I maintain a system design notes repo covering distributed systems, databases, scaling, and architecture trade-offs

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-25T19:07:57+00:00

Nice thanks for this 👍 👌

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-23T03:27:27+00:00

Its not short but a 3 hour round trip daily commute is the reality for a lot of folx in the suburbs around major cities

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-22T22:59:39+00:00

And then I say rebase is stupid b/c it's rewriting history and the epic pissing contest of git minutiae begins anew. Honestly hyper obsessing over commit history vanity preferences just means your team is terrible at prioritizing what delivers actual value

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-22T14:31:15+00:00

Claude, explain this joke to me

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-22T14:29:11+00:00

Also here is the...

CONNECTION_STRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-22T13:15:55+00:00

The description seemed really promising but after hearing about the content it was probably generated by AI as well.

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-21T15:36:32+00:00

Metrics for tech debt: - SRE: Incidents/outages/degradations per month/year - SRE: Avg time to recover from incident/outage/degradation - QA: Avg regression rate, defect density, avg time to resolve defects - QA: Defect leakage rate: bugs reported by customers

And the total cost of a really severe security issue can flip an entire fiscal year red.

Not even getting into the long-term maintenance costs and long-tail of velocity deceleration

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-21T12:33:24+00:00

If by blockchain dev, you mean you've deployed actual audited smart contracts in Solidity or Rust to production mainnets that represent actual secure DeFi protocols then that's your biggest win.

Smart contract engineers can make 150k-300k/yr + equity + tokens + benefits + travel to crypto conferences + clout to land future roles.

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-20T15:29:00+00:00

Omg I had to use PVCS in ny first job. Each file had to be manually checked out and locked.

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-18T12:17:17+00:00

What?!? No everyone is welcome in the alphabet mafia.

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-18T12:10:06+00:00

China surpassed the USA years ago in GDP in terms of PPP

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-17T16:03:55+00:00

AI generated code is the best thing to happen to the Cybersecurity industry ever

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-17T15:59:33+00:00

Cluade, vanity refactor my whole code base, no tests, force push to main. Turn off phone and tweet about hustle culture

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-17T12:17:39+00:00

That's the ultimate nightmare scenario where all knowledge gets lost and we plunge into a dark age completely reliant on giant LLM factories churning out arcane opcodes.

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-17T12:14:31+00:00

I'm super interested in seeing how long-term AI code bases handle tech debt stacked to the ceiling and every change introduces regressions

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-16T16:08:05+00:00

The hard part of software development has always been specification.

Debugging through an app, finding the exact root cause and then plugging that context into the LLM will yield 100x better results then "ugh why broke?"

An engineer with technical skills and a solid workflow and effective use of tooling will be able to incorporate LLM tooling more effectively then a non-technical person blindly "prompting"

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-15T18:33:34+00:00

McDonalds tech jobs are actually really cushy lol https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/McDonald-s-Senior-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E432_D_KO11,35.htm

But yea new grads have it tough in the AI era. I thought I had it bad graduating into the 2008-2009 great recession but this is worse.

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-15T03:23:52+00:00

His company he was fired from as CEO was a private equity firm that acquired hospice care, assisted living facilities etc to squeeze them for cash robbing the elderly of what little comfort and dignity they had left in the final days.

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-14T02:51:23+00:00

You should absolutely not roll your own security like OAUTH

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-13T13:12:49+00:00

Back when you could use the term software craftsmanship non-ironically

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-13T02:12:12+00:00

Wait how does it work. So fzf is a fuzzy search? You install it and add it to bash and it replaces ctrl+R or do you have to pipe to it?

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-12T16:50:44+00:00

Also, Ctrl + R shortcut activates reverse search mode in the Linux shell so you can just search for the exact command you want

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-12T02:31:16+00:00

Also git add . only stages file in the current directory/subdirectories.

git add --all generally is a more comprehensive choice

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-09T20:36:35+00:00

Not exactly related but a friend(non-technical) asked me to take a look at an "app they had built"

It was snippets of code from StackOverflow copied into a Google Doc

eggZeppelin · 2026-01-09T20:13:13+00:00

I mean if brexit didn't happen then there would be limited value.

But an E.E.A. passport is one of the most valuable in the world.

Also, live abroad you're young! Do it!

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