patrickserrano

Are you plugging into a different port? I was having a similar issue with waking from sleep after being disconnected and reconnected. Then I realized I was plugging into a different port each time, and once I set the position for the displays for each port I never had that issue again.

> If they start off with things like that, there' so much magic under the hood, they won't understand how anything works.

I feel like there's an ever growing tension in software development where magic like this makes us more productive but also more vulnerable.

Maybe we need to develop better benchmarks for "knowing enough" so when the magic fails, we're not starting at zero trying to figure out what went wrong.

I'm surprised this isn't more of a thing. From what I understand this is coming to Android 11 though https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/20/android-11-tweaks-h...

We had a similar issue and ended up sticking with Mailgun but going with one of their larger contract plans which also gave us access to one of their Technical Account Managers. He's been fantastic, and helped us mitigate some of the issues we were running into. (It also ended up being a better value for the volume we were doing monthly.)

You can also configure their web hooks to report complaints back to you in near real-time: https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/user_manual.html...

I haven't seen blockedits.com before, it looks really cool. What are your thoughts on it? Is it worth taking a deeper look at or would you choose something else if you were starting from scratch?

I don't think our definitions differ at all.

I have a close group of friends that I made at my current company. Some of them have moved on, others are still here but pre-covid we made time to hang out on the weekends or after work and during covid we've done zoom hangouts and stuff like that. A number of them were at my wedding, we were all there for support when someone's mom died during the pandemic and she couldn't travel home for the funeral, and we all supported each other when one of our friend group took his own life last year.

Obviously you won't find that applicable to every job or company, but I see a lot of similarities to making friends at work and when you're in school. You spend a lot of time with the same people everyday and you probably have a shared interest or two. Sometimes that means you find people you can be friends with outside of the time you're "forced" to spend together with.

That's been my experience too and I wish more people shared it or at least valued that interaction more.

I always find this position to be really interesting because as an adult I've had a really hard time making new friends.

So working in an environment that values and supports employees creating friendships that extend outside of the office has been a huge benefit for me.

Any chance you could share some more details around how you integrated mustache with MJML? I did a project almost 3 years ago now where we used MJML and Handlebars, but I was never happy with the end result and have been thinking about going back and taking another stab.

Did MJML add any support for templating engines as part of the rendering process? That didn't seem to be an option when I did the original process so we had a 2 pass solution (MJML -> HTML w/Handlebars -> HTML).

Glad I wasn't the only one that found the indented paragraphs made it difficult to read.

I worked in education and had teachers and administration who were smart people, consistently asking to have their passwords reset. And the only requirement we had was that it needed to be 8 chars long, no special chars or capitalization. (This was a result of students and staff not being able to remember their passwords for more than a day or two)

I can't imagine needing a password for them to recover photos and messages.

Maybe it's imposter syndrome, but it often feels like these interviews were designed to discourage self-taught developers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When I was freelancing I used Harvest for time-tracking and invoicing. I liked it, and the clients didn't have any complaints. If I was to freelance again I'd probably use Harvest again too.

I agree Confluence is a pain to use, and pages with a lot of info or a lot of macros can been nearly impossible to edit because of how slow they are.

On your point about inserting code blocks you should be able to type `/code` and hit enter. If you’re not using the newer version or a page with the new editor, I think you type `{` instead of `/` but it’s been a while since I’ve used that one.

You can just press and slide on the volume/brightness buttons without needing 2 taps.

I'd recommend removing Siri (or just disabling it entirely if you don't use it) if you're activating by mistake.

Also with volume/brightness you can press and slide instead of tapping and then adjusting. Hope that helps!

Sounds like an Equinox membership.

I'm in NYC and could never justify an Equinox membership, but $75-$125/mo is pretty standard if you want to join a gym with classes and not be tied to a single location.

I had a New York Sports Club membership with access to all NYC locations and classes for ~$75/mo after a discount offered by my company. Being able to go meet a friend for a class at their location or be able to pick a gym near home or work was convenient.

Oh man, I ran into that when I made my first contribution to our internal Airflow project and was just like wtf is happening.

My company is hiring a bunch of roles in the NYC area.

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automotiveMastermind | Multiple Full-time | NYC | https://automotivemastermind.com

TL;DR we're SaaS in the automotive space that applies predictive analysis to score customers based on how likely the are to buy a car. We provide that information in a web app for dealers and market to consumers on their behalf with personalized messaging.

We've got a bunch of positions posted at the moment: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?f_C=3686046&locationId...

We recently posted a bunch of new engineering roles, and my old team is looking for a Marketing Developer to help build personalized marketing with data and code.

The UX for volume and brightness on the touchbar isn't as intuitive as I'd expect from Apple, but you can press and slide to adjust them. Took me a few weeks to realize I didn't have to tap the volume or brightness button and then adjust using the up or down buttons.

A buddy of mine built his house and office out of shipping containers. Really cool project, I wish I had some pictures of it. I love seeing stuff like this repurposed.

I hired someone from a bootcamp who was making a career change and it was easily one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Took a little while to ramp up, but that process helped me be a better manager and helped the rest of the team feel comfortable mentoring someone.

It’s not for everyone that’s for sure. But saying you’ll never hire anyone means you’re missing out on some great candidates. Take a look at people making career changes, and where you can use that domain knowledge to broaden the team in a way someone with CS degree necessarily might not.

Glad to hear it Josh, can't wait!

On your first point, I agree if you’re talking about first party adapters. The issue is that a lot of people and companies buy third-party and those are a crapshoot.

At my office all Mac users get cheap multi port usb-c dongles and they’re terrible. The HDMI connections display content that’s too contrast-y and end up giving users headaches. It’s very frustrating.

This is my setup too and if you're using VS Code, their virtual env support makes it pretty seamless[1].

[1]https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments

Interesting that the ethernet cable is unplugged

Python 3. After tinkering with a pretty important python script last year, I built a full blown web app using Bottle. Now it's a core tool that my team uses to do the core functions of the their job and I'm taking feature requests.

I've also been tinkering with C#/.net core and TypeScript at work as I try to align myself closer with the tech that the core engineering teams are using.

The other thing this year that I finally cracked was Swift. I don't know why, but until just recently I had really struggled with wrapping my head around it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you're looking at any kind of volume, you should be able to get Chromebooks for under $100 direct from China. When I was at a K12 school about 3 years ago, our purchase of ~250 Chromebooks allowed us to knock nearly 25% off the per unit cost to get them down to ~$150/device. And that was going through a third-party that was white labeling the devices.

The machines we ended up with were 2GB of RAM/16GB storage devices with 11" screens. Basically they were the reference designs Google released a while back when they opened up Chromebook manufacturing. And for the 4th-12th graders we gave them to, they were amazing.

This a great project. Living on the east end of Long Island, we tend to have similar (although seemingly less extreme) situations with public beaches and waterways. I'd love to see something like this here too, so when I'm getting yelled at I can point out that I am in fact on a public beach.