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amrox··on The Loneliness of the Mid-Level Vimmer
As a vim user since the 90s - this is what I've landed on. It pretty easy to disable the vim plugin if you're sharing your computer with a muggle.
amrox··on Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?
I'm having a similar experience. I turned off my “looking for jobs” status a few weeks ago, and just turned it back on, expecting a flood. Never came ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
amrox··on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
Beautiful. I have a couple of the NuPhy [1] keyboards so I'm definitely in the target market.

The Rotary Encoder is a dealbreaker for me though. I want something slender that I can easily slip into a case or backpack. If it was optional, you'd have a customer!

[1] https://nuphy.com

amrox··on RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
For the page:

> You will need real hardware to run it.

Why doesn't it work in a VM?

amrox··on Asdf Performance
It’s all relative but 100 open issues doesn’t sound bad for a somewhat popular project to me. For example, rust-lang/rust has over 8000.

Regardless, I curious if there were _specific_ issues you had.

And following that, I’m also curious what you moved to instead.

amrox··on Asdf Performance
That does not sound like my experience.

Are there GitHub issues for the bugs you mention?

amrox··on Use one big server
> What it fundamentally boils down to is that your org chart determines your architecture.

This is Conway’s law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

amrox··on What I don’t like about working at a remote job
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amrox··on Ask HN: What tone to use in code review suggestions?
praise: I came here to suggest conventional comments as well!
amrox··on Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
Or https://github.com/IvanMathy/Boop
amrox··on Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?
Find a company whose product is primarily physical. I work at a robotics company and much of our staff never went remote.

My team is primarily remote but I’m actually hiring an on-site person for IT.

amrox··on The state of external retina displays
I use dual LG 24UD58-B’s (one landscape, one portrait) for coding and I’ve been satisfied.

I don’t run them at native res, but this never bothered me. I also don’t game or edit photos or video either.

amrox··on The Best Things and Stuff of 2021
Can anyone elaborate on “Stop: Modern C++” under 2021 Tech Radar?
amrox··on Ask HN: Did you deliberatively develop any new hobby in recent years?
What apps do you use?
amrox··on Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Homebrew for “go install”)
This is what I do as well.

I use Homebrew for general purpose niceties like starship, fzf, and casks.

Project deps are managed with asdf.

The “right answer” may in fact be Nix however. I just haven’t fully grokked it yet.

amrox··on Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)
Is there any kind of remote development support (ssh, docker) in Sublime? That’s the killer feature that keeps me on VS Code.
amrox··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
It can be configured up to 64gb with the M1 Max.
amrox··on Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow
Many online games have a season model now, and SO at least partially gamifies developer Q&A, so this tracks.
amrox··on Lulu is the free and open source macOS firewall (like Little Snitch)
It’s free (it’s right in the title)
amrox··on Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
XP, Scrum and agile-adjacent Lean all pre-date the manifesto. The manifesto just tried to put all these ideas under one umbrella.
amrox··on Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
Containers are great for web services or anything that primarily communicates through a port.

Less so for CLI style projects that read and write to the local file system. Yes I know you can bind mount directories but it’s clunky and you also usually have to fight with file permissions issues.

amrox··on Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
> One should probably run their own package server like https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver

Never used pypiserver but I’ve had a good experience with https://github.com/devpi/devpi

amrox··on Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
C++ will not save you any trouble over python. It’s tooling and package management is significantly more complex.
amrox··on Way to Deal with a Micromanaging Boss
I think the book is called "Turn the Ship Around"
amrox··on Get Started with Tmux
I use iTerm integration over Eternal Terminal to my workstation all day. It’s great.
amrox··on Yocto/GL: C++ Libraries for Data-Driven Physically-Based Graphics
This appears to be unrelated to https://www.yoctoproject.org ?
amrox··on You don't really need a virtualenv
I wish the tooling around devcontainer.json was available separately from VS Code. Most of my company are die-hand vim users. We’ve rolled our own “devcontainer” analog but it’s not nearly as seemless.
amrox··on Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager
I know that Conan claims to be a generic packager and tool manager (https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/howtos/other_languages_packa...) but is anyone using it for that?

asdf seems like it has much wider support

amrox··on Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans
Recommend poetry over pipenv
amrox··on The Duct Tape Programmer (2009)
yeah sounds a lot like the fabled "10x engineer" to me
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