Does this work with a Yubikey?
Readit Newsxqb64 commented on Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty replay.software/updates/i... · Posted by u/sgottit
Completely unrelated but https://protohackers.com/ is another one of James’s projects that I love. :)
He also built a homemade computer from scratch. James is a brilliant guy.
Those are some new and very very shallow books.
There better one's from 90" and 80".
The central point behind this type of books isn't so much to build an enterprise-grade production-ready thing, but rather to bridge the delta between zero and having a working thing of sufficiently large complexity, which inevitably exists for someone who had never been there before. Having that in mind, I think these books are very valuable.
I buy ebooks straight from publishers like Nostarch and Leanpub. (In fact, I have an older edition of this book). There are a few books that are sold directly by the authors too. All of them DRM-free.
I actively avoid publishers and sellers who don't respect me as a consumer/reader. People need to start demanding better deals, or else we'll end up with monopolies that won't think twice about deleting books in your custody that you purchased from them.
Got any notable suggestions from Leanpub?
Lot of admiration for no starch - your books are great !
Yeah. My favorite are books that guide you through implementing complex systems projects from scratch, like Nora Sandler's "Writing a C compiler", or Sy Brand's "Building a Debugger". I wish they produced A LOT more of them.
That's one possible way to look at it. The other, perhaps more positive way to look at it, is that similar to autocomplete, AI-assisted tools have made the boring parts less boring and left more space for the interesting bits. I use them every now and then for chores and such which I would put off otherwise, but there is certainly no shortage of interesting problems that they can't tackle. Now I just have more time to focus on those.
I'll admit that I'd used github copilot while I worked on one of my projects, and I couldn't help it but notice a rather significant cognitive decline whenever I set out to take over and start hammering out the code myself. I just can't allow cognitive declines.
Meaningful or not, that's a lot of work and money for a pay cut, fewer options, and worse job prospects [0].
[0] Most of the new EE Grads I see go into software engineering.
I mean, it's not like I'm going to forget how to write code any time soon. I'm currently recovering from the n-th tough burnout, and I feel like I need a shift toward something new and meaningful. When it comes to job opportunities, from my perspective, knowing the entire stack (not in the webdev sense, but rather both hardware and software) makes you highly attractive on the market, in both worlds. So, while I genuinely can't predict what I'll end up doing 5 years from now, I do feel like it's time to familiarize myself with the other side of the entire stack.
I'm literally considering a career switch from software engineering to electrical engineering and electronics, and naturally going back to school, because the AI and the way it's used in writing software has sucked out all the meaning in it for me.
xqb64 commented on Ask HN: How to avoid skill atrophy in LLM-assisted programming era? · Posted by u/py4
No, it seems that they're just blocking off access through VPNs.