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And Lite is written in Lua. That's fascinating.

Lapce is really interesting. Nice people too.

Chuckle. Yeah I over reached there. My bad.

Don't things just take forever. I watched how long Ruby took to deal with Unicode. Sigh. But at least its happening.

Noted. And you are right about not giving examples. That was a mistake and bear in mind I wrote a rant which I didn't expect to get exposure. A buddy thought it was good enough to submit and that's how I'm here. No is more surprised than I that this showed up here.

In terms of specific examples, I'm now running:

* Starship.rs -- prompt management for my terminal. This is something I've always had issues with and Starship does a great job, better than I've ever had before. * NuShell which I run experimentally on my alternate box and I think I'm finally ready to use in production. * Warp.dev which I'm currently shutting down iTerm2 windows to shift over. * Zed -- which I just got late today and I'm going *try* and use this week. I have less time with this but looks quite good.

Interesting. That actually doesn't surprise me. I'm pretty new to the ecosystem and still at the fanboy stage. Learning anything new is hard. Learning something new that is KNOWN TO BE HARD is likely going to be harder. And since the way you make software is by building stuff, and we now do that in the open, we are likely to see some crap (think digital poop droppings littering an ecosystem).

Interesting thoughts on the backend web dev front. Not surprising at all because a compiled language is a poor match for the problem space (web dev is basically string manipulation -- which I don't really think fits Rust).

The rust project itself really is superb. Steve K is doing great work.

I'd love to think that I'm smart enough to get something onto Hacker News deliberately -- I'm not. I've gotten one other article I wrote hear in the past decade plus I've been a daily reader.

I'm just someone who keeps getting kicked out of a flow state by software quality. (As a general observation software quality is horrid and if you care about software deeply, it is like a gut punch).

And part of this is me -- I will run 50 plus editor windows, of which maybe 7 or 8 are tabs on active source bases. Still on a machine with N cores and 64 gigs of RAM, I don't think that is asking too much as the aggregate data size is maybe 500K of text ... I mean how big is source code really? Still the way I work seems to cripple things. I just like to maintain all my context at all times (consultant so I'm always juggling stuff).

Hi. The author is viewing the comment (finally). What I can tell you is just what I have observed -- compiled artifacts written in Rust, at least initially, seem to be higher quality than things written in C. Rust is a pretty high bar to achieve technical competence in and that seems to result in better quality particularly given that Rust is designed to eliminate a class of errors that plague GUI apps (namely memory leaks). Both of my daily drivers - TextMate 2 and iTerm - are both mature, well developed apps and yet leak memory like sieves and crash pretty regularly.

I will look into Chime and Nova and BBEdit. Go has some level of interesting approaches to development also although they don't go anywhere near as far as Rust.

All - Thank you for your feedback; I'm still digesting. I just got access to the Zed editor and it looks awesome. Here are just the comparison tables: https://gist.github.com/fuzzygroup/8a5ad188e368df0796180d150...

For what its worth, I saw this comment and bought Moca hardware (ScreenBeam Bonded). Ten minutes of setup later after an Amazon delivery and I'm happier with Netflix / Prime / Hulu / etc. There is literally no comparison on the performance I'm now getting.

I have Fiber to the house and then an Eero first generation to provide Wifi. I also have an AmpliFi HD. And we still had regular (3x per week) problems with streaming video.

THANK YOU !!!!

The last job search I went thru really, really sucked. The main way I made it through was side projects. One of those side projects ended up being https://jobhound.io/ which is a CMS for your job applications so you know where you are with a given job you are applying for.

You aren't wrong at all. Stores regularly re-organize and what it says to customers is "your knowledge is worth nothing". The disregard of customer knowledge is an absolute anti pattern.

https://fuzzyblog.io/blog/ I don't know if it matters to recruiters but it matters a ton to me. I find that a personal web site gives a place for me to document what I know and that improves my work.

Ditto. Can we see the repo?

