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I’m on a Macbook Pro with dual monitor setup, Kinesis Advantage ergo keyboard, and Logitech trackball for mouse.

Wife told me to quit which took a huge psychological weight off my chest. Didn’t end up quitting, but told my boss I was burned out and took two weeks off to rest. Enrolled in therapy and started taking an SSRI for the first time in my life. Project From Hell wrapped up and the work stress dissipated.

A year later and I am much better but still recovering.

I hope you can get your partner’s support to quit, even if you don’t go through with it.

Gotta say, my ole man knows how to make a potent pot brownie.

My current role’s take home was suppose to take “a few hours”, took the entire weekend. But hey, it worked out.

After berating one of my responses, I told him this wasn’t going to work out, that this was easily the most off putting interview I’d ever experienced, but thanks for the consideration.

The dude was stunned, apologized profusely, and we somehow salvaged the last 20 minutes which we spent nerding out on tech and hobbies.

I ended up taking my name out of consideration, but it was a cool experience realizing I can (respectfully but assertively) tell people to fuck off if I need to.

The experienced engineers in the audience absolutely tore me and my code apart. It was a blood bath and semi-traumatizing.

On the upside, I took their criticisms seriously and came out a better engineer in the end.

Our impression: it’s fast, latency is awesome, but “downtime” is common and disruptive. Having the internet go offline at random intervals through the day, often for 10+ minutes, is a thing. We expected some of this given it’s currently in beta and it should get better as they make improvements and add satellites.

It’s a free, private online journal with a focus on mental health.

I spent $4k usd in the domain name in 2015 and around another $4k in operating costs since then.

It has virtually zero marketing and has organically picked up around 1,500 users. I use it myself every day which is success enough for me. Fun project that has helped me land a few jobs, and my scant user base seems to dig it.

My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed me the backlog, and told me to get to work. No training, no mentor. Years later, and I still only have a faint idea what that goddamn program did. Stuff of nightmares.

I don’t really have much to offer beyond what you’re doing but spontaneity is nice. Today we both felt like shit with what went down in the capitol yesterday do we said fuck it, called out of work tmrw, and we’re currently in a hotel room on the coast drinking beer and eating pizza on the bed (well, we were, now it’s “friend phone time”).

Aside from that: working out together and drives out in the countryside.

But shout out to some of the plant-based meats coming to market. My wife and I switched to a 99% vegan diet this year and I’m impressed with how good plant-based meat has gotten. I can hardly tell the difference between plant-based and real meat.