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Are there pilot bloggers in Australia? I only see a handful of pilot blogs like Stefan Dury's and my own instructor Tammy Camilleri's blog. I'd really like to find, interact and learn with other pilots outside of social media sites - even if it's a smaller pool of people. More info at https://liveandletlearn.net/post/pilot-blogging-community/ - let me know if you're there
I’ve been working in software development for almost thirty years, choosing to stay in an individual contributer role because, among other reasons, I love working and learning together in a team solving problems with code.
Microsoft released v1.0 of their Quantum Development Kit in January, re-written in Rust and compiled to wasm so that you can run quantum circuits through the simulator directly in VSCode locally or in the browser - no server required. Pretty impressive and a nice developer experience. So now both MS and IBM's Qiskit are using rust for their Quantum offerings... a good time to be interested in Quantum Computing and working with rust!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/qsharp/announcing-v1-0-of-the-azure-quantum-development-kit/
Today we are excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit, which we often refer to simply as “the QDK”. As outlined in an earlier blog post, this is a significant re-write over the prior QDK with an emphasis on speed,
I successfully flew my private pilot license flight to Canberra and back last week, which for me has been the culmination of an opportunity I saw when VMware announced a long acquisition process by a company which typically does not support work-from-home nor much open-source software development.
Sometimes a probable redundancy can be an opportunity when viewed differently - this is how that opportunity enabled me to continue developing in Rust, learn more quantum computing and become a pilot: https://liveandletlearn.net/post/live-and-let-learn-piloting-rust-and-quantum/.
In mid 2022 I was presented with an amazing opportunity through no effort of my own: VMware, the company I worked for, announced it was being acquired by a non-remote, non-open-source-oriented multi-national in a somewhat lengthy 18 month process. As a fully-remote staff engineer on an open-source project I estimated a 75 to 90 percent probability that I’d receive a redundancy in around 18 months time. A redundancy, really? An amazing opportunity? This post is a personal reflection and reminder to my future self to step back and evaluate the potential opportunities that a situation provides. I’m currently using this opportunity to weave three passions of mine into a possible future of software engineering with Rust on quantum computing projects and piloting aeroplanes on the side. Sure, reality may force me to compromise in one way or another in time, but for now I’m leaving my options open.
Fabian Vilers