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Thanks for the d2 rec; this looks really good and is written in Go!

Curious why you needed surgery on your elbows. Was it lifting related?

Same with Churchill. He would arrange for his afternoon nap and bath even when visiting other countries

In the work rules book about google, Bock claims (apparently using a lot of real data from google) that employee performance follows a power law distribution.

The winds of war and war and remembrance books (or audio books) are a pretty good way to get a feel for ww2. They're historically accurate fiction and offer a lot of long-form detail and context (at least from the US/allies side of things)

Where's the reply from Kahneman?

Really great explanation, thanks. I've definitely felt a bit silly spinning up an entire react project for a "mildly dynamic" site

Curious what you think of dashlane. Personally I find 1pw UI patterns a bit annoying and dashlane somewhat better

This approach is definitely possible with a good web-based git IDE. We use gitlab's webIDE and have taught a few very non-technical (even temporary) employees how to do simple commits of markdown files (the trick here is high visibility into their commits -slack messages- and safeguards to make sure important things don't go live via CI too soon). There's a number of rough edges to sort out but this is vastly simpler, faster, more flexible etc for many situations (and amazing to not be using jira or wordpress :) )

The app we're building features CBT-I content (at the bottom of the main screen, called "lessons") and is currently free: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/chorus-sleep-tracker-sounds/id...

I see MMR in here a couple times. Do you mean MRR? Edit: Awesome write up!

My wife and I are (slowly) building an ios app to track daily family memories (impetus was having our son in 2019). We got this idea from an article long ago where the author used a spreadsheet to capture small notes of daily family life and especially note any child milestones. The app is close to being usable daily (each parent can add a note, separate field for milestone, edit, and list recent days) but it's ugly as sin. It's written in swift/swiftui with a go backend (also an older react web version exists if anyone was interested working on that). Totally chill project with no expectation of commercial viability

Chorus Meditation (YCW21) | Software Engineer (Front-end/full-stack) | Full-Time | Remote | ~North American time zones

Chorus meditation is building an easier approach to meditation and mental wellness through guided active breathing set to music, journaling, community support, etc. Both our webapp app.chorusmeditation.com and ios app are live https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chorus-meditation/id1557561444... and need more front-end engineering help. We use Firebase, Golang, Postgres, Google Cloud, and others on the backend. We offer a decent salary and a lot of equity at this stage.

If you are interested in this space and have extensive experience with modern JS and React (and at least some experience with React Native) please send me an email (warren) at d2FycmVuQGNob3J1c21lZGl0YXRpb24uY29t

Thanks for this! This sounds very interesting and your stated values align exactly with mine. I will check it out.

Has anyone found a good family friendly alternative? In particular I would really like to:

- Pay for the service (sustainable/trustworthy business model)

- Be able to very tightly control access to albums as I really don't want kid photos ending up on facebook or similar due to crazy aunt kathy (in google photos anyone with access can add anyone else and until recently there was no way to remove people)

- Ability to require a full/proper login for guests (no hard-to-guess urls as security)

- Confirmed and well-tested backup as a feature (sha1 of the backup matches my local, original copy, no stripping of the geo data!)

- Decent ios and android clients that can auto backup all photos on the device

I'm curious about this as well. From what I remember chromium does what you suggest to verify what is rendered down to the pixel: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/02/chromium-c...

Can you elaborate on the issue/fix?

Using the reminder aka notifications feature of the android app got the habit to stick for me. Total pita to figure out how to get it turned on though :)

Who What Wear | [Senior] Software Engineer(s), DevOps Engineer(s) | Full Time | Remote (USA), Portland OR, West Hollywood CA (HQ)

Who What Wear (www.whowhatwear.com and www.whowhatwear.co.uk) is a media and e-commerce company specializing in women's fashion. The articles we publish reach roughly 12 million visitors per month, and millions more on social channels. We have a fun, tight-knit product and engineering team that gets to solve problems for millions of customers and hundreds of staff. We have a modern technical stack and very few legacy systems. In addition to building durable and efficient web systems, we also get to solve real business challenges by working with data science and marketing teams directly.

Our interview process is straightforward and human-friendly. We start with email, then a short informal call with an actual engineering manager to answer questions and get to know each other. Two or three steps follow depending on circumstances, none of which include implementing a bloom filter in a google doc :)

Please send me an email if you are personally interested in learning more and I'll send you a job description. Please include a resume or your linkedin address.

Warren Runk wrunk@whowhatwear.com

Personally I think late 30s or even early 40s is ideal for a lot of men. I'm 36 and just had my first kid, and I honestly can't imagine doing it any younger. I just would not have been ready in many ways. Obviously I don't know your personal situation, but i don't believe your age should slow you down. Best of luck if you end up down that path!

Project Oxygen is worth checking out. It was mentioned in "Work Rules" by Laszlo Bock https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/the-evolution-of-project-...

I was fairly senior when I made the transition (~10 exp) and I knew my bosses very well by that point. I decided to roll the dice when another employee moved to work remotely and that seemed to be going well. I didn't ask my bosses, I told them I was moving for family reasons but I would still love to work with them.

Having a remote job when moving to a new town is ideal as it allows you to quickly secure housing with your latest paycheck. In my experience neither landlords nor mortgage companies care that your office/employer is out of state.

I would advise against this approach if you are more on the junior side as you might not learn as much as you would in the office (of course you might not learn anything from coworkers regardless in some cases). I would also advise against trying to work remote from the same city as your employer without a really good reason. This usually just makes you look like a jerk.

As for productivity, this can be a major challenge. When I first moved I lived in a very small apartment and was distracted by a good many things. I usually felt like I had to work into the night to make up for distracted time during the day.

Going to libraries and coworking spaces a couple days a week helps me. It helps with the cabin fever and it helps staying on task. Communication with your team and manager will likely also be a huge challenge and all I can say is be nice to everyone, be willing to help out in anyway you can, and initiate conversation with your manager often. I check in with my manager several times a week outside of standup to make sure critical items aren't getting missed. Our team will also screen share with each other often which can be uncomfortable at first but is vital. Our team is a mix of remote and in-office, but as more people became remote things improved. Reminding your manager and team dispassionately about any remote work challenges your are facing can help.

Best of luck.

Sadly it's easier to staple stomachs than produce lasting behavior change

Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense and hopefully replacements are generally available before we lose the old apis.

How long will the legacy App Engine APIs continue to work? Will they be removed before the runtime is GA?

These new runtimes seem amazing (and fix a lot of problems), but we also lose a ton of functionality that made app engine so desirable (easy users auth, images api, built in email sending, search, cron, and others).

It kind of feels like we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

I do the same but haven't calculated just what the gae free tier would cover in the way the author did

In this case the complaint was against some image(s) we were publicly hosting. We've taken steps to isolate our file hosting from the rest of the system in case this were to happen again. We only host images for fashion blog posts written by staff so I imagine other aws customers have had a much worse time in this regard.

This is very concerning but can happen on AWS as well. July 4th last year at about 4PM PST amazon silently shutdown our primary load balancer (ALB) due to some copyright complaint. This took out our main api and several dependent apps. We were able to get a tech support agent on the phone but he wasn't able to determine why this happened for several hours. Eventually we figured out that another department within amazon was responsible for pulling down the alb in an undetectable way. Ironically we are now in the process of moving from aws -> gcp.

We really appreciate the post, thanks! Not a suggestion for this topic, but would love a future post on request signing in 2016 (think HMAC). In particular there are so many JSON REST APIs these days going over HTTPS that it's hard to determine best practices and what's overkill.

These fogcreek interviews are pretty good. It is too bad the video quality is so poor.