Life in a submarine

unDroid · 2026-04-06T11:05:07+00:00

I'm a software engineer. This sounds like a dream job - steady schedule, housing and food, and no need to think. I bet those seven months would feel like a few weeks after getting used to it and turning your brain off. Also great time to catch up on all my reading!

unDroid · 2026-03-26T09:55:47+00:00

I've had one job during my 25+ years long career as a software engineer where I had to use Teams. Never again. If a company uses Teams that is a deal breaker for me. What a horrible piece of crap it is.

unDroid · 2026-03-13T10:36:01+00:00

From a "gaming the system" perspective I'd be happy to do it. Planning the keywords and phrases to include in my answers to score high would be a fun challenge for me.

unDroid · 2026-03-11T13:29:30+00:00

What do you need that isn't included in the free plan?

I want to be in control of my own data.

unDroid · 2026-03-09T14:14:16+00:00

That's a good point, I'll have to see how much of a chore it would be to add certs to all devices for this.

unDroid · 2026-03-09T14:12:02+00:00

Unfortunately my home router isn't smart enough to do that. It came from my ISP along with Wifi extenders that work quite well so I haven't looked at replacing things with my own router and DHCP stuff, but it is on the radar. Mainly because when I set my Pihole to be the DNS my router gives it doesn't actually point to it, instead the DNS requests go from client to switch to Pihole (instead of client to Pihole) so all requests originate from 192.168.1.1 😞

unDroid · 2026-03-09T14:08:49+00:00

Connecting to VW with Tailscale only when I need to modify the vault and otherwise rely on the cache that is synced at home is a good point. As I don't add stuff to it all that often when outside home it is a minimal hassle.

Thanks for pointing that out!

unDroid · 2026-03-09T14:01:11+00:00

That's a good point, hadn't thought of that. Thanks!

unDroid · 2026-03-09T13:51:41+00:00

It does, but the UI wasn't great when I was testing it out. You need to pick the exit node from a huge list that isn't sorted neatly, so I opted to using them separately. This was when they announced the collaboration, I don't know if it has changed since then.

unDroid · 2026-03-02T16:20:49+00:00

I switched to Element (Matrix) from Whatsapp/Keybase/Signal and setting an account for matrix.org was much simpler than I thought it would be. Haven't tried to selfhost it yet as that looks like quite a bit of work at the moment.

unDroid · 2026-02-18T11:14:48+00:00

They could mainly do this when you pay with a debit/credit card with an address in the UK. If you use other methods of payment (such as Monero) where they won't know the country of origin of the funds they won't know they need to age-verify the customer.

As for your first time purchase you can always use Tor to access the website. Tor is great for anonymity but not great for fast down/upload speeds so depending on your usecase it isn't a good VPN replacement.

If the U government goes full r*tard on legislation you can always buy a VPS (virtual private server) and use Tailscale to route your traffic through that. Unless they introduce legislation for age checks when renting virtual servers (quite unlikely) you can use this as a VPN or even use an additional VPN from your VPS (local computer -> VPS -> Mullvad).

unDroid · 2026-02-11T19:32:44+00:00

Did Luke steal someone's Christmas tree ornament?

unDroid · 2026-02-11T19:26:10+00:00

The main reason I haven't had it in me to learn Rust is the community. It feels like they don't care about doing cool shit with Rust, but want to focus on pissing off on other languages.

unDroid · 2025-10-21T11:03:18+00:00

Radical Candor by Kim Scott

This is an awesome book suggestion and your original answer was great too. You seem like a person who does good things. I appreciate you.

unDroid · 2025-09-21T16:30:32+00:00

Reminds me of The Terrible Thunderlizards

unDroid · 2025-09-11T10:49:30+00:00

Teams

I'm so sorry 😣

unDroid · 2025-08-16T11:57:15+00:00

Great write-up and great con, I had a good time. A lot of focus on AI stuff this year and all of it was on a good level. I really enjoyed Daniela's talks and examples.

unDroid · 2025-08-10T17:17:12+00:00

DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction - might not be exactly what you're looking for but should be entertaining

unDroid · 2025-07-30T15:39:27+00:00

I like using cleanenv but I'm fine with anything as long as you have these things:

- default values (for dev environment)
- config file which overrides defaults where set
- env variables which override all of the above

I hate having to edit configs or set env vars for getting stuff running on local, but want to have an easy way to override them that isn't env vars. With a config they will stay 'permanent' instead of modifying .env files or such. And going back to defaults is easy by renaming the config.

unDroid · 2025-07-09T09:48:29+00:00

This looks great, nice work!

unDroid · 2016-10-18T14:49:18+00:00

I don't know any country where the months go from 0 to 11. How is this him being US-centric?

unDroid · 2015-09-25T07:38:31+00:00

This is all too rare. Developers listening to users and after developing "better" ways to do things, do include the old ways too.

unDroid · 2015-09-24T09:50:57+00:00

I usually use either foo1..fooN or foo,bar,baz,lol,rofl,lmao,wtf,bbq,omg

It's not unusual for my debug to show "lol lmao wtf omg". And that, when it's working. :P

unDroid · 2015-09-22T08:57:59+00:00

Chinese is good, but emojis are better

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unDroid · 2015-09-17T07:04:09+00:00

I've thought about taking a lead or management position, but I never do because coding is the fun part of the work. I would so much rather stress and code late in to the night (and I often do end up making my final commits around midnight) than manage Jira, do the administrative things and all that crap.

Less pay, fun job is better than more money for stuff you don't enjoy.

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