mindwork

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by mindwork 14d ago
Staff/Principal Software Engineer. Fullstack, Backend or DevOps Location: San Francisco, Bay Area Remote: Yes (lots of experience with other timezones and remote work culture) Willing to relocate: Actively looking for an opportunity to
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by mindwork 2mo ago
> what the most romantic ideal you have of America that you think would be worth sharing? A shining city on a hill. Both as an ideal to aspire to, and a warning that the world's eyes are on you, and if you fail, you will fail out lo
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by mindwork 4mo ago
To each their own, just stay away from Tenderloin and Market and 6th street. I'm sure if you set out some time to explore, you will find whatever fits you best. When I was moving, I sourced a bunch of opinions from my coworkers, non of
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by mindwork 4mo ago
Ever since I've been very young I wanted to live in the global West. At first England, then USA became more lucrative place. I've spent 10 years trying to move to USA. Sacrificed a lot for it. Lots of self doubt, whether I can mak
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by mindwork 5mo ago
neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet
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by mindwork 5mo ago
Good luck supporting it
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by mindwork 6mo ago
1 is the loneliest number that you'll ever do 2 can be as bad as 1 It's the loneliest number since the number 1
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by mindwork 6mo ago
I still use Authy tbh
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by mindwork 6mo ago
Let me use my UniFi
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by mindwork 6mo ago
I don't mind UI, but I think it's a bad approach. Instead of hiding all those complexities of the server behind UI, I would like to see each part of the application teach me how to achieve the same result in CLI. That would be use
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by mindwork 6mo ago
JIRA replaced Project Management job a long time ago. If you select for proactive, driven, autonomous engineers, you don't really need to oversee them or tell them what to work on. Now Tech Lead or Product Manager is a whole different
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by mindwork 7mo ago
I took a python library for generating posters from maps and wrapped it up as a web UI: https://maptoposter.penk.in/ I mean AI did all the work for me with some minimal guidance. All and all it took about 3 hours to do with
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by mindwork 8mo ago
I self host Stirling-PDF for complicated tasks, and use native MacOs app Preview for easy tasks
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by mindwork 8mo ago
yup, something to fix in the future. I suspect it couldn't find city coordinates
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by mindwork 8mo ago
https://maptoposter.penk.in/ Using Claude Code and OP's library, I've put it on the internets. Web hosting is cheap(free) and generation takes some time
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by mindwork 8mo ago
https://penk.in/ - one day I will add a proper blog in there and testing bed for tech, but for now it is as it is. The background image is the one I took in Iceland, really proud of it
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by mindwork 1y ago
RIP. Also RIP my dreams about apple doing networking hardware like AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule, XServe etc. It was a great time in 2000s
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by mindwork 1y ago
When running your own backup server, you're forgetting about scenario(however less-likely) when Google Photos will loose your photos, or if your google account gets banned with no ability to call anyone in Google to dispute that. In th
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by mindwork 1y ago
have you tried CasaOs or Zima board? It's their premise your own micro cloud
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by mindwork 1y ago
https://filebin.net/jptm6h7q2agr8qoe Let's see if HN admins will allow it. File will be deleted in 6 days
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by mindwork 1y ago
There was a post about 2 years ago on HN so that people would post links to their blogs. Somebody saved that post and extracted all the links in to the CSV file with their name and karma, and put it on a website(it's not there now). I&
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by mindwork 1y ago
I started to frown upon people calling themselves developers. This is the term I used a long time ago and now I use Software Engineer.
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by mindwork 1y ago
Isn't it called consultant/consultancy?
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by mindwork 1y ago
thats not the point I was answering. The point is that it's 2 sides of the coin under regulation vs over regulation. And no system is ideal on both sides of Atlantic
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by mindwork 1y ago
I guess we have different understanding of L24/N24. There is no need for a task to take 1 day, it can span days easily. I had tasks which spanned a week or two just because they were deep technical work. But I was able to explain what
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by mindwork 1y ago
At the same time European laws got whole internet littered with "Accept cookies" banners
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by mindwork 1y ago
For many years I worked for US based company from European timezone. 9-10 hours difference. It's been okay. I started work around 2-3pm and left around 10pm. It was pretty tough because I couldn't sleep for 3-4 hours after my work
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by mindwork 1y ago
Would immich work for this? You can run it locally in docker container
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by mindwork 1y ago
Have you tried visiting different countries and try to date there? Depending on the country it can make a huge difference
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by mindwork 1y ago
No, unless you're set your eyes on woking at Booking.com

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