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The Home Assistant-branded ZBT-1 [0] is $30ish and, if your goal is Home Assistant, you're probably better off going that route especially now that IKEA is going all in on Thread/M…

I've introduced mithril at three different companies to audiences of non-UX engineers and it went well each time, resulting in small, static, API-driven single page applications. F…

Died fighting off a patent troll: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/13/linux_ai_assistant_ki...

Saving some clicks: $10/yr for the first year, $8 for the second, $6 for the third year and onwards uninterrupted. $1/$0.80/$0.60 per month for the first/second/third year uninterr…

I see; that's L3, L4, and L5 progression in a nutshell at Google - although leaving L3s alone doesn't _guarantee_ something will go wrong, it was more that there was no way for the…

The most interesting thing is the timeline at the end, which shows what they were successful at and promoted for (management-type roles) and what happened when they tried to transi…

To be fair to her, those contributions are quite old and probably not representative of current skills.

I'm not sure what you mean by "junior" here. L3 is early career, L4 is mid-career, L5 is senior. You can hit L5 on the strength of pure technical contributions regardless of busine…

Yeah, as an ex-SWE, seeing this person take just over two years to get from L3 to L5 is kind of shocking.

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Google&track=Software... is largely accurate. An L7 at Amazon would have an easy time getting an L6 interview at Google; an L6 at Google woul…

Off the top of my head: 1) glibc doesn't static link and musl requires you to understand how musl is different from glibc (DNS resolution being a favorite), so you always end up wi…

You don't need to run bleeding edge versions unless you feel like it; there's a stable release with rolling security patches every 6 months (current is 24.05, next will be 24.11). …

NixOS aside, Nix manages state _outside_ of / independent with respect to your operating system, which is why it's so damn useful. With Nix, I can build OCI images the exact same w…

Chiming in to say that direnv is one of the greatest projects I've ever come across and it gets damn near everything right out of the box - you can also use it without any Nix at a…

Nix, and NixOS, are designed for those of us who have to clean 10,000 proverbial litter boxes every day. I use Nix fairly extensively at work; I use it very little at home, where I…

https://www.nixhub.io/ - and I’ve seen others - make the searching easy. It’s odd to me that I rely so much on web based tools (like search.nixos.org!) to look up nixpkgs details f…

Cheap clones of the DE-10 Nano ($99 target) are allegedly on the way along with new boards that make different tradeoffs with the pins. Should be interesting - there’s a lot of lif…

Like `tmux -CC` and iTerm2? https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html

Having been down this path - asdf didn’t go far enough in creating reproducible/sealed environments, the quality of the plugins per language varied dramatically, shims made a lot o…

There’s some really annoying edge cases I’ve found once Xcode gets involved and graphical apps are a bit hit and miss (Wireshark failed pretty completely for me a few weeks back.) …

That’s every solution, honestly - you’re just choosing what % of users will need help, and frankly asdf has a lot of edges. Nix’s self-contained declarative stuff is a pain to lear…

In my experience, nix-darwin and home manager are a little awkward to install together (you’ll want both) and central management is…tricky. All of these being large company problem…

95% of the difficulty I have at $DAYJOB is nix installation and dealing with enterprise certificate/auth crud…sadly devenv doesn’t help much there. Our pilot is quite a bit larger.…

Having tried asdf - among other tools - for awhile, dropping it for nix+flakes+direnv was great. Devenv seems nice (in fact it’s how I started down this path) but I haven’t found a…

“Guillable” says it was maybe only half way edited, at least the version I just read.