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Marta asked me some weeks ago to write this. Today is the anniversary, so I am trying. Sorry if it is long, actually it is the short version. I work at a software house in Dhaka, around 40 developers, almost all our clients are in Denmark and Norway. In July 2024 the student movement started about the job quota, and it became much bigger than quota. I was on the streets some evenings after work. I will not write…
سلام. I write backend for a ride hailing and delivery app in Tehran, Go and Python, team of 14. Many people outside do not know what sanctions mean for a normal developer, and many developers in other sanctioned countries ask me the same questions. So this is the long version. Everything here is about using public open source and running things ourselves. Nothing exotic. The real problem is over-compliance US…
I am a process integration engineer at a foundry in Hsinchu. I will not say which one and I will not say anything about work, customers or yields, please do not ask. I want to write about something else: what it is like to live here, in the middle of a topic that people far away discuss like a strategy game. The ships on TV My daughter is 7. During the large drills, the news shows maps with red arrows around our…
Primary season means I spend a lot of evenings refreshing county results pages. Here's how our desk does it, after some years and some embarrassing mistakes (mine). 1. Call the county first Seriously. Many counties publish a JSON or CSV feed behind the pretty results page, and many use the same few results vendors, so once you know one feed format you know a lot of them. Ask the elections office what the official…
I want to say first: I am not asking for pity. Ukrainians have it much worse, I know this. This is only a post about what is it like to be a relocant developer with a Russian passport, because people ask me and I am tired of explaining it in DMs. I left Moscow the week mobilisation was announced, September 2022. Belgrade, because Serbia did not need a visa and I had a friend with a sofa. I am against the war. Против…
Two stories. Both true. Both about deploys, kind of. One. In Haifa we have about a minute from the alert to the mamad, the safe room, sometimes less. I was in the middle of a rollout, kubectl rollout status running, new pods coming up. Alert. I grabbed the little one, my wife grabbed the big one, laptop stayed on the kitchen table. Ten minutes in the mamad, kids asking if the boom was close, me saying no with the…
ok so a few people asked after my comment in the sanctions thread what "organizing my workplace" actually means. here's the long version. opinion throughout, sources where i state facts. why i started not because of some big ideological moment. because of on-call. our rotation went from 8 people to 5 after a "restructuring", nobody's comp changed, and the pager didn't care. then the layoffs came by calendar invite…
Hi all. I made this topic because war and politics threads kept appearing in other places, in a Postgres question, in a remote work post, under a meme, and every time it became a mess. But I also do not think we can pretend tech is separate. Sanctions decide who can use npm. Shutdowns decide who can talk to their clients. Cheap drones changed what a "hardware hobbyist" is. Chips are geopolitics now. So here is a…
After my geolocation post I got several DMs. Most were nice. Three asked the same thing: there is a video of a Russian soldier, can you find his home address, his family, his mother's page. One person wrote "you are Ukrainian, you should want this more than me". I understand the feeling. I have it too. My answer is still no, and here is why, so I do not have to write it in DMs again. 1. You will get the wrong person…
deploy delayed: air raid. went to corridor with laptop, two walls rule. deploy finished while I was sitting on floor. Postgres survived better than me))) good morning everyone
Last June, for twelve days, there was a war over my head. I do not want to explain Iran in one post, I cannot, and people who ask me to do it in one comment are usually not asking a real question. I only want to write what happened to my work, because many developers in many countries may need this one day, and I hope they never do. The first nights we heard explosions in Tehran. My parents went to my aunt in the…
npm install: failed. docker pull: 403. VPN: died twice. electricity: gone for 2 hours. Hafez, as always: یوسف گم گشته باز آید به کنعان غم مخور ok. trying again
alert at 3:12. both kids in the mamad in 50 seconds, new record. back to bed 3:40. standup 9:00. if my PR review this morning was too honest, sorry Ilan. it was the sirens, not your code. (it was also your code)
someone in a react thread told me to keep politics out of tech. my brother your API is slow because the grid collapsed again and diesel costs more than my rent. TECH IS POLITICS. una no dey hear
4 august. 6 years. windows replaced twice, savings still frozen, still nobody held responsible. going to fix a flexbox bug now because what else. بيروت بتضل حلوة 🇱🇧
Last week in one of my Ukrainian Telegram chats somebody shared a video with caption about a "new" strike. I knew the building. It was from 2022, I verified it myself back then. Forty people had already forwarded it. Nobody was lying on purpose, they were just angry and fast. So here are the six checks I do, every time, in this order. Takes 5-15 minutes. If you do not have 5 minutes, you do not have time to share it…
