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peterdemin··on The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
“The hard truth is” an AI slop tell, which the whole article is
peterdemin··on TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
Good vibes, free things stand out. The direction of wind seems inverted. North wind is wind blowing from north to south. Also, when going into irons, the speed should drop to zero, or become negative given the sail configuration. And turns are impossible without speed.
peterdemin··on Claude Corps
Well played, Anthropic. - Nvidia gives AI labs money to run their models. - AI labs give money to AI engineers to use the models. - Companies are getting hooked on AI products. - AI engineers are getting hooked on AI products. - Regular Software Engineers are getting devalued/replaced by low-skill AI engineers. - Their employers get more money to spend on AI.
peterdemin··on Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
Sorry for off topic, is the situation the same with Safari on MacOS? I have to touch-id every time I fill the password, so it seems like it’s not available in-memory.
peterdemin··on To be replaced by AI is a choice
That's called a product engineer, and I can see how this role is becoming more commonplace.
peterdemin··on To be replaced by AI is a choice
I've seen this point a lot on the web, how people compare AI to junior devs, and bring up the idea of replacement. This is, of course, a pipe dream. In fact, I work with a few people just from the college, and I see how AI helps them get up to speed faster. Even senior engineers benefit a lot from AI coding. Their value to the company is not in how fast they can churn out new code, but in the deep domain understanding they build, and in the agency to drive the project they are responsible for. As for the "destroyed steps behind me", I wouldn't take the same steps if I were starting my career now. My point was to actively seek and learn what's needed by the industry.
peterdemin··on To be replaced by AI is a choice
Spot on, even though I'm not from the US originally. I changed three countries, chasing the job pool availability. Although I can't say I'm looking down on people who figured out how to live fulfilling lives without a job. I find this extremely fortunate. As for me, when I'm not building software products at work, I do it at home in my spare time. And one thing I noticed is that the job is a great amplifier of my efforts. I don't think I can have the same success or even impact through my pet projects. So, in a way, not being proactive and fully engaged at work is wasting time. Not being lazy per se, even though that might be related.
peterdemin··on To be replaced by AI is a choice
This suggests a possible trend in which the separation between development and managerial roles becomes less meaningful. We can have more product engineers who combine software expertise with domain knowledge to deliver complete solutions independently. Similar to how people operate in startups, wearing many hats and making progress quickly and autonomously.
peterdemin··on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous
I hate how this is acceptable to make such claims about another country without providing any evidence. Same goes for Chinese or Russian hackers. It’s just whoever the US government is unhappy about.
peterdemin··on The great displacement is already well underway?
This is beautiful. One thing I'd like to add to the list is:

How many AI cheaters do you need to catch on the technical phone screening interview to incorporate a habit of doing IRL CAPTCHA challenges?

peterdemin··on Show HN: SimpleKV – an extremely simple, anonymous key-value store
I was looking for something like this numerous times when working on network automation. Is it open source?
peterdemin··on Show HN: Guaranteed support for your Open Source dependencies
Hi, I'm gauging interest on the topic and building up service audience. Please sign up if you're interested!
peterdemin··on Programming for Cats
Toilet water is a better name for Java indeed
peterdemin··on Amazon drops Linux support for generating Kindle ebooks
That strikes me how enthusiasts can manage Linux software for free, but multibillion corporation cuts it for “business sense”.
peterdemin··on Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Isn’t it ironic to have this book on Amazon?
peterdemin··on How the Russians penetrated Illinois election computers
As usual on this kind of articles, no details given on how exactly FBI traced the attack to Russia.
peterdemin··on Ask HN: Should I build a chat bot for journaling?
I’m most experienced with Python, and I was going to make it work both as hosted and self-hosted.
peterdemin··on Show HN: Micro CRM, a CRM for People Who Hate CRMs
What’s your plan on promoting it? I feel like this space is overheated and it’s impossible to stand out
peterdemin··on WatchMe – Watch for Changes on a Page
Very much like kibitzr https://kibitzr.github.io/ I like your use cases though.
peterdemin··on Show HN: Browsertron – Run all your Selenium tests in parallel
Are you using AWS Lambda to launch a browser for a single test?
peterdemin··on Python dependency locking for complex projects
Project author here, AMA.
peterdemin··on Git repository for movie torrents
If GitHub chooses to shut down a repo, there's GitLab :-) Also AFAIK serving magnet links is perfectly legal
peterdemin··on Guide to Web Automation
Did you use any of mentioned products?
peterdemin··on Ask HN: What you have automated with Python?
Check out https://peterdemin.github.io/kibitzr-banks.html It does almost the same
peterdemin··on Ask HN: How to find audience for FOSS project?
Thanks, I'll try to better accent on advantages over other existing solutions. I struggled to search for a niche community, my question is a lot about it.
peterdemin··on Ask HN: How to find audience for FOSS project?
Thanks for the feedback! It's the most elaborative advice I ever received on Kibitzr.
peterdemin··on Ask HN: How to find audience for FOSS project?
Just in case, here is the project: https://kibitzr.github.io
peterdemin··on Credit card balance notifications for software developers
Once I configured checks for all my banks, I started to spend less and visit online bank accounts only to make transfers.
peterdemin··on Show HN: Connect deep web updates to powerful Zapier integrations with Kibitzr
These two products complement each other naturally.
peterdemin··on Why Python is a perfect language for Kibitzr
Kibitzr is kinda opening a new niche in tooling.
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