QuietForgeSoftware

Solo dev | building in public | Sharing mistakes and lessons from running my own business | 15 years experience as a DevOps and backend engineer| 日本語も喋る

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A wild week of bug fixing, getting the last few MVP features in, and some SEO updates. A few more ideas to try for marketing next week but this will be the lost code to this idea unless something changes. Still proud of it though.

https://t.co/Yil0Rqbs1v

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@CashionEast But…what if I ask nicely?

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Microsoft, I have had my machine for over a year.
No I don’t want Office 365
No I don’t want to setup One Drive
No I don’t want tips and tricks

I want my computer to start and be usable. Your updates keep it from doing that

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@annieqyang In some ways it is. I know at the beginning of the year, first app submissions were usually a couple of days but they sometimes went weeks. But get over this and usually the updates are easier!

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Working with the cloud:
10% actual work
90% doing other work waiting for progress bars

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I must be terrible at searching on X.

Nothing people are talking about interests me at the moment.

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@emlasd Kettlebells are ignored by too many people. If I could only have one piece of equipment at home, it would be one of those.

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@annieqyang Good for you! World needs more of this.

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@thoughtsbyyinka Fully agree, the art of communication is slowly getting lost. Those who can do it and do it well will be invaluable to any team.

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The outcome of 1AM hyper focus:

A clear view of how to do and manage a complex network migration.

The cost of 1AM hyper focus:

All of the next days energy and motivation.

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One month left before the JLPT. I've at least doubled the Kanji I know and my vocabulary and grammar have greatly improved.

Don't know if it will be enough, but my skill has grown either way.

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@NetworkChuck Nothing important. Whatever you learned in the woods is of more use :P

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@TheTahaJamal You definitely could. I used node because LLMs seem to like to write python and JavaScript scripts for things. So using a node base image gives it one of those tools without extra config.

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I feel like not enough people develop in dev containers. Especially with AI. It locks down so much. There are plenty of articles but here is one I wrote about iPhone apps but it applies to the approach in general.

https://t.co/lHB8NdBohA

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Inspired by something that happened to a client recently , starting to think about how to turn malicious AI agents back on their operators.

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@j2k3k It’s pretty wild. Kind of like no one can get in if there is no door 😂

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@TheTahaJamal Precisely. And the things you see as a user are very very different from what you see as a developer.

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Use the apps you build.

If you as the builder get annoyed by something, someone debating giving you money will be annoyed too.

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@hello_code_ If the last month hasn't already started to show people, they are certainly going to learn one way or another.

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@pospiechPoniza Haha

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Performance work is oddly satisfying.

Watching a process speed increase or resource usage decrease and having receipts to show for it makes you want to do it more 😂