keyboardmonkey

14 years as 100% remote... living in the middle of nowhere, 40 acres of land to run around and enjoy (fly huge model planes at lunch time, fire up the bbq with the wife and fams, etc etc) and life is good. I have a reclining workstation that has helped for a number of reasons, but it's made from a chair that's light enough to carry out to the back porch when the weather is nice. Some companies like to take a little off the top of your pay due to being remote, but if you go looking in the right spots you can get remote work at bigger city salaries. Even when the pay was shorted a little, the lifestyle more than makes up for it.

...make sure that you get enough personal interaction (the hardest and most important depending just how "remote" you are), and make sure that you appreciate the lifestyle perk that it is, and be happy.

As much as I love it, it's really not for everyone... I've seen some people be allowed to go remote, move away from the office, not be able to deal with the remoteness and quit. It happens.

TinyWall... other LittleSnitch-like apps on windows aren't anywhere near as nice as LittleSnitch, but TinyWall gets rid of the crappy prompts firing a million times a day until you configure it (the thing that sucks is apps like ChromeUpdate and others can get around the firewall somehow, so if you're set to prompt, it will prompt you all day long, so TinyWall makes it all sane).

oh dear, LittleSnitch wanted to charge money for creating a really handy tool, how terrible.

an absurdly violent culture with too many guns. the culture needs to reduce the violence, and remove the guns already... or simply state how many innocent people you're perfectly fine with being killed for any reason each year, including if that happens to be your own family because you believe guns are fine that it's someone else's issue.

"The way Trump can get impeached, is if he lies"... what about him insisting that there's no links to Russia, and there actually being direct links to Russia?... that kind of lie, or some other kind of lie?...

where is the authority of ownership?... as in, if someone else or group of people own tokens, where's the authority that will back them up if they want to force residency on the property?... if you take your tokens to the police, will they help you evict someone?... no. until there's common authority somewhere, tokens are useless for ownership of physical property.

so writing your own software is "unproductive" but you also want to put the blame onto the people who made a framework available?... do you want open source to go away? or do you think that companies that protect such valuable information should be spending more on security assurances?

"looking at leveraging my experience... anyone have a resource that shows me how to do it in detail?"

reclining workstation ftw, and getting worthy exercise elsewhere... allows for it all, better sleep and better feeling back that I've had in years.

the answer for me is to recline when working... and put that energy into a proper workout, which also means you can workout in a way that doesn't impact your knees.

I agree with this, but when I'm working I'm usually reclining with my current reclining setup. overall feeling much better regardless of working regular or long hours.

standing was cool, but nowhere near as good for me as my current reclining setup. With reclining, I'm far more comfortable to work long hours, have more energy for other things, sleeping better when I get to bed, and I get outdoors to exercise. Overall feeling better than any other seating/standing arrangement I've had.

it was always destined to decay, was always going to be a one-off success. interesting in it's success juxtaposed by its immediate pointlessness.

Out of all the people I know, software developers are generally the most allergic to spending money on software.