To be honest I find the things I do on my "work" laptop are different to the things I do on my "personal" laptop, and different again to what I do on my desktop machine.
Regardless of which machine I'm using at any given moment I appreciate having "endless history", and the ability to search/filter it. But despite that I don't think I need to actual sync that.
I'm sure there is value to be had from syncing and making all history unified, but it's never appealed to me particularly.
I personally prefer the fzf UX, but I liked atuin's better tracking of history and sync abilities so I combined them: https://github.com/prashantv/atuin-fzf
Do you have notifications turned on for your terminal app? I never received notifications from Claude Code until I moved to a new machine and remember explicitly allowing notifications from Ghostty.
Not planning to. It’s my first Swift/iOS project. I neither want to polish it nor maintain it publicly. Happy to share it privately, email is in the bio.
I’m planning on a blog post describing the general approach though!
Also PHP has Laravel Spark[0]. They basically bootstrapped a SaaS but for a price. Not sure if it's worth it, but it's from the guys who made Laravel, and everyone only has good things to say about that so...
I don't know where I found it, but I saw a job ad for a dev role that asked for an MBTI test first (it's about personality types thing like INFJ INFP etc).
Asking for this in a job for coding was... something else. And I thought leetcode was all I had to study
This topic has always interested me. For people looking for a free alternative (free for Apple users), I recommend looking into iOS and MacOS spoken content under Accessibility [0]
It's a bit finicky at times but the pros are
1. Free
2. It works on anything on your iPhone, iPad or Mac screen
3. Apple's Siri voices are actually really good! (Better than Speechify voices)
> For people looking for a free alternative (free for Apple users)
Thanks for pointing this out. Fwiw we do hope to continue providing a useful free tier with users, I appreciate your comment because it leverages services that iOS/macOS users reliably have for free by virtue of being an Apple user
> Apple's Siri voices are actually really good! (Better than Speechify voices)
This is really interesting - particularly because Speechify makes a pretty substantial amount of revenue from paid subscriptions. I imagine that Apple has the resources and capability to continue to improve their voice quality
Also there's two versions of the Samantha voice. One is 11 mb (downloaded by default) and another is 152mb (have to download from settings). The improvement with the 150mb version is very noticeable
Oration uses OpenAI's text-to-speech system, which I personally found to have superior quality to Apple's (but I also downloaded the upgraded Samantha voice and have been enjoying using it, so I appreciate the recommendation!)
I don't think that's true. SOTA open source is still much worse than eleven labs and requires a dedicated modern GPU for any kind of speed of generation. Certainly can't on-demand, on-device on an iPhone.
Apple already is doing very high quality generated audiobooks, but you do it for your book as the author.
Started looking late November and started tracking my applications in January.
I have applied to a total of 46 positions within a month. This has led to six interviews, several of which I received no response, 13 formal rejections, and one job offer which I declined (The decline was due to the position being advertised as a developer role, yet the recruiter mentioned that about 50% of the duties would involve support tasks)
Seeing this thread gives me some relief. At least it's not just me but a broader trend across the whole industry
That's pretty scary too, though. If it was just you (or me, or a specific person), you (or me, etc.) could strive to improve. If there's nothing out there, there's nothing you can do.
Junior engineer. Hundreds of applications across 3 months. Nothing but silence and automated rejections. It's got me feeling so down that I'm just going to leave the private sector for military. Get some training, have some job security, benefits, and hopefully wait out the horrible market.
US, yes, and I'm in a particularly bad region for tech, so I'm searching across multiple states and also across the country. I'm currently employed as a remote worker and it's killing me. It gives me very few opportunities to network. I did high school online and graduated college online due to the pandemic, so my network is already super suffering as it is.
Late to this thread, but if you're filling out forms, be sure to set your location lived to wherever the company you're applying to is. Also set your linkedin location to your preferred tech hub location. Even that helped me get through a lot of resumes filters when I was looking.
Also, there's really not a substitute to getting out to a place in person. For me at least, it really helped getting out of my smallish Arizona town and moving to Phoenix. There's several reddit threads and apps where you can couch surf, just be honest that you're having a hard time getting your career started and that will open some doors for you.
Once you're there though, get out and meet people. Go to as many professional and special interest meet ups as you can and talk to people saying that you're new to the area and looking for work. Even events like non-fiction book clubs indirectly led me to meeting people that have given me job leads. Research companies in the area on linkedin that interest you and cold call/twitter DM engineers or leads in the company and offer to buy them a cup of coffee and pick their brain. Having this unique interest in their company and bringing a bit of enthusiasm when learning about it goes miles. I honestly believe two weeks in a location is worth two months cold applying online; especially for someone just starting out.
edit: Final thing, have at least one project you're proud of that you can demo and show off to people that you meet. It doesn't have to be perfect, but you have to be able to talk about it with enthusiasm. A web-app. A video of a circuit you made if you're EE. Something that shows you can execute and aren't just someone that's all talk.
[0]https://github.com/junegunn/fzf