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New corollary to the 2010s classic snarky programmer adage “the cloud is someone else’s computer”: “I’m starting a new company with AI someone else’s GPU” “I spent hours talking to AI someone else’s GPU about my life and… · someone, else, gpu, corollary, 2010s

Wow, it’s been a hot minute. I don’t usually blog, but after starting a new role at Microsoft, I’ve been hitting the learning path hard. I’ve been quite familiar with docker for a while, but Kubernetes is something I’ve… · been, image, after, while, home

A place for Tech Geeks

“Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them„ · computers, make, excellent, efficient, servants

I’ve had this conversation more than a few times on reddit and with people who don’t work in the storage industry. “Why are they destroying perfectly good hard drives/iPads/etc” Anyway.. the most recent discussion on… · drives, drive, put, did, cleared

I’m Willard Nilges (they/them): Computer Engineer, Linux Fanatic, DevOps goblin, and Shiny Object Enthusiast. Here, you will find lots of opinions about technology, no-nonsense guides, absolute nonsense guides, and… · find, nonsense, guides, project, working

I present to you a tragedy in 11 parts, about me trying to report a bug against the software of a large hardware company. Unsurprisingly, to these people, software doesn’t... (read) Correctly designing a concurrent… · model, parts, flexible, seems, lot

Recently had a broseph tell me ‘Bro, Fr Fr do you even know how Async/Await works! Ya gotta use Promises.’ Honestly that bothered me more than a perky... In a world where developers battle the relentless forces of… · recently, had, broseph, tell, bro

"Every computer language is an imperfect way of describing a potential solution to a poorly understood problem" -- Karl Bunch (Me) · every, computer, language, imperfect, way

I’m looking to self host more and more of my infrastructure, this comes with the old question of hardware maintenance, service failover and deployment reproducibility (aka the cattle vs pets argument). Finally a more… · question, work, finally, process, build

Thoughts from a web ops engineer

I believe one of the next major social issues will be overwork caused by collaborating with AI. I’ve already experienced it over the past few months, so I’d like to explain what it feels like. New technologies always… · like, even, overwork, caused, work

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague after my last post, about whether it was possible to get the best of both worlds, or if any new tool would necessarily make you dumber. And I had to stop and think –… · like, had, engineers, interesting, post

Attempts at DIY electronics projects Guess what? After a couple years of inactivity, I'm firing up Youtube channel and blog again! I've finally been able to settle down in a place with my own workshop and will be working… · time, many, auto, code, good

As I’m not currently self-hosting there is every chance the hosted service may go away or my data get lost It is with great prescience that I sadly relay news that Omnivore is going away: We’re excited to share that… · service, omnivore, self, away, going

If I have to pick one thing that’s very hard with large scale software, it would be what engineers fail the most – it’s not communication, not leadership or some kind of social skills. It’s planning and executing a… · traffic, tee, thing, very, software

I am a Glasgow based embedded electronics and software engineer who makes stuff that goes into space. When I'm not earning my keep, I use what I know to

I'm an application security engineer & pwner(lover) interested in systems, and security and this is my CV. · security, application, engineer, pwner, lover

With the recent talk of reddit being cannibalized by bitcoin technology, I thought it a good time to post something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Could a completely decentralized startup one day rival the likes… · bitcoin, like, technology, post, google

Anti-Bullshit Enthusiast. Data engineer with a systems mindset, mildly owned by cats. Writing what I wish someone had written earlier.

Straightforward info on how to do mainly Microsoft techy things without wading through forums

I’ve never seen such a obsequious embrace of technology by “geeks” as I have with AI. It feels like the entire tech world suddenly woke up one day and decided that not only should AI be the answer to everything, but that… · there, like, tech, everyone, folks

Loudly about the Cloud, related technologies and software engineering

In a new thread about technologies and services that should already exist, I ask why—with all the data streamers have about us—it’s so hard to find something to watch together? I have long worried that Amazon thinks I’m… · thread, long, amazon, thinks, last

I am an Applied Scientist at Microsoft. My daily job is improving M365 Copilot. More about me.

