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Right now I'm an employee of a tech corporation, mostly delivering internal cloud courses and k8s training. It's more relaxed than working as freelancer, but I also spent some good years on my own :)

May I suggest to spend some time working as a trainer? I'm sure you have a ton of knowledge to share, and learning how to structure it for delivering a class is not difficult.

Training is (if your understand the content) not so stressful as working in consulting or developing, and you meet a lot of interesting people.

It comes with its own burden, of course, but it may work as a way to find time to better understand what you want to do in the future.

Also, the salary is pretty good.

DynamoDB is amazing, but not very flexible once you have designed your database. No abstraction layer will allow you to run queries ad-hoc in a performant way.

I used to work with VoiceMeeter, but I replaced it with Audio Monitor Plugin[1] and the setup is much much simpler[2] now :)

[1] https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/audio-monitor.1186/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhXaC1f9QwQ

(edited to correct the format, I hope)

Also, at least in Spain, 80% of the software creation is related to old systems updates. Most of them are based on classic architectures that don't evolve at all, using good-old languages that have been there for decades. Legacy code, as in "paying the bills since 1998".

The set of skills is very different from the list you are presenting. Endurance is one of them, and I think older people will have more of that than younger ones.

Maybe we all have been living in the tech bubble for so much time that we can even forget the fact we are part of a much more diverse world. It happens to me, for sure.

Also take a look at the Dygma Raise[1]. I own one and I don't think I can work with a conventional keyboard anymore.

[1] https://dygma.com

As someone whose mind was blown away 30 years ago by the robotic TTS software that a Spectrum computer was able to produce, I find the fact that this level of quality is provided with an MIT licensed product a very encouraging sign of not only dark cyberpunk-style events are happening in the technology landscape.

Panoramio, Freepik and Flaticon? Man, you just collapsed what I thought there was an early Spanish startup success story and two different corporations from the US into a single person :D Maximum respect.

Awesome job! The cloud one is going to be my new animated background in most of my OBS scenes from tomorrow :D

Maybe I'm wrong, but I have always thought this was an ethnic/cultural/social persecution, not mainly religious-based.

I used your library! When I asked Alexa to light the fireplace, a raspi turned on the home heater and the TV started playing the furnace video on Netflix :D My daughter told me she didn't understand the point, as it was not real, but the project was so much fun to implement ^_^ Thanks a lot for sharing it.

My experience is quite different: I used to love to teach introductory courses using JS. Using an omnipresent and familiar tool like the browser as the IDE and the super-powerful debug system integrated on it is a big plus for newbies.

Also, the language has clear defects, but they irritate much more the experienced folks than the rookies (that are not so surprised when encountering inconsistencies).

Oh, and I have also trained many people using Java, and I initiated my dev career with Java 0.99 (or 0.98?). Most of my courses started with the sentence "let me tell you a joke: public static void main(String[] args)" :)

I don't understand why there are many negative comments in this thread to this project. I've used Carbon many times to paste good-looking code in a PowerPoint presentation, and the result is clean and attractive. Big thank you to the people behind it.

That's is why I don't use mines for more than maybe one hour per week with the NC on. In fact, a few years ago there was a tone of complaints regarding a supposed noise reduction decrease set by a new version of the firmware of different brands (iirc Sony and Bose) and I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was an attempt to reduce this kind of secondary effects.

edited for correcting my English.

I just wanted to thank you for it. Over the years it has had a big impact on all types of projects, from industrial heavy ones to raspberry-based tinkering experiments :D

Two hundred million computers actively using Firefox each month. How is it possible we cannot make it sustainable without the money from Google?

The fb ecosystem is widely used, many times as a third-party library in many apps. Sometimes those apps send your data to facebook, sometimes they do it for free as a consecuence of integrating their services. And then, there are the "share with facebook" and "I like this" buttons.

https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-tracking-you-even-if-you-d...

Even with teams, this is a very nice approach as you can use another device to see the slides/watch the speaker.

I've been delivering training in a similar way for a few months and the experience (as trainer!) has improved a lot because I'm able to keep a much more direct contact with the students.

And a remarkable point (I think) is that you are not limited to 5-10 fps provided by the shared screen feature: the transitions between slides becomes much more natural, less clunky.

I really think delivering good remote training is very complex as we need to learnt new tricks (and forget some old ones). And, in the end, is the sum of many little small improvements like this one what can make the experience a success.

Edited, to correct a bit my poor English ;-)

I bought two Poang chairs roughly 20 years ago, and they are still fine. Wonderful product.

This is so cool... thank you very much :) I will use it during my next workshop sessions to help my students in case they run into problems following the instructions of the lab: looks like it is far more natural than the "raise hand" feature. And they just need to group themselves to enjoy the equivalent of a private room for group exercises!

I worked in the finantial industry 20 years ago in Andorra, a small independent country between France and Spain. You needed to present what in Spanish is called a "certificado de penales" (criminal certificate, I think is the expression in English).

Ironically, the country itself was at that time well-known for its opaque finantial practices.

I've delivered some sessions with Connect. It has a very very nice implementation of dynamic rooms, but both it's UX and user interface are outdated.

The presenter ability for arranging the interface options for the session may look like a good idea when you think about it until you realize everybody wants to take their approach for it (different styles, different monitors, or even different priorities depending if the chat is being used or the interaction is done with the cameras).

Overall, I prefer any other tool (and I've also used zoom, teams, chime, and jitsi).

I use this addon for FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/automatic-reader...