed motors with position feedback, and they are all capable of higher accuracy than any stepper moto…

If the microservice has dependencies on other services it is not a microservice.

what company have you ever worked for that was happy with the current rate of progress in software development?

I'm shooting to do 35mm and medium format. 4x5 is a stretch goal. Even illumination is definitely a challenge, though I use the same technique you do, which is generally refered to…

I'm currently doing something similar to build a photographic film scanner. I will say that I've found that moving the optics is generally much more error and vibration prone than …

In NYC I can tell you that the metropolitan area lost about 500,000 people since 2020, added ~20-30k housing units per year in that same time. The vacancy rate somehow dropped dram…

yeah because now that we've all been asking about it, that answer is in its training data. the trick with LLMs is always "is the answer in the training data".

Because I don't want to pay monthly for a bunch of content I probably won't read. I want to pay a small amount of money, with as little friction as possible, for the specific conte…

Yes, there's actually a very good test for a properly inverted color negative. You need a negative of a greyscale step scale from light to dark. If the color channels are properly …

Yes, you do actually need to do this. You basically need to calibrate every sensor to ensure that the correct wavelength of light ends up in the right channel.

Technically, yes. I know a few people have done it. In a practical sense it is very difficult and you are unlikely to get it working without a lot of trial and error. The tricky pa…

RGB scanning doesn't actually expand the color gamut, but removes erroneous color information. If you use white light you end up recording color information from the dyes in wavele…

So I wrote an article about this a few years back and also developed a custom RGB light for my own scanning: https://medium.com/@alexi.maschas/color-negative-film-color-... There's…

This is how I mostly do interviews. Get the candidate talking about their previous roles and see how they talk about the problems they've solved and what that reveals about how the…