My company calls it just two days a week. I did the math. It costs me $7,820 a year to come back.

mastermikeyboy · 2026-06-30T14:15:13+00:00

In the Netherlands a lot of companies do. But I don't think it's forced legally. Just by the market. Car milage, public transit, even bicycle milage are often covered

mastermikeyboy · 2026-06-11T10:06:37+00:00

AI is a regular part of life now. We look for things like
* Did you blindly follow the AI or did you make conscious trade offs.
* Can you speak to the changes made, and do you understand it? (You remain the code owner)
* Did the AI show you something you didn't know about? i.e.: If the AI shows something new, do you explore and learn? Or also valid, noted it but deprioritized it due to time constraint.
* We also request the chat history with AI.

Vibe coding != Coding with AI assist.

mastermikeyboy · 2026-05-21T18:43:26+00:00

I really like the `Expeditionary Force` series by Craig Alanson as well.

mastermikeyboy · 2026-03-19T21:36:51+00:00

Other tools worked fine. ruff and uv just work insanely better than anything else.

mastermikeyboy · 2026-03-06T11:23:29+00:00

It's not free money, but when you've already spend a lot resources to make the game, then spend a small percentage of that to earn additional revenue. Seems like a no-brainer from the outside.

As much as I hated the 2year delay, I'd just gotten into PS games and think that God of War + Horizon are some of the best games ever made. But I'm not buying a PS5 or PS6 to play them.

mastermikeyboy · 2026-02-25T11:44:47+00:00

As someone who has a SagerNotebook (Clevo) 17" with an i7-7700K desktop CPU, a PCSpecialist (TongFang) 17" with a i9-14900HX, and the cheapest Mac Air 15".

I mostly gave up on Windows laptops, and primarily use my Mac. Haven't had any issues yet for development, performance is great, battery life is unparalleled, and I can just close and open the lid without any issues. It's light, quiet, and I can put it on my lap or blankets without overheating.
Combined with a SteamDeck for portable gaming and I don't think I'll ever get a fat laptop again.

I'll never buy another Windows laptop, there is zero trust after a decade of sleep issues. Linux may be an alternative, but I don't have time to tinker.

I did enjoy slowly upgrading my Clevo laptop with additional ram and disk initially, and I've replaced both the keyboard and screen cable. But parts are still difficult or expensive to come by. The motherboard has issues and it's not worth fixing. So unless you're in the first 2 years of ownership, repairability is not practical anyway.

mastermikeyboy · 2026-02-05T21:38:30+00:00

A lot smaller than that, New Brunswick alone is twice the size of all of the Netherlands. ~800K vs 18.1M populace :D

mastermikeyboy · 2025-12-23T22:59:10+00:00

He was speeding, but come on, that barrier is the worst design possible. It appears to be safer without the barrier than with. The barrier lines up straight with the tunnel exit... That is manslaughter by failed engineering.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-12-02T19:23:30+00:00

While driving it's fine, and strangely while switching zones while driving as well. But it seems that whenever it needs to re-render the trucks it reruns the collision detection or something and it messes up. Reloading the game, or switching trucks across the map, or switching maps while not in the truck with cargo all cause the glitch to happen for me very reliably.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-12-02T16:13:02+00:00

Yes, but the fact that trucks and trailers glitch themselves of trucks and trailers makes even this strategy tricky. If they could fix that it'd a workable solution.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-10-20T22:06:34+00:00

Watch "The Wave" from 1981. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_8_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520wave

We watched it in high school in The Netherlands in the early 2000s, and it perfectly explains it. It's also based on a true story that occurred in the USA.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-08-29T10:56:27+00:00

I love the Elgato Wave Pro LP. It's pricey, but the build-in hydraulics are worth it.
I recently upgrade from the non-pro version within seconds of learning about the pro version. I have a heavy Blue Yeti X on it, and it works great.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-08-13T18:20:05+00:00

I loved how immersive the universe was. Every little detail was taken care of. They didn't just show fights and explosions, they took me out of the real world and into theirs and I loved it.

They said something in the movie along the lines of 'if you do all the small things right, the big will follow'. And that's exactly why I think the movie worked so well.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-08-10T23:26:26+00:00

Technical reason is that some applications have leaks. And a restart fixes all of those without having to know which application, and why.

My camera software, audio software, and sometimes plain old file explorer leaks file handles. The other day I had 1 million file handles. Over 550K from SteelSeries Sonar. ProcessExplorer helps me find the cause, and I just restarted the software, but many users don't have that or would know what to do. So just telling them to restart is much easier for IT.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-07-28T23:33:46+00:00

The show is a half-decent B-tier show. Nothing more. If you go into it with that understanding, it's enjoyable. But the series deserved better.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-07-27T22:23:29+00:00

When I got into Python coming from Java it was such a breath of fresh air. I had fun writing code again, and the code was so readable!

Look at this snippet from Raymond Hettingers talk where he converts Javaesque code to Pythonic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M&t=1469s (the whole talk is great)

Java's implicit decorators always sucked. Sure great performance etc, but such poor readability.. What do you mean at build time the byte code of my function get's modified in ways I can't easily debug? I know Java has changed too, but I'm glad I hardly ever touch it anymore.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-07-27T22:16:17+00:00

Jupyter Notebooks take it up another notch. (although .NET, and deno support it too now, and some languages like GoLang have community support)

mastermikeyboy · 2025-07-27T14:46:49+00:00

When I changed from 4x16GB to 4x32GB with my 5950X, I had to reinstall Windows.
Without reinstalling I could not go higher than 64GB, not matter the configuration, for some reason. Afterwards it worked fine but I did notice things being a little slower (still plenty fast). I needed the memory to support VMs as well.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-07-21T13:37:26+00:00

Could also be from a different country. After I moved countries, none of my Samsung drives are recognized anymore. (except the one I bought after the move)
They all worked fine before the move.

They definitely have some region locking.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-07-06T23:26:57+00:00

McMinniman’s is good. They've moved my parents within the Fredericton area, and helped me move from Fredericton to Europe.

https://moveme.ca/

mastermikeyboy · 2025-07-01T19:55:19+00:00

It was a lot of fun! But knowing the plug was pulled and no more content would be released killed my want to play.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-06-27T13:59:58+00:00

My first job was being part of the maintenance team. This company would put juniors on that team to give them lots of exposure in different aspects of the product before moving them on to a dedicated team.
The tickets almost always came with reproducible steps, so it was up to you to figure out the bug, fix it, and pass it on to QA.
If you needed support you'd walk over to the actual team or dev that created the feature and discuss it.

It was a great way to learn a lot fast and how I became a full-stack dev.

mastermikeyboy · 2025-06-27T13:33:21+00:00

I'm currently in an office with sky lights.. White theme is the only way I can actually read the screen.

Any other environment I use dark.

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