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jjbohn

91 karma · joined October 27, 2012

Second generation developer in Nashville, TN

http://jjbohn.info

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jjbohn··on Ask HN: Non-tech books that have helped you grow professionally?
I have a lot of the classics on my list, but a new one that I've found extremely growth spurring was "Ego is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday. I never really considered myself an egotists; confident perhaps, but something I never struggled with. This book showed me that I indeed did have more ego than necessary and gave me some really good guidance on how to live a better, happier, and more fulfilled life. Really something for a book I didn't even know I needed.
jjbohn··on State of Development Podcast
Sorry if anyone is seeing this for the second time today. I deleted the original post due to a problem with the link. Fixed now though.
jjbohn··on Show HN: Consol – Desktop First Productivity with End-to-End Encryption
I just got the same
jjbohn··on Phoenix 1.0
That looks fun :)
jjbohn··on Make your legacy code self destruct in Rails to force technical debt clean up
When in the middle of long refactorings, I'm notoriously terrible at going back and removing deprecated code. So, I made a gem that allows me to mark somewhere in the code to self destruct on a particular date. Prior to that date, you will see warnings in your test suite letting you know when and why the self destruct mechanism is there. After the date, it will start throwing exceptions in your test environment to basically self destruct the build. So far, it's been a great incentive/reminder to go back and clean up after myself. permalink
jjbohn··on The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
For kicks and transparency sake, here's the bitlink: https://bitly.com/1xy6LYZ+
jjbohn··on The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Bah, sorry about that. I copied it out of the chrome extension that I use to promote books on my blog out of habit. My bad. Won't happen again.
jjbohn··on The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Supposedly, The Obstacle is the Way is in the vein. I haven't read it yet; it's on my list this month though. Supposedly a fairly good read though. It's written by a big PR guy though so who knows.

http://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Way-Timeless-Turning-Triumph/...

jjbohn··on The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Side note. I use to read a meditation or two every morning as part of my morning routine. I've fallen out of the habit but am going to start again. There's some really great thoughts in here.
jjbohn··on The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
This has become my preferred translation. It's a great modern translation and uses very approachable language. To me it reads much more like a journal than the other available translations.

http://amzn.to/1xy6LYZ

jjbohn··on Learn Lisp the Hard Way
The _really_ hard way. Bad Gateway.
jjbohn··on Ask HN: Which podcasts do you listen to/watch?
* The Nerdist (comedy, but about half of the episodes have success stories so it kind of falls under entrepreneurship)

* The Tim Ferris Show

* The Ruby Rogues

* Functional Geekery

* The Smart Passive Income Podcast

* The Nathan Barry Show (very new)

* Mostly Erlang

jjbohn··on Meditations
I've recently been reading meditations (and carrying it around in my bag always at the ready). Very good book and I highly recommend writing your own meditations as well.
jjbohn··on Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier
Great posts. Thanks for sharing them. Will definitely keep all of what you said in mind.
jjbohn··on I quit my job
Good stuff. Been in this position a few times and I feel for you. Glad you're in a better place. One piece of advice, if you can take a little time off between gigs, I would do it. Keep spending time doing things you want to do before jumping in with another company. Also, be picky about your next job. Now that you have some experience under your belt, you will have some options.
jjbohn··on Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier
Yeah, I'm a pretty terrible copywriter. Let me see if I can make it more clear on the site. Thanks for the input.
jjbohn··on Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier
Thanks!
jjbohn··on Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier
Definitely want to let them leverage the storage eventually, including contact sheets, psd storage, etc. Starting with just the basics for now to see where it goes.
jjbohn··on Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier
Very much inspired by it. Wish I could find the post actually. I had some services running for my wife's photography business, but nothing that could really be released in any way. Seeing that other post though made me start taking the steps to turn it into a SaaS.
jjbohn··on Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier
Right now it's photo centric just to make sure we get that experience down. Eventually I could see it move to other areas though. My wife's a photographer and I saw a need for this kind of service that was focused on photographers. There's lots of other photo backup, but the only ones that do raw files are more syncs than anything. She needed a place to persist images she was done with in a cheap way.
jjbohn··on Tomodo - reskinning websites as-a-service
Mobile site is useless.
jjbohn··on [dead]
Looks like all their non "www" subdomain respond connection refused or gateway timeout.
jjbohn··on Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
Same
jjbohn··on Squash
All the breath & pops in the microphone is really annoying. You should re-record the audio using a pop filter or something?
jjbohn··on Show HN: One curl command issues next-day ACH deposit
Nice! Greatly resembles Stripe, which imo is a good thing. Look forward to using this next time I need ACH on a project.
jjbohn··on How to make a great looking video for your startup on a budget
Great job. Thanks for the tip on http://fiverr.com. Great voiceover is a huge plus.
jjbohn··on Introducing Contributions
Very cool! It's interesting how much mine changes when I am logged in and can see all the private repositories I've contributed to at work.
jjbohn··on GitHub Survivor: a bug leaderboard for GitHub issues
This is really cool. Definitely want to implement someone like this with my teams.
jjbohn··on Rate My Startup: Snip
+1 on the wall of text. Get some images in there. A nice logo may go a long way towards sprucing it up. I'd also try to customize the look a bit more. Create an identity by making it look less "stock" bootstrap.
jjbohn··on How to disable Mac OS X Dashboard
Changed the site to http://jjbohn.info