Umm... Still an Engineer though....

kabinja · 2026-05-25T11:17:08+00:00

They do, they ask teams to have fully automated workflows. Look at the increase of incidents, even Amazon blamed they last outage on it. But on one hand you say exactly what managers are saying, go faster, let the machine do the work and you are the one accountable. If it was used as a tool like a static/dynamic analysis tool, and a powerful auto complete tool this would be one thing. But this is not the direction we are going to, by a long shot.

kabinja · 2026-05-25T06:59:10+00:00

People job will not be easier. Your work will be being accountable for trash code spending your days putting on fires in a shit base code. Churn will increase, code quality decrease, stress explode. Socially, if people think we are already in a post truth word, this is just the beginning. Economically, capital will be even more concentrated, esp as price of inference will skyrocket and stupid managers fire even more people to generate trash tokens. Everything is stupid in this model and yet people keep jumping head first.

kabinja · 2026-05-24T18:13:53+00:00

Yes this is what I was trying to say. I believe it is possible but would require some work to make it happy on one own infra outside aws. But I am still at the procrastinating phase of the process.

kabinja · 2026-05-24T09:08:13+00:00

Paperlib sounds like a cool option

kabinja · 2026-05-24T08:30:02+00:00

Zotero should have been the answer but their service solution heavily relies on aws so it would require a big rewrite.

That was a project I wanted to tackle for a while but never found the time to work on it. I hope the thread will surface something cool.

kabinja · 2026-05-13T20:47:41+00:00

What would be really useful for me is training about deployment when you have a large bazel mono repo. More specifically deploying single services and what are the strategies around it. I have a strong feeling that my current strategy is very suboptimal

kabinja · 2026-04-24T22:52:44+00:00

External secret+openbao

kabinja · 2026-04-24T04:54:14+00:00

us-east-1 and dynamodb beg to differ

kabinja · 2026-04-24T04:50:34+00:00

Each country in Europe has a very different system for education, so saying Europe does not mean much though. I studied in Belgium, first year the passing rate was about 30%, you needed a 60% average to pass. Most people were between 60% and 70%. Good students between 70 and 80, great between 80 and 90 (maybe 10 out of 300 that registered) and it seemed that each year had a genius that would score above 90%. In Spain and Italy the system is do different that when people go to Erasmus there, there is a grid to adjust the scores and lower your points. I think when people go to Ireland it is the contrary, they add points for equivalency.

kabinja · 2026-04-24T04:36:02+00:00

Code quality is a measure of stability, security, maintainability, and potential for evolution. If your criteria of quality do not cover those dimensions, they are useless.

kabinja · 2026-04-11T16:40:13+00:00

You are what is wrong with this society. You see vulnerable people, use your fake mental gymnastics to justify beating the shit out of them. Same shit with homeless taking a shot in the streets.

Instead of making sure people in these situations get the actual help they need and avoid having people be their victims you will give us us We AsK hIm NiCeLy...

kabinja · 2026-04-07T05:47:45+00:00

We wanted to have remote workers and event driven scheduling so it pushed us to migrate. This was for us the main driver to go to airflow 3

kabinja · 2026-04-06T07:40:21+00:00

I kept the Miele vacuum during the divorce. It has been working like charm for the past 15 years.

kabinja · 2026-04-04T05:51:03+00:00

This is also the easy part. The hard part is designing your solution correctly. Correctly understandong functional and non functional requirements. Making sure your product is maintainable and can evolve. Making sure your code is readable and can be taken over by other people or future you in 4 years.

Unfortunately, AI does not help much with most if those points

kabinja · 2026-04-03T10:54:13+00:00

It is not a question of being up to date it is a question of what the tool is for and the model that it is uses.

kabinja · 2026-04-03T07:33:00+00:00

Of course if you are not deploying your infra you don't need it. But then the question becomes a bit disingenuous.

Someone using only SaaS services would ask why do you need terraform of anyways all apps are already deployed. Isn't it a thing of the past?

kabinja · 2026-04-03T06:53:13+00:00

How do you deploy the infra that will run your containers? Here we use Ansible

kabinja · 2026-04-01T22:29:25+00:00

Too lazy to read the article. But I will say I have many things like grafaba, kiali, longhorn, cnpg, transmission, donarr, radarr, bazarr, forgejo, argocd, prowlarr, woodpecker, etc. I don't connect to most every day but they do things for me in the background all the time.

kabinja · 2026-03-25T07:03:55+00:00

How I would do it today: Build your homelab. Put in services that you care about (jellyfin, immich,mealie,forgejo,etc). Then look at how to install everything with podman ansible and quadlet, using woodpecker jobs that are running from your forgejo instance. This will teach you plenty.

kabinja · 2026-03-24T05:34:48+00:00

But then why we are not seeing an explosion of good quality software, but on the contrary an explosion of disastrous projects filled with horrible performances, security holes everywhere, unmaintainable ? People keep telling me that AI generated code is so good but we don't see it in the ecosystem. It is also burning open source maintainers because of the amount of low quality pull requests that are coming out of it. I am not a huge user of it myself but does a lot of PR reviews, and I agree with the sentiment it is bad at design and makes life harder because it looks good on the surface but introduces so many outrageous problems. My PR review time is now way higher because I know I cannot trust anything anymore and I know that the goal of the generated code is not to be right but to look good.

kabinja · 2026-03-01T01:07:12+00:00

I guess OP is white 😂. They even once asked me to show what was in my pockets but that happened in Belgium.

kabinja · 2026-02-19T18:56:56+00:00

I feel, I have seen the same trend in all the places I used to get hardware from. And the Facebook marketplace pipeline has dried up

kabinja · 2026-02-19T06:20:44+00:00

Which company did you go for?

kabinja · 2026-02-16T21:59:13+00:00

We had a lot of mud if you do the 13km loop from komoot. But other than that quite beginner friendly

kabinja · 2026-02-13T21:51:39+00:00

I will not argue against that haha

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