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The adapter works great with the Shure SE846 IEMs. I’d rather use the speakers than die on the no adapter hill.

I just use the adapter and keep a couple in reserve for when I lose one.

Works great.

It’s just focusing on the moment, not something to really master the art and craft of cleaning dishes. Dishes is just an example activity that many might find venal, but is an opportunity to practice mindfulness

Cream of mushroom soup and Cheese Whiz!

“Web Dev” encompasses a hell of a lot of material. I’m still a fan of books.

I very specifically stopped targeting “buyers” in favor of individuals. The buyers want us to develop “whips & dashboards”

Lucrative! Not what we want to build.

That’s one of my favorite aspects of being self-funded and profitable.

Nik Graf releases this free egghead video course a couple weeks ago on Rust and WASM. https://egghead.io/courses/using-webassembly-with-rust

Ives said it was relatively easy to swap out the node bits.

The egghead Redux series has been very popular and useful for users. We’d love to talk about how we can compliment this documentation revamping with updated/new free resources. joel@egghead.io

We use MobX as a dependency injector, and it’s been great. Scales up very well and is fairly simple to get people up to speed when they drop into our project.

Redux was a “wtf” as it grew in our app and was a real struggle to back out of.

The audience wants you to succeed and are generally very forgiving.

So far none of my kids have really cared about coding at all. We’ve got python books, js books, ruby books, scratch, Lego Mindstorms, arduinos... they aren’t interested. Definitely wouldn’t pick it up unless prompted.

We home educate, so they have access and time to explore.

Nope.

Our oldest picked it up after a 6 month stint making sandwiches when they were 17.

“Dad, can I still learn to code?”

I miss the days when “tell turtle forward 50” was amazing.

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I don’t have a lot of parenting regrets but spanking my kids is one of them.

Fear is definitely a solid deterrent though, no doubt.

This just isn’t true. React has been going strong for 4 years with no sign of slowing down.

I got LASIK at 42. It’s great. Don’t wait.

The Economist is excellent.

I got the X because I like the screen to size ratio and my purchased media is resting on Apple’s markets.

A few hundred bucks either way is inconsequential.

Style-wise, they aren’t visibly much different than the last several generations of iPhones or Androids.

I started my programming career at 35. I’ve had many great mentors. Many of them much younger than myself.

I’ve also paid professionals for mentorship for both programming and business.

For the most part people want to help those that do. Be a doer. Ask good questions. Respect people’s time. Get involved.

It was always a slippery slope. The last thing Github wants is banner ads all over the place. Sure, this one was tasteful, but if they allow it the door is open for less savory actors.

React is excellent. I've been building UIs for 20 years and it is by far the best development experience I've ever had.

Watch out for contrarians and purist wonks. Set aside your preconceptions and bias against new things you don't understand.

Embrace reality with an open mind.

Fighting it and wishing for an alternate reality is not the path to happiness. I know that much.

React has been "the yearly hot library" since 2013 for anybody counting along.

Your age is an advantage, assuming you've been a working professional of some sort.

The mechanics of learning to code simply takes determination and hard work. In my experience, the vocabulary is the first major hurdle.

By the time you're 50 you'll have a decade of experience

I've used Behance and Dribbble with some success. I took the approach of hiring several designers for the same small project. It isn't the cheapest approach, as I paid market rates, but it gave a baseline for comparison, was totally fair, and it resulted in an amazing hire that changed my business dramatically. She also referred another designer to the team from her network that has been fab too.

I've invoiced 5-figures a day for short term gigs repeatedly. Many times to repeat customers.

This is actually a result of Patrick's "charge more" mantra. Confidence in the value provided and delivering on the value.

$10k is a consulting day rate to large companies.

While there might be some sad subset of home educators that lock kids in a box and disallow social interaction, that isn't the norm. There are vibrant communities that exist around the world. Local education services, museums, community education coops, teams, social groups, friends...

It's not some sort of vacuum where kids spend 9 hours a day practicing for the spelling bee and sewing bonnets.

Reading your post personally made me chuckle, as you could be "arguing" against institutional school with only a few words changed and it would hold the same weight.

The "socialization" argument is tired. There are ample opportunities for social activities outside of school, and the end game social environment for kids is not to be sectioned off into groups of 30 by age in forced proximity.

They convert like crazy. People will always say they hate them, but they exist because they are super effective.