Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, probably not.

Technologies: Rust, Lua, C, Networking, CoAP, HTTP, TLS, Sandboxing, Docker, and a whole lot more

Résumé/CV: https://psbarrett.com/cv

Email: [email protected]

Just to be upfront, I'm not looking for just anything. I left my job about a month ago and usually like to take ~3 months off between each. I'm just starting to look now. But, I'd be willing to hop into something that sounds fun sooner than that.

I seem to have fallen into doing mostly Rust, usually somewhat in the vein of lower-level network programming. I've been doing Rust development since Rust v0.6 (2013) & I've got 12 years of experience as a software dev overall. That work has straddled the line between embedded and cloud side with most being embedded linux application development.

The work I've done that I'm most proud of was designing and leading development for Samsung SmartThings' Edge Device Driver Platform which is a system written in Rust, embedded within an existing C application, which runs sandboxed user-written 'Edge Device Drivers' on user-owned IoT hubs.

I've also got experience doing project & product planning, though I'm really looking to do primarily software dev.

Big plusses for me are: Working with Open Source, Working on Tools for Other Developers, Doing Work "For Good"

Other assorted things I want an excuse to learn/get involved with more deeply: Cryptography, C++, WASM, Large Scale Server Side Programming, P2P, Decentralization, rustc (& ecosystem) Dev, Linux Kernel, Mapping, Autonomous Drones, Spaaaaaaaccce, Guix, Scheme/Lisp, Erlang/Elixr

Hey, might I suggest adding a public domain example book? I tried adding a couple of different epubs that I happen to have on my phone, but it just says "Please select an EPUB file." when I do. (Using mobile Firefox.)

That's a good idea, thanks for the suggestion.

It seems to be quite picky about which books it accepts sometimes, will have to look into that :)

As far as I've seen, LLMs used to write code are only good for getting juniors to a PR features faster. But, it slows down everything else in the process. Reviews take ages because there's random nonsense landmines scattered around, the previous PR feedback is less likely to be applied to later code because they're not writing it, bug fixes take much longer because no one understands the code well, and there's just so much more code to deal with at every step since it doesn't matter to them if they are copy-pasting 10 lines or 1000.

I've tried using them myself, but they end up sapping more of my time than they save because of all the dead ends they send me down with plausible sounding bullshit. Things that use real terms, but incorrectly. I basically treat LLM output like that one guy who doesn't know anything except the existence of a bunch of technical terms and who throws those terms around everywhere trying to sound smart. It might be nice to know that a term exists if you're unfamiliar with the topic, but only to go look up what it actually means elsewhere.

I love your idealism, but allow me to be your data point. The place where I work just fired our CTO because he was doing exactly that, to "speed up" the software team, after I complained to other execs that this was massively slowing us down because of all the time we spent trying to figure out what the nonsense code he was shotgunning into main was supposed to do. (Not the only reason, I'm told.)

As far as I could tell reading that DEA memo, they were being really sneaky with what they said. None of the pill manufacturers had hit their allotment, but they didn't say anything about the raw ingredient manufacturers which are under a different quota. And most of the shortages I've seen in the FDA shortages database were listed as 'shortage of active ingredient'. (Or 'demand increase', which isn't specific enough to know that it's not literally the same thing.)

> Or you can be sitting bored for 8 hours at your desk stretching out 1 hour of responsibilities to last all day and feel super burned out.

Can confirm, this is exactly how I burnt-out at my first professional job. I've burnt-out of 3 jobs, and I honestly think make-work / work-stretching burnout was the worst, or at least the most soul crushing. (Though, to be fair, it was also the first for me, so I was least equipped to know what it was / deal with it.)

The DeckHD is still an IPS LCD, it just has better color coverage: https://deckhd.com/#specs

IIRC, it's just temperature (and maybe time). Once the bottom of the pot goes above boiling, all the water has been absorbed/boiled off. Cheap rice cookers then just click over to warm, fancy ones might do something based on time, which can change based on other things like how log it took to come to a boil or how long between coming to a boil and the water finishing absorbing.

As far as I can find, the Paris Métro's rubber tire lines all run on special rollways and not traditional railways like the vehicles in the article.

> concrete blocks that are "stackable"

I've heard these called 'Benton Blocks', though, looking that up now, that seems to be a brand [0], not sure if there's a more specific generic term other than 'concrete block'.

> Somewhat related: The famed "Jersey Divider" is cast in a similar way, albeit without any consideration for vertical stacking.

I think Jersey Barriers are usually re-enforced with steel rebar and all the ones that I've seen have a steel cable running through them with a loop at either end to link up to the one next to it, by dropping a pole or similar through both sets of loops, to create a continuous wall. (Though, interestingly, the Wikipedia article [1] doesn't seem to mention that feature.)

[0] https://betonblockusa.com/us/products/concrete-blocks [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier

I think you're looking for "Bin Blocks."

https://48barriers.com/products/concrete-bin-block/