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keawade commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
keawade · 2 years ago
Location: Maryland, USA

Remote: Yes (Hybrid maybe)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript/JavaScript, NodeJS, Deno, npm, Microservices, React, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, CI/CD, Neovim, bash, automated testing, API design, developer tooling design

Résumé/CV: https://keithwade.com/about/

Email: hello@keithwade.com

Hello! I am a software developer with eight years of experience developing software on both the back and front ends. Check out my linked resume for a short list of my primary accomplishments and I hope to hear from you soon!

keawade commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
keawade · 2 years ago
Location: DC metro area (Maryland, US)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node, TypeScript, React, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda

Résumé/CV: https://keithwade.com/about/

Email: keith (at) keithwade.com

I am a fullstack typescript developer with 7+ years of experience. Team tech lead experience. Rust and Go curious.

Deeply interested in technical excellence and making things better for users and coworkers.

keawade commented on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners   brave.com/privacy-updates... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
DanWritesCode · 3 years ago
I've been contemplating switching back to Firefox from Chrome due to the upcoming changes to ad blockers - Is Brave a good choice for this, or should I go back to FF?
keawade · 3 years ago
Brave is a solid option if you don't want to leave the underlying Chromium and it's extension ecosystem but still have privacy capabilities that Google is axing with Manifest v3.

Firefox is also a solid option. Firefox is one of the few stable options remaining to use a non-Chromium based browser. Most popular Chrome extensions have Firefox releases as well so you may not even lose that functionality in a switch.

Advocates for Firefox frequently point out that part of how we got here with the Manifest v3 issues is by consolidating browser technologies. Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc all use the Chromium core which is part of what gives Google such a strong ability to influence web technology developments to their advantage and our detriment. If this is something you care about then it may be worth voting with your feet and giving Firefox a chance.

keawade commented on DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public   spreadprivacy.com/duckduc... · Posted by u/messyjoes
tkfu · 3 years ago
This looks great! But I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the bitwarden integration: I already have a bitwarden account (in fact, I run my own self-hosted server), and I can't figure out how to use it in this browser.

Is it just that the password autofill feature uses bitwarden under the hood, but you can't actually use a bitwarden account? If so, that should be mentioned/documented somewhere.

keawade · 3 years ago
It isn't yet released.

> But we understand some folks want to continue using third-party password management across browsers and devices. So, we’ve teamed up with Bitwarden, the accessible open-source password manager, in the first of what we hope to be several similar integrations. In the coming weeks, Bitwarden users will be able to activate this seamless two-way integration in their browser settings.

keawade commented on MegaPortraits: One-Shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatars   samsunglabs.github.io/Meg... · Posted by u/voydik
ansible · 4 years ago
There are still some issues to be worked out, such as how the head shape distorts in some examples, but overall, this is very, very impressive work.

Back in the old days, Disney and other animation studios rotoscoped actors performances by drawing over the original image (by hand) each frame. It won't be long now before you just have an artist create a few examples of concept art, and just video the performances of the actors without much / any special setup other than maybe wearing a tracking suit.

How many years away are we from the point where you can just type in a script (or just put in some writing prompts and have an AI generate a script), describe the direction for the actors ("bend over and pick up the bucket", "exit stage left"), and then just churn out a movie?

If you pick up just a little bit of skill with animation, compositing, and such you're a one-person movie studio. Crazy times. This is not what I imagined the future was going to look like, but it will be entertaining.

keawade · 4 years ago
We've got AI assisted rotoscoping already and while it looks a bit janky at times its still a whole lot faster than doing it all by hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_KOmXyVDo
keawade commented on First look: adding type annotations to JavaScript   2ality.com/2022/03/type-a... · Posted by u/mariuz
montroser · 4 years ago
I would welcome this making its way into ECMAScript not because I like TypeScript, but because it's a drag to see TypeScript enthusiasts litter the JavaScript ecosystem with all of the piles of bolt-on TypeScript baggage.

Forking projects just to add type definitions, or else mega repos like DefinitelyTyped madness; bringing all of the terrible complexity that we love to hate in Webpack/ESBuild/Rollup/etc back over to Node.js with server-side tsc; drive-by PRs to all my open source projects from inspired people trying to add types and me having to disappoint...

I would gladly do without all of that. To me, I see the TypeScript tradeoff as coming with only marginal upside, in return for a large downside as described above. But, others passionately disagree and see a huge upside, and that's cool.

