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by dcatx 3mo ago
Having lived in Texas for 30+ years and now happily living in southern California, I feel pretty qualified in saying that my personal quality of life is dramatically better in California. The cost of living is higher, but I get a tremendous
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by dcatx 1y ago
I'm hacking on Trailbound, a hiking and backpacking planning tool. The goal is combining a light version of the routing capability of Caltopo or GaiaGPS with more granular "leg" mapping based on how I learned to plan off trai
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by dcatx 3y ago
Big Bend National Park, a two hour drive from the McDonald observatory has extremely dark skies, as does the area immediately around the observatory. On the drive to the observatory from Fort David you’ll drive past a community of folks who
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by dcatx 4y ago
I absolutely love this. I wrote a “book” (really a 30,000ish word tutorial) on Rails development earlier this year and I hated the idea of publishing it as a static PDF so I built a web app just to host the book’s content and change log, al
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by dcatx 4y ago
I posted as a candidate in one thread over the summer and got contacted by ~10 companies and did a handful of interviews — a couple were duds with non-technical founders casting a wide net but others were solid opportunities. I also applied
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by dcatx 4y ago
I don't mind the "show me something you've coded" as an alternative to code challenges, but the way it is presented in this article reads an awful lot like it is a way to identify who the interviewer likes nerding out wi
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by dcatx 4y ago
This feels like an odd assumption to make about my comment. I don't think all meetings are a waste of time and I certainly don't think people with different work preferences than me are dullards. My experience has been heavy on pe
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by dcatx 4y ago
So tiring to get those responses. My old company was forced to go remote when the pandemic hit and the anxiety that the founder had about remote resulted in meetings about meetings to prepare everyone for the meetings. Everyone has differen
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by dcatx 4y ago
Yes, it is important to write and I wish that many folks I've worked with in the past had been better writers (and readers). I am job searching right now after leaving a very, very meeting heavy culture and one of my top criteria is fi
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by dcatx 4y ago
I publish on my own website ( https://colby.so ) which I host on Netlify and publish with Jekyll. For the first year or so I also published every new post on Medium and dev.to (with my site as the canonical URL on both) so that mo
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by dcatx 4y ago
Glad to hear that. Giving them another look is on my list, I could tell they cared about their docs but it was clear they were still filling in the gaps in some areas.
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by dcatx 4y ago
Render is the closest I've seen to the simplicity of Heroku. Fly.io is also good, but when I tried it (6 months ago) it had a bit more of a learning curve and the documentation was still pretty sparse.
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by dcatx 4y ago
The folks building the internet are very, very good at exploiting our weak points to keep us scrolling. I've recently gotten way more aggressive about managing my screen time because I realized I had become incapable of just sitting in
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by dcatx 4y ago
Interesting to see the process and royalty rates from a big (tech) publisher. I wrote and self-published a book (really a web app structured like a book) on Ruby on Rails to Gumroad earlier this year and so far I have made ~$4,000 after Gum
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by dcatx 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this piece. Navigating a loss like this in a purely remote environment must have been incredibly challenging — grieving feels like an exercise that we do best together in the same physical space. Sometimes you just nee