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Voyager program and the team behind it will always serve as an example for me. Over-the-space software updates, 50 years support life. Debugging and patching devices with no room f…

In my uni years bachelors, masters and PhDs required thorough research resulting in a huge opus printed and stitched together but the only thing that really mattered was the presen…

LLVM’s policy is that contributors can use whatever tools they would like to craft their contributions, but there must be a human in the loop. Contributors must read and review all…

I am the one who had been using g suite before it became google workspace for more than a decade.. Last year I changed my email provider, cancelled workspace subscription and delet…

This! Unfortunately, the term “reproducible” can be interpreted in many ways because there is no strict and complete definition. People and projects bend it to their liking. Your a…

Should I freeze my plans to migrate from `poetry` to `uv` at "${WORK}"?

Exactly my thoughts immediately after reading the word “just”. Also, PITR.

The whole article is tongue in cheek. And I struggle to find any comment here that would actually verify and confirm (or not) the results of the author. So here I am, random hacker…

Exactly. You can “have a vision” to accelerate full speed and hit the hard wall and just before going full throttle you are offered an opportunity to enter an open door around the …

Not being able to give granular permissions to folders is not the problem of an app which regardless of being open or closed source may be compromised. Remember that the risk is ze…

Website with background-color: #FDDB29 talking about color choices. Irony at its best.

One of the worst things about Environment variables among others discussed here is the implicit and opaque nature of them. Majority of applications rely on them in the *nix world. …

Design system as any other human-built system requires to be documented and described in order to maintain integrity where the integrity will be described in clear terms via founda…

As they say, YMMV. My personal journey: 2010-2014 - sublime text 2014-2017 - vim and later neovim (bunch of plugins to resemble IDE-like experience) 2017-2024 - jetbrains (intellij…

To honor the memory of this noble man I am using a single bladed razor.

I used the following sources to create an RFC template (and promote the document culture across the engineering documentation): - https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-doc…

> The image attached to this blog post is a stock photo of a nude pregnant woman. Absolutely nothing sexual. maiesiophilia (pregnancy fetishism), maschalagnia (armpit fetishism)…

cybersecurity 101: - know your threats - assess your risks based on identified threats - backup 3-2-1 strategy (3 copies of your data on 2 independent storage places with 1 copy of…

also a great guide for building production-ready containers using uv: https://hynek.me/articles/docker-uv/

this is my new fav for running small executable scripts: #!/usr/bin/env -S uv --quiet run --script # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.13" # dependencies = [ # "python-dateutil",…

In my org I have enforced linear history, squashing all commits into one in PRs and roughly following the rule from [1]: > If the request is accepted, all commits will be squashed,…

Synonym search is rocket science. It will take 20 years after they figure out n-gram search (i.e. “srceen time”, “cellluar”, et al.) and keyword search (“Set charge limit”) And it …

I have been using the "bare git at $HOMEDIR"[0] approach for several years. Benefits: 1. no extra tools. 2. one off task for setting up the git repo and alias `dotfiles='/usr/bin/g…

exactly. I am surprised by the amount of comments in this and similar threads praying for github to add more complexity to an already over-complicated and fragile solution. CI must…