Another year, another attempt at work life balance In December, I figured out one of the many reasons I was professionally unhappy for much of last year. Can you spot it?

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It is a lot better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction

Anyone else using Withings and constantly get problems with App? I don't understand why the colors are often borked. Withings Support App is so buggy lately (I manually sync every night to ensure my steps are logged), I am thinking of switching to something else.

Until LLMs start winning debates about monolith vs microservices against humans, humans will have jobs.

The setup behind the CVE-2024-3094 supply-chain attack is fascinating. I originally wanted to finish and share a tool to audit other OSS projects for anomalous contributor behavior, but I feel what I found trying to MVP it is way more interesting. 🧵 1/25 gist.github.com/rubyroobs/77cc…

open source is not ever gonna fix the burnout issue and break even until it stops being sold as a cheaper way to write software.

My experience too. LLMs are mostly good for boilerplate. My productivity is overall net positive because I have low trust and ~20 years coding experience to spot hallucinations. I worry for the less experienced or who have high trust in LLMs.

😮 Google Podcasts is being deprecated?! I don't want to use YouTube music or Spotify for podcasts - for better work life separation. What podcast apps are folks using these days?

GitHub is susceptible to a CDN flaw that allows attackers to host malware in the file storage for any public repository. socket.dev/blog/how-threa…

👉 Decided to set some rules for using AI when contributing to a project I maintain. 1️⃣ never let an LLM speak for you 2️⃣ never let an LLM think for you roe.dev/blog/using-ai-…

Burnout happens when there is no progress. Burnout also happens when you have no visibility into how dots will connect in the future. Burnout is about not being able to close the loop after putting a ton of effort and not seeing enough results.