dvcolgan

I struggled for years to find a lighting set up for my work from home environment. I eventually realized that it was the quality of light not necessarily the quantity of light I needed to address.

On a whim, I purchased two of those plant grow lamps with full spectrum, lighting, and pointed them upwards perched on a tall pedestal reflecting off of the ceiling.

This has worked far better than any other lighting strategy I’ve ever tried and seems to have mostly solved my seasonal affectedness disorder. It has been 0° and windy outside lately with no sun and I’m doing fine.

I am in fact a plant.

My strategy for ergonomics on a standard style keyboard like a laptop is to remap Ctrl to Alt and Alt to Win/Super. I also put backspace on CapsLock.

For a few years I devstreamed on Twitch. I got one of my longest running freelance clients when he watched me integrate Django authentication into VueJS which was a part of a web based game I was making. The game didn't go anywhere but Django has been my primary focus for most of my career and that was what I did for the client!

I appreciate this positive spin on the list. There is usually a silver lining.

I relate very much to this. I have autism and in-person social interactions have been challenging at times to understand. So, I became a student of the human social experience and read a bunch of books about how to speak human, which I think indeed sometimes were more for extroverts.

I have been learning how to gracefully interrupt, how to start conversations, how to have an opinion that is different from the others in the group, etc.

Though in the process I learned a lot about how many peoples' minds work, so that's been useful still.

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Hi, I'm David. I specialize in Django/Python contracting and have over 10 years of professional experience building and maintaining Django apps.

My goal: To be as self-directed as possible so that you can get back to running your business instead of managing me.

Happy to fit into your existing process or I can manage the project myself with a weekly check-in call.

Open to contracting at $125/hr up to 20 hours a week, or we can negotiate a fixed-price, fixed-scope project.

Here is a tech talk I gave at Indianapolis Python about my philosophy of Django: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRIHAV91144

Portfolio: https://dvcolgan.com

Github: https://github.com/dvcolgan

Email: [email protected]

I'd love to schedule a free 30 minute call to talk about your project:

https://calendly.com/dvcolgan/freelance