Static analyzers like https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor can help find such misconfiguration. It is however unfortunate, that such footguns aren't harder to fire.

Many thanks for sharing this. I wasn't aware it existed.

Making it solely about the extraction of dollars is a great recipe to make something mediocre. See Hollywood or Microslop.

Its like min-maxing a Diablo build where you want the quality of the product to be _just_ above the "acceptable" threshold but no higher because that's wasting money. Then, you're free to use all remaining points to spec into revenue.

Exactly. In addition, sometimes a good software "only" makes you save 1% of your time, but that 1% was a terrible burden that induced mental fatigue, made you take bad decisions, etc. It can even make a great Engineer stay when he would have left with the previous version.

While reading the article I was thinking the same thing. I can think of problems I've solved that directly affected 0% of our customers, but overloaded our customer support team.

It looks interesting but no source availability is a red flag for me.

Best performing by what metric? There aren't meaningful ways to measure engineer "performance" that makes them comparable as far as I know.

Your org doesn't track engineering impact?

What about git stats?

I can tell you the guys that are consistently pushing code AND having the biggest impact are using LLM tools.

Are we measuring productivity by lines of code again? This was treated as unserious for decades.

Why ignore where I mention engineering impact??? Come on, be real here

What git stats do you have that show “impact”?

The OP was right to assume it was lines of code. Another assumption could be number of commits, which also doesn’t measure impact.

Track engineering impact and git stats were two separate suggestions in that comment. Every org tracks impact through performance reviews.

Probably because you mentioned "git stats".

What you meant by that?

High number of days with commits, merging and shipping code consistently (some people/project will ship multiple times a day/week, some projects move a little slower).

That plus the completion of high impact projects makes good strong engineers.

Those are the people I see using LLMs

So quantity of code?

I think its cool that more people are building what I call "calm tech". More technology should try to serve a purpose quickly and then get out of the way instead of trying to artificially stay on your screen as long as possible.

Incidentally, I built my own calm RSS reader some time ago that has many similar ideas to yours: https://github.com/lukasknuth/briefly

The best RSS reader program I have been using for years

nice! yeah, i agree. calm tech is a nice way to put it. the current big platforms are highly tuned to keep people engaged and enraged to the max, rss is kind antithesis of that. that's probably why big companies try to bury and hide it. youtube and reddit still give pretty good rss support though, which is nice.

I habe a "Pocketbook Verse Pro" that runs Linux. No need to root, you can copy ARM executables to the SD card and run them (that's how I use Syncthing on it). KOReader also works on it.

+1 for the PocketBook. I have an Era and use it with KOReader and Calibre. Installation was as easy as copying a folder onto the device.

I also wrote a short write-up about my experience with PocketBook devices and KOReader, for anyone who's interested: https://tc3.eu/posts/pocketbook-era-with-koreader/

Speaking of passkeys, could they be used to authenticate to a local application - say for unlocking a password vault (perhaps through a Yubikey)?

Probably not.

But YubiKey supports multiple protocols, one of them surely could work for your use case.

Yes. HMAC extension allows for this use case.

They could, it's just an API.

I built my own reader because I didn't want unread items to accumulate. It just shows what was published the last X days.

The result is that there is no need for persistent storage, so its real easy to host. If you're interested, its here: https://github.com/lukasknuth/briefly

My specific need for RSS is the accumulation. There are people who post once a week and I don't want to miss the posts because I was offline at the time.

I appreciate that you document how the ranking works below the list. Thank you.

We look at K8s more like "the Cloud Operating System". Many of its capabilities are more valuable for other runtimes, but that doesn't mean that Elixir is a bad fit with it.

For example, the Erlang VM clustering can make use of K8s for Service Discovery. You can do ephemeral containers and use readiness probes to create a " hand over" period where new instances can sync their data from old, about-to-be-replaced instances.