dylanhassinger

panopticon . com

big question, why? personal choice or is your team downsizing?

Re: skills - my standard advice is, every engineer should learn Next.js and launch a personal project using it. That builds familiarity with some modern tools.

Re: career development - just make sure you have a plan for where you're trying to go long term. Going back to being a contributor is fine if that's what you want, but don't sell yourself short as a leader.

I'm a mid-level engineering manager in a Fortune 1000 company, I spend about half my time doing "manager stuff" (mentoring, leading meetings, high level architecting) and half my time coding (mostly behind-the-scenes platform stuff like tooling, devops, testing). I was unfamiliar with much of our tech stack when I started, but started making small improvements where I saw they were needed, and slowly have been making my way thru the app and learning more.

hope this helps!

i would suggest getting a job (any job) so u can live to fight another day

remote job would give you the most lifestyle freedom.

at least temporarily, turn your old self into a character that u perform 8 hrs a day. thats what we all have to do, really

then figure out the rest when you can

we have 3 layers at my job

1. a custom bash script that wraps curl with some shortcuts. good for quick simple experimentation

2. postman collections. for reference and deeper investigation.

3. playwright api tests. for progamattically checking our backend apis in our ci/cd

yes

Buddy.works is my favorite CI tool

Thank you for trying to help your friend.

I know a disabled man who got some benefits restored after his state senator got involved. you might try contacting office holders at any level

Business doesn't sound scalable so equity doesn't really matter. Simpler the better

But really I'd encourage making your plan around what lifestyle you and your spouse want, and trying to come to consensus and compromise

next.js or php

Next.js

Express

rent a 3br apartment, sublease the other rooms

host a monthly dinner

join a meetup club for something you're interested in

remember - everybody else is lonely too, bring the party to them

Avi is part of the Ufo Cult

Avi Loeb is part of the UFO cult

he paid billions just to destroy the liberal social network. what a loser

why did elon buy twitter just to destroy it

part of the UFO cult

NodeJS is the most flexible

on to the next one

Transitioning from Next backend to a standalone JS app would be more seamless, u could copy paste. Could use Express or Apollo Server for it

whatever u can launch in 1 month

yes still relevant, i evangelize 12 factor in my organization

there are a few "12 factor revisited" posts out there that make good points

then use that stuff. the best stack is usually the stack u know

mythical man month & pragmatic programmer

adderall

My company does hybrid (for local folks) and full remote (for distributed folks, worldwide). Working great. David Sacks is the ultimate rich blowhard

its a cuttroat industry and part of becoming a senior technologist is learning to succeed in situations where things are not ideal. it's a fine line when to ask, and when to just deal with it. good luck!

quiet working area, looser dress code, flex hours.

but asking for anything makes you a target. working remote/hybrid has been a game changer for me becuz I can just do my own thing without anybody getting weirded out

maybe stack overflow could, i dunno, keep up with the times

intro to each of these. maybe check out AWS for Non-engineers