I'm a software engineer who specializes in making messy systems understandable again. I work primarily in modern fullstack applications, but my real strength is untangling ambiguity in any language — production bugs… · making, systems, real, engineer, specializes

Someone is doing something nasty with our paid ecosystem and selling it without our permission. We need your support to revive! · someone, doing, something, nasty, paid

On recent reflection, I've spent quite a lot of my career building v2 of things. Do I just so happen to join these projects at just the right time? Or is it just me? Probably a combination. With confirmation bias. We… · debt, technical, future, there, tech

We knew this was coming a mile a way. It’s been advertised by Microsoft for years now and I just didn’t like Windows 11 and how they were wanting everyone to have an account to be able to use Windows 11. I shouldn’t need… · microsoft, mint, built, linux, even

Unix engineer with interests in Information Security and Ethical Hacking. I love to break and fix things :)

Welcome back to the ginger world of engineering, which has been quite a bit Forti-fied since last writing. A good bit of my $dayJob is spent enabling folks to get their FortiStuffs up and running, and it’s way past time… · interface, address, routable, range, bit

Where can I talk about all technical problems and related topics? Right here! Negative by Blood 🩸, Positive by Heart ❤️

"How did you figure out how to do that?" "You learned to program by READING THE HELP??" Borland had really great help docs :) · help, settings, did, had, git

I’ve had several announcements about pet-projects of mine that got to the front page of HackerNews and some technology-related subreddits. And although that doesn’t mean that the projects were promising, game-changing… · projects, had, technology, several, announcements

This post is an inner monologue about something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately—the thin line between engineering and hacking, and how AI is blurring that line faster than ever. When I say “engineering,” I’m… · line, between, engineering, hacking, decorators

I love system engineering and squeezing every bit of performance out of CPU. I love system engineering and squeezing every bit of performance out of CPU. · love, system, engineering, squeezing, every

Cela fait quelques fois désormais qu’en discutant recrutement tech deci delà avec d’autres startupers / CTOs je me rends compte que mon process se démarque un peu et dénote parfois avec originalité par “sa journée test”… · cela, pas, journée, nous, mon

Thoughts on Lotus messaging and collaboration technology, news, politics, and whatever else comes to mind. I have just one question for those of you who attended IBM Connect/Lotusphere. This is mostly for those of you… · lotus, year, missed, last, years

Mise à jour Mars 2020 : Plus de 3 ans après ma découverte de MITM sur DNS chez Bouygues Telecom, le topic que j’ai lancé sur lafibre.info – suite au conseil d’une personne qui m’a informé qu’un des contributeurs du forum… · des, les, une, qui, est

My thoughts on tech and other hopefully–not–too–irrelevant stuff

I don't feel like I should have to write this down for the Internet, but here we are. Hopefully the Google machine and the AI bots slurp this up for the next poor sap who finds themselves trying to lock a Venty Clip's… · been, site, machine, space, like

This won’t be a long post, I promise. I decided to post more often, and I realized my posts require exponentially long time to write, correct, and more importantly convince myself they’re good enough and won’t contain… · many, long, post, recently, functions

I notice lots of you are coming via Hacker News, I also did a blog post about the status of the project (I should have probably written that here but you should read it to see where I am with the project) It is a great… · sicp, lots, should, know, did

Emjysoft fait désormais partie de la French Tech Alpes !Une belle reconnaissance qui permet d’intégrer un écosystème d’entreprises et d’acteurs innovants du numérique en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Depuis 2004, Emjysoft… · une, emjysoft, est, alpes, qui

A place for our Machinery Pete community to share and talk with each other

Probably no one will read this but welcome to a minimalist Tech blog by me Dan Kendall an IT Engineer who is always improving. I am product of the internet, so I may post memes but hopefully educate us both. No comments… · blog, probably, read, welcome, minimalist

I am an electrical and embedded software engineer. Check out my now page to learn more about what I am up to right now. When I am not tinkering or working I am climbing rocks, playing the mandolin, messing around with… · electrical, embedded, software, engineer, check

I’ve never seen such a obsequious embrace of technology by “geeks” as I have with AI. It feels like the entire tech world suddenly woke up one day and decided that not only should AI be the answer to everything, but that… · there, like, tech, everyone, folks