"Resource Limit Is Reached"... Wow, this guy really practices what he preaches.
But, seriously, why not use Blogger. Operates at Google scale, absolutely free.
But, seriously, why not use Blogger. Operates at Google scale, absolutely free.
He has more than a passing interest in technology as I do in literature, but I think his lack of web optimisation skills or interest for a website that normally isn't deluged under oncoming web traffic is at least as excusable as my writing ones are.
I understand if this is still too much work though. I'm trying to make a setup where I have an API + DB to manage my content via a SPA that can trigger a static site build so it's easier to write from places that aren't my dev machine.
Found wordpress better for that. Now I feel like I should just set up a database and some sort of blogging app on my own. Ugh, so many sideprojects, so little time / focus.
Anyway just look how ugly - ablate.blogspot.com I never could figure out how to just make it less... shit.
PS if anybody knows a good way to set up mass-redirect for all my blogspot posts so I can finally get them off blogspot, I'm open ears.
I don't think on medium you can do something like have blog.yourname.com point to your blog, such that you can do blog.yourname.com/writing/how-to-blahblah be one article, etc. Maybe you can't even do that on wordpress.com, now that I think about it.
Really though, what does this mean for people who work in Software?
Take a more complicated project than you think you can handle?
More speaking engagements (assuming you don't do that regularly?) Asking people out to lunch?
Hard to say.
- never take a job for which you meet all of the "required skills and experience" (e.g. look for jobs in which there is at least one new technology in the stack)
- never take on a project that's a rehash of one you've done before
It's never bad idea to get paid to learn something new.
- technical expertise (esp a subject new to you)
- project time management
- project cost estimating
- writing up and publishing your work
- coordinating resources for new contracts
- writing proposals for new projects
- speaking publicly in promotion of what you will do or in explanation of what you have done
- exploring / growing a new business area
There are many ways in software to expand your range.
Is there a way to do this without knowing someone who can get you through the HR firewall, then being known as "That Idiot" until you figure it out?
EDIT: Difficulty, you must be an average programmer. Linus could probably get a job wherever.
Leaves the HR firewall. You undermine that by having somebody on the inside refer you. Or by having a work history that gets you in the door (which, of course, has a bootstrap problem). Or by working on OSS in that field. In other words: Anything that makes you stand out positively from all the other average programmers.
Fortunately, difficulty is often correlated with interestingness (not always though).