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zackify

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https://zach.codes

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zackify··on Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
Sorry about the modal.. I think I turned that off. Still getting used to substack
zackify··on Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
I did this because it’s what framework is specifically having us do right now.

Using this special oem kernel on 22.04.3

zackify··on Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
Yeah exactly. Like it sucks because I have 6E and it can’t really use it, but it’s only a big deal when transferring large files on my network.
zackify··on Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
I don’t want to sway people from the WiFi issues.

I saw others in the forums without problems.

I can definitely say for sure, I ran at least 20 speed tests between it and two phones in the same locations and had much lower bandwidth on it.

Hoping this is just an amd issue that will get better.

zackify··on Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
I think what would help me a lot more, if I had to do this again, is a specific article only for the amd framework with everything you need to do after.

For instance, the fingerprint sensor, it’s a red note on a step, sure, but it’s kind of hard to go through every guide and read all these “if you are on X version of the platform”

Compared to knowing you are reading a guide 100% for the platform you have, less stuff in the way that isn’t applicable and less likely to miss important things.

Also, there is no knowledge base article at all for flashing red lights and I have to find a forum post to move the foam back into place. Would be good to get a page up with the light codes for red flashing.

Even the fingerprint pam setup that is required for use in 1Password and others, is at the bottom of another guide I found in a forum post, might be wrong here but it’s worth noting some of these

Love what you’ve been doing overall

zackify··on Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
I just tried plugging into a caldigit dock, and it didn't work. I am not sure why.

The env in general uses wayland but certain apps don't. In those apps you don't have good gesture support.

I would say its 80-85% as good as a mac trackpad when wayland is on everything

zackify··on Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
I just got this device on Monday, been waiting for over half a year for it.

I love it, but also wow, so many random things I have had to do the past few days.

I think this provides a good prospective compared to all the mainstream posts about it that aren't going in depth on linux and the usability on there at this current time.

Overall, I love this device!

zackify··on Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP
Now I want to try making a chat system where you just query a dns txt record on a set polling interval
zackify··on AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks on Linux
I’ve been annoyed they can’t provide any updates. How hard is it to provide a few sentence update every week like they do with the 16
zackify··on Jellyfin: Free software media system
I’ve been using it for a year. I don’t name anything in a special way, and it just works.
zackify··on htmx
I’m over here continuing to use react for 9+ years but every post on here acts like it’s changing every day.
zackify··on Using ChatGPT to generate a GPT project end-to-end
How are you guys enjoying copilot? For me, it wastes time so often. It blocked my editor auto importing functionality and times where I really have some easy suggestion that I need, maybe 50% of the time it doesn’t suggest the right thing.

I’m hopeful for -x version though.

zackify··on Ask HN: What is the most pleasant, uncomplicated full stack to start with?
https://remix.run

Do the whole thing in typescript.

Have the power of reusable components using React.

Serve zero JS if you want to.

zackify··on Show HN: Retool Mobile
Why waste the time meeting if the range is 50% of what they are currently making? Post the range. Problem solved.
zackify··on Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
I own passwordless.app. I wonder if they will want to buy it from me now.
zackify··on Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers
I tried “ask apple”

It’s called using the forums.

They reply once in a blue moon and never follow up on bugs.

zackify··on Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
125/hr
zackify··on Xcode Cloud overview
Xcode cloud is terrible. Slow. Fails randomly with unknown error messages.

Save yourself time and money with an M1 Mac mini as a GitHub actions self hosted runner.

Pays for itself quickly, you can upload apps direct to App Store Connect from Xcode cli tools already.

zackify··on Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
I told the employer that I currently work 4 days so I won’t join without keeping that schedule.

Before that, I just asked for 4 days and made it clear I provide the value of those who work 5 days a week. No pay cut required.

zackify··on TC39 Proposal: Type Annotations
I completely agree with you. You’ll want to remove them anyway. So you’re going to have a script run to strip them.

These hackernews developers always act like it’s the most blissful thing

“If only we could just write JS without running a special transpile command”

That’s actually a much worse developer experience. If you’re using any modern frontend technologies, you’ll want to have a dev server running.

Using hot module replacement at a bare minimum (where your browser updates the screen without doing a page refresh, instantaneously)

Is a much better experience, so you should already be running a dev server anyway if you’re being productive is the point…

zackify··on TC39 Proposal: Type Annotations
80% of typescript modules don’t export esm? What?

Most people write code using esm for the past few years. If anything the problem is that shared libraries are only exporting esm so tools like jest that still require commonjs don’t work.

Just use Tsdx or other tooling to automatically expose the different bundle types.

Even still, if JS developers took the time to understand the different module types we would be in a much better place on the shared packages front

zackify··on Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
I’ve had Apple Music convert saved songs from explicit to censored in the past. The software must be written so poorly.

Another good one:

If you start a station on macOS. You can’t hit previous song to go back.

If you’re on iOS you can…

Apple Music is pretty terrible. So many times there’s no UI feedback when pressing things and they just glitch into some new state seconds after pressing things

zackify··on Top-500 NPM package maintainers now require 2FA
The best part to all of this:

If you generate a “CI Token”

On npm. Anyone can still publish packages as you if they get ahold of it.

No 2FA needed

zackify··on Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018)
I’ve been using react for 8 years. In that time I’ve gone from webpack, to vite.

Lately using remix or nextjs. Not that much has had to change in that time, it definitely feels more stable in the past 5 years or so.

Every new library is using components, just with their own preferred syntax.

zackify··on Why not hire part-time developers?
Hire senior level people part time. That don’t need to spend lots of time getting context. They can figure out how to solve problems matching your team’s coding style without extra meetings.
zackify··on Why not hire part-time developers?
If I worked somewhere with 10 hours a week needed for meetings and plannings I would quit.

Who cares if they have 6 jobs, that’s not for you to worry about.

If they get good work done on your project and skip the extra meetings, they’re worth keeping around.

zackify··on How to Be Useless
If you can get the job done in 20 hours but you are supposed to work 40, I think that’s more of the mindset the parent comment is talking about. Doing the minimum to keep your job and staying a good employee, while not overworking.
zackify··on Toxic culture is driving the great resignation
I was able to negotiate a 45k pay raise at my current company.

After clearly proving my value for about 2 years. I made it obvious that I would accept a role at my friends company if they couldn’t come up. I explained to them nicely that I would rather stay, but I can’t without a large raise.

It can be done, but it would have never happened without me pushing them. No company is going to willingly throw out raises this large to people without reason.

I agree with your point fully, it’s just unfortunate it doesn’t happen.

zackify··on The FDA's Restrictive Regulation of Home-Testing Devices (2017)
Interesting seeing an article about this.

Just this week I was looking to get a continuous glucose monitor. I’ve heard it can really prevent diabetes and help you understand what foods spike your levels.

The fda won’t allow anyone to get these if they aren’t already diabetic.

There’s so many ways we aren’t “free” in this country to do what we want with our bodies.

zackify··on Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting
This comment appears in every HN thread about web development. Always coming from someone who clearly doesn’t understand the web deeply.

If you did you would realize things haven’t changed that drastically in 5+ years now. The new libraries and frameworks are small iterations that take a weekend to check out and pick up.

Once you have the deep knowledge you’re set in this field. The problem most people have is that it can be less straightforward and much wider surface area, especially if you’re doing stuff like React then React Native, and also trying to understand native libraries while also bundling code for both platforms.

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