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.ca! very cool

having a hard time figuring out what you do from your website, do you allow businesses to rent billboards?

I agree.

I think the parent poster was referring to how much noise there is, and I'd agree. The moment you start learning, just the fanciest stuff is shoved down your throat. So you just assume its the best and roll with it.

I find myself tinkering more with PHP now that I've been using js for the past 7 years.

Huh, I wonder where he is now. No way he died in India.

Create products, real value and make money.

At least that’s how I think of it, speculation creates nothing new. Instead it depletes resources that could have otherwise been used on something more meaningful.

Why Israel? I’d assume they’d hand him over given their close background no?

This is literally the plot of Uncut Gems.

Someone needs to put this on a headset and translate irl.

I will buy it.

I can’t even read this garbage website on mobile, over 30% of my screen is just ads.

Is this the future of mobile?

Hi Michael, if you need any help integrating stripe. Let me know, I’d be happy to help, my email is in my bio.

I don’t know if things have changed but when I started developing apps about 3 years ago, none of the docs or tutorials mentioned persistent storage until the very end, and it would touch on it very lightly.

So when you have developers learning about app dev assuming they will have an internet connection, and most of the time really fast since it’s their dev machine the apps are being built on. Caching sort of becomes and after thought and doesn’t get much attention.

Also, I do recall the api for doing this sort of stuff was very SQL like, at least in the iphone. This probably adds another layer to most devs knowing frontend only and being exposed to CRUD apis.

I was definitely waiting for the him to give himself some kind of an award in the end, or maybe a sound bit of author performing autofelatio?

Lol, this seems like a surefire way to add yourself to the list :)

I also grew up in a very strict Muslim household and this is very close to where I see religion’s place in the future of my (potential) family. A couple of questions that have been in my mind, that id like to ask.

How do you choose which parts to share with your kids and which ones to omit?

Have you found a community that your family can use to replace the church? For me I’d think they would be people from my back home, as a visible minority that’s quite easy but I do feel that if you don’t follow the religion entirely, you’d get judged and ostracized.

Easy to fuel the fire when you have unlimited wood to burn.

This should be flagged, it's flagrantly misleading.

Yes, asap. This person is going through some stuff that a therapist can help with. Its not something to just accept and move on. Although that's kind of the vibe I am getting from some of the comments here.

Is it me or anyone else seeing more and more articles that include lists/how to’s/procedures being shared on GitHub?

What's next? Are they going to start their own overpriced clothing line too?

$20 for an egg? That's just absurd.

You’re going to become a middle manager if you follow the normal software engineering track.

Maybe it’s getting work “done” is what’s most attractive to you. I can see how it must feel to see your work right in front of you when you are writing code, but you need to be very aware of what you want. I’d not be happy if I switched fields to avoid management just to end up being a middle manager in a couple of years.

Then what?

My 2 cents.

Research before you build anything. If there’s no need for it, don’t build it.

Choose your business partners wisely. Don’t fall into the trap of working with smart assholes, if someone is an asshole - no matter how smart. The asshole-ness will take over no matter what. (That’s just one side of it, many other things to watch for).

Build trust, it takes time and effort to get this one right.

Put your name on your work. One of pg’s essays also mentions how putting your name on your work let’s society reward you. I’ve seen it happen in front of my eyes. The product with a UI that looks bootstrapped together is like magic for your customers. No matter how basic or “ugly” your think your product might be, stand beside it like it’s your first born.

3 of the 4 items that the author mentioned can be solved with using NixOS inside a VM on your mac :)

Inspired by Mitchell Hashimoto's VMWare setup[0]. I setup my own computer in such a way, I now have the best of both worlds. Developing on a linux machine, where I can control everything if I wanted (down to the OS) and the ease of Notes/iMessages whenever I need it.

Window management is a pita because of internal APIs and the fact that Apple doesn't cater to people that actually care about these tools. Check out Yabai[1] which btw requires you to disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) if you want to use its full potential.

Instead you can run NixOS and choose your favourite window/tiling manager (i3).

Package manager: I still run Nix but I am not that happy with it. Either I need to spend some more time or look for an alternative. One of the problems is the ability to easily pin older versions.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDMLoWz76U&t=359s&ab_channe... [1] - https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

I know there are other comments about nix and I agree that its a pain to setup. It doesn't give you the ability to pin versions, and good luck if your dependencies are not available.

But, I would encourage people to try out NixOS. Its much better than the package manager, yet it follows the same basic principles.

- Uses a simple DSL language

- 1 config file describes your entire environment, you basically use nix the language to tell your computer if you want wifi enabled or not, or if you want sound, or if you want i3 etc.

- Its easy to roll back, since the config file is versioned (like git)

I personally use a mac machine, running nixos in vmware fusion and I can't believe how long I had been using a separate machine for development and another for personal use.

I get the best of both worlds with this setup; my messages and notes are here, I get world class hardware (come at me bro), and I get to control every single aspect of my development machine.

I still use docker inside nixos, and yes I know its almost supposed to replace docker and all but I will get there one day, right now is not it.

Areas for improvement: - They should have come up with a better name: nix, Nix and NixOS are confusing (language, package manager and operating system - in that order. Yes, they went with an upper case letter for the pkg manager) - Docs NEED to be better, this is not an easy task. The language is shared between every component. - Give playgrounds to beginners, I shouldn't have to download the minimal iso and boot it on my machine to get a sense of how powerful it is. There has to be an easier way.

End of my rant. I started using it a month ago, I have run into issues with dependency pinning but I remain optimistic.