Yeah the place I saw them was really small actually. Thinking back on it, I don’t know how they ever let them do a show there with that much fire. I was in the balcony but could have hit Till with my beer if I wanted.
Trello, Google Calendar, Notion, Evernote, Proton Calendar, etc, etc…
If you want to really DIY it, and depending on the things you want to be notified of, the Pushbullet API is pretty decent. I have been using that for years. You could probably do something with IFTTT or Zapier or something similar too… I haven’t dug into those.
I had this just the other day actually. I am in SRE and the overwhelming majority of the code I write is terraform, instructions for a Dockerfile or CI pipeline, or just some random ass bash to compile information… I don’t actually do that much coding at all and what I do end up doing is pretty rudimentary.
EVERY job interview I go on though wants to do some leetcode style code puzzle. The one I got the other day I just said to the guy, “I honestly don’t know how to do this. The code I write isn’t fancy or clever. It’s mostly just to get things done.” We worked through it together though and I understood the logic by the end but they were mostly holding my hand. What I was doing was throwing out ideas and trying to work out pros/cons with the interviewer. That was enough apparently because he green-lit me for the next round…
These type of interview questions really annoy me because they are not representative of the job in any way. In addition to work, I also have a life that does not involve computers. After putting in a 40 hour week on engineering stuff, grinding leetcode over a weekend is a hard sell.
Fair. For what it’s worth though, macbooks have been the default laptop at every startup I’ve worked at over the last ~8 years… The first M1 mbp was released in 2020 and most of those companies I was at had a policy of replacing machines after 2-3ish years too. it’s getting to the point where entire companies can be/are running on arm.
Might be more specific to particular industries or company maturity level but this has been my personal experience.
The cross-compiling point makes sense but, since this is a 4.5 year old message, the state of ARM in the cloud has changed. Now developers do actually have ARM-based machines because of Apple. AWS has Graviton2 instances now and they are a lot cheaper than similarly specced x86_64 instances. ARM is a viable consideration that can be made.