I built https://www.covidnearme.org - a site for easily following local covid-19 cases near you.

https://fuzzyblog.io/blog/ I'm the creator of https://www.covidnearme.org/ (local case counts for Covid) and I blog about Ruby, Python, Machine Learning and startup type stuff.

I'd love to know how you find these great deals on Newegg. I've heard of them in the past and their search engine seems to make hiding them a thing. Thoughts and thanks in advance.

I know of this project (scroll down to #7) and I've met (online / video conference) the person coordinating it. He is damn impressive.

At the risk of incurring self promotion issues (and I really don't understand what qualifies as acceptable self promotion), I didn't feel that this article was all that clear if you are an AWS focused user, so I wrote up all the steps it took to use Eternal Terminal in an OSX / AWS context including an Ansible playbook for configuration.

https://fuzzyblog.io/blog/aws/2019/11/26/using-eternal-termi...

There is not nearly enough information in the question to get any kind of valid answer. I'd suggest adding:

* How long have you been at this? * What have you got invested personally? * Any third party investment? * Are you learning stuff from it? * What time commitment does it take? * How many users do you have? * What does it cost you to run? * Do you still believe in the concept?

Startups are marathons not sprints. I haven't made a dime from JobHound (www.jobhound.io) but it helps people and it costs me about $20 / month to keep it alive (thanks Digital Ocean).

My first startup I didn't take a dime out of it for the first 3 years and then we crossed the chasm and ultimately sold it successfully. These things take time. We all love the myth of overnight success but that's staggeringly rare.

Note: I've done this a lot. If you want to talk founder to founder, my contact info is on my profile.

Google your Boss. One of the smartest people I know just started a new job and when I asked them what they knew about their boss's hobbies and interests, they hadn't googled them yet.

After my suggestion, they discovered their boss had may of the same interests and hobbies. Knowing what people care about helps with bonding and small talk. And while these things may appear trivial at times to us tech folk, small talk is the social lubrication that really helps build relationships.

Hey Afpx,

You're not alone. I recently went thru this myself and wrote up my experiences here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/jobhound/2018/04/24/ten-things-i-le...

I hope that helps.

Oh wow that's really, really good -- turn recruiting into fix bugs in an OSS project. Nice! That's good for everyone.

Hi,

You will absolutely be discriminated against the older you get. Your observation on being a contractor for too long is likely on point (I was).

"There is no singular senior engineer skill set, but a variety." That is extremely well said. Thank you.

Welcome back Simon. I am really, really glad to hear that you are blogging again. The internet as a whole lost something precious in the move to "social".

While its not hard to setup, Github doesn't cover how to do so for private repositories. I put the steps for setting this up on a per repositor basis here:

http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/github/2017/11/17/enabling-github-s...

Github pages with Jekyll brought me back into blogging after a decade long hiatus.

I've hired a lot of engineers and I've seen this a number of times. In my experience once someone gets to the point of interviewing and considering another job, well, they're on the way out. I've done the counter offer and tried to get them to stay a number of times and it just never tends to work out -- they take the offer and then within six months they are out anyway.

What I always do though is try and keep a good relationship with all departing staff so if there's a critical need for knowledge that only they have, they can be brought back on a consulting basis for specific problems. That way people can leave and organizationally you're not stuck in a bind.

Yes I'll agree with the people who say that this isn't a drop in replacement (fewer features and different syntax) but I also just don't care. fd's defaults are brilliantly simple and just plain make sense. Yes I can use find but I always, always end up looking up an example. fd was simple enough that I very quickly figured it out by trial and error. And it really is fast.

Thank you sharkdp -- really nicely done. Appreciated.

This is one of the main reasons that I work from home / remote entirely. The worst office configuration I ever saw was a San Francisco open plan environment in a loft style office where all the engineering desks had their back to a floor to ceiling window shining bright sun on every engineer's screen for roughly 1/2 the day. I don't think that company (Kleiner funded) was ever profitable.

Every single engineer had eye strain as well the normal noise distractions.