# build part (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover build part. Page: Feed: --- ## [You Need a Little Ego](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/you-need-a-little-ego) _2026-08-16 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ Learn System Design the Right Way (Educative.io) ## [DEF CON 34](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/08/10/def-con-34/) _2026-08-10 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ I just got back from my first DEF CON which was four days at the Las Vegas Convention Center August 6th-9th 2026, with a few folks from Automattic. This year’s theme was Agency, and no, not the AI kind everybody is obsessed with right now. Agency as in owning your data, controlling your digital life, \[…\] ## [10 Career Mistakes I Made in My 20s](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/10-career-mistakes-i-made-in-my-20s) _2026-08-09 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ A few weeks ago, I found an old copy of my resume from when I had just started my career. ## [The Software Engineers No One Wants to Work With](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/the-software-engineers-no-one-wants) _2026-08-05 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ When people talk about becoming a better software engineer, the conversation usually revolves around technical skills. ## [Why Most Engineers Fail System Design Interviews (Even When They're Great Engineers)](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/why-most-engineers-fail-system-design) _2026-08-02 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ A few months ago, I was doing a mock interview with an engineer who had more than seven years of experience. ## [The Machine Was Never the Future](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/07/28/the-machine-was-never-the-future/) _2026-07-28 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ In movies and popular culture, every vision of the future looks like I, Robot. Robots walking around doing our chores. Giant mechanical suits that make humans stronger. Autonomous vehicles, machines building other machines, enormous steel contraptions terraforming planets. Everything has motors, hydraulics, processors, wires and some gigantic battery that will inevitably be dead when you \[…\] ## [The Career Flywheel Every Software Engineer Should Build (Part 2)](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/the-career-flywheel-every-software-8eb) _2026-07-26 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ Last week, we talked about the first half of the flywheel. ## [Most engineers have a positioning problem](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/most-engineers-have-a-positioning-0d9) _2026-07-23 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ Over the last year, I have worked with many mid-career engineers who were strong technically but still underpaid relative to their experience. ## [The Career Flywheel Every Software Engineer Should Build (Part 1)](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/the-career-flywheel-every-software) _2026-07-19 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ Your salary doesn’t compound but your career does ## [Coding Interviews Will Never Be the Same Again](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/coding-interviews-will-never-be-the) _2026-07-15 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ The new wave of AI assisted coding interviews ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/G2I5LfyvMkvU) _2026-07-15 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [The Engineering Debt Nobody Talks About : Context Debt](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/the-engineering-debt-nobody-talks) _2026-06-24 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ Last month I spent 3 hours debugging a service and the bug was not too difficult. ## [How to be a 'SOLID' Programmer](https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-solid-programmer-d9c) _2026-06-18 · Hemant Pandey · The Hustling Engineer_ Deep Dive into SOLID principles in Programming ## [DIY Sauna Plans](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/05/02/diy-sauna-plans/) _2026-05-02 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ A lot of people that watched my DIY Backyard Sauna Sauna Series on YouTube asked me if they could purchase the plans. So I put two sets together that cover everything you need to make the exact same Sauna. Here they are: 6′×8′ Outdoor Sauna — Framing Plans These are the plans I drew from \[…\] ## [Building a Backyard Sauna — Part 5: Finishing the Sauna](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/04/30/building-a-backyard-sauna-part-5-finishing-the-sauna/) _2026-04-30 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ The final post in my DIY backyard sauna build series. If you missed earlier parts: Part 1 (site prep & framing), Part 2 (roof & weatherproofing), Part 3 (siding, window, ventilation), Part 4 (lighting, vapor barrier, cedar) This is the one. The finale. Months of weekends compressed into a single episode that takes the sauna \[…\] ## [DIY Backyard Sauna Build – Part 4: Lighting, Vapor Barrier & Interior Cedar](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/04/26/diy-backyard-sauna-build-part-4-lighting-vapor-barrier-interior-cedar/) _2026-04-26 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ Part 4 of my DIY backyard sauna build. If you’re just joining: Part 1 (site prep & framing), Part 2 (roof & weatherproofing), Part 3 (siding, window, ventilation). This is the episode where the inside of the sauna stops looking like a construction site and starts looking like a sauna. The sequence — lighting wiring, \[…\] ## [DIY Backyard Sauna Build – Part 3: Ventilation, Siding & Glass](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/04/22/diy-backyard-sauna-build-part-3-ventilation-siding-glass/) _2026-04-22 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ Part 3 of my DIY backyard sauna build. If you’re just joining, start with Part 1 (site prep and framing) and Part 2 (roof, sheathing, and weatherproofing) With the structure framed, roofed, and wrapped, it was time to start turning the sauna from “box that looks like a shed” into something that actually functions as \[…\] ## [DIY Backyard Sauna Build – Part 2: Roofing, Sheathing, and Insulation](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/04/21/diy-backyard-sauna-build-part-2-roofing-sheathing-and-insulation/) _2026-04-21 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ Part 2 of my DIY backyard sauna build is here! In this episode I get the sheathing up, build and install the roof, wrap the whole structure in Tyvek, install hurricane ties, insulation, and flash the window and door openings. This was the stage where the sauna finally started to look like an actual building \[…\] ## [DIY Backyard Sauna Build – Part 1: Site Prep & Framing](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/04/20/diy-backyard-sauna-build-part-1-site-prep-framing/) _2026-04-20 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ I spent the last several months designing and building a sauna from scratch in my backyard and finally started posting the build on YouTube. Part 1 is live! It covers the background, site prep, and framing. Key things covered: – Why I decided to build instead of buy – Site preparation – Base frame construction \[…\] ## [If Your Website Only Works in Chrome, It Doesn’t Work](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/03/31/if-your-website-only-works-in-chrome-it-doesnt-work/) _2026-03-31 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ I posted that on X back in January of 2024. I believed it then. I believe it now. But I’m starting to wonder if the rest of the internet got the memo, because things have gotten significantly worse. I use Firefox. I’ve written about this before. I use it because it’s open source, because Mozilla \[…\] ## [E46 EV conversion design parameters and engine is out](https://aidilj.com/worklog/2026/03/e46-ev-conversion-design-parameters-and-engine-is-out/) _2026-03-27 · aidilj · aidilj worklog_ As of right now I have decided to go for Hyper 9 HV motor with 48S 160Ah LFP. According to AI, this would give around 100km of range. Current battery placement plan is for 20 cell in the engine bay and 14+14 distributed between two sides where the gas tank used to be. This would \[ \] ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sXJi14jAeubC) _2026-03-27 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [I Built a Menu Bar App That Turns My Wife’s Texts Into Calendar Events](https://rudyfaile.com/2026/02/19/i-built-a-menu-bar-app-that-turns-my-wifes-texts-into-calendar-events/) _2026-02-20 · Rudy · Rudy Faile_ My day is a wall of notifications. IRC, Slack, Discord, P2s, Adium jabber alerts, ntfy.sh pings, Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage. I have thousands of streams of text coming at me every single day. It’s just ping ping ding ding ding from the moment I open my laptop until I close it. And somewhere in that noise, \[…\] ## [E46 EV conversion started](https://aidilj.com/worklog/2026/01/e46-ev-conversion-started/) _2026-01-09 · aidilj · aidilj worklog_ Our local transport department allow EV conversion to be registered properly for road use. So since I still have the E46 with broken engine, it is the perfect platform for this project. And as I know from years back when starting the project for the E30. The bell housing for the gearbox is the same. \[ \] ## [The Hard Truth about Hardware TNCs in Packet