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Ubuntu, because I don't want to think about the OS too much. I expect that I'll someday try out more distros either to get away from snap or to get faster updates for different fra…

I struggle with terminology so I made a little Gnome utility for easier LLM-based terminology lookups from a highlighted word/term + contextual screenshot. So far it's working pret…

It traces back to accessibility. Think of folks with shaky hands. The screen helps to stabilize the tremors. A similar thing applies to typing on a bumpy bus or while walking. That…

I don't have a lawn, but I could use some more software around native habitat restoration for Green Seattle work parties. I end up using Claude or ChatGPT for plant identification …

I like the formatting and readability of https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/28/protestware-for-coding-agents.... though I wish it loaded faster.

I found it was a slow read in parts, but it was time well spent. There are deep themes that run through the whole letter and provide much better context for the quotes I've seen in…

Love the idea. The ability to PR a dashboard would've helped us in multiple companies. The two big areas that could use some docs/work: - Auth (one company was healthtech, so we ne…

I'm a few years behind you. I got started on my uncle's handed down vic 20 in the late 80s. The culture change in tech has been the toughest part for me. I miss the combination of …

Looks good to me! The status bar did something weird on my codebase in which 2% was really 100% so it looked like it was gonna take hours but only took a minute or so. I'll try hoo…

Yes. Earlier in careers, passion can lead to more time and energy towards growth, which is a strong contributor to becoming a great engineer. For more experienced engineers, I thin…

A couple fun ones I remember taking: - Recently: Given some basic intermediate output from LLM system, build out evaluation/quality tools, especially for dealing with hallucination…

I worked on a hackathon project to update readmes based on PRs, and it feels very doable. The developer experience is the hardest part... we did a Github Action that would open a P…

I like to research companies that I'm interviewing with and I've been automating my process lately. It's also been a good opportunity to explore many of the challenges in LLM/RAG a…

Please do! That sounds super interesting

Looks good so far! If it helps, some of the challenges I had with take-homes as a hiring manager were: - We'd suggest to spend an afternoon on it, no more than 4 hours, but many ca…

Textgrad mainly optimizes the prompt but does not inject few shot examples. Dspy mainly optimizes the few shot examples. At least that's my understanding from reading the textgrad …

I'm wrapping up my current sabbatical, and I took one before. In the first sabbatical, I left my job to work on a startup idea with friends, and I learned a ton from it, both techn…

If I remember right, my team's pipelines took about 40-60 min on average. We deployed machine learning models and code to lambda via cdk. The things that made it slow were having t…

I made a similar change in my last role and it was a great experience. The big difference is that I took about 30 minutes and also asked a bit about work on their resume to check b…

Funny enough I was in this situation a few weeks ago. My old resume was in latex with moderncv and I decided to make the new resume with Creddle after seeing it recommended. Now I'…

Also I'm happy to help any way I can. I'm not sure the best practices of sharing contact info on HN but if you Google K Trnka language modeling I should be the only one

I'd suggest starting with just building a high quality data set with text from a variety of domains, and starting off by publishing that. Maybe even developing some related tech li…

> What is tech debt, really? It's gotta meet two criteria for me: 1) code that's unusually hard to maintain or extend that 2) could've been designed much better initially. So "uses…

My experience in Seattle is that the majority of my coworkers have more free time and less stress as a result of WFH. I enjoy going to the office and having a feeling of community,…

Descript for podcast editing. I used it for an internal podcast last year and got to experience childlike glee once more. It was extra special because I work in nlp but so many nlp…