Developer Experience (DX) Matters, especially for side projects, non-profitable open-source projects, and early staged bootstrapped business.

I Can NOT Stop Working on Day Job

Recently, when I have extra energy after day job, I noticed that I prefer to spend time on my day job project, then the open source project, and finally the side project. But hold on, I have already completed the planned work for the day job project, and based on the importance, I should spend time on the side project first, then the open source project, and finally maybe some leisure time.

I do NOT like message recall/replacement. I prefer to NOT use it during online conversations, for both personal and work-related sessions.

Recall or replacement messages encourage people to avoid taking responsibility for their words. It’s like saying, “I can say whatever I want, and if I regret it, I can just take it back.” It’s a way to avoid the consequences of our actions.

Also at the professional level, it’s a way to avoid accountability. If I have sent a message to a client or a colleague, I want to be responsible for what I said, which means, if I made a mistake, I will have to apologize and correct it. I don’t want to be able to take it back, and pretend it never happened.

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Professional Stuff

I take a review about products built by Boring Design:

• EasyDevo, Free, https://easydevo.boringboring.design/, clean my mac but for developers, majorly focus on cleaning javascript node_modules, rust targets, golang build cache, and xcode build cache.
• Haye, Paid with subscription, https://haye.ai/, an in-context AI assistant for MacOS. It could be triggered by selection then press the hotkey, then chat with context.
• Bridge, onetime payment, https://boringboring.design/products/bridge, a human-centric timezone tool. It could help remote teams to find other’s timezone.

We started our first commit at Sep 19, 2023, it has been 15 months. We did make some money, barely to cover the cost of server, services for the products. We need to put more effort into marketing, sales.

Professional Stuff

Introduced Curosr to My Wife

Cursor is an AI powered IDE, based on VSCode. The major difference is that it can provide more tight integration with the codebase, like asking questions with @codebase, also it has a “composer mode” which could help modify files in a more structured way with the diff view. It extremely likes a pair programming colleague, but I am always the “navigator”. I have used it for a while, and I think it’s a good tool for me.

I always make a list about the topics I am most interested in during KubeCon. Here is my list for KubeCon NA 2024. Parts of them already have slides, we could watch them before the conference.

And later I will update my comments/reviews on each topic.

Talks

• All Your Routes Are Ready, More or Less - Dave Protasowski
• When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story - Sergey Pronin, Percona
• How to Move from Ingress to Gateway API with Minimal Hassle - Keith Mattix, Microsoft
• Running Quantum-Safe Applications on Kubernetes - Paul Schweigert & Michael Maximilien, IBM Quantum
• What Agent to Trust with Your K8s: Falco, Tetragon or KubeArmor? - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
• What Istio Got Wrong: Learnings from the Last Seven Years of Service Mesh - Christian Posta & Louis Ryan, Solo.io
• The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Defense Unicorns; Jason Hall, Chainguard; Scott Rigby & Karen Chu, Independent; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft
• Per-Node Api-Server Proxy: Expand the Cluster’s Scale and Stability - Weizhou Lan & Iceber Gu, DaoCloud
• Pick My Project! Lessons Learned from Interviewing 20+ End Users for Cloud Native Case Studies - Shedrack Akintayo & Bill Mulligan, Isovalent at Cisco
• How Google Built a New Cloud on Top of Kubernetes - Jie Yu & Prashanth Venugopal, Google
• Better Together! GPU, TPU and NIC Topological Alignment with DRA - John Belamaric, Google & Patrick Ohly, Intel
• Can You Put a Price Tag on Open Source? - Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic & Bob Killen, CNCF
• Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers’ Perspective - William Morgan, Buoyant; Ashley Davis, Venafi; Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale; Emily Omier, Emily Omier Consulting; Matt Bates, Cofide
• Upgrade Safely: Avoid the Pitfalls of Kubernetes Versioning - Rob Scott, Google
• Kubernetes on Multisites – A Story About Stateful App, Hybrid Clouds, and High Availability - Florian Coulombel, Dell Technologies & Jan Šafránek, Red Hat
• What’s New in Operator Framework?! - Bryce Palmer, Rashmi Gottipati & Lalatendu Mohanty, Red Hat; Attila Meszaros, Apple
• Still Don’t Do What Charlie Don’t Does - Making CRD Changes Safer - Nick Young, Isovalent
• Gamifying Cloud Native: How to Design and Build an Educational Game for Your Project - Calum Murray, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering & Zainab Husain, OCAD University
• Object Storage Is All You Need - Justin Cormack, Docker
• The Missing Talk About API Versioning & Evolution in Your Developer Platform - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Sergiusz Urbaniak, Independent
• Thousands of Gamers, One Kubernetes Network - Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Girish Moodalbail, NVIDIA Inc
• Goodbye etcd! Running Kubernetes on Distributed PostgreSQL - Denis Magda, Yugabyte

Lighting Talks

• gRPC: The gRPC “Standard Library” | Project Lightning Talk
• ⚡ Lightning Talk: Kubectl Debug Lacks an IDE Option. Let’s Fix That! - Mario Loriedo, Red Hat
• SlimToolkit: Improving DX with Containers - Making it Easy to Understand, Optimize, and Debug Your Containers | Project Lightning Talk
• Project Overview: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape - Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso, CNCF Ambassador
• Meshery: Visualizing Kubernetes Resource Relationships with Meshery | Project Lightning Talk