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Newfoundland by any chance?

I thought the same thing - and I think it kind of applies! haha

Of course it's Australia...

Nice resource - very handy. I've shared with some slack groups I frequent and mentor in!

TIL there's a karma leaderboard on hacker news!

Huge news for the local Newfoundland tech ecosystem. Great group of folks over there at Spellbook. Blog post from their site - https://www.spellbook.legal/blog/spellbook-raises-10-9m-usd-...

Just picked up a MX Master 3S recently. Big thing I love is that you can use it on up to 3 devices, so I can have it on my MacBook for work and then click to setting 2 and switch to the usb dongle on my gaming PC - no need for extra mice/cords!

for me having a separate Anker usb charging block (5 port, 40W) is great to minimize the things connected to my work macbook (mouse charger, airpods charger, wireless charging pad …etc) and a good laptop/mouse mat (Razer Gigantus) has been a great purchase too (provides a nice mouse surface and little more comfortable than a cold desk)

This is a great idea. Matt Jaffee wins it for me - coffee sloth!

My first computer was an IBM EduQuest 486 SX/50 (https://www.ardent-tool.com/EduQuest/EduQuest_55.jpg) - great memories of taking that apart and learning about how things worked (glad my parents didn't know what was going on after spending $2000 on a computer for 'school work')

Had never heard of these - thanks for sharing!

Really enjoyable read. I'm in a software mentoring role now and definitely going to share this with new devs - always important to recognize just how much you don't know and being too rigid in your thinking can really hinder things.

Also in Canada. We ordered a new Rav4 back in early October and just got word that it's 'scheduled' to arrive in the middle of April. When we first placed the order it was thought that we'd have it by Christmas/New Years. Definitely major delays and shortages but the MSRP doesn't seem to have been affected (but time will tell when we actually go to sign the paperwork)

As many have said it really depends. But for a smallish development company (under 50) there's really nothing quite like organic growth - which generally means word of mouth and/or friends (or friends-of-friends) and former colleagues. I'm from an island in the North Atlantic so although it's a 'city' it's a pretty small town - word gets around if you've got something good/new/interesting on the go.

As for actionable things - some local devs, in my area, started a tech/dev meetup group here that's evolved into a 500 person slack channel (in-person meetings pre-covid) and it's a great place to find people and talk about jobs/local market. Definitely not a short-term fix. Also, leveraging any kind of news about a funding announcement or big contract or local impact helps get your name out there. I know a few former colleagues who saw the company name in an article/newspaper or an industry magazine and wound up applying for roles.

Best of luck!

Love this question - been through a few iterations. For context I'm an amateur photographer (portrait) so I have a lot of RAW files that I tend to keep (almost 3TB now since 2010) from my various Nikon cameras (D90 and D7100 - not amazing but they do the job!)

I have a primary SSD for my OS and applications, a secondary SSD where I store my latest/active Lightroom catalogues/files and a large 4TB (spinning disc) hard drive for local backup.

After a shoot I'll import the files onto my secondary SSD and then manually copy them over to the local HDD once I've done my picks and culled things a bit. That HDD is automatically backed up to Backblaze so there's always an original copy of the files either local or in the cloud. Any images that I edit/pick/export will be manually uploaded to Google Photos (usually in it's own album) and I try to annually pull down files from Google to go into another 'jpg/exported' folder on my HDD that's backed up to Backblaze. My wife and I also have our iPhones backing up to Google photos automatically plus we have Apple storage/backups - so we tend to have double coverage on most things.

Some of it is a bit overkill probably but I'm particular about having access to all my photos and I've definitely gone back to look at and edit old photos/shoots so it's worked out ok for me so far.

Yeah I first tried this in Safari and just had a black screen - edge/chrome worked just fine. Notice/pop-up would be helpful

> Build a small personal project and put the code on GitHub. Accompany it with a README with a detailed description of the project and screenshots of it in action—almost no-one does this, it only takes a few hours extra and it massively increases the impact your project will have on hiring managers who are checking you out.

This is one of the key things I pointed out in a post I made after going through a lot of co-op resumes and interviews[1]. A little documentation and attention to detail goes a long way! If someone looks promising I DO look at their LinkedIn/GitHub/Website because it gives me some indication into their capabilities and whether they're willing to go a little above and beyond (to learn or present themselves more professionally online). I know not everyone has the time to do this (I have a 7 year old and don't have a great online presence) but if you're trying to start out in this industry it should be the minimum you're willing to do.

1 https://www.samuelrussell.net/posts/developer-hiring-dos-and...

Great episode! Love how they had people at one of the top food R&D labs in the US nerding out over fries

Sorry your business didn't flourish like you had hoped but I enjoyed your blog post. I always wondered how my experiences in software development and marketing would work in a more traditional business and if it would make things way easier/better/worse. Sounds like it would help but there are lots more variables to try and contend with. All the best with your future endeavours!

I worked here for 6 years (didn't get in on any of this stock unfortunately). Still awesome to see a local Newfoundland/Canadian company do so well and be recognized like this. This is going to have a huge impact on our local economy and the software sector as a whole in Newfoundland. Exciting times!

Other news articles: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/verafin... https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/nasdaq-to-buy-financial-frau...

Agreed. I've got VSCode and Textmate installed on my Mac but I guess my earlier years of Windows experience and Notepad++ being ubiquitous on all my machines and servers have set it as the baseline for my text editing experience. Only thing I found it wasn't great at was really big files - had to find specialized tools for those but other than that it was great (nice to see lots of active development still!)

Wow, some really great entries and winners. The macro world is so interesting. The little I've dabbled has always resulted in some new discovery of a part of a flower or insect that you'd never notice otherwise. I've never gone all in and bought a macro lens, but with some cheap extension tubes (https://photographylife.com/what-is-an-extension-tube) and a manual focus lens you can do a really nice job for quite cheap!

Wow, amazing project. Alway interesting to see what people can do with some technical skill and wood working capability. Really beautiful way to honour the memory of his wife - cancer is terrible.

How about Onshape Free? https://www.onshape.com/products/free

We've used it internally for some fun demo/hack projects and have had a good experience with it.

This feels like a really (legitimately) good idea. I expect a lot of money could be made! haha https://medium.com/thedailylemming/nyc-marathon-vanity-bibs-...

Wow, great site. Really nicely laid out content and images. Being a photographer I'm going to give that Lightroom PC article a read (6 year old i7 isn't holding up that well)

Current employee here if anyone has any questions about open positions or the company in general!

I used to work at Verafin (no current affiliation) but a pretty amazing funding round by a company in Newfoundland, Canada (population ~500k).

Other news posts related to the financing - https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/press-releases-pmn/bu...

That was a great read. Would love to be there some time for an event like that. Still so amazed when I see video of those rockets landing vertically. Great to hear that so many people are still very excited for space exploration!

I think Narwhal's are what they call Canadian Billion+ valuation companies (Unicorns of the north. haha)