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Not sure if it’s just me but I get an invalid SSL cert warning and can’t load the page (DDG mobile browser)
Qualys shows a bunch of errors and an incorrect cert chain but it does manage to get a working connection on almost all test browsers: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blog.dijit.sh...
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I'm beginning to think that making more money by becoming a better developer is hard, and that managing, while difficult in a totally different way, is less hard. At least for the money.
I think people often convince themselves that becoming a manager is a path for those who couldn’t hack it. In reality it’s a completely different set of problems. If you’re a decent developer with phenomenal soft skills, there is a very good chance you’d be better in management or sales than writing code.
some of this management can be useful but often a lot of it is not, at best. As organizations age companies become mostly about advancing careers of middle management and the things the company actually does become secondary.
My manager doesn't do almost anything. I wonder why they keep him around. He has like two reports and we're both fully self-directed. He can't understand technical issues, and whenever he proposes something, it's completely untenable due to his lack of understanding what's useful or possible.
I'm beginning to think that making more money by becoming a better developer is hard, and that managing, while difficult in a totally different way, is less hard. At least for the money.
Depending what itch you're trying to scratch, and what opportunities are available in your org, it might be just as rewarding to be a tech lead, feature lead, mentor, cross-team liaison, steering committee member, or possibly other roles rather than team lead / manager.
Not sure if it’s just me but I get an invalid SSL cert warning and can’t load the page (DDG mobile browser)
I get the same on Firefox on Linux (Fedora 37). It looks like the server is responding with an ECDHE key exchange using a SHA1 signature algorithm which is disabled on modern versions of OpenSSL. I'm not sure why it works on Chrome, maybe their TLS client is a bit more lax. You can see openssl fail to verify the signature locally with `openssl s_client -connect blog.dijit.sh:443` due to the wrong signature type. At l…
If their system is old enough perhaps they have a version of the ISRG X1 certificate that is cross-signed by the expired DST X3 certificate. Some ssl imlementations did poorly with this. https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-septe...
Is it some sort of TCP window congestion control futzing? But even that wouldn't work since the client can do whatever the heck it wants.
My manager doesn't do almost anything. I wonder why they keep him around. He has like two reports and we're both fully self-directed. He can't understand technical issues, and whenever he proposes something, it's completely untenable due to his lack of understanding what's useful or possible.
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You know, summarizing what code does in regular English via ChatGPT would be an interesting thing. Does it already do that?
It definitely can do this, though obviously it can details wrong here and there. For example: Describe what this code does in clear english: from datetime import datetime import pytz utcmoment_naive = datetime.utcnow() utcmoment = utcmoment_naive.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc) # print "utcmoment_naive: {0}".format(utcmoment_naive) # python 2 print("utcmoment_naive: {0}".format(utcmoment_naive)) print("utcmoment: {0}".forma…
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I'm beginning to think that making more money by becoming a better developer is hard, and that managing, while difficult in a totally different way, is less hard. At least for the money.
I think people often convince themselves that becoming a manager is a path for those who couldn’t hack it. In reality it’s a completely different set of problems. If you’re a decent developer with phenomenal soft skills, there is a very good chance you’d be better in management or sales than writing code.
Not sure if that's what you mean by soft skills, but I generally think of soft skills as things like ability to communicate well, navigate conflict, and apply emotional intelligence to people management
The "soft skills" as I understand them are more important for roles like team lead/staff, whereas the organizational skills (and maybe even a willingness to be unlikeable at times) are more important for management.
That's why I think a lot of engineers prefer the IC track (I personally think my organizational skills and focus don't qualify me for management, although I enjoy being a lead)
My manager doesn't do almost anything. I wonder why they keep him around. He has like two reports and we're both fully self-directed. He can't understand technical issues, and whenever he proposes something, it's completely untenable due to his lack of understanding what's useful or possible.
Atleast your manager doesn't do anything. I have seen managers who do stuff and ruin the work that people have done.
Not sure if it’s just me but I get an invalid SSL cert warning and can’t load the page (DDG mobile browser)
I found a bug report[0] which suggest it is (mostly) a server issue. Fedora refuses to use SHA1, and the server ignores the client's attempt to negotiate a more secure algorithm.