Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/r1lc2fmU_Rg.
Questions and answers session from July, 2023.
Link list
The B society: https://www.b-society.org/
Principal engineer’s handbook: https://ilya.grigorik.com/the-principal-engineers-handbook/
Writing about your work: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
Stream calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=719b6cf08a9f11da4a732083a43aa00a61a7943ea864a57417b5da13b1fc8ccb@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Oslo
Timestamps
[@0:00:00] Introduction
[@0:01:32] How did you find your new job?
[@0:03:48] Pay gap between old and new job
[@0:09:00] Rust Foundation Trademark debacle
[@0:12:30] Isn’t AI in the military a bad idea?
[@0:18:12] Where is Rust used in Helsing given they do AI?
[@0:22:45] Skin care routine
[@0:24:53] Notoriety and interviewing
[@0:33:13] Does the lack of sun in Norway bother you?
[@0:34:48] Is a PhD worth it?
[@0:39:10] How does your partner like Norway?
[@0:43:06] Best way to practice Rust?
[@0:45:00] Rust on GPUs
[@0:46:32] Where in Norway are you working from?
[@0:51:36] Moving to an IDE?
[@0:54:08] How do you know the company isn’t evil?
[@1:01:34] How are the cats?
[@1:06:12] Interviewing and moving at the same time
[@1:07:40] What is your daily routine?
[@1:14:45] The Rust build system at Amazon
[@1:18:46] Do you exercise?
[@1:20:06] AI replacing engineers
[@1:29:16] Helsing and remote work
[@1:32:29] Favorite purchase last 6 months
[@1:34:12] Did requiring remote reduce your job opportunities
[@1:35:29] Will you be an IC for the rest of your career?
[@1:37:16] Leaving Amazon
[@1:39:45] Cat!
[@1:40:37] Rust for data engineering tools?
[@1:43:01] Do you mentor?
[@1:43:59] How do you organize your todos?
[@1:47:35] What about Norway disappoints you?
[@1:54:03] Might you start a company?
[@1:55:30] RustConf situation
[@1:58:46] A community Discord? Patreon?
[@2:05:52] Do we want more compiler backends?
[@2:08:22] Moving to Wayland
[@2:11:13] More Crust of Rust
[@2:12:23] What’s your setup now?
[@2:13:48] Getting a job without formal education
[@2:15:25] The omnomnom voice
[@2:15:45] Programming languages at Helsing
[@2:16:49] What are principal engineers?
[@2:20:30] How do we make Rust default choice for ML kernels?
[@2:21:38] Video on ghost_cell and qcell?
[@2:22:50] Pitfalls for junior engineers
[@2:28:46] Rust in robotics and space stuff
[@2:30:04] Will rustc share code with rust-analyzer?
[@2:31:23] Imposter syndrome
[@2:32:27] How’d you meet girls during your PhD?
[@2:35:13] Wayland compositor
[@2:35:55] Why do you not work on Noria?
[@2:37:31] Emacs?
[@2:38:16] Struggling to find a junior tech job
[@2:42:03] Innovation in Norway
[@2:44:26] BSDs and NixOS
[@2:46:19] Working in security
[@2:47:31] Front-end development in Rust
[@2:49:16] Tech in a decade
[@2:51:38] Backend framework choice
[@2:52:10] Best language for cryptography
[@2:53:24] Return to lock-free simulation series?
[@2:53:50] Why did you leave the US?
[@2:55:13] Question speed-run
[@2:58:21] Opinion of Amazon
[@3:01:22] Working on a visa
[@3:03:10] More question speed-run
[@3:13:12] What brought you to Rust?
[@3:15:30] What can dynamic dispatch do that enum dispatch can’t?
[@3:18:41] Outro
