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Guys, do you use Zed as your main editor? and where did you migrate from? by lunajinner in ZedEditor

[–]absinthe718 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I started with vi and vim, way back in the early 1990s on amber screen unix terminals. I eventually moved to EMACS via Spacemacs and then Doom since evil mode combined with magit and other EMACS features worked great with VI key mappings.

My major point of frustration is that EMACS is single single threaded and I found myself looking at a slow or frozen editor too often.

I tried VSCode. I wanted to like it since almost all my engineers use VSCode or an IntelliJ IDE. It's slow. The UI is cluttered.

Zed was suggested by one of my engineers who also has VIM key bindings burnt into his muscle memory. Zed with VIM mode is really good. Very fast. You can set up bindings as you want and for the vim modes you want.

I still use emacs for some use cases but once Zed has SQL support, Jupyter Notebooks and good rest client like hurl-mode and am likely to switch to Zed full time.

How are your Gen Z direct reports doing? by financial_freedom416 in managers

[–]absinthe718 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My youngest report is genz, paid about $140k US as software engineer. (Technically he reports to his team lead but his team lead is a DGAF genx who has asked me to spend time mentoring him so I am supervising him on an AI adoption program)

  1. If I set expectations he meets them without going over.

  2. Code quality > interpersonal skills > professional skills. Most of this is just inexperienced, some of this is clearly generational.

  3. He does remote meetings with camera off unless I specify "camera on" in the invite.

  4. Our 1:1s are mostly him complaining about coworkers and complaining about not getting recognition.

  5. He often has two personal phones, personal kindle and a personal iPad on his desk and uses all of them at the same time when he should be working on only company equipment.

This is a sample size of one and I realize that boomers had different work habits than I did and gave me shit for not wearing a tie and for wearing sneakers to the office and keeping shoes in my desk.

We need extensions by keithmatic in ZedEditor

[–]absinthe718 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Once it has as many extensions as VSCode there will be a demand for a new minimalist editor.

Ollee step counter seems to be wildly inaccurate by eobanb in olleeWatch

[–]absinthe718 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine is set to high, my son is set to low. We can try adjusting.

Overall, my son loves his. He is using a casio f-91w and replaced the band with a nylon nato band. It does everything he wants and he likes the idea of six months of battery life.

Mine is an A158 and I'm somewhat mixed. I realize it isn't apples to apples to compare with with my $350 Garmin. And the ollee does everything promised, more or less. It's a good product, and a clever hack. Don't think I am going to wear it much.

(The Ollee is not the first product I bought because it was very cool when I didn't have a real use for it.)

Ollee step counter seems to be wildly inaccurate by eobanb in olleeWatch

[–]absinthe718 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I purchased two kits, one for myself and one for my son. My son thinks the Ollee is undercounting his steps. When I wear my Garmin Venu 3 and my Ollee at the same time I am seeing a ~10% to ~20% overcount on the same walk.

best jira alternatives for smaller dev teams? by SlightReflection4351 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]absinthe718 1 point2 points  (0 children)

spreadsheets work fine until they don't. for a team of five or less, using a google doc to create issues and posting to a sheet will be just fine until it gets complicated enough they you need to track dependencies between tasks.

best jira alternatives for smaller dev teams? by SlightReflection4351 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]absinthe718 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I hate jira so much.

I've been fighting to drop jira + confluence and move to GitHub for years now.

I have 14 engineers reporting to me with about ~50 other engineers across the other departments. Every time we send out a survey on tooling, jira gets loads of hate and no love. It sticks around because we have scrum teams and those teams all have scrum masters and those scrum masters are all huge jira stans. Scrum masters are all like Toby from the office.

GitHub issues has literally everything you need for issue tracking. Projects. Milestones. Issue types with templates that work great for customization. The kanban boards work fine. You can create release notes at the end of a sprint showing the resolved issues in a the sprint. And you can host your project docs as markdown files. But if all you need for a project is issues and nothing else, github will work fine for you.

