blodkorv

Am the CTO of a small company making payroll software. We don't have on premise servers but we currently are moving away from azure to renting VPSs from a local provider.

The cost benefits are huge and since our app is mostly a normal web app we dont need that many fancy cloud things. And i dont see us needing it in the future.

I really dont understand why a company doing similar things would wanna go the could route. Its so damn expensive and its not always easy to use and setup.

sadly the touchpad is wonky too and sometimes its glitchy

no it dont stop when i lift my finger.

my track point been replaced and cleaned two times. Its not just the track point but the mouse pad is wonky too.

i have an x1 carbon and i hate it. There is an bug with the trackpoint and mouse pad that makes the pointer drift randomly. I have had my computer back and forth and replaced everything. It still drifts

i recommend doing forum software with cgi. it's fun and challenging. After that there are plenty of stuff you can do with gtk.

over the years I have a bunch of small gtk c applications that ranges from mp3 players to rss readers.

If i did not have my startup that's starting to go well and hopefully i will be able to live of it. I would be an enterprise code monkey, there are still plenty of directions away from programming you can go from that direction and still make an middle class to upper middle class salary.

That is if you still can deal with the people who work in tech. I rather work with normal people who knows what they do is just an office job, other then people who believe they will cure cancer with their CS degree and CRUDy mobile app they are developing on their free time.

I haven't left yet but i do less and less programming work.

The reason is simply that i realized that i was not as good at problem solving as i thought, i also dont find joy in sitting for hours solving problems.

I used to be passionate when it came to programming, but i realized that the reasons i thought it was fun was mostly because i thought i was better at it than i actually where. I was the only kid in the entire school to program and all that.

But after starting a startup and working with other developers i realized that am pretty crappy at it. I also don't get enough joy to try to become better and on one level i can kinda see where my limit will be.

I always been extremely bad at maths and logic solving, i always had problems with sitting down and being focused on doing something like writing, playing video games or coding. I never will be able to solve problems fast enough to be a productive programmer.

It just is not for me, and its just a burden now when i have to do some coding.

Also other people in tech are just annoying, people who only brag about how smart they are. CEOs who are bullies and try to mimic steve jobs. Managers and other people seen tech as a burden for the company etc etc.