chilldsgn

Someone I love dearly passed two weeks ago from this awful cancer. She was on a trial for this drug, but it was ineffective, sadly. I can't stop crying. This is a horrible disease and I am so glad there are developments being made in this to extend people's lives, possibly even save them.

Fuck cancer.

I wish I could quit working. It is hell. Employers DGAF about people, so why should we care about them?

An offline-first app to make life a little easier for someone I love and her caregiver. She's been diagnosed with stage 3 pancreatic cancer and food has been a bit of a nightmare for her. Her partner is also not very skilled with cooking, so helping them make this easier is my gift to them. Not a medical device, just a food logging and logistics tool. The privacy aspect of this is very important, so

I am so careful not to let anything not heavily encrypted touch a network request. Sync is opt-in, offline is default. This is very challenging for me, but I want to help her the best way I know: building software for humans.

I am sorry for your loss... Someone I love was also on this drug and it wasn't effective. I hope it helps some people, this is an awful disease.

this drug was ineffective for my loved one, sadly. Hope it helps others.

I'm sorry your mom had to suffer like that :( My loved one really wants to live, and I suppose some people are at different stages of mind with this horrible disease. I wouldn't want to extend suffering too, but if the patient wants to fight the disease, it is up to them.

I hope they can get this to people quickly. Someone I love has been diagnosed with stage 3 end of Feb this year and it's utter hell. For everyone, not just the patient.

Same sentiment from me. I'd rather pay more and eat the real thing.

I'm not yet financially comfortable, but once I am, this is definitely how I see my life going. I love my work, but I don't love the job, I've gotten burned out too many times.

For people who want some more freedom with their time, part time is ideal. I want to have more time to experiment and learn. Currently there is just no time for it.

Same. I hate the 9-5. It's soul-crushing for me. This is right up my alley!

I wish I did, what a great response.

I think I was a bit vague and blunt with my comment, and I agree with what you say here 100%

For me lifestyle changes weren't easy and as simple as "lifestyle changes". Lifestyle changes involved huge amounts of willpower, and still do to some extent. Nothing that's really valuable is possible with an easy way out. From personal experience, consistently doing something hard and building that habit is so much more sustainable long term than temporarily popping a pill and expecting the problem to stay away when they stop. I've known people who used Ozempic for some time, then stopped when they reached their goal weight, then just end up putting on that weight again. I don't blame Ozempic for it, it did its job well.

I was overweight, unhealthy and no amount of exercise and eating so-called "healthy low fat" dietician-recommended foods helped me get healthier and leaner. I had to let go of the beliefs I held about how nutrition should be. I don't blame anyone, I just find it personally puzzling that people don't seem to want to challenge the status quo because the status quo isn't working.

Fasting, low carbs and cutting out sugar completely has done so much good for me, not just on a weight loss level. It took years of self-education, figuring out what works for me and my body to get where I am now. Physical health probably isn't one of their top personal values. This goes deeper than just a simple "lifestyle change".

So yes, if this works for some people and helps them live better, good for them, and I really hope they thrive on this.

It really puzzles me how people would just pop a pill instead of make some lifestyle changes. Maybe it's just my personality type, but it disturbs me how most people just want something quick and easy instead of doing the actual work and becoming overall better via a real learning journey by struggling through changing bad habits.

But whatever, they do whatever works for them! I don't like pharma.

heck, I'm sitting in a team with a code base so full of slop that was written by humans, the AI can't even fix it and I'm burned out from trying to make it better. and I get told to be quiet about code standards because the team is still learning.

omg. this is what it's currently like at work. and i was told not to bring up coding standards in retrospectives. yes, i am salty AF about this. i'm dying inside.

This is cool! I am getting back into Python programming after having to work with Angular (with a code base that's a spaghetti mess of poorly used TypeScript), and doing little toy projects like this helps tremendously with bringing back the joy I once experienced with programming.

At the moment I'm building a C++ version of Tic Tac Toe, would be cool to implement it in Python.

I'm building a PyQt6 desktop app to create XML sitemaps for website maintainers such as myself. I got annoyed with the free online tools that are available, and also want to play with building desktop apps with Qt, and improve my Python programming skills. This seemed like a fun hobby project that has some value for me at work too, so I am not just building it to forget about it later.

It's the upkeep problem that is a problem in South Africa. It's like government doesn't understand the concept of "maintenance"

Yup... It's about feeding the greedy fat cats at the top.

A simple solution like "just install solar" isn't going to solve the problems necessarily, because it originates from greed, mismanagement, corruption at the core. Solar is more of a downstream solution in my mind (correct me if I'm wrong).

Demand for coal will be reduced, which might most likely lead to massive job losses in not only the coal mining sector, but also logistics, exacerbating the troubling unemployment issues the country also faces. I don't really want to go down THAT rabbit hole :D

Yup, it is deeply political, and I think ordinary citizens such as myself don't even understand how deep the corruption goes.

I don't know much about electrical grids, but I'm wondering if something like this concept could help South Africa with its endlessly struggling electrical grid problems. My city constantly has power outages and the majority of people cannot afford installing solar into their homes.

I agree with you. I understand it's incredibly challenging to implement regional pricing, especially if your company is based in a 1st world country, and dependencies are also priced for 1st world countries.

I'd pay the price of a coffee, would gladly give up one cup a month for this. That's about the equivalent of $2.50

I've been on the free tier for a short time and really liking it. I just can't justify paying at least $5 a month (I live in South Africa) for this, so not switching to paid yet. It's just a bit too much with our exchange rate.

Lekker!

Yep. I find it easier to understand German verbally than Dutch. I struggle when Dutch people speak to me, the way they pronounce words are hard on my ears. German feels softer.

I feel the same about Afrikaans, ugly and harsh as hell :D

I absolutely love German, it is one of my favourite languages, there's such beauty in it. I am not a native speaker, but enjoy studying it. I am a native Afrikaans speaker and I see so many similarities between the two, which I find intriguing.

Hah! Yeah I drank more alcohol that I normally do during this period, however I work from home so I never had to hide it :D

Yup. I've been advocating for leaner software to make maintainability easier, which can help prevent developer burnout (I've been there twice in 365 days). My overall health suffered because of dealing with bloated software.

Having burned out employees is a cost implication for any business. I do not have concrete data to back this up, though, but from personal experience, I can attest to this. I had to take sick leave and lose days of productivity due to illness caused by burnout from having to deal with bloated software and the deadlines associated with that. Business makes promises to clients without realising how difficult and time-consuming it is to add features and try to keep software operational and secure can be if it is so bloated and difficult to understand.