skittleson
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Software engineer and hobbyist at https://docodethatmatters.com
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Comment · 2 months ago
Its a mixed bag of usage. Work i use a few for otel and some custom workflows for older systems that have heavy apis.
Comment · 3 months ago
I really loved to work there. I knew alot of friends, toured the campus, and even worked with prior employees that had good experiences. Every product before 2015 was beautiful (i still miss my Zune).
Then they broke me. I tried to give feedback on the products, interviewed, and really tried to reach out to them. Mostly ignored (except Outlook team, thanks ). The heavy marketing and tech debt within Windows is what did it for me. Rant over.... the interview felt like some trick questions at that time.
Comment · 4 months ago
i've been running qwen 3.6 35B A3B with llama.cpp on a 3090ti. i have found it better then sonnet in many ways. Speed and iterations was key. here is the gist of my current configuration: https://gist.github.com/spencerkittleson/5e44b6895a17ca45161... I use this with tailscale so all my devices have full access to it. That machine get toasty....
Comment · 4 months ago
I made a bunch of silly projects at first to help me manage daily life. For example, automating saving important emails based on prior history. Extracting text and putting it into csv files, downloading finance reports, reminder scripts, watchdog scripts. All the boring stuff pretty much what was done at first.
Now, i have gotten to point where i am replacing actual useful applications that I need to get stuff done. Plugs here: https://github.com/skittleson/mqtt_broker_esp and https://github.com/skittleson/WyzeBridge.
Comment · 5 months ago
I did write it the first few drafts but after that it was mostly rewritten by AI. Fair point tho, I'll do better
Comment · 5 months ago
Mqtt broker on esp32 for long term deployments https://github.com/skittleson/mqtt_broker_esp
Comment · 8 months ago
https://thespaceabove.us/ extremely good listen with a lot of details in the early years of the space program. I found renewed interest in the area. Even started replicating some of the missions in KSP
Comment · 9 months ago
https://docodethatmatters.com It was a way for me to build, optimize, and enrich my skills around the web standards. Also, a place for me to document some of the fun projects around DSLR camera hacking, Raspberry PIs, home automations and 3d printing
Comment · 11 months ago
One thing I really like is the performance... its smooth and fluid. The api is really useful as well: I wrote a small job to auto add descriptions and tags to the images.
Comment · 11 months ago
There is a few problems with the site docs, the app image for linux (missing libs) and docker instructions. Otherwise its a great idea.
Comment · 11 months ago
Moved from nodered only to a hybrid of nodered and home assistant. Added some new sensors, nfc tags, modes and automations for multiple tenants / cost savings. Its been fun to automate some boring tasks.
Comment · 1 year ago
It just screams as the start of joke but end up finding it's a quick quirky game you wanna share with ppl. Great job!