thatcodingdude

I think I'm going to be mostly socially distancing forever now. Not seeing people anymore is an acceptable tradeoff for never getting sick.

Same here, that came off as really privileged.

We're not reaping the benefits of work anymore, it's mostly trickling upwards now so not really interesting. Makes sense to spend time on video games where you feel a bit more rewarded.

The AASM should focus on the 4 hour workday instead.

I think these kind of habits will disappear with boomers.

I don't know which country you live in but I'm sure young people wouldn't raise an eyebrow if you ate dinner before 8PM.

The general consensus here among young people is that the world is burning so go ahead and eat cereal in your pajamas at 3PM it doesn't really matter.

I'm terrified that there would be something after. Imagine always being. I need to rest sooner or later.

Thanks a lot !

Any way to contact you for learning/career advice ?

Thanks for all the great answers, they all helped me think about what I wanted to go for.

I'll be focusing on linux admin / devops / security and brush up on the parts I've missed (computer science basics / SQL / C...)

I welcome every course / book / resource advice !

Do you recommend any books / courses that could help give me some sort of curriculum around this knowledge ?

I unfortunately don't know what I don't know, so I'd need a bit of guidance to learn efficiently. Something like http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ maybe ?

Well, my post was kinda generic and more exploratory so I appreciate every answer.

I've read every post and realized I'd like to focus on back-end, specifically server management / devops / security.

Hey, sorry but I'll be focusing on learning for now so I won't take new projects for a little while.

There was somewhere up in the thread another user (erdos4d) looking for work I think, so maybe something can happen there.

deck.gl seems like a fun tech, best of luck !

Just sent my first pull request. Here goes nothing !

What do you mean ?

But is it webscale ?

That's a good point.

PHP is used a lot in France where I'm based, so that probably differs a bit from the US market.

I'm based in France.

Indeed, that's what I took away from reading the answers !

This thread has been a great help, I'm thankful for each response.

Nice, that's really interesting ! How did you touch so many different languages, was it only on personal side-projects or did you learn on the job ?

I'm afraid learning too many different languages just for fun would be detrimental on my main "job" language, like I'd forget the main patterns. But probably not.

Oh, I already have lots of outside hobbies. I'm just trying to make work more fun (I do realize how privileged I am to even think this.)

Thanks. Rust has been recommended a bit in this thread so I'll check it out.

Out of curiosity, what's the appeal of learning Rust ? What kind of projects do you use it for ?

I find that I can solve mostly everything with a blend of PHP/JS, but I also never escaped web CRUDy stuff, and PHP is very well suited for these.

By "The Rust Book", do you mean "The Rust Programming Language" ?

Seems to be where I'm headed now. A new world of learning opens !

Thanks for the detailed answer.

I do intend on staying technical for as long as I can.

I'll have to pick something around servers, UNIX, security and performance since those are actually the (seldom used and surely not deep enough) parts of my job I enjoy the most.

How's it going ?

I'll be starting as well, feels like I'm too late to the party. Won't stop me though.

Yeah, I never expected so many good answers.

Funny you should mention it, I'm 3 chapters deep in nand to tetris on coursera. It's a great course.

Building a language would certainly be a crowning achievement. Thanks !

Nice, thought you needed sysadmin background for SRE. I'll look into that, thanks.