skittleson

Its a mixed bag of usage. Work i use a few for otel and some custom workflows for older systems that have heavy apis.

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.

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....

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.

I did write it the first few drafts but after that it was mostly rewritten by AI. Fair point tho, I'll do better

Mqtt broker on esp32 for long term deployments https://github.com/skittleson/mqtt_broker_esp

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

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

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.

There is a few problems with the site docs, the app image for linux (missing libs) and docker instructions. Otherwise its a great idea.

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.

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!

Still working on the bluetooth "wall of sheep" app. https://github.com/skittleson/bluetooth-wos . im hoping to put more insight on each device and receive avaliable notifications from the devices. I even figured out a rough estimate of how far devices are away with just RSSI and other available devices that have TX Power and RSSI within a few meters.

A fun toy project that shows some Bluetooth devices around me. Inspired by a Defcon "Wall of Sheep".

Still tinkering with a bluetooth "wall of sheep" terminal app. https://github.com/skittleson/bluetooth-wos

Agreed. I dont want kids to use this until they are much older... it's a crutch. They are not applying critical thinking skills when using a LLM. The value is when children try->fail->try->fail->try->succeed. It builds up problem-solve abilities.

Bluetooth low engery "wall of sheep" toy app https://gist.github.com/skittleson/705624a8f6967187096091cbd...

Same, I've had colleagues do the same process to get a foot-in-the-door. It does work based on observation alone.

Naughty but very informative to their devsec team . I think that should have been a given you a reward for finding that issue.

I really love using Windows. I spend a good amount of time getting it perfect for me then image it. Alot of tools listed in this thread are good as well as Group policy changes. It can get pretty close. Using choco also helps.I redo my Window environment ever 6 months tho. I'm starting to consider something else if I can make it work tho.

I did it over the course of a few months. My choice was keepass since is opensource, battled test, and works everywhere as if it was lastpass.