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1. Article

   How I check a strike location with free satellite data, and when I refuse to publish

   A reader asked how we decide whether a claimed strike location holds up. Here's the free toolkit and the actual decision rule. Nothing here needs a paid account. The free sources Sentinel-2 (ESA, optical): 10 m resolution in the visible bands, a new image roughly every 5 days at mid latitudes. Big burn scars, collapsed large buildings, craters in fields. Not cars, not people. Sentinel-1 (radar): sees through clouds…

   Naomi FeldAug 10, 20269likes6comments

2. Update

   alert at 3:12. both kids in the mamad in 50 seconds, new…

   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)

   Yoni PeretzAug 8, 20269likes6comments

3. Experience

   I left Moscow in 2022 and I still cannot get paid like a normal person

   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…

   Artyom SokolovJul 28, 202627likes14comments

4. Experience

   About a minute to the shelter, and coming back from reserve duty to a codebase that moved on

   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…

   Yoni PeretzJul 24, 202623likes13comments

5. Article

   tech workers are workers, and yes that includes asking what our cloud sells to militaries

   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…

   Jordan PikeJul 22, 202620likes14comments

6. Experience

   One year after the twelve days: what I changed in how I work

   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…

   Arash KarimiJul 4, 202612likes11comments

7. Article

   Why I will not help you find where a soldier lives

   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…

   Marta KovalenkoJun 28, 202614likes14comments

8. Article

   Six checks before you share war video (I do them every time, also for my side)

   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…

   Marta KovalenkoJun 21, 20267likes11comments

9. Article

   A normal workday in Kyiv during blackouts, hour by hour (with my power setup)

   Few people asked after my air raid deploy post how a normal day looks. So here is one. Not the worst day, not the best. Tuesday. I work remote for a Danish company, Go and Postgres, team of 6. Kyiv is one hour ahead of Copenhagen, which is the only easy part. 06:40 Wake up, before coffee I check the outage schedule in the energy company app and in our district Telegram channel. Kyiv is split in groups, my building…

   Oleksii BondarenkoJun 13, 202688likes36comments

10. Update

    deploy delayed: air raid. went to corridor with laptop, two…

    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

    Oleksii BondarenkoJun 5, 202613likes6comments

11. Article

    Welcome to Wars, Votes and Wires. Please read before posting

    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…

    Marta KovalenkoMay 26, 202620likes11comments