frostwarrior

Personally, I wish I could have more side projects to post them on my Github and use them as a developer portfolio.

I have a few years of experience as a Web Dev, but sadly my GitHub is barren from code.

> I don't have the skills to switch to a different company

Go and learn. Skills are not set in stone.

> I don't perform well remotely, and my wife won't consider relocating

I understand that. I don't know you, but maybe a nicer setup with more (not too direct) sunlight can make it better?

If your current job can't motivate you, work on a side project or look for another job.

And don't be the weakest link in the (faulty) chain. It's leaves a better impression by notifying external inefficiency and quitting because lack of change, rather than being fired because your motivation and productiveness withered in silence.

To me, mindfulness meditation helped me a lot with concentration because it was like learning mental aikido, in the sense of not trying to remove invasive information, but redirect it in a way that doesn't affect my focus. Everything stops being so important by default

This fits with my personal model of the brain composed of a distributed system made of millions of dumb organisms screaming in coordination to create a bigger, more intelligent being.

Kinda like an ant colony, CUDA and Kubernetes mixed together

I used to save everything I did in the past. Over time, I've found that I almost never needed to access those files and most of that wasn't even useful for the kick of nostalgia. Old games? I already replayed them to exhaustion.

I learned that the nostalgia is not about the files by itself but my life context at that time. I don't miss old code or Old OS's. I miss that sense of wonder when I was less experienced and more naive, and everything was new.

Yes but this looks more like habit disruption more than "biologically gaining weight somehow".

People that lift often eat more. But mostly protein, and stimulating muscle every day makes sure it will get developed and consume more calories to maintain itself.

If you stop lifting altogether, not only muscle mass stops growing but also starts to shrink. If you eat the same, you will gain weight faster and with less food than before.

Potatoes may be pure carbs, but they're full of water.

When I eat a portion of mashed potatoes (I cook them with very little butter), it feels like I've eaten a very dense soup.

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (for the time being)

Technologies: NodeJS, Typescript, React, MySQL, MongoDB, Git, Docker, Linux, Cloudant, Kubernetes, Helm, REST, GraphQL, Kafka, C#, PHP, Laravel

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZoF--KP0JsN0KcSu53JM0NXDSIH...

Email: jpablolassala@gmail.com

I'm looking for opportunities as a remote contractor.

I've worked as a Full Stack Web Developer with emphasis on the Back-End. Up to this day I've worked as an employee for local companies but I'm willing to take the leap with an international team.

As a developer, my focus is to create scalable, flexible and clear written services, always sticking to good practices and Agile methodologies. Willing to work as a team member in a collaborative environment, and to teach others if necessary

It CAN be true if you get outside America.

In South America, considering the past economic crises, we're somewhat better than our parents.

8 High performance CoreTex cores and 2 low performance CoreMex cores

IMHO that's because Apple was the first to bother optimizing an ARM CPU for performance instead of battery life.

The performance per watt in ARM exceeded x86 since long ago, but most manufacturers used that feat to create mobile CPUs instead of cranking up the power to see if it catches up to high performance x86

And how can that be done?

Sometimes you simply can't compete with another country with really devalued currency and very low wages

That's the problem, people usually talk about a rich country as synonymous to a good quality of life for the average man. And often it isn't

A rich country is a country with money and capital. It doesn't mean that the country is a good place to live

We should ask also how do countries get rich amd also stay democratic and free. Saudi Arabia may be rich but that doesn't mean it's a great place to live

That's the classic "only coder" mindset. Instead of being uncomfortable learning about software architecture, side effects or even pure functions, tries to solve every problem with for and while loops.

"Real impostors don't have impostor syndrome"

To me, that is even better.

It means that you care and you are in an uncomfortable zone, which means you are probably growing.

I already tried it and it used to crash, specially when I had too many tabs (10+) open.

Sadly, I already tried it and it used to crash a lot, specially when I had too many tabs (10+) open.

The some random fly-by-night chrome fork is the most sane option I know since the only option left is Brave

If you are on mobile you should check Bromite. It's a fork of Chromium with an ad blocker and better privacy (and not bs privacy like Brave)

It's not free. We pay with our data.

That would make sense if: - There weren't other methods to prevent tampering - Governments didn't want anti-corruption methods without having admin powers to exclude themselves.

IMHO IT should be less geeky an "leet" and more professional.

The quality of a product shouldn't rest solely on having faith that you hired good programmers by chance.

Good engineers are professional engineers. A good engineer does a good job on what's expected on them.

A good engineer does not have to be a leet hacker, in the same way a good architect does not have to be a geeky concrete fanboy.

It's more about professionalism and stricter standards of engineering and less about being "good despite bad context".

You can hire the best artisans for your pot making company and make some of the best pots. However, sooner or later you will encounter problems like disparate outcomes of quality (due to different people having different standards of style, crafting and discipline), unpredictability and reliability.

An engineer role is to standardize processes and turn things like quality into a predictable outcome. It's not just about being good and not being bad.

> Emacs, vim

Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve. And turning them into full blown IDEs makes their usage even more complex.

> Sublime

Sadly, Sublime is sort of dead.

> TextMate

TextMate: Text editor for macOS

I agree.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most projects started by some form of organization end up being dead after handing them off to the community. That is, unless they make their code from the ground up to be as most readable and modular as possible.

I remember many projects made by Sun Microsystems that just died when Oracle took over, even if the code is still there.

Did you start working since the Windows NT era? I'm curious.

IMHO, windows things aside, the NT kernel is an impressive feat of engineering and I'm surprised it's still going after so many years.

My approach to that is to follow xkcd advice with an emergency password which looks less like a random string but more like a real world phrase.

I try to use my local language and some obscure local slang to avoid being guessed by an international dictionary.

As adults, we have the goal of finding a new place to call home. Growing up doesn't have to mean feeling lost or renouncing to be in a warm and nurturing place.

The only difference is that I'm not a child anymore.