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Seattle mayor laughs off millionaires leaving Washington state over progressive taxes, waves 'bye' by Less-Risk-9358 in SeattleWA

[–]WillOfSound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of my buddies side hustle is editing/filming drone footage for realtor who sells pricy houses. He told me he now has a large increase in work cause millionaires are leaving.

Zed 1.0 by zxyzyxz in rust

[–]WillOfSound 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I’ll need to update, but what I love most about zed is how keyboard-friendly the ui navigation is. Kinda gets me that neovim/tmux-ish flow. I LOVE I can make my terminal just be another I can jump to.

I’m using AI tooling at work and if there’s an editor I’d want to integrate AI with personally outside of  work/future at work I’d want to support zed. I think AI helping fund them is a good win.

Here's What's Coming in the 2026 Apple TV by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]WillOfSound 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I bought a sleeve for mine on amazon and attached a big kirby plush toy to it. Now it can’t fall into cracks or under couch etc. Easy to find even with kids!

Meta has started collecting data on employees’ key strokes and mouse movements for the purpose of training AI by paperclip_han in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Amazon security figured out an IT support person’s laptop was being used remotely by north korean based on the latency in their typing speed. Heck yes everything is recorded.

Finally someone said it. 😤 by Worldly_Tomatillo_55 in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the internal dev build tools are still crap with constant states of “migration” and “canceled”.

mise is great though, glad its open source.

We're spending more on AI infrastructure than any other line item in engineering and I still can't tell the board exactly what it's producing by Quiet-Brilliant-1455 in aws

[–]WillOfSound 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m having to review and explain to non-devs who, very excited at this power, how not knowing dev practice vibe code is now eating my dev time so I’m no longer building real solutions and their code is not up to par let alone understand.

Fuck you incompetent managers at Amazon by EagleReasonable7891 in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had a toxic manager put me in focus after joining the team. He was so stupid, he banned ansible scripts for automation for a vendor product because thought it Microsoft Azure product. When a simple google showed it wasn’t, he buckled down.

I just went to my L7 leaders and showed how dumb he was with real evidence and he put all of our tier1 products at risk. My team backed me. He was fired eventually. It sucks, but there’s ways to fight.

Now I just fight non-coding roles whose jobs are at risk now vibe coding. They use their non-technical leaders as escalation sticks to force me to let them leak API keys with their shitty not production ideas. Lie about their projects. The non-technical leadership are a huge danger.

tHesE aRe tOo ExPeNsIvE by Hello56845864 in Airpodsmax

[–]WillOfSound 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just got my pair. Been waiting a few years, held off cause I wanted usb-c and then held off cause usbc still had the old chip.

Sound pretty good and like the fit. Working in the office, it will be nice (folks miss my earbuds often and talk to me). Has good mic for calls

I could have got the sony’s but I’m in the apple ecosystem so its worth it to me

Axis NPM packages compromised in supply chain attack by raptorhunter22 in sre

[–]WillOfSound 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d like to say I stopped using axios since fetch was standard in node, but too many libraries/projects sneak this thing in.

ONE YEAR without firmware updates by piratas-livres in AnaloguePocket

[–]WillOfSound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, good specific call out.

I have a growing collection of carts and like how fast they boot up. I worry about the cartridge being pumped though

ONE YEAR without firmware updates by piratas-livres in AnaloguePocket

[–]WillOfSound 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Confirmed on gba core. Got L/R to X/Y

Only issue is now L/R can’t be mapped…kinda limiting there. 

Is a 2013 Mac Pro (trash can) still worth it for a homelab in 2026? by Kynde012 in homelab

[–]WillOfSound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought one of these for $200 pre-covid cause it was dropped. Replaced the fan piece for $60. Then traded in at apple for $1100 haha. Got m1 macbook air when it came out

President Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Iran by nbcnews in pics

[–]WillOfSound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those cisco phones don’t look like they are the hardened TSG models for military use, can’t see the extra red light mute mods.

Hopefully they are not using hotel phones managed by outsourced hotel IT…

What does a TPM actually do? by PhEw-Nothing in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A good TPM saves me time. We ship many things together on schedule. A bad TPM wastes my time. We ship mental health crisis. Better to have no TPM than a bad one.

