Roelven · HackerTrans

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Getting so tired of the war metaphors in attempts to describe software development. We solve business problems using code, we don't make a living by role-playing military tactics. Chill out my dudes

Roelven

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Regardless of your job or responsibilities, if you are new to a certain domain, find users or customers to talk to. If you can't talk to them directly, find colleagues who do, and ask to be a fly on the wall. Meet at least 10. Write down their day to day jobs, their challenges and their frustrations. Even from just listening to others talk, you will get a good perspective.

To speed it up, write an interview script with a set of questions. Use an LLM to make the questions non-leading if you want, but point is to show colleagues who have customer contact your script. If you manage to do the interviews, record them, transcribe them and share them around. You are now a customer advocate who knows the customer's needs and wants.

Don't wait with doing this only after you've met the team, start immediately. Let this be your driving force to meet colleagues. It's useful, offer to share the results, or ask for question ideas to whoever wants to listen to you.

You now have laid the groundwork for your success. Now you can focus on the organisation, the team, the mission, the proposition, etc. Everyone you now meet, talk about how customers want to do A or B but can't, or about their challenges. People will appreciate your insight and you're off to a great start!

Roelven

4 jaar geledendiscuss

I've got two IKEA FLOAT Led panels on my ceiling, each 2400 lumen. The panels can be adjusted in Kelvin (2200 to 4000) and are dimmable, so when it's evening and I need to get some work done I turn them a lot more yellow to not mess with my sleep rhythm. I find making the room very bright helps a lot with waking up and focus, compared to when I had only one or two bulbs as lighting. It does take some getting used to as some have already pointed out here.

I've seen more people interested in this topic so I'm adding some recent links I've came across:

https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/

https://blog.plover.com/tech/corn-bulbs.html

https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens

Roelven

4 jaar geledendiscuss

I've been running a pi-hole on my home network for years and I love it, it consistently blocks about 19% of outgoing requests. Some of the benefits for us are:

  - It disables (and hides) the annoying ads on our Samsung smart TV
  - Browsing is noticeably smoother (especially recipe websites on mobile!)
  - Most front-end browser trackers are blocked
  - It's now possible to see how often apps or devices tend to phone home by just logging into the Pihole web interface
  - We're not giving (most of) our DNS activity to our ISP
  - Updating to a newer version is a breeze with docker

Some thoughts for folks considering getting one (or more):

  - I've not locked it down further with a firewall yet to force all DNS requests to go through the Pihole, but I'm planning to. 
  - I won't run a Pihole container on my UDM as it will likely mess with future updates and settings, keeping things separate feels better.
  - Sometimes I consider adding more blocklists but every time I do, something gets annoying somewhere and I usually end up reverting to the standard config.

My pet peeve has become to report login flows or frontend interactions that break when the tracking script fails to load because of my Pihole. It doesn't happen often luckily :-).

(edit, formatting)

Roelven

7 jaar geledendiscuss

A book I keep coming back to (re-read every two years or so) and recommend others is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

It has shaped my thinking on 'what is good' or 'what does quality' mean. As an engineer it is easy to appreciate the author slowly going insane about the details he keeps coming back to, and as a human it is invaluable to have an understanding yourself of when something is 'good'.

Highly recommended.

Roelven

8 jaar geledendiscuss

I'd like to add https://soverin.net/features here as well. It's similar to Posteo but offers unlimited aliases and more storage. Servers hosted in the Netherlands.

Roelven

8 jaar geledendiscuss

Just browsing the papers linked in the article you can find some relevant things:

[Effects on trees and plants]

The microwaves may affect vegetables. In the area that received radiation directly from “Location Skrunda Radio Station” (Latvia), pines (Pinus sylvestris) experienced a lower growth radio. This did not occur beyond the area of impact of electromagnetic waves. A statistically significant negative correlation between increase tree growth and intensity of electromagnetic field was found, and was confirmed that the beginning of this growth decline coincided in time with the start of radar emissions. Authors evaluated other possible environmental factors which might have intervened, but none had noticeable effects [103]. In another study investigating cell ultrastructure of pine needles irradiated by the same radar, there was an increase of resin production, and was interpreted as an effect of stress caused by radiation, which would explain the aging and declining growth and viability of trees subjected to pulsed microwaves. They also found a low germination of seeds of pine trees more exposed [104]. The effects of Latvian radar was also felt by aquatic plants. Spirodela polyrrhiza exposed to a power density between 0.1 and 1.8 μW/cm2 had lower longevity, problems in reproduction and morphological and developmental abnormalities compared with a control group who grew up far from the radar [105].

[source] https://www.pathophysiologyjournal.com/article/S0928-4680(09...

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