Hobbies that you want to discover more in, but no one in your immediate friend group knows. You want to go deep in programming, basketball, golf, whatever. There's multiple Youtube videos, subreddits, etc. for it.
Video calling? Chatting with a person from literally thousands of miles away? My grandpa used to literally write a letter on paper to his brother who was in the States. Now I can just call my parents with video calls.
Curious what you're using chat GPT on and not perplexity? I feel that its free tier offers more than ChatGPT. It is particularly helpful for the "tell me how ..." kind of queries and to confirm understanding with concepts I'm learning
Yes, this is what I have right now. I have it set up to install some non-Brew stuff as well (Chrome, Firefox, Whatsapp, etc.). I intend on using this even for my non-tech family's machines, ideally should just be 1 script to install `homebrew`, `pip` (or `uv` like the other fellow said) + Ansible, and then 1 script to install everything else via the brew module.
I'm leaning towards Ansible as I wanted to learn it this year for VMs too. So there is some overlap with the local machines + am still on MacOS.
Curious why you went with fish over zsh? (Zsh is more common in my circles)
> I wonder why complicate your life?
I wouldn't say it's complicating life? I'm quite having fun tinkering around with it. I intend to use the playbook (or maybe Brewfile as one of my friends recommend that as well) for setting up future machines for my family and I.
Looking for ideas here! New machine will be on OS X. I am currently playing around with Ansible and for now I am able to set up much of the non-dev applications + `pnpm`, `ruby`, `go`. (I based a lot of it on https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook as I wanted to learn Ansible anyway).Thank you!
Hi folks, what's your blogging workflow? I'm thinking tools (Jekyll, Gatsby, Wordpress), deployment (gh-pages, Netlify, AWS?), commenting (Disqus/own?), feedback forms (Formspree?), etc. What do you use?(Used to do Jekyll, currently using Hugo on Github pages, but I'm thinking of switching to Gatsby since I know more React than Go, so it's harder for me to make changes).
- https://speaking.io/ - https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/hanselman-speaking -> Mr. Scott is really good, I like his talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS1mnISoG7U.
I think you have to just keep on practicing actually speaking, like even in front of a mirror, I didn't do this enough (I practiced, but in front of my machine). Also just look at a few people in the audience, think of it like you're chatting with 1 person 100 times/5 people 20 times as opposed to chatting 100 people.
I've prepared a bunch, but anyone have any tips/experiences/what to expect? I'll be talking about things I've learned to get better as a developer (junior -> intermediate).
Hi all. I've been reading and applying a bunch of stuff from personal development/self-improvement lately. Honestly, at first I thought it was lame but I've gotten real productive lately. Things like scheduling the night before, journaling, exercise, setting goals for myself, doing things out of my comfort zone, etc. It's basically changed my life.Any other devs feel this way? Do you guys do...
I'm looking to hear stories from old (completely subjective and I hope not an impolitically correct term, I'm not from the US) programmers/hackers. Did you transition out of programming at some point or do you still find time a few days a month to code? I personally would like to not quit coding when I grow older, I still want the ability to create my own tools/systems for me or other people to...
So for the past few years, I've done some deployment/setting up my servers on AWS, but I feel like I'm just really doing the basic things.(setting up a VPC, spinning up servers etc.) I'm still in the process of thinking/coding a SaaS indie-hacker style and I feel like my skill level in this area is really lacking.How did you get better, aside from the whole keep on trying stuff...
Just recently discovered meditation and fasting, and while I've only been doing them for a few weeks, they've had a big effect on me. I'd like to see what other helpful routines are there. How do you go about your days?
- People can figure out points, because I've gotten things from blog posts with so-so sentence composition but brilliant points. As long as the points make sense, an article that's badly written from the technical perspective still has some value. - Everything can be edited or deleted anyway.
Thanks!
However, that's only because I still have the luxury of time. If I had a gun to my head and a finite number of hours to code an app, then I'd go with vanilla Rails. If I was given a few weeks to study a new framework, I'd go with Elixir/Phoenix, but only because I spent a few days trying it around and while I'm not particularly fluent with it yet, I like its design and speed a lot more than Rails.
I think this is why we perfect our craft. We have to be able to code fast or code pretty, depending on the circumstances.
Hi guys, how do you get better at writing?(General/tactical advice welcome.)In the past few months, I've written a lot of drafts, but it's so hard to publish posts. I just can't get sentence construction (for now, I hope). I have a structure of points I want to make, but I somehow just keep on writing the same boring sentences. Any actionable tips, books, blogs, whatever to help?
I was wondering, what were really valuable resources for you as a dev, either when you were starting out or when you had a bunch of years of experience. What's some event that changed the way you approached programming?--- For me it's these:- Watching DHH/the video that introduced me to Rails. I was a student coding in PHP/CodeIgniter, and it blew my mind re: the speed at which things got done....
It could also be someone else's. What happened that day, and what techniques have you developed to try to recreate that day?I'm asking because I've been more productive these past weeks since I completely blocked out social media on my machine and I put my phone in another room during work hours, and I should have done that years ago. :(
I'll be applying for jobs soon. I'm a Rails dev with 4 years exp, currently learning Elixir. I've just created a blog for my future employer and potentially future clients, gotten testimonials from my previous clients, reading interview questions, anything else that I can do to improve my chances/add value to the company I'll be joining?