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It's not advice for _all_ new products. Excalidraw has a plus plan, and I'd be curious to learn if they're seeing success. I think if you make something highly highly accessible and lovable, there will be opportunities to make money. Not sure! It's just a core belief of mine. I'm also sure there are products like that that can never figure out the pivot to $.

I use the pwa

Hey! Thanks. I just tweaked the breakpoint for the padding.

Thanks, just added one

Fair point! Added it

Totally. Build something real, for sure!

If you’re not being called back, it might not be because of your portfolio projects or lack there of. You might just not be standing out during the 5 seconds in which someone’s glancing over your cv. Time to change the dynamic. Can you network into these companies? Do they host meetups? Perhaps you can find a mentor who works there. Can you get some feedback on your CV and resume?

I think the projects are important, but probably not at the initial stages. Projects also teach you things, so I’m certainly not telling you to stop. I just don’t think that’s the reason you’re not getting through the screen.

I agree that would be very impressive. I think it’s important to also acknowledge that to be a fantastic junior engineer, you don’t have to be an entrepreneur. A lot of the factors you’re bringing up touch on (tremendously valuable) ancillary skills.

My advice: don’t boil the ocean, show you can have really high quality craft. Be playful and engaging. Show the meta work. Have good git hygiene. Write a blog post about why you refactored something and ask for public code review. Show from afar that you’d be great to work with.

Honestly, I don't think it's possible to create a list like that. Certainly some companies are holistically better than others, but so so so much of it depends on an individual's manager, team, likes, dislikes and other externalities. Companies have better and worse moments, better and worse leadership, but if a company is a great fit for you today, it could be a bad fit in a couple of years.

I think a better place to focus than looking for non-shitty companies would be focusing on finding coworkers who are good at navigating the shit in a way you respect. When the going gets rough, who are the people you want to be around? What are the behaviors you want them to show you? How can you determine that in an interview?

This looks _fantastic_. I've sort of wanted these features in Metabase, but alas, it's really more of a BI tool. Audit log and custom forms are amazing. It'd be really cool if you could build reactive state based on custom forms. Almost like a no-code/low-code event sourcing system

I’ll try :) check out today’s

Oooh, thanks. I added a footnote to it and gave you a shoutout

Done! https://offbyone.us/feed.xml

Done! https://offbyone.us/feed.xml

Thanks! Will do

Good point. I'll add that

Fraight is an AI logistics company changing the face of transportation. We're hiring well rounded senior software engineers looking for impactful, creative work.

You can learn more here: https://fraight.workable.com/j/FBBCEE3D85

We're located in Chicago but relocation is available inside the US.

I agree. I'm not sure everyone should be forced to learn for loops, or whatever. I also don't think high schoolers should have to memorize the krebs cycle or the fact that pv=mrt for gas systems.

I don't know. I really think young people should be in an environment where they can explore and grow passion for things. I think coding is fuel for that fire. I think its not enough to have CS teachers around. I think people should be exposed. It should be in the ether. You should see it in chemistry. You should talk about genetic programming in biology.

I just think HS should be so different from what it is now.

"Everyone should learn to code" makes at least as much sense as "everyone should learn trigonometry." To me, it makes much more sense, actually.

I'm a software engineer. I might not be if I wasn't exposed to it in high school. Exposing more people to software is a decidedly good thing because it gives people agency. Teaching coding in high school also can enhance math and science that's already being taught. It gives students another interface to the curriculum that's far more exploratory than pen and paper. Everyone should learn to code.

Everyone should not be a software engineer. Obviously. People should do what interests them. That doesn't mean bootcamps are bad. Actually, I work at one! I think we do a really good job. There are problems with the market that Basel correctly identified. Its hard for consumers to assess the quality of bootcamps. There are certainly are snakeoil salespeople out there. But, I've watched hundreds of my students go on to start fulfilling careers in tech because of their hard work and ours. The market will sort itself out. The bad actors will eventually go out of business.

I'm working on an open source MEAN stack permissions framework that does some of what you're talking about. Its not fully baked yet, but feel free to give it a look: https://github.com/zekenie/dmv

It let's you say, "Moderators can delete posts", "Users can create posts", etc

I wonder how this would work with the new Raspberry Pi display

Hey doc-to-be: Am I correct that there is a very basic cellular bio reason that salt causes vasoconstriction? No one is questioning this?

totally true, but if you look at the rest of the context, its pretty clear that the author is talking about men.

> One is savvy at meeting women; one is shy and prefers to date online.

I think its a little problematic that this assumes geeks are men.

Is it recommended to cycle ssl certs?

producthunt.co is kind of like that, but I agree it'd be great.

Internet speed and unreliability make it tricky for webapps to do much good. Distributed web servers that work on local area networks and sync data asynchronously with something like AWS could be HUGE. I've been working on a side project that uses this model. Stick a raspberry pi in an office or clinic. Have users hit that server. Page loads instantly. Resin.io & Docker could make it easier to deploy code to these servers. I'd be happy to chat about this or other ideas more. Very important and neglected area!

Awesome, thanks! We'd have to port it to rails to use it at work. Right now we're using much more primitive AB testing.

Found the answer to my question on the readme: "The implementation here mirrors many of the key components of Facebook's PHP implementation of PlanOut which is used to conduct experiments with hundreds of millions of users."

So do you have to use python to work with this? That's probably a stupid question because clearly facebook's using all kinds of tech on the backend. I'm trying to see how you'd integrate this into a rails or node project...