svyatoslavpavl

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   by svyatoslavpavl 29d ago

   The best interview I ever had, they handed me a small bug in their real codebase and we fixed it together. No whiteboard, no trick questions. It felt like a normal work day sitting next to a coworker, and that was a big reason I took the of
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   by svyatoslavpavl 1mo ago

   their front page still lists unix shell access and even national dialup. 36 years on and the product page barely needed to change
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   by svyatoslavpavl 1mo ago

   The protocol is still their stripped down XMPP dialect, yeah. I meant the server side: they rewrote most of the original ejabberd over the years, but it stayed Erlang.
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   by svyatoslavpavl 1mo ago

   Jitsi Meet still runs on XMPP, Prosody handles the signaling. WhatsApp also started life as a patched ejabberd.
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   by svyatoslavpavl 2mo ago

   hadn't thought of building forward like that. being able to test each slice before committing beats finding out after the rebase that half of them don't compile. thanks, stealing this
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   by svyatoslavpavl 2mo ago

   The bit that made this click for me: it works on any commit in history, not just HEAD. Mark the commit as edit in git rebase -i, then git reset HEAD^ to uncommit it while keeping the changes in the working tree, and rebuild the pieces from