In the end, I want us all to be happy, and I think this proposal would have hope getting us there. For this to be really spec'd and standardized would be a green light even for skeptics to invest in deeply learning and internalizing. To get to avoid yet another build-time compilation step would be bliss. To have us all back in on the same team would be glorious.

keawade · 4 years ago
I disagree that TypeScript comes with only a marginal upside. In my experience TypeScript projects are much more approachable for contributors.

For example, I once was debugging an issue in a JS framework and while I knew what was wrong and where I could fix it I didn’t have any idea what existing tools I had available in that context to fix it. Having type definitions would have made that work much simpler by increasing the accessibility of the code base.

It’s experiences like this that have convinced me that if I’m writing code that any one will possibly read or need to modify later (including if it is just me) then I should be writing TypeScript instead of JavaScript. Or, more generally, that it should be typed.

keawade commented on Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review   luisartola.com/framework-... · Posted by u/luisartola
teekert · 4 years ago
The author does not address the screen resolution (and just says the screen is nice) but I'm hearing that the screen res is a bit to high to work with without scaling and a tad to low to do 2x scaling. And people don't like fractional scaling, at least in Gnome (it seems to look weird). Is this still an issue?

I tend to prefer 1080p for this reason on 12-14" screens. My Thinkpad X13 gen 2 has a 13.3", 1920x1200 screen, windows sets it to 150%, which seems ok, although Ubuntu works well for me without scaling still. The Frame work laptop has an even higher res (2256x1504). I do hear people scaling the fonts and that seems to be a nice solution... I remember from back in the old days that I never really liked the look of this.

What do people think of this? I'm hoping that in the future you can choose the screen (and easily get replacements as well, I hear they are working on that).

Edit: I hope these issues are being addressed by established DE's, I'm assuming they won't be an issue on Canonical's (hypothetical ;)) Flutter based DE that's (obviously ;)) coming and on System76's Rust based new DE for Pop OS [0].

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/system76_developing_n...

keawade · 4 years ago
I’ve been using Fedora 35 with Wayland and fractional scaling set to 150% on my Framework laptop and it works great for me.
keawade commented on Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?    · Posted by u/julianpye
chii · 4 years ago
but uses voted with their wallets - there have been many smartphone manufacturers, but they fell one by one to user's choices to flock to the iphone (and i guess android).
keawade · 4 years ago
The “users voted with wallets” / “free market decided” line often ignores how consumers are not choosing in a vacuum or choosing simple things or sometimes not choosing at all.

Often choices are made for short term benefits that come with a long term negative trade off. ie choosing features like a phone camera even though the device also disregards the user’s privacy.

In other cases, choices aren’t even made by consumers directly. Like when a company acquires potential competition before they’re able to grow into a threat. Or even a company uses their growing economic power and position for regulatory capture.

Sometimes a company just breaks away from their competition and end up the only competitive choice in the market and are able To cement their position through the means above.

Especially following the previous cases, users sometimes don’t choose at all because there remain no meaningful choices in the ecosystem they purchase in.

keawade commented on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?    · Posted by u/andrei_says_
fjabre · 4 years ago
It is a contradiction.

“Spirit”ual. You cannot be Spiritual without belief in Spirit. It is in the word itself.

You can be a good Atheist however that is mostly in line with good spiritual practices.

Atheists seem to want it both ways. To believe in nothing but also define themselves as “Spiritual”

keawade · 4 years ago
In my experience it is an attempt to reclaim the word spiritual as it is a useful word for describing certain aspects of the human experience.

For example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160818051131/https://www.samha...

keawade commented on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?    · Posted by u/andrei_says_
jjbinx007 · 4 years ago
Not religious at all. I don't believe in the supernatural and I don't think it would even be possible for us to detect it even if it does exist.

I'm not superstitious (after all, it's unlucky to be superstitious) and I'm not even sure what spiritual means as I've never heard a coherent definition.

I get my sense of awe, wonder and beauty from the natural world, whether that's star gazing or studying and appreciating nature.

I'm probably an outlier but just wanted to add my voice to the conversation.

keawade · 4 years ago
I'm 100% with you on the "not even sure what spiritual means as I've never heard a coherent definition". If anyone is interested, this position is known as theological non-cognitivism, ignosticism, or igtheism

> Theological noncognitivism is the non-theist position that religious language, particularly theological terminology such as "God", is not intelligible or meaningful, and thus sentences like "God exists" are cognitively meaningless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theological_noncognitivism

> Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the word "God" has no coherent and unambiguous definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism

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