zwayhowder

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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I work at an Australian University and can confirm that use of AI to generate content is rampant. It's often quite blatant and at least in the subject I teach easy to spot, but in a lot of subjects it would be much harder. A lot of my
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
On my desktop I just run i3 because I have no need for the regular fiddling around. On my laptop(s) I run KDE with i3. That to me is the best of both worlds. Easy wifi config and automatic setup of HDMI devices, but tiles, tiles as far as I
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I noticed this last week during a brief foray into Windows on the desktop and honestly, I don't hate it. Before you down-vote let me tell you why. I use Outlook for work only, and I segregate my browsing so that work browsing is done i
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I threw out my original CP/M Primer that I had owned since the 1980s (No idea why, I've never owned a CP/M system). About 6 months later an emulator was released that I could have played in :(
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
Reinforcing the floor may become a thing at some point.
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
A lot of leadership is nuance and context. What works well in one company/situation may not work well in another. Personally I've let Radical Candor by Kim Scott & the blog/books of Michael Lopp ( https://rands
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
When I had a normal chair I had a 3 pedal set under my desk. It was awesome. Especially handy in gaming to have keys mapped to thinks like Heal
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
Left handed trackball (Elecom). Sits to the left of my Moonlander while my vertical mouse sits to the right. Not only is it convenient, as an old school Diablo player I get to tell people I duel wield. I also have a cheap X-Pen graphics tab
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
The Full Stack Journey by Scott Lowe. https://feeds.packetpushers.net/fullstackjourney Fascinating listening to how others learn and grow. Screaming in the Cloud by Corey Quinn. https://www.lastweekinaws.com&#x2F
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
I run i3, so practically everything I do is driven by keyboard shortcuts. On Windows I use AutoHotKey to achieve a similar level of support when I have to use it. To avoid collisions I'll often bind a single key to something like &quot
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
Snap. I also use i3 and rofi. I can't imagine life without them. But the desk controller I built turns off lights and monitors, mutes audio when I forget to and more.
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
I built one of these after reading this. It was well worth the time and making a friend do the soldering :D I have hundreds of keyboard shortcuts memorised for things, and I use a QMK programmable Moonlander keyboard with even more. The rea
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
Some good questions there, for reflection or the dreaded "do you have questions for us" bit in the interview. With regards the library. Yes, but I paid for every book in it. And most are never touched. It's frankly a little d
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
Fortunately there are some cool extensions that do improve that logic. My favourite uses a new container for every AWS SSO login, so I can have multiple AWS accounts and/or roles on the go at the same time. https://addons.mo
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
I doubt it. It's the culture of using public channels instead of private DMs that needs to change. The UX of Teams makes channels much higher friction than group messages.
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
Every company I've worked at for the last decade at least has disabled POP3. I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying for a mail client to be useful in most orgs it needs to support IMAP (and these days Oauth2). Having just
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
I got as far as the assumption of POP3 for fetching mail and stopped reading TBH. Here was me hoping for some cool new guide about Mutt with Oauth or similar.
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
It is, but then I broke a finger and was able to remap both keyboards to compensate. That was pure magic.
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
I should add - now that I've googled you - you and I work in very different areas of 'IT'. The problems I imagine you deal with need a lot of quiet dedicated focus time; while my problems need me to be able to wrangle a dozen
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
I see you've worked with me before :) "Zwayhowder, the way you've phrased this sounds very angry, could we just tone it down a little" is comment in slides/reports that I receive often :D I'm just passionate, I
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
You'd be amazed what people say in open plan offices thinking they can't be heard. But you are correct; however again in 25 years, the number of those years working for a company that had perfectly working leadership, management,
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
The biggest hurdle is wondering why your space bar is no longer working on a normal keyboard, and realising that you are actually smashing the alt key :D But seriously, I love my Moonlander(s) and have no regrets buying them.
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
I don't know what you do but I've solved problems and saved companies millions by overhearing a conversation in the office that would have been a Slack DM remote. At one customer I was able to identify that 3 separate business uni
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
I've closed $100k worth of consulting by opening with "My name is Zwayhowder and I've spent years making every cloud transformation mistake possible so you don't have to". Mistakes can be golden.
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
At $job-4 I had the following exchange with HR. HR: Our records are incomplete, please provide a copy of your degree and transcript. Me: I don't have a degree. HR: We only hire people with degrees! Me: Well I have a contract and get pa
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
If you run your own NextCloud instance I highly recommend the News app as an RSS aggregator and the accompanying mobile app which I use regularly. With regards content I have a few feeds I read everything in, and a lot I just browse through
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
For 4-5 years now I've run Linux on a Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga X1 with LTE. My iPad now gathers dust. I have no regrets. The tablet works well and despite only running i3 I have screen rotation and a perfectly good onscreen keyboard. The o
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
Until I switched to a kneeling chair I had a 3 button foot pedal under my desk. I programmed it with https://github.com/rgerganov/footswitch and it worked an absolute treat. As an i3 devotee it was even more special. I
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
Haven't you watched Swordfish? https://hardforum.com/threads/thoughts-about-the-multi-displ...
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by zwayhowder 4y ago
The 4% of us with Aphantasia can't do that at all. I need all the relevant windows open and readable for me to work. I tried VR but found the resolution lacking.

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