Posts tagged: tech

Dreaming of a ten-year computer – alexwlchan alexwlchan.net [1] Great gusto here from someone looking to fill landfills less. Get more use from what they paid for. Dodge some tough times in the hardware industry. I’m going to argue that the 10 year computer is not one bit crazy right now. No idea what the future entails, if local llms get good enough to really get so useful they feel required this could easily change. One issue I had with the post as they are looking to get a machine for the next 10 years is they were so focused on themself that they missed the point. They were so focused on buying something that would work for them for 10 years that they bought something brand new rather than thinking about the bigger issue of how do we get hardware to last 10+ years. Some factor of this involves giving our devices a second life. Two things went wrong here. First it appears they they have a perfectly good imac with a broken screen. I know nothing about apple/imac, assuming that the screen is toast and unrepairable, I know you can ssh into a mac this feels like good potential for server hardware. Next they purchased a brand new mac mini. Hardware has been good for a long time,...

A pretty good email scam How I helped family recover from a clever email scam that hid behind sneaky account settings cassidoo.co [1] scams suck. This is a good story, sorry to hear that it happened to a real person. If you or anyone in your family has a compromised email, add these to your checklist to fix. - automatic forwards - 2-factor email References: [1]: https://cassidoo.co/post/email-settings-scam/

YouTube has earned its crown I often give Google a lot of shit for shutting down services whenever they're bored, hire a new executive, or face a three-day weekend. The company seems institutionally incapable of standing behin... world.hey.com [1] I wonder how much of killed-by-google [2] is due to is 20 percent time [3]. Allowing engineers to follow a passion project turns into a real product that doesn’t have full backing and support of the company. similar to DHH as much as I am hurt by reader and all of their privacy BS that comes from ad based revenue I appreciate YouTube and them supporting all of the creators on it. Giving a platform for small creators the ability to sustain themselves and reach a larch audience without big coorporate rules. References: [1]: https://world.hey.com/dhh/youtube-has-earned-its-crown-48f12ccc [2]: https://killedbygoogle.com/ [3]: https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/787

[1] Googles 20 percent time is fascinating to me. It seems like a great way for engineers to fill up their tank with new skills, passion projects, and the need to scratch an itch. To me these days it feels like something that would incentivize good talent to join. I can remember back earlier in my career December and January were slow months for big companies. Riddled with vacation and annual planning cycle. I would use this time to create tools and libraries that would help me move quicker throughout the year. I clearly remember having a conversation with a colleague several salary grades ahead of me come mid February asking what I was up to. I was furiously pecking away at some of these projects while he let me know that he had been waiting for this years plan for months and had no tasks from the boss. That said, I don’t think any major tech company is going to adopt 20% time these days. It’s too chaotic, too hard to manage and impossible to measure. This line from Ted feels exactly why 20 percent time generally blows up and likely turns into another killed-by-google [2] product that has a small user base and is furious about it being killed. With enough of these at least...

Changelog Master Feed Your one-stop shop for all Changelog podcasts. Changelog · changelog.com [1] Jerod (It’s ya boi) and Adam are my favorite tech news nerds, and have the sickest podcasts in tech. Yes plural podcasts they run seven podcasts maybe more. If you want it short and sweet they got the best 15 minutes of tech news each week this is it. My favorite is Ship it, sad to see Gerhard go, but Justin and Autumn are crushing it. Every episode is highly polished and surrounded by the sickest beats in podcasting. Subscribe to one pod if you want, but I recommend collecting them all with the master feed. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ References: [1]: https://changelog.com/master

Rug pull, not cool! (Changelog & Friends #40) If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorp's Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanics' scary cool new robot, Justin Searls' ex... Changelog · changelog.com [1] Five star episode with Jarod and Adam shootin the crap. The massive Cease and Desist [2] Sucks that the guest had to back out, what a wild world 2024 is. Filled with license and pricing changes. From Vim to Zed [3] Interesting to hear the journey into zed, way to go Thorston diving all the way into working at zed. Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas [4] I later saw this through a YT short, and man does it hold up to the creepy level that they described. MarkdownDown [5] This is a legit cool service, that converts html [6] into markdown References: [1]: https://changelog.com/friends/40 [2]: https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/ [3]: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/from-vim-to-zed [4]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/boston-dynamics-debuts-humanoid-robot-destined-for-commercialization [5]: https://markdowndown.vercel.app/ [6]: /html/

Devin's Upwork "side hustle" exposed (Changelog News #90) YouTuber "Internet of Bugs" breaks down why AI "software engineer" Devin is no Upwork hero, Redka is Anton Zhiyanov's attempt to reimplement Redis with SQLite, OpenTofu issues its response to Hashi... Changelog · changelog.com [1] Damn 2024 is such a shit show, now Devin seems to be out as a complete scam. It’s really teaching us to have skepticism for what you find on the internet. Turns out that when broken down frame by frame much of the description in the video was a straight up lie. Personally it seemed quite plausible that it was percentage points better than the competition, but I was not holding my breath for it to be a hands off engineer. References: [1]: https://changelog.com/news/90