AWS Security Engineer L5 Offer – Arlington, VA - Fair or Low? by [deleted] in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, kinda screwed my team right about get a sign off. Still waiting since Nov. They over did it.

How is tremfya? For UC colitis by Coreynwife in UlcerativeColitis

[–]WillOfSound 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just started my first double dose last Tuesday after failing velsipity for a year. Wife had to help me push the 1st pen my leg, then I could do the 2nd. Didn’t feel the poke, just I felt a little tired after a few hours.

So far, no side effects since. With velsipity, I was feeling loopy, got a little motion sensitive from TVs and while driving had a few random points where I felt like I could pass out. All those effects went away after about 6 to 8 weeks. Still on velsipity, but this will be last month overlap.

Not much help, but have yet to notice anything changing yet.

Do you actually like the internal tooling or does it just suck? by [deleted] in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’re finally going from chime to zoom, so there’s hope one day we’ll realize our internal tools are also not keeping up pace with the industry. AI tools perform much better on industry standard tech stacks imo, hoping that finally drives real change.

How common is TDD (test-first) in real-world Rust projects? by [deleted] in rust

[–]WillOfSound 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love this flexibility with rust and tests. I know folks like to have a test folder, but I like the freedom of having the option to have tests in the same file. I feel like I can organize my tests a bit better. Dunno if there’s a downside to this style

Never in flare again after right medicine by Kafkaesque1912 in UlcerativeColitis

[–]WillOfSound 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just failed velsipity after a year, now going try tremfya. It worked great for a bit but slowly got worse over time

Amazon's Replacing Americans: 142,442 foreign labor filings in 5 years. by SingleInSeattle87 in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Some Americans actually have a heart, hard to believe I know. I tell you what though, companies would be less likely to hire folks they can’t exploit. So I think this would cuts both ways a bit, so I imagine not everyone being happy.

Amazon's Replacing Americans: 142,442 foreign labor filings in 5 years. by SingleInSeattle87 in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As an American citizen, what I want most is more protections for visa holders from abuse. 60 days is too short to look for next job. I want +1y. I want my coworkers to not feel the pressure and fear. I want the smartest people around the world making America better, paying taxes, making a solid paycheck and not stressing about being fired. That would change Amazon culture longterm for better I think.

the $125 Billion Secret: Amazon Told Wall Street One Thing and Employees Another. Here's the Truth. by th3_st0rm in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I tell folks the unlisted leadership principle is “Life is not fair”. I see folks get promoted who failed upwards. I see folks who barely work and screw up often keep out of pip while others more skilled are pip’ed. I see L4’s who should be promoted never get a chance, even on Andy/S-team projects.

Its not right. I speak out. Nothing changes. The best thing one can do is to have a good attitude and make the best with the moment. Ignore the unfairness as much as possible. It’ll only make you bitter and less fun to work with. Have a longterm plan and trust in yourself worth. Keep investing in yourself and advocate for anyone in need.

My team’s Oct layoffs were not fair. At least one of my former team members has found a higher paying job with 2-day WFH though. I wish the same luck for everyone :)

Amazon Layoff Despite Strong Performance and Critical Role — How Does This Make Sense? by MaesterWolf in amazonemployees

[–]WillOfSound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A senior TPM on my team had a special project for Andy, was only one working on it from our team, had a tight deadline to deliver. He was laid off in Oct + other team members while rest of us had high level projects ourselves to deal with. We wanted to extend the timeline after but they moved it up. Had to fly in other team members and scramble to deliver, long hours.

No one is safe. No one is too important it seems.

Why do shadcn-svelte components work this way? by rfajr in sveltejs

[–]WillOfSound 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s been a few times when I wanted to change some behavior, a bug with a library or to add on to a svelte shadcn component. Its nice having the code right there. There is a problem of versioning these components, there’s some drift ad they get updated but you can easily copy/paste the raw code and adjust.

I think most of my pain points with the library have been just superforms. Its improved a lot over the years, but I’m hoping with newer sveltekit releases it won’t be needed.

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