André Becker

André Becker

@arestless.bsky.social

Lead Architect at Nitrado. Using my free time to tinker around with smart home things, renovating an old house, and DMing DnD.

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Looking for mutuals, time to do a #promosky! Talk to me about 🎮 VIDEO GAMES 👷 Home Renovation 🎲 TTRPGs 🏡 DIY Smart Home 👨‍💻 Software Architecture & Infrastructure 🔧 Overengineering Hobby Projects 📀 In-Home Streaming

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Sleepers, we've been reading your feedback following the AMA on endgame and PvP. We will share a message from our Creative Director tomorrow to clarify our intentions and our vision. If you're interested in the topic, stay tuned, we have news that we think you'll like!

Software is always just a means to an end. Software isn't worth anything if it doesn't solve an actual problem. Know your users. Know your product. And then build something that really matters.

If you outsource the core of your business you become an investor. Do you wanna be an investor? Do you have the means to?

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

Question from a reader: “Have you ever done any studies on the pros and cons of outsourcing literally all of your product development to a 3rd party?” My answer: Seen a few disasters like this. What “pros?”

Having witnessed network outages because of vendor-confirmed firmware bugs that had no fix available I appreciate every simple, little device that has a functioning MAC table and nothing else.

I've been working on this on the Nitrado side. Fun times!

Dune: Awakening@duneawakening.com

We can finally share with you that rentable private servers will be available on June 5th when Dune: Awakening launches into head start!

 We do, however, want to manage expectations about how private servers work. Read all the details in our blog: bit.ly/DuneAwakenin...

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On vibe coding:

Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com

"We don't need more people writing software; we need more people who understand it. The vibes are insecure." In this issue of Human-Generated Content, we're doing a vibe check on vibe coding. There are some cases where it's useful, but, as we've learned, it can also be a security nightmare.

Working on SSH host certificates via Hashicorp Vault, authenticated through SPIRE/SPIFFE workload attestation. This is definitely the large scale automation setup I need for my [checks notes] three Raspberry Pis.

If you're being considered a "10x engineer" that simply means you've failed at elevating your peers above even 10% of your own efficiency. You might think of yourself as a "rock star" or whatever but you sure as hell aren't a senior engineer.

Allen Holub@allenholub.bsky.social

Adding a "10x" programmer makes you slower. What matters is the speed of the entire system, from idea to delivery. Speed cannot be improved by introducing one faster person. We're a group walking single file on a narrow cliff path. 1/6

guy operating lifeboat on the titanic: this is actually only meant for people who know what all the flags in the Linux command "netstat -tulpen" do me, climbing out of the lifeboat and back onto the deck: okay guy, lowering the lifeboat: aren't you using that several times a day? me: look buddy,

Katie Chironis@kchironis.bsky.social

guy operating lifeboat on the titanic: this is actually only meant for women who know how to debug the navigation system in unreal engine me, climbing out of the lifeboat and back onto the deck: okay guy, lowering the lifeboat: haven't you worked in this engine for like 10 years me: look buddy,

Here's a fun observation: The actual challenge in writing is similar to software development. It's about developing a mental model, an *intent*, and that often has to simmer for a bit. Jotting down the words, or the code, is trivial in comparison. An AI can't develop your mental model for you.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social

I just C'mon The tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck is inside your skull!!!! Or maybe weed! Or a nice walk! Or literally anything else!

My credo when mentoring engineers is "good software is the software that fulfills the requirements" and it takes most software engineers *years* to truly embrace what that means.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

Amusing outcome of "vibe coding" wave with AI (by people who have not written software professionally before) Seeing the speedrun of why software development REALLY is hard (it was never about writing code - even though most non-dev folks assumed it must have been!)

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🚨 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 HEY! WE JUST DROPPED OUR DEMO FOR ROGUE ECLIPSE, GO PLAY IT NOW ON STEAM! GOGOGOGOOOOOOOOooooo- Reposts appreciated! 😅🙏 bit.ly/4bRLumD

🚨 NEW TRAILER DROP 🚨 We just dropped a new trailer for Rogue Eclipse as a part of Six One Indie! - Think Starfox x Armoured Core - Tight controls - Customize & master your starfighter - Take on merciless armadas - Roguelike structure - Destructible environments - Story with a full voice cast!

I thoroughly love the costume design in Andor. They highlight that fashion is a result of societal and cultural norms and, objectively, does not make sense. This here is as nonsensical as any real world tie.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social

Dressing like a guy in Andor now. My shirt collar is also part of my jacket somehow. My tie is some kind of strap. I have two capes on.

You know that movie trope, where a semi paranoid character is hunting a mystery, sees a piece of information, their eyes widen, they start frantically flipping through a (note)book, stop on a page, and suddenly everything makes sense? That's me in late game Blue Prince.

The ratio on this post is a work of art.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.

I always knew the right had an astonishing ability to ignore the subtext in media because of cognitive dissonance, but that they claim to not have understood the TEXT, you know, the one in CAPITAL LETTERS, is a new peak.