Radio](https://themodernham.com/the-hard-truth-about-hardware-tncs-in-packet-radio/) _2025-01-03 · Billy Penley · TheModernHam_ I know this will not come as an easy pill to swallow for most people who come across this blog post. I implore you to read with an open mind. Hear me out and then build your argument in the comment section. This post is an effort to help guide those who may be looking into packet radio, to help \[…\] The post The Hard Truth about Hardware TNCs in Packet Radio appeared first on TheModernHam . ## [Packet Radio Mail Forwarding and Routing for BPQ](https://themodernham.com/packet-radio-mail-forwarding-and-routing-for-bpq/) _2024-12-29 · Billy Penley · TheModernHam_ This is by far the most painful portion of the packet radio journey. As we get more feature specific in the packet radio rabbit hole, there’s less and less useful documentation. At the point of writing, there are almost no definitive BPQ resources for a simple Mail Network Topology or Point A-\>Z of node-to-node mail forwarding with correct addressing, and \[…\] The post Packet Radio Mail Forwarding… ## [Packet Radio Build Part 3 – Auto Start Dire Wolf and VARA at Boot on Windows](https://themodernham.com/packet-radio-build-part-3-auto-start-dire-wolf-and-vara-at-boot-on-windows/) _2024-12-01 · Billy Penley · TheModernHam_ In part two of the live packet radio series build, we set up VARA and Direwolf in such a way that they can share COM/PTT ports, as well as run multiple instances of each per radio. Before moving onto the applications, we need to make sure that our TNCs (Dire wolf and VARA) will auto start if a reboot is \[…\] The post Packet Radio Build Part 3 – Auto Start Dire Wolf and VARA at Boot on Windows… ## [Send Email from BPQ32 or LinBPQ with Winlink RMS](https://themodernham.com/send-email-from-bpq32-or-linbpq-with-winlink-rms/) _2024-12-01 · Billy Penley · TheModernHam_ In order to forward email from your BPQ32 or LinBPQ node, you will first need to register with Winlink as a SysOp. You can find more information about registering and becoming a Winlink SysOp (System Operator) here. Once you have been granted access to the CMS Servers, you will be able to allow your node users to send email to \[…\] The post Send Email from BPQ32 or LinBPQ with Winlink RMS appeared… ## [Packet Radio Build Part 2 – Setup VARA, Dire Wolf, and Remote Desktop](https://themodernham.com/packet-radio-build-part-2-setup-vara-dire-wolf-and-remote-desktop/) _2024-11-24 · Billy Penley · TheModernHam_ Click here for Part 1 Setting up Remote Desktop with NoMachine In part one of this build, I had configured windows remote desktop so we can access our packet note remotely. Windows remote desktop protocol comes with a few issues when it comes to our packet node. Mainly, you will notice that the audio devices get disabled when we remote \[…\] The post Packet Radio Build Part 2 – Setup VARA, Dire… ## [Packet Radio Build Part 1 – Windows Server Configuration for a Packet Node](https://themodernham.com/packet-radio-build-part-1-windows-server-configuration-for-bpq32-winlink/) _2024-11-14 · Billy Penley · TheModernHam_ Now that I’ve concluded the base packet radio series, where we went from an introduction to packet, BPQ32, all the way up to an TCP/IP Stack in Linux, it’s time to build my dream packet node. The is the first post in a new series made to take you from A-Z of building a stable, robust, and secure packet radio \[…\] The post Packet Radio Build Part 1 – Windows Server Configuration for a Packet Node… ## [Connect to Ham Reflector with your Windows Computer and DroidStar](https://themodernham.com/connect-to-ham-reflector-with-your-windows-computer-with-droidstar/) _2024-09-25 · Billy Penley · TheModernHam_ I don’t think enough people know about this, so I decided to make a post here for those looking. You can connect to your average YSF (Yaesu System Fusion), DMR and M17 reflector using your computer and talk with any connected headset. Droidstar is openSource, and the source code can be found here. Downloads Grab the Windows 64 bit version \[…\] The post Connect to Ham Reflector with your Windows… ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9TGkB03UV9F8) _2024-09-25 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## [Setup IP Networking via Packet Radio with DireWolf and IL2P](https://themodernham.com/setup-ip-networking-via-packet-radio-with-direwolf-and-il2p/) _2024-09-17 · Billy Penley · TheModernHam_ This guide will get you a working TCP/IP network connection over the 2m or 70cm band over just about any radio. This guide will get you a working direwolf installation, a program called tncattach installed, and a network interface connected via IL2P (Improved Layer 2 Protocol). Tncattach is a modern way of creating am IP interface for KISS TNC’s. IL2P \[…\] The post Setup IP Networking via Packet…