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Suddenly I find myself 1TB in, and desperate to find a fix!
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The biggest problem is that I don't feel comfortable putting our IP out on a server managed by a small provider. If you had an offering where I could self-host, I'd be very interested.
BTW. You have a broken link to "Privacy" from the "Terms" page.
Version pinning, self-managed forks and code reviews of the dependency on upgrade.
I'd vote for Dan if I could.
They do have a different code of class b stock that is more affordable.
After around 15 years as a professional developer, I had that same kind of deflation (I was 33/34 at the time). I took a slight change in role towards technical product management, and enjoyed that for a while. It allowed me to still be technical and engaged with the engineers, but also allowed me to step up and focus on solving customer problems rather than compiler problems.
I did that for 5-6 years while also growing into an engineering manager. I did eng management for another 5 or so years before realising that all my technical skills had trophied...to the extent that although I could hold an educated conversation with the devs, I wasn't really trusted to make changes to the codebase. E.g comments like "Look out! Rexelhoff made another commit!" which were meant in jest but stung a bit more than I'd like to admit. I felt like I had one choice and that was to push forward up the ladder and become entirely hands-off. The anxiety of being discovered as a fraud was off the charts. A fraud developer and a fraud manager.
Around this time I came across Charity Majors's blog/tweets that encouraged engineering managers to not be afraid or ashamed to go into development once again. Not to think of it as a step backwards but being able to do a little bit of this, and then go back to doing a little bit of that...and then at some point later go once again into management with unparalleled experience under your belt.
So I left my cushy senior management position and took a role that had me back on the tools 100% (small start up where I was the only software eng). Leveraging 2 decades of experience and being completely into dev has been the most fun in the two years I've been doing this. Reminded me why I got into software engineering in the first place. The excitement of solving the problem, the challenge of knowing I'm the critical piece that can get it done. Mentoring junior developers. I'm fortunate enough for my manager to have complete trust in me and give me autonomy to just get it done, because he knows I've been on the other side as a manager and that I respect the business's need.
I plan to build up a team in this place. I know that someday I'll outgrow being just an engineer, and I'm OK with that. For now, I'm just enjoying working with a small team and getting shit done.
I use Swiftscan Pro on iOS to take pics of receipts or single page documents. It OCRs and pushes them into Evernote.
I use PDFPen Pro on Mac to OCR longer documents scanned in using the office scannner/printer. This is triggered when I drop a file into a monitored folder. My applescript fires PDFPen, performs OCR and then imports into Evernote.
I have another monitored folder to import PDFs that don't require OCR (just import into Evernote)
And lastly if I get an email with a PDF attachment, I forward it to my special Evernote email address where it's automatically imported.
The main reason I haven't moved away from Evernote is because I want access to my files on all my devices and at any possible moment, and I want the service I use to outlive me. Evernote so far hasn't failed on either of these promises (though the latter does possibly worry me)
* Synology DS Photo and PhotoStation for local storage
* Google Photos Uploader to sync DSLR photos to Google Photos
* copy of synology photos to an external USB drive
* Backblaze backup of everything on the Synology
Every atlassian thread should include a sticky "Go here for an alternative" post
I currently use https://read2me.online/ which uses the ML TTS voices from one of the big cloud providers....Google (I think). I then have a custom RSS file hosted on an S3 bucket.
I hand crank the whole system when there's something new I want to listen to
The other issue to contend with in his grandparents demographic is the perception of being deaf and being seen wearing such a big bulky item. Image consciousness is a large hurdle to overcome these
Great ingenuity but commercially it's hard to see it take traction
The implant helps patients perceive visual information about their surroundings.
Pretty cool tech and fun to work on, too.
Gun control, yes.
Healthcare, it seems like the Libs (at least) are bent on destroying Medicare in favour of what? Likely private healthcare