November 2020

203 tweets

Tried to change the keys on my @XBowstech
tonight, but I didn't realize that the Kickstarter version doesn't have
swappable switches :/

Looks like I have to order the current edition for that.

Replying to @autiomaa

@autiomaa Well, the housing market in Trondheim
was not so impressed by Corona. Prices still went up, and fewer people were
selling so... But we are here now in the 4 year, so it makes sense to stop
paying rent.

Replying to @bitandbang

@bitandbang Ah, gotcha. I think Netlify has
great value for beyond hosting static websites, the PR preview feature is great
and I think this also provides value for non-JS projects. It's S3 website
hosting on steroids, so there is value for all web teams, IMHO.

@Robin_M_Saltnes I did actually use the Bluetooth feature to configure it to
connect to the 2.4 GHz WiFi ...

But WiFi makes sense, so I can control them even when I am not at home!

It's really annoying that @Azure is not keeping
their NPM release in sync somehow.

I cannot use @azure/arm-deviceprovisioningservices and @azure/arm-appservice at
the same time without #TypeScript complaining because they depend on different
versions of @azure/ms-rest-nodeauth.

Replying to @coderbyheart

Given that and the fact that it's hard to find out more about past Geekle events
(speakers list, recordings) adds to my concern about them be a valuable time
invest.

Replying to @coderbyheart

So another red flag for me.

What they should do is to set up a panel of community experts, that are in
charge of finding speakers and pay them for it. Then use a blind CfP review
process by the community and other speakers.

Replying to @coderbyheart

Building trustworthy relationships does not start with a "Hey, how about you
speak at our event!" on LinkedIn but through building meaningful relationships
from within existing communities and through peer connections.

Replying to @48nairda

@48nairda Maybe give it a try and be surprised!
It's not the same like a physical conference, but I had meaningful discussion
and great experiences this year at purely online conferences.

Replying to @Morl99

@Morl99 a) if someone tells you it is sexist, it
probably is. Listen! b) it proliferates classical sexist stereotypes: the wife
is in charge of the household AND does not understand programming, so she is
giving wrong instructions.

Replying to @byteborg

@byteborg These devices cost around 350 EUR and
they have a smoke detector inside. If it detects smoke it will start to beep,
and if the button is not pressed it will disconnect the power to the cooking
plates.

Found a power usage ledger in our new apartment in #Trondheim from 1957: back
than you got a 1600 watt connection, and in a year the household used 50
kilowatt hours.

Did I get this right? We have the most dangerous US president in history
commanding literal Nazis on this platform. and Twitter engineers spent the last
weeks working on a feature nobody asked for?

This is why end to end tests are important: I've noticed that an unreleased
development version
of our SDK could brick devices, because a configuration
change was made, and this was not discovered because module tests do not
consider how it's integrated.

Replying to @coderbyheart

An underlying module's configuration was causing the download to fail, because
there was not enough memory configured to store the longer hostname of the test
environments firmware server.

This took two additional days to figure out.

Replying to @coderbyheart

Just because we suddenly have multiple firmware tests per day, compared to maybe
one manual smoke test per month or so, we already were able to mitigate
potentially catastrophic bugs.

That's why I love #endtoendtesting, because it tests what really happens.

Replying to @martinjuhasz

@martinjuhasz I am just starting with this
effort, so it's one device for now. For now I didn't need to reset, so it's
pretty stable. I expect customers to have more devices, my job for now just is
proof of concept work.

Power-cycling USB hubs exist, so this could be put somewhere remote.

Made the first purchase for my #pc2021: a 2TB M.2 SSD. Assembly will happen
probably next year spring, but that deal was quite good ... especially since I
am importing hardware to #Norway and Amazon handles this very conveniently.

Replying to @coderbyheart

@Morl99 However I do wonder if in case for
conferences with multiple tracks if it's not easier to have a generic "Slot 1"
... in session instead of multiple session titles.

I foresee some usability issue with doing this responsive...

I need to do more to make the online events I attend be less of a white space.
Having removed a big financial barrier (online events are free or cost a
fraction of what e.g. a @SoCraTes_Conf
ticket costs), they haven't become more accessible to people that don't look
like me.

Replying to @coderbyheart

We can now easily accommodate people from different countries around the same
time zone, but I see a lot of familiar faces or people who are connected to the
community already.

This makes me uncomfortable aware of the bubble I am in, and how hard it is to
grow it.

Replying to @coderbyheart

I wonder what would have more impact: attending other communities' events to
build new connections (show up), or focus on inviting people I haven't met to an
event they have not attended, yet (outreach)?

Replying to @realn2s

@realn2s Yeah, this is such an old browser, which
cannot run the JS I ship on my blog.

"SyntaxError: Unexpected token '...'. Expected a property name."

Marketshare is under 1%. So not worth fixing it for a personal blog.

After having attended many great remote open spaces in the last months (and
having a nice session with @AmelieCornelis
and @dimitrypolivaev) I am going to
organize the first company-wide open space.

It's going to be interesting to run this only on our internal tools...

I've started to look into AWS Timestream to replace Athena for
@bifravst and oh is it great! It super simple to
setup, no need to maintain a schema if adding new properties. Just create a
Table send in data, then query using SQL. It's serverless and works just like
that.

Replying to @coderbyheart

This is a great example of why I like #BDD #e2e tests and how they support
refactoring: the only thing that changed (while refactoring the entire data
storage solution) was the query language part, the result, and tested scenarios
stayed the same.
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Now that I have a smaller desk it became a little crammed, so I got three
monitors arms for less than €100 shipped here and now have much more desk space
again.

@langestefan No, the data is not sorted by timestamp, and the charting library
does not manipulate the datasets and it plots it just as is.

Replying to @gentlemanviking

@theTorfinnOlsen @NordicTweets
@ImaginationTech We have not announced
any products, yet, but given that LTE and WiFi are on different frequencies it
will most likely be able to be controlled individually, like with LTE and BLE.
Typically it won't make much sense to have both LTE and WiFi at the same time
anyway.