Magnus McCune

Building solutions in a rapidly changing world | Likes gummy bears ¦ Product Strategy & New Product Incubation @HiveMQ, opinions are my own

[Magnus McCune @Magnus_McCune]

I’m setup over on Mastodon as https://t.co/4EmYZGYWSP. Look forward to seeing more of you over there.

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I can't tell if @substack has some awful 'dark patterns' or it's just buggy. I've been trying to 'claim a free post' for the last 20 minutes and just keep going in circles. Now it won't accept my ACTUAL phone number, which I hate to submit, as real...

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@haleyjason I haven't given it a look in a while but I really liked @Njuchi_'s Python course and I've recommended it to others that found it useful.

I generally recommend following it up with something specific to what you are likely to build, an API course, an ML course, etc.

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@Merocle If you've seen this video from GitHub on their racked-mac solution, would you share your opinions on the tradeoffs they made? It's seems like a less effective design then either of your versions but they likely had different constraints. https://t.co/6lDEtN0M76

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@TheCloudPirate Seeing lots of recommendations for Obsidian, which is a fantastic tool. I've opted for Notion so I could access my notes online without syncing, because I'm often on computers I don't want Onedrive connected to.

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@BuckWoodyMSFT Most of the orgs I've worked for have had one(larger enterprise). The startup I'm at is now building one and I've missed not having something like that. When I first joined they just had a Slack channel for asking IT. Now there is a basic catalogue with common requests.

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@Merocle Another interesting use case & learning exercise might be slowly building up capabilities on a rover platform. Object recognition, pathing, servo/stepper control, accessories.

Two part learning: how to do those tasks, how to distribute/chunk tasks in a way that leverages k8s

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@Merocle I'm seeing more and more k8s deployed at the edge for running fairly mundane tasks like POS, data gateways, nvr+ai and similar.

I'm using a small cluster for simulating industrial IoT edge scenarios. Protocol gateway, MES, MQTT broker, stream analytics, data governance, etc.

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@iskren82 @JackRhysider @Oddvarmoe It's literally the international standard, ISO8601.

https://t.co/3VTfXqv2ra

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@mikejulian @QuinnyPig On this day, @mikejulian chose violence.

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@mikejulian I've really been enjoying using the "frames" feature in @MiroHQ since going to a shop that uses it. I can walk someone through my thought process, but as soon as we are on the same page we can bounce around out of order, make notes, make changes, ideate, etc.

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@Pixel_Robots Woah, JEALOUS! His comedy really resonates with me.

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@SPeitsch @SwiftOnSecurity I've just come back to working on a Mac full time after a 9 year hiatus. I'd entirely forgotten how strong the small utility app economy is on Mac. Glad to see that those developers get paid for features that make the experience work for me.

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@Merocle This feels weird to say after a few years of supply constraints but I've somehow ended up with some extra CM4s. Have you made a decision about potentially selling the upberry?

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@SpaceHaxx @Merocle In an enterprise setting, a use case for this would be a test or QA environment, where having a high count of low-power physical systems would be of value.

With the increasing prevalence ARM systems, having a pi cluster makes sense for building/validating AArch64/ARM images.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

the best kind of debugging involves a failure that feels impossible at the outset but by the end you understand the issue so well you wonder how the system worked at all

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@mikejulian Couldn't agree more. The number of conversations I've had where moving a legacy app and suddenly the design has changed from "the dumpy server in the closet under the stairs" to "multi-AZ, 99.95% uptime

Sure, lets do BETTER, but make these decisions based on actual requirements

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While trying to troubleshoot my nfc Yubikey not working on an iPhone with YouTube, I accidentally dove into Passkeys, a consumer-oriented passwordless authentication method that's been gaining traction and headlines recently.

@Yubico, @1Password

https://t.co/DJpNbwjo2z

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@Karl_ITNerd I recommend checking out the @TheHookUp1 YouTube channel. Lots of great content on this specific topic, presented in a detailed but condensed way.

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@Karl_ITNerd I also use a EUFY doorbell, as I needed one that works on battery, which Ubiquiti doesn't offer. I'd prefer to have everything in one platform but this works until I wire for a doorbell.

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@Karl_ITNerd I recently moved off that and over to a Ubiquiti system. I was already using a UDM Pro, which can act as an NVR and I only had to buy cameras which turned out to be pretty reasonably priced. Both my wife and I really like the app experience and it requires less maintenance.