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I'm looking to learn more about the PDF standard and how PDFs work from an engineering standpoint. I'd appreciate any recommendations.

What is this?? Permutation City?!

I'm currently embedding PDFs using a simple iframe. I can't use the Adobe PDF Embed API due to the legal requirements around our customer documents. I'm looking into what the best …

If you do end up getting a used Apple device I recommend making sure that it has the newer keyboard style that the current models have (I think it switched in 2018). The old keyboa…

Working with various data, ML, and researcher-type engineers there's a bit benefit to using Python. Especially if you want to be at the forefront of what's being built. I've been b…

I feel like work from home is the modern version of this. If I need to go heads down I'll just let the team know and work from home.

Based on nothing but a guess, my bet is that it's probably roughly breakeven Though I'm curious how they're not charging any subscription given that the device will have ongoing co…

Given your timeline (since the 1940s) I'd say cell phones in general come to mind as meeting the hype I also think Cloud Computing has generally met the hype

A bit of a different take, but given the amount of experience you have, I wouldn't put as much weight on using a CV at all. With an updated LinkedIn you can reach out to past bosse…

It feels like it's sort of it's own thing. LLMs are really good at morphing or fuzzy finding. An interesting example – I had a project where I needed to parse out addresses and dat…

Companies with an API-first product will have a lot of opportunities to do non-web work.

Bit of a tangent, but I always come back to this read: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "really complex solution"? It is well-written/designed, but over-engineered? Or is it poorly done and subsequently hard to read + maintain? Or…

Also regarding CRUD apps – I actually was able to automate code generation of most of my CRUD pretty easily using cursor. I hand wrote a couple of them and now I just create the ne…

I used to use Github Copilot, but I find Cursor ( https://cursor.sh/ ) to be even better. You can add an OpenAI API Key and it'll use the GPT-4 API. It indexes your code for you an…

> I agree, but are HR people agreeing on this? Really depends on the company I guess > Is it sufficient to be skilled in one programming language, such as Python, and implementing …

Full stack engineer – and doing more AI engineering these days

GPT-4 has fully altered my dev workflow. I don't think I could move away from it unless there was a clear, equivalent, alternative. Not only on the OpenAI UI, but also via the Curs…

Not exactly in a DAW, but I found Syntorial to be incredibly helpful. Teaches you a lot of jargon around sound manipulation and how to reproduce a desired sound. It'll make you way…

I view it similarly, but differently. I think at some point a developer should aspire to level up to being a general problem solver. The language, the stack, etc.. are just details…

I've been thinking about this recently regarding photos – Would be sad to lose a life's worth of photos just because someone can't get into your phone. In a similar, but different …

Back when they used to charge a few dollars to download the app I bought the Ultimate Guitar App ( https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ ) Honestly been pleasantly surprised now that th…

Even if they're non-technical I value a technical approach to problem solving. I've always liked the idea that if they didn't have a technical cofounder they might still be able to…

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I'd be curious if there are any strong programs where devs can provide mentorship to students interested in potentially becoming developers down the road (especially underrepresent…