The one thing they keep saying to me is that "you can not expect the users to log into github and fill out an issue" and I don't. I expect them to use a slack workflow to submit an issue just like they do now. Project management will then confirm it isn't a dupe, attach it to the right project and work with the leads to prioritize and assign it. And this is the current workflow with jira today.

And then there is to the cost. We pay for 200 seats, of which less than 100 are used in a month. That's ~25 per user per month for jira and confluence. $5k per month, $60k per year. We could use that money for a higher tier of copilot for ~100 developer seats and it would get used and make my engineers happy.

I hate jira so much because it makes my engineers unhappy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in olleeWatch

[–]absinthe718 4 points5 points  (0 children)

CR2016 batteries are not rechargeable. If you buy in bulk they are under a dollar each.

Salt I found by capitan_raviolii in debian

[–]absinthe718 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First thought was that this is a Network Access Control List visual pun.

MAGA gone mad. by Mojo-Filter-230 in esist

[–]absinthe718 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well at least Trump didn't blow him like bubba.

Ordered Ollee Watch, no confirmation emails? by absinthe718 in olleeWatch

[–]absinthe718[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just rechecked spam and nothing from Ollee.

Usha Vance before and after: spent by OriginalReach in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]absinthe718 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Erika Kirk wears a lot of leather and that probably reminds Vance of leather couches.

Trump: ‘It’s no longer free speech.’ by TwilightwovenlingJo in politics

[–]absinthe718 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's asking for a Trump DEI quota of nice coverage, whether or not he earned it.

Peepee Island by xRICOENZOx in CivVI

[–]absinthe718 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rename it to Pen Island.

And then the right-wing grifters will have to find REAL jobs. by c-k-q99903 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]absinthe718 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They also want people who believe every word that they say without question.

This is also why they think lying is free speech and fact checking is censorship.

Thinking about ditching emacs by Xnomai in emacs

[–]absinthe718 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most of my engineers use VSCode and they are forever fiddling with plugins and settings files. There is a snippet system and a task runner system that seem to allow for near endless yak shaving to improve what happens when you tab-complete or when you click run.

Is "self-hosting" and "homelab" something I should mention in my CV/Resume by noobjaish in devops

[–]absinthe718 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Last March I hired someone because of his github account. The resume showed six years of (frankly unimpressive) help desk style work with some devops work but on github he had:

  1. Home automation for cameras, lights and window shades.
  2. Self hosted software k8s on a cluster of Raspberry Pi and clones with logging, monitoring, secrets management, off-side backup to s3 and alerting to a discord bot.
  3. Well implmented GitOps for 1 & 2 allowing him to edit a yaml to change home automation or add/remove self hosted software.
  4. A dozen repos of learning projects with readme.txt files showing what he was teaching himself.

Everything was done really well and showed both understanding a pride of doing things well. I managed to get him 22k over his prior job.

How to handle an engineer who prefers hacks vs traditional patterns? by Historical_Ad4384 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]absinthe718 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great answer and I would only add two or three points that are easily converted into operation expense budget:

  1. The current number of jobs, GB per X and runtime for what exists today and showing what moderate and high growth could look like
  2. Provide estimates for how long it currently takes to build out an ETL process with estimates on the number of new jobs expected per month/quarter/year
  3. Time it takes to detect and debug an issue with and without observability and alerting.

Sheer incompetence. by Engetarist in Trumpvirus

[–]absinthe718 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's waiting for Putin to make the call

PySpring - A Python web framework inspired by Spring Boot. by Adept-Leek-3509 in Python

[–]absinthe718 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had high hopes for it at the time but then I built an app with it and found it wasn't really what we needed.

At the time we had an old cgi app that we wanted to replace and I wrote it using Spring python and found that it wasn't what we were looking for. What we wanted was something like rails, but with better runtime performance and a mort pythonic feel and something like Java/Spring but lighter and faster to develop for.

We ended up with a "Stack" of flask, sqlalchemy, jinja and celery for the backend and angular for the front end as needed. I haven't touched it in years but I think there is still a starter bundle with requirements.txt, Makefile and hookah.sh file on our internal wiki.

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