Category: TIFIIT
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I love reading code
Software solves unique problems. Reading code can be as enticing as a novel. The data flows interacting like characters. Each API, their voice. I enjoy reading code on my phone too. It’s like reading a custom tutorial post. Now I know how to handle GitHub webhooks with Go. Even without syntax highlighting I understand what’s…
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Job Search: 2025
Start date: late June 2025 Offer accepted date: late September 2025 Start date: late October 2025 Search duration: 4 months Sabbatical duration: 16 months Companies applied to: 50-60 Time spent interviewing: ~40 hours Offers received: one company (two teams) Years of Experience: 10+ Accepted role: Senior Software Engineer Cash salary percent change: -25% Equity cash…
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TIFIIT: /dev/null is ACID compliant
Joey@jyu.dev originally posted this. I thought it was interesting and decided to build on it with some super simple bash examples. This is a hilarious example of: “You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.” [1] Atomicity Operations are “all or nothing.” There are no partial writes, it’s either written and then discarded, or…
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Vibe Coding on the couch – iOS Shake Detector
How fast can you shake your phone? https://tizz98.github.io/iOS-shake-detector/ This requires iOS and using the latest Safari or Firefox. I was bored on the couch. I was curious if I could measure a table shaking using my phone. Specifically to measure how much force it takes to topple my floating wine bottle. It took 0.32g to…
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TIFIIT: Exceptions vs Results
I fell in love with the Result type in Rust immediately when using it. For most of my career I’ve used Python, and one part of the language that is contentious is Exceptions. One camp, generally the senior engineers, think that Exceptions should be avoided and you shouldn’t raise custom Exceptions. The other camp thinks…
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TIFIIT: Vibe-coding
I constantly have ideas for new web apps. Most recently, I wanted to ask my friends which Pokémon is their favorite out of a group of nine in a 3×3 grid. It seemed like an interesting use case for Elixir and Phoenix since it has great real time update support for multiple users. I was…
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TIFIIT: Meta Interviews (GenAI OK)
I’m interested in making a mobile app and want to learn more about Flutter and React Native. I also thought about using the Cursor IDE. I’ve never used it before so I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to help me learn it. This is a wild change in my behavior. This is the first in my…
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