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New comment by treebeard5440 in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"

treebeard5440 — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 04:50:05 +0000

Took me bout 2 days for the initial release of the config-file-validator. I had been thinking about it for a while and was able just to knock it pretty quickly. It’s changed a LOT since initial release and 95% of that work has been from open source contributors

https://github.com/Boeing/config-file-validator

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: License Approval GitHub Action"

treebeard5440 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:41:44 +0000

Great idea - i’ll give this a try in my project

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Ask HN: Get a job with my CS degree, or start my dream business?"

treebeard5440 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:50:10 +0000

Way below what you’d make at FAANG is absolutely correct. Salaries are not competitive with top-tier tech companies. Not everyone wants to work at FAANG though. Depending on what you value though the lower salary can be offset by some of the other benefits. Work life balance tends to be really good - rarely do I ever go over 40 hours a week but if I do I get paid overtime even though I’m salaried. You can also usually arrange to work a flexible schedule like 4/10’s (10 hrs a day M-Th and every Friday off) or 9/80’s (9 hours a day, 8 on the working Friday and every other Friday off). 401K and medical benefits are also very good. Job security for engineers tends to be high - especially compared to FAANG with their recent series of layoffs. Even if FAANG is your ultimate goal, working for a few years at a defense contractor will not hurt your chances of future employment there.

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: Open-source webapp to conduct Sprint Retrospective"

treebeard5440 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:39:25 +0000

My team actually likes it - but it’s run by the dev team so we actually talk about things we care about. Management participates too (I know they aren’t supposed to) but they are very supportive and can help elevate issues appropriately if needed

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: Open-source webapp to conduct Sprint Retrospective"

treebeard5440 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:36:47 +0000

This looks great! Very clean UI

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Ask HN: Get a job with my CS degree, or start my dream business?"

treebeard5440 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:27:09 +0000

> My main focus is in Embedded Systems Software and it’s something I’m really passionate about.

Not entirely what you’re asking but if you decide to go the job route try applying at all of the major defense contractors (Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon, etc). I work for one and the embedded software skillset is highly desired and hard to hire for. You will likely have to be okay with relocation and working onsite in a classified environment at least part of the time but the job prospects should be much better than tech companies and the work very applicable to your focus

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: Keyboard Cat Defense System"

treebeard5440 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:20:48 +0000

Nice work - We must have the same cats!

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: JunkPurge – Clean Build Directories, Artifacts in Multiple Languages"

treebeard5440 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:55:06 +0000

Neat idea - I feel like the name could be more descriptive of the tool like buildpurge

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: grepbible – Grep the Bible"

treebeard5440 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:27:26 +0000

This is so cool! I can see this as an incredible study tool for a command line user

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: BashBundle to single .sh. Extract by executing. Or make an installer"

treebeard5440 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 05:15:36 +0000

This is pretty neat! I had no idea what to use this for until I read the “why” section on your README - good use case

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: I Built a Receipt-Image to JSON Converter (+ Line-Items)"

treebeard5440 — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:41:04 +0000

Pretty cool - have you thought of open-sourcing the project while keeping the SASS portion paid?

Ask HN: What's the worst thing you've ever seen when reviewing code

treebeard5440 — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 03:48:53 +0000

I have two (both many years ago)

1. Every line of every file in the project had its line ending changed

2. Python script that called a python script that called another python script

Anyone else have some good ones?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38495703

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

Ask HN: Do you validate your project's config files in your CI/CD pipeline

treebeard5440 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:18:35 +0000

I’m curious if this is standard practice for most projects. If not, do you expect an error in your config files to be caught by unit and/or functional tests?

I’m the maintainer of a project[0] that could provide syntax validation for multiple config file types in a CI/CD pipeline. I haven’t really seen that type of quality gate in very many projects though.

[0] https://github.com/Boeing/config-file-validator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482682

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Ask HN: How do you personally measure the success of your open source projects?"

treebeard5440 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:15:40 +0000

I agree with “does it work for me, then it’s a success” to a certain extent. I am really happy with my project, it does what I needed it to do, and my company allowed me to open-source it. If that was all that happened I would still consider my project a success. What has been really enjoyable for me, however, is working with contributors and seeing developers use the tool. So I feel like - for me at least - there has to be more than just building and releasing it.

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Ask HN: How do you personally measure the success of your open source projects?"

treebeard5440 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:00:31 +0000

Now that’s a great indicator

Ask HN: How do you personally measure the success of your open source projects?

treebeard5440 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:33:04 +0000

I been running an OSS project for almost a year now and I feel like it’s been fairly successful for a small project. We have had quite a few contributors - especially during hacktoberfest that have given us high qualilty PR’s. While the contributions have been better than ever expected we’re not as strong on some other “metrics” such as stars, forks, watchers, etc. Looking through discussions some people only value those things while others completely disregard them. I’m curious how other maintainers determine the success of their OSS projects. Outside of “metrics” and contributors is there anything else to consider?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305837

Points: 7

# Comments: 10

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: Near-realtime cloud maps for weather visualisation, 3D models and more"

treebeard5440 — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:00:55 +0000

Came here for AWS - still left happy discovering it was about real clouds

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: Faster Internet for the Middle Class"

treebeard5440 — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:59:17 +0000

Neat idea!

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: Tiny Syntax Highlighter"

treebeard5440 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:57:58 +0000

Cool - thanks for sharing!

New comment by treebeard5440 in "Show HN: Podsumer – A Self Hosted Podcatcher"

treebeard5440 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:32:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing!