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I always wonder what specifically marked the turning point for web usability. Too many dark UX patterns, popups, ads and extremely heavy frameworks for extremely simple sites.

I feel that we got to a point where the community put out a couple recipes for deploying websites and everyone just jumped on it irrespective of the problem, mimicked the same patterns (email newsletter popups, ads, google analytics, 30 million external assets, etc) and called it a day.

While I think your opinion is a bit extreme, I agree that there are so many things that we don’t need, but companies are hiring and new devs are copying the recipes.

not sure if you’re just referring to the network itself, but Meta has done a ton of innovation. React, PyTorch, Jest, RocksDB, etc etc.

As an app though, no clue. Haven’t had a Facebook account for 6-7 years. Feel like people just have such a poor view of social media now that they are on a downward spiral. Lots of smart people there though, hopefully we can move away from social media and focus on social welfare.

LOL. Nice to know the journalism quality barometer over at “The Science Times” is ok linking memes unknowingly.

If I was in your situation, probably not. We use it a lot at work, so it’s a playground to grow my skills and play around while doubling as a painless way to host anything.

All in all, I still think docker, docker compose and nginx is the way to go for hobbyist stuff. I doubt my ISP would let me host anything at a huge scale off my home router anyways.

I’ve been working on a Kubernetes cluster for my home network. I know a lot of people hate on Kubernetes, but it’s pretty cool and not too bad to even get started from scratch with Kubeadm.

I think the constant thought in the back of my mind is… Docker containers and Nginx is definitely enough for my needs. At work, it’s a different story, but more most things, it can be over kill.

Neat! Thanks for sharing

Well that would be fine and all but there are a zillion tech companies that allow remote work that pay reasonably well. It doesn’t mean they’re a world leader in remote work.

I worked at a small company that paid me a lot, gave me free stuff, perks etc. It doesn’t mean they’re a world leader in remote work. It just means they offer those things.

The point is — they are not a world leader in remote work. They are a tech company with perks and this is good marketing for them to convince people like you otherwise.

It makes sense relative to actual world leaders in tech that do not adjust pay based on location.

Because being a world leader in remote work would imply they don’t do that?

Cloudflare sells TLDs at cost and offer quite a few.

Nice tip, thanks!

Please fix the horrible UX of Medium. The site is trash to use. For a while I just had an extension parse and proxy me to a better, cleaner alternative.

It’s full of banners, popups and annoyances that is completely opposite of what you’d want in a site where you focus and learn something

Most of job searching is luck based or network based. However, it’s not too terribly difficult to get lucky and it’s not too uncommon to have a direct or transitive connection in your network.

Out of college to present personally I’ll occasionally, for fun, learn something on a weekend and push to my GitHub. Sometimes those things turn into realllly fun conversations with people in interviews or otherwise. Stack that on top of 2 weeks of leetcode and you just secured about 75% of entry level dev jobs.

If your social anxiety is a hindrance, it helps to improve your mental image of yourself. Exercise, sleep and general positivity can take you far.

You’re finishing a thesis in a tough field, that’s a massive accomplishment that most people wouldn’t be able to endure. Latch onto that and keep growing.

Best of luck!

Edit: don’t specialize in a framework. Fundamentals always win.

1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8

How is that playing devils advocate? That just furthers the point that the US has a ton of terrible policies and regulations that lead to systemic disaster in so many areas

This was such a fun read and made me reflect on my journey on the web which started around 2004.

I’ve always been fascinated by interpreters and compilers. I really enjoyed reading crafting interpreters and the NAND2Tetris course (you build a little toy language and assembler!)

Nice app, haven’t heard of Imba before!

They have a really cool effect on their homepage, curious how it works.

https://imba.io/

This really makes me want to redesign my site with minimal external dependencies and clear documentation.

I wrote a lot of graph algorithms that track identity and help prevent fraud. I’ve used a lot of tree algorithms to map legacy schemas to new schemas. Algorithms are great. If you know them well, you can improve your work and move quicker. If you dont, you may often reinvent the wheel in a suboptimal way

Oh and the expensive education, lacking healthcare, insane home prices and zero social safety net.

Damn. RIP Terry, true legend

I think you have little understanding of how warehouses work if you think it’s just people moving boxes.

Cheap and free one-liner to cut silent audio with ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -filter_complex "[0:a]silencedetect=n=-90dB:d=0.3[outa]" -map [outa] -f s16le -y /dev/null |& F='-aq 70 -v warning' perl -ne 'INIT { $ss=0; $se=0; } if (/silence_start: (\S+)/) { $ss=$1; $ctr+=1; printf "ffmpeg -nostdin -i input.mkv -ss %f -t %f $ENV{F} -y %03d.mkv\n", $se, ($ss-$se), $ctr; } if (/silence_end: (\S+)/) { $se=$1; } END { printf "ffmpeg -nostdin -i input.mkv -ss %f $ENV{F} -y %03d.mkv\n", $se, $ctr+1; }' | bash -x

Would be good to add screenshots to README

My partner is a post doc with an Ivy League background. If I wasn’t in tech she would essentially be eating Ramen and living in a box to survive.

The structure is such bullshit. Incentive to get a postdoc is super low IMO. You make 50k after 10+ years of training and publications and are treated like a second class citizen. They need to offer more money and better benefits with an actual path for growth.

Left the second I had to sign up.

Yes they allow for both of these things. “Clip at playhead” will allow you to cut the track and you can right click the track to separate video and audio instantly. Great tool

Lol, I enjoyed this comment

This is how I got into programming around 2005/2006. Such a fun time!

Last I checked some kid created a MySpace clone to the original and it looks great

My friend just quit his job as a commercial airline captain to go study computer science. He started flying around the age of 16, about the time I started programming.

Airlines treat their employees like objects. The schedule is horrendous and their healthcare benefits are abysmal. The monotony of the job causes a lot of depression compounded with the fact that you’re away from family for often days or weeks at a time living in sub par hotels.

The pay is not very great either, yet execs rake in huge . Some pilots at FedEx and other carriers can make FAANG money, but it’s not the average.

An interesting perspective he also shared was you don’t grow. You kind of learn everything initially but it’s mentally boring. He’s loved CS. Seems like execs need to focus on quality of life and quality of work for these pilots.