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by ioddly 3y ago
I bought a Beelink mini PC to replace the cloud VM that hosts a few things for me. I'm tired of resizing my little EBS volumes, and want to store more data. At the discounted price, I should be saving money in about a year with substan
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by ioddly 3y ago
I only use it as a light tracker of what I've read, but I'm moving to Obsidian for this purpose. The main thing it does for me is be a relatively good way to search up metadata about a book (author, year published, etc). Is there
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by ioddly 6y ago
You're in a position where you can comfortably take some time off and explore what to do next. Your spending + assets seem to me like you're comfortably financially independent even factoring in paying your own healthcare, not app
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by ioddly 6y ago
I've had this repo starred on GitHub for a while. Sadly it doesn't seem to have been updated, but it's a good start: https://github.com/Yonaba/awesome-one-person-games
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by ioddly 6y ago
How are you finding it so far? I set out to build my own contenteditable based editor and after a couple weeks of banging my head on it, I do appreciate Prosemirror's very rigorous approach. I suspect it might be the best choice for me
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by ioddly 7y ago
Yep, I think this is the fifth? I've lost track honestly. I do use it daily, but I know I can do a lot better. The next one probably will not have any noticeable Trello/kanban heritage. I will say for those working on their own, I
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by ioddly 7y ago
I'm building it for myself, since I don't think anything will do exactly what I want it to. I wrote https://github.com/upvalue/meditations for this, but it's not nearly as powerful as I'd like and a
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by ioddly 7y ago
Fathom has a self hosted open source version which I found to be fine. I checked recently and it looks like commits have slowed down so I'm not sure if it's maintained.
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by ioddly 7y ago
Fabrice Bellard: http://bellard.org Notable: no social media, nothing like that. Just shows up occasionally with something that would take another dev probably a couple years to do.
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by ioddly 7y ago
No. It's never been easier to make high quality software. I can run my own cloud environment, make quality user interfaces, integrate with third party providers to trivially do previously highly messy things like accept payments or sen
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by ioddly 7y ago
> Also, in my exp your manager, boss, lead has alot to do with the amount of stress. To explicate a little, I've found stress mostly relates to the expectations of people around me, and has very little to do with the difficulty of w
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by ioddly 7y ago
Yes. I just use my own journaling app which I wrote (sorely needs an update). I track some things through there (exercise) and other things using more specialized tools (finances). I do one every Friday, one at the end of the month, and one
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by ioddly 7y ago
I've just got a syncthing set up with all my configuration and data. "Spinning up" a new computer takes me an afternoon, which I doubt I could improve on enough by using more professional tooling to make it worth the time inv
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by ioddly 7y ago
I'm trying to figure this out myself. I have freelanced for years from Houston and it's been fine. I avoided moving somewhere more expensive because my income was inconsistent, but now I have a salaried remote job and no excuse. I
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by ioddly 7y ago
I just tell them I'm too busy with work...which is eventually true.
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by ioddly 7y ago
I did two months ago on a freelance gig.
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by ioddly 7y ago
I have two pieces of advice: - Avoid middlemen to the extent possible. Some (not Upwork) can be a good place to fill some hours, but in general they're not a sustainable source of good clients - Freelancing in my experience was mostly
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by ioddly 7y ago
I'm curious how old those folks were. I was I would guess the only person without a degree in my department at my last job (definitely the only dev without one) and never felt this.
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by ioddly 7y ago
I used to use dwm, I switched to Awesome for some reason (I want to say systray). Both solid.
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by ioddly 7y ago
I use a laptop with a tiling window manager when I'm travelling or at the office, desktop with single monitor and tiling WM at home. Last job had 2x nice dells for each developer, never used them. Eventually they gave my desk to someon
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by ioddly 7y ago
I'd also appreciate one phil@upvalue.io if anyone happens to have one. Have been lurking for a while and interested in participating.
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by ioddly 7y ago
I did this recently and it kept autocapitalizing/correcting things, and I kept wasting time reflexively changing them. There's probably a code syntax option buried somewhere in there but heck if I know where it is.
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by ioddly 7y ago
> holding company meetings w/ minutes How do you hold meetings with minutes in a single person LLC? With clients/subcontractors/advisors maybe? I'm not being sarcastic, my accountant wants me to form an LLC and if doi
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by ioddly 7y ago
Well there's how much you might be able to charge as a developer (and the amount of money you'd have to make as a freelancer to account for things that full-time jobs typically provide, like benefits, etc), and then there's w
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by ioddly 7y ago
I've done this once ever, I was being asked to build an extremely technically difficult proof of concept so I asked for access and it was granted. I had already worked for the client previously so there was some trust, and they were th
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by ioddly 7y ago
Yes. I'm making slow progress on one personal project that I use on a daily basis. It's small by the standards of bigcorp code but the value to me is large. Other than that I tinker around a little bit, start things with different
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by ioddly 7y ago
Not familiar with GPs use case but TypeScript has a glorious compiler API that could handle the heavy lifting here.
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by ioddly 7y ago
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX (US Central) / Remote Hey there! I'm a full stack web developer who's worked with S&P 500 companies, agencies and individuals to create fast, responsive applications that combine tricky technica
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by ioddly 7y ago
I don't think you need a whole lot of elisp knowledge to get started. You'll probably pick up a fair bit from writing your own config file, which isn't too hard. Then you can learn as needed from there. I use emacs for org-mo
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by ioddly 7y ago
Remove attractive distractions. Which is mostly the internet.

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