ayuhito

vor 12 Tagendiscuss

That’s exactly it for large scale hiring with finite resources.

It’s all probabilities in the end. And if an LLM gives you more a more relevant pool vs random distribution, that’s still a net benefit.

ayuhito

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I think there’s already a big market of supply chain security companies that are proactively scanning dependencies for this sort of thing.

They’re always racing to be the first one to write an article about a case.

ayuhito

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

At least with our Renovate config, all dependencies have a 7 day cooldown, but marked security updates are immediate.

Attackers can’t push a security update without going through the reporting process (e.g. Github CVE), so they can’t necessarily abuse that easily.

ayuhito

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Welcome to becoming a project manager.

ayuhito

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

> Just do the cutoff when everyone is asleep.

In this age, many smaller companies serve customers across the globe. There is no common “asleep”.

ayuhito

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

DuckDB has one of my favourite articles on this topic if you want something a little more high level: https://duckdb.org/2022/10/28/lightweight-compression

ayuhito

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

> My experience with GHA default caches is that it’s absolutely dog slow.

For reference, oven-sh/setup-bun opted to install dependencies from scratch over using GHA caching since the latter was somehow slower.

https://github.com/oven-sh/setup-bun/issues/14#issuecomment-...

ayuhito

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

I strongly relate to this in many ways.

Because of OSS, I’ve never actually applied for a job or done a Leetcode interview. I’ve gotten multiple direct offers through Twitter DMs (I don’t post) and multiple referrals through random encounters that I never used.

E.g. Debugging an interesting issue with GitHub customer support eventually led to a referral for Microsoft by an MD. Similar stories with Cloudflare and more.

It’s not limited to OSS, but just having any sort of backing credibility to your name without going through the whole CV/CL process unlocks a whole slew of opportunities since people can “pre-screen” you from the start.

ayuhito

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

I feel it’s an evolution of the term “Devrel” which still feels tacky.

Nor would you want someone who built most of their career as an actual engineer to suddenly drop that term and become a generic someone in “marketing”. They’re more than that for sure.

I quite like the terminology the more I think about it.

https://github.com/aarondfrancis

ayuhito

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Also worth checking out libxev[1] by Mitchell Hashimoto. It’s a Zig based event loop (similar to libuv) inspired by Tigerbeetle’s implementation.

[1] https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev

ayuhito

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> I'd love to know how much LLM was used to write this if any, and how much effort went into it as well (if it was LLM-assisted.)

Are people supposed to be obligated to post such a report nowadays?

I enjoyed the article and found it really interesting, but seeing these types of comments always kind of puts a damper on it afterwards.

ayuhito

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

A few years ago, while I was still in high school, I began learning how to create websites purely for fun. One thing I found to be tedious was self-hosting fonts, with existing solutions to improve it completely abandoned. Consequently, I decided to learn a bit more about JavaScript by rewriting and improving these abandoned projects which led to the creation of Fontsource[0].

This project has undoubtedly set of a series of impactful events in my life, and I attribute many of my successes to it. I've had opportunities to network with numerous amazing engineers through it, leading to a part-time role and multiple internships. Turns out companies that approached me for support also wanted to keep in touch! I also graduate this year and I am going with a full-time role from one of the aforementioned internships.

While I acknowledge my circumstances are extremely fortunate, I genuinely believe that having open source projects early on in your career can significantly contribute to standing out as a developer.

[0] https://fontsource.org

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