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autotuneon Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

UTM is another great example of this, which is basically a GUI for QEMU. They have a Mac App store $9.99 version and the free open source version:

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

autotuneon The senior engineer death spiral

It is hard to take almost any mentorship program seriously that is not a formal university education, and even then, at most universities they do not teach skills that are directly applicable at companies given they are not intended to directly be job training programs. Not that I am on any hiring committee currently, but if I was, I would rather see a candidate with a degree and open source project contributions than App Academy dreck, for example.

autotuneon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

I love the JIRA integration. I built something similar but it's more of a toy project compared to yours: https://github.com/elliotechne/SOC2.

autotuneon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

Contributing larger PRs to terraform-provider-aws because apparently my contributions so far do not have enough lines of code as a metric. Getting familiar with Floci for usage with Terraform over LocalStack since it is a true open source project rather than freemium. Also getting my AAS from Maestro. Ride or die since I can not afford college anywhere else despite their current accreditation issues with COE.

autotuneon Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

I lost access to my Revolut account a while back and recovery did not work after losing access to my primary email address and MFA. They also removed the ability to deposit checks on their mobile app. For these reasons I can not treat it like a real bank anymore as much as I love their 4% APY savings account rate. Unlike gmail, which had recovery options with a secondary email address. They could have implemented something similar.

autotuneon Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

Their web app functions perfectly as a replacement, however.

autotuneon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/elliotechne

autotuneon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/autotune

autotuneon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/autotune

autotuneon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

Role looks super interesting and would love to work for Space tech, even though I have no specific experience in the domain.

autotuneon Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)

I want to get fired from my job search. We'll have to see if SSDI (been about 6 months since applying) or a job opportunity comes through first.

autotuneon The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

Books have been replaced by DVDs at my library. I spent almost all my time at a book store for a year in Austin and can count the number of active readers I saw in there on one hand. It's depressing.

autotuneon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

CloudFormation and ECS are bright yellow flags for me. I'd be interested in knowing why you went with this proprietary tooling vs the open source Terraform and Kubernetes/EKS alternatives. Also, is paid relocation available if I wanted to relocate to NYC? Currently in Charleston, SC.

autotuneon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/autotune

autotuneon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)

Location: Charleston, South Carolina.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/elliotechne

autotuneon Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND

That sounds absolutely terrifying.

autotuneon So where are all the AI apps?

Specifically because it generates Terraform code along with the diagrams, but I guess it's not the selling point that I thought it would be.

autotuneon So where are all the AI apps?

I launched a draw.io competitor to the point that it is in production, but there is little activity on the site as far as signups are concerned. Doesn't deliver enough business value.

autotuneon Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance

Q+a interview talking about past experience on the resume and quiz format of various technologies. The quiz format gets on my nerves, but not as much as leetcode and live coding rounds.

autotuneon Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance with an LLM in 7 days

Interesting. I am going for a broad search rather than being targeted. Maybe it's as you say, an industry specific problem. At my last fintech job they just quizzed me a bit on Terraform and asked me about experience, though that role ended up being a disaster later on.

autotuneon Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance

They don't, at least in the SRE space. I have been interviewing for 6 months without a single coding challenge or LeetCode-type challenge. Though I would passively avoid companies that offer them, as in I would avoid them if offered, I have yet to be offered the chance to avoid it in an interview.

autotuneon Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

Definitely this. I like seeing issues reasonably populated with OSS projects. Otherwise, how am I supposed to contribute back to it? Granted it's a newer project so I will be keeping track in the future.

autotuneon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/1805

Love learning about crossplane and diving into its internals, so I am working on fixing issues it has on its "issues" page in GitHub.

autotuneon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)

Location: Charleston, South Carolina.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/elliotechne

autotuneon Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026

Not a fan of their curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh - installation method. Kind, on the other hand, has multiple installation methods, including via wget for their binary: https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#installing-f....

autotuneon Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees

You open to adding a new mentee to the mix? I have 10 years of XP and looking to grow doing DevOps work.

autotuneon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

Location: Charleston, South Carolina.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir, github.com/elliotechne

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

autotuneon Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates

LE has some gnarly rate limiting rules, so I use ZeroSSL. Works out great for my purposes.