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Distributed Services in Go was incredible and hands on. I read Network programming in Go as well along with The Go Programming Language. Less technical I read Pragmatic Thinking by Andy Hunt I believe the name was, which was cool to get inspired in how to organize my thoughts as an engineer.

I also read some fiction - old man and the sea.

Hop on Blind for 5 minutes and you’ll see

Any chance you work with Huessein Nasser? Super cool dude

That’s awesome! I haven’t started yet, just signed up! Super excited

Took > a month off after being burned out by a previous corp. It did wonders for my mental health and gave me time to learn a lot of fun stuff.

I already had a new job lined up, but I highly recommend saving up a bit of cash reserves to do this.

During this time I also moved to a new state, signed up for sailing classes and read several technical books. Way better than sitting in useless meetings and not growing (again, if you can afford it, do it)

Fun thanks!

Anyone know any good forums for video stuff? Encoding, h264, distributed systems, etc

Why does everyone want to sue everyone these days?

Talking out loud is really helpful. I often put in headphones and walk around my neighborhood and talk to myself. Looks like I’m on the phone, but I work out a lot of problems this way

Distributed services with go was incredible. Really made me think any software abstractions more. Also I kept getting motivated to dive into things deeper like RAFT consensus, etc

I second this! That book really challenged me and the course was a ton of fun

Udemy Personal Plan. Unlimited video courses. Many courses for many things, I learn a lot in there. There are varying degrees of depth. Everything from compilers, x86 reverse engineering to Next.JS dev

I second this advice. Best book and netted me a lot of money since. It’s a lifelong process, but bogle is a great start. Also it’s a fairly passive strategy that ignores media hype.

What is JS not good enough for w.r.t front-end dev in your eyes?

Neat thanks! I love this

Tell that to young children who’s brains are still developing and who don’t understand the consequences. Not every child can have a parent to teach them the rights and wrongs of the world. Sometimes policy enforcement helps situations like this. It keeps large corporations from taking advantage of our society.

Doesn’t load and no SSL

I agree with this exactly. Sick of corporate style and ready for change but also.. little hard to read this new look, but that’s change for ya

One thing that would be interesting is scanning for open ports. Once you find an open port, make a Twilio API and text the number (Since most airlines enable texting via SMS/Whats APP) that triggers opening the port on your VPS that is opened on the airplane.

Once you do that, you can tunnel into your VPS through the airlines open port or SSH into the machine. If you create a SOCKS5 proxy, then all traffic in your browser will tunnel through the VPS.

Haven't tried this, but just a thought.

I’d simplify the landing page and remove the annoying popups to sign in.

We are all sick of google and the last thing I want to do is sign in to another search engine.

Looks very nice

I bought a lightphone. It's expensive and buggy, but it helped kill my phone addiction. Dumb phone with music and maps.

It's a very very nice app and I love his Youtube channel, I hope he takes off. Curious why Notion wouldn't be used (free) over this?

yes sorry, pi zero w. When the chip shortage wasn't a thing.

This sounds neat. I wonder if there is a Go equivalent.

I’m almost done with “Building Distributed Services in Go” and it’s also really cool. You build a distributed log service (ie Kafka) from scratch and it’s extremely informative for understanding systems. Also it was written by the coauthor of Kafka, so the dude definitely knows what he’s doing.

I bought my pi for $5 and it runs a fully functional VPN, DNS server and as blocker on my network. Can run some custom code on there to handle DHCP leases, etc.

Chip shortage made things tough but they’re still cheap when you can find one

Just run OpenVPN through UDP. It’s supported natively and I get fast speeds.

You can use DynDNS or Pihole to avoid needing a static IP

This is awesome. Just watched some Youtube videos of people using the app, looks great.

I don’t know about you, but I just interviewed in a black tshirt at FAANG and got an offer. What does dress have to do with anything?

Shout out to Ben Eater. This dude explains how the internet works and rips open an Ethernet cable and hooks up an oscilloscope to it and decodes the bits that transfer over the physical cable.

Very informative!