The_Fox

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I read that post back in the day and have remembered it ever since, and used it as a basis for the process at my current employment. Thank you!

(For those interested: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/)

The_Fox

2 miesiące temudiscuss

I view this use of AI as a type of denial of service attack. Alice sends Bob a wall of text (low effort) and Bob must parse it (high effort, yet probably no value received for the effort).

The_Fox

4 miesiące temudiscuss

"Pacific time" is going to be so confusing though. Should have just called it Yukon Standard Time, since that's already a thing, at least informally. Cause that would not be confusing at all...

The_Fox

4 miesiące temudiscuss

  Location: Kelowna area, BC, Canada

  Remote: Yep

  Willing to relocate: Nope

  Technologies: Linux, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, SaltStack, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Python, Django, apt packaging, iptables, VPNs, TCP congestion control algorithms (more than I ever wanted to know)

  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/foxmatthew/

  Email: [email protected]

I seek contract platform engineering projects. I can help early stage startups set up infrastructure and CICD so founders can focus on PMF. And I can help established software companies with outdated infrastructure adopt modern tools and practices.

I have 15 years of experience in startup software development and DevOps across web apps, cloud, and Linux networking. 10 years of leadership in teams of up to 7 people. I have built infrastructure using Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, and Linode.

Here are a sample of my accomplishments:

* Built a platform for hosting web apps using Kubernetes at a major cloud provider and taught engineers to operate and improve it. Introduced Terraform, Helm, and incident management processes. It operates in 4 regions and has about 250 total CPUs.

* Led a B2B SaaS company through their first SOC 2 Type II audit.

* Created an application CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Gitlab, resulting in a DORA performance score of 8.0 (above average in all scores according to dora.dev)

* Published and maintained the community Apt package for Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, which is downloaded more than 200,000 times per month.

* Created a system to control calls in Asterisk with AI-trained voice commands ("hey asterisk, dial extension 1") https://github.com/mattfox/asterisk-voice-control

The_Fox

4 miesiące temudiscuss

It wasn't for no reason at all though. There were concerns about availability of yeast, which isn't used in sourdough. (Valid concerns or not, I have no idea.)

The_Fox

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

Yesterday my manager sent LLM-generated code that did a thing. Of course I didn't read it, I only read Claude's summary of it. Then I died a little inside.

It was especially unfortunate because to do its thing, the code required a third party's own personal user credentials including MFA, which is a complete non-starter in server-side code, but apparently the manager's LLM wasn't aware enough to know that.

The_Fox

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

Agreed- just a month ago I told my team to read https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... and note how Spolsky knew the details of his application (weird date issues in Excel and VB). If you want to be a senior engineer, you need to know where are the odd edge cases in your app. I don't want to be the only one on the team who remembers that stuff.

The_Fox

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I installed CodeRabbit for our reviews in GitLab and am pretty happy with the results, especially considering the low price ($15/user/mo I think).

It regularly finds problems, including subtle but important problems that human reviewers struggle to find. And it can make pretty good suggestions for fixes.

It also regularly complains about things that are possible in theory but impossible in practice, so we've gotten used to just resolving those comments without any action. Maybe if we used types more effectively it would do that less.

We pay a lot more attention to what CodeRabbit says than what DeepSource said when use used it.

The_Fox

7 miesięcy temudiscuss

I was driving home with my family from a long trip having just bought a really cool camping trailer, a 1979 Airstream. Our vehicle died on the side of the road in a rural area. The owner of the property where we stopped was mowing his lawn and came over and asked if we needed help. When it became obvious our vehicle needed a tow, he used his own truck to bring the trailer onto his property. And he kept it there for a couple of weeks while the engine in our vehicle was replaced.

I'm really not sure what I would have done with the trailer if he hadn't offered to help. We were more than 600 km from home.

The_Fox

7 miesięcy temudiscuss

I'm an avid HTMX user but never did I ever think "I'm using so many includes, I wish I didn't have to use include so much."

What I would like is a way to cut down the sprawl of urls and views.

The_Fox

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

This is a great quote for the topic, but the quote is normally about a bridge that barely stands.

I'm chuckling at the thought of barely building something. (All in good fun, thank you.)

The_Fox

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

I distinctly recall early in my first university programming courses the instructor saying something to the effect of "Just wait until you learn 'public static void main'". I think we had only used BlueJ until that point in the course.

The_Fox

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As someone who previously led development of a commercial VPN system, I assure you, there are about 100 ways for a VPN to go slower than the network hosting it. Unfortunately.

Two cases I can think of are MTU misconfigurations and constrained CPU on either endpoint, where the node CPU can handle non-VPN network demands but can't handle the VPN demand.

The_Fox

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

> The rapid growth of revenue of AI model companies, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.

You can't use growth of AI companies as evidence to refute the article. The premise is that it's a bubble. The growth IS the bubble, according to the claim.

> I don't know why the author of TFA claims that he can't make a bunch of one-off apps

I agree... One-off apps seem like a place where AI can do OK. Not that I care about it. I want AI that can build and maintain my enterprise B2B app just as well as I can in a fraction of the time, and that's not what has been delivered.

The_Fox

11 miesięcy temudiscuss

With regards to wrapping your head around heat loss- this winter some work was done on our property while there was snow on the ground. A bunch of snow got covered in dirt. In the spring, maybe three weeks after all the snow on the ground had melted, I moved the pile and was surprised to find all the snow still frozen. It had been under maybe 18 inches of dirt. I was pretty surprised to see it.

The_Fox

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Location: Kelowna area, BC, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Javascript, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Linux, apt packaging, iptables, VPNs, TCP congestion control algorithms (more than I ever wanted to know)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/foxmatthew/

Email: [email protected]

14 years of experience in startup software development and DevOps across web apps, cloud, and Linux networking. Six years of leadership in teams of up to 7 people.

Looking for an engineering manager or senior IC position to mentor your team and make something people want.

Here are a sample of my accomplishments:

* Built a platform for hosting web apps using Kubernetes at a major cloud provider and taught engineers to operate and improve it. Introduced Terraform, Helm, and incident management processes.

* Led a B2B SaaS company through their first SOC 2 Type II audit.

* Published and maintained the community Apt package for Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, which is downloaded more than 200,000 times per month.

* Trained a team of developers in software patterns, communication, and prioritizing work, leading to a 72% increase in velocity in two months.

* Improved performance of a proprietary VPN by adopting Cython, permitting use of C functions in Python, resulting in a 2.5x increase in network throughput when limited by CPU.

* Created a system to control calls in Asterisk with AI-trained voice commands ("hey asterisk, dial extension 1") https://github.com/mattfox/asterisk-voice-control

Submissions

The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind

AI enthusiasts in a race against time, AI skeptics in a race against entropy

The AI Superstars Who Say a 'Vibe Slop' Crisis Is Coming

NASA wants to know how the launch industry's chic new rocket fuel explodes

Yukon Time Zone

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

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