Location: Raleigh, NC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Pretty equally split over the years between .NET + Node backends but I've done Java, Python and PHP at a few companies. For frontend I've used both Angular and React plus a few lesser known javascript frameworks here and there. SQL Server or Postgres for database, and AWS or Azure for cloud.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thekenwarner/
Email: thekenwarner@gmail.com
I'm looking for engineering leadership roles where I can have a strong impact on technical excellence, team culture, process, product and ultimately customer satisfaction and the organization's success. Happy to be hands-on if and when needed, but also ready to focus on higher level objectives if that's where I'm most needed and effective. For the last year or so I've been working on some solo/duo-preneur projects in the content creation space, and prior to that I was Engineering Manager for a small SaaS company where I also led DevOps for one of our corporate siblings. I also have held roles such as Director of Engineering for two edtech companies, Platform Architect for a chatbot startup and also lead engineer for a presidential campaign.
but I've been using something of a homegrown equivalent of Recall most of the year and I really do think the concept has a lot of potential. definitely understand the privacy concerns (and especially if there's no opt-out), but I just want to encourage y'all to be open minded and consider the potential benefits.
anybody use google photos? I've got almost 20 years of photos and videos on it. But there's so many gaps in the timeline! so why not just record everything. and with an AI layer on top to help surface and search interesting/relevant moments. same thing for facebook and twitter and ig and hn and whatever social media you might use. it's such a privilege to be able to go back and look at our digital artifacts from years and decades past. so why not do it in 4k+audio.
I take screenshots and use pHash to see if I should save them. Then I OCR them etc. It's basically a homegrown little recall. Then a timestamp of when the screenshot was taken goes into a db.
I also have a keylogger and some more personal data collectors. Still working it out into a "usable platform" though.
but it's basically private daily youtube livestreams whenever I'm at my PC (so like 8+ hours a day) + limitless.ai for real time audio transcription (and whisper for local/offline transcription) + every 30 minutes throughout the day I do a quick status update+reflection in my obsidian notes, or ad-hoc annotation of notable moments in the day. WIP is using local multimodal models to add additional more fine-grained annotation from my livestream videos.
My wife asked me how much "huge monitors" cost. I told her 100 bucks on Craigslist. Indeed, we got her an old dumb 1080p LCD and she has been super happy with it. It mostly fills the wall of her little cubby hole in our office.
For my money, I have 2x 1080p 24” displays, and a third curved 32" 1080p display which is hooked to a KVM so I can game on it.
I like the 3 monitor setup because they are all at angles from each other, approximating a huge curved display. Plus, this was a cheap setup off woot.com parts.
I think monitors are like headphones. Unless you actually try the "better" ones, you don't have a clue what you're missing. I know because I had been saying "Dual 1080p 24" is all I will ever need." for a long time until I got a 4K 50". Now I can't imagine going back.
I usually use a pair of Sennheiser HD280s that I've had for over a decade. I've used some fancier headphones costing more than an order of magnitude more, from brands such as ZMF. After experiencing the high-end advantage, I'm still perfectly happy with the 280s. There are a few things I care about in a monitor, and DPI is nowhere on the list. Every monitor commercially available has more resolution than I care about. My number one concern is consistency across a wide viewing angle. Low latency, retina DPI, gamut accuracy, HDR, curved surface? I don't care about any of them. I have tried all of them.
May I ask at what configuration? I'm assuming at least one is vertical because I can't think of a way to set 2 43" monitors horizontally without breaking my neck.
writing offers relatively high information density in a low bandwidth medium. but video offers high information density in a high bandwidth medium. the challenge in both cases is coming up with something to say that requires a high information density. for those who do manage to find something to say that requires a high information density format, speaking will be more effective (newspapers/books were replaced with radio which was replaced with tv). https://x.com/kenwarner/status/1840060518461010225
the infrastructure of the internet has matured enough now that we don't have to talk to each other in ASCII characters any longer. being online increasingly will mean using your voice and face (or suitable synthetic alternatives) to talk to the rest of humanity. not like TikTok though with its algorithmically driven mental corruption. and not like YouTube with its copyright oriented business model. More like early days twitter. Just everyday people talking to each other. But video. And realtime.
> The Market (tm) wants to really just drive down the costs of developers more than anything else.
well yeah. this wasn't going to last forever.
in the US especially. Salaries here were bonkers compared to the rest of the global developer workforce. Gotta remember, remote work wasn't common and barely possible at scale not that long ago. COVID put an end to that, and with it the expectation that management hire developers in any particular local geography. Despite all the RTO drama in some organizations, the majority of the economy was always going to cash in on the advantages of hiring developers in other countries, and squeezing even more productivity out of them with AI tooling.
Downward pressure has been a long time coming. Hope y'all enjoyed the ride.
I've been playing around with this concept this year as well. Not surprised to see the negativity in the comments. But there is value in this concept, and some of us are going to explore it and find out how to make it work without the dystopian weirdness some of y'all immediately jump to.
I've recorded roughly ~1000 hours of livestream of myself this year. 90%+ of it is boring nothingness, but it is not intended for public consumption anyways. I have and will continue to chop up and post on youtube/twitter the interesting moments I do end up capturing, but it's mostly for myself anyways.
I haven't quite gotten to the point where I've been able to articulate the benefits of this practice in a way that might sufficiently pique the interest or at least acceptance of others in the tech community or otherwise, but that's ok. I did make one video where I started to touch on this idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zqXkNhaJx0 and I will keep working on it and hopefully demonstrate the personal value (and perhaps societal at scale) as time goes on.
The future is going to get pretty weird. Keep an open mind.
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