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Talking about staring at interfaces, I got my first Pentium computer when I was 7 in a village in Pakistan. I spent all day fooling around and accidently stumbled upon quick basic. Having nothing to do I learnt how to code because the help menu listed all the commands and the interpreter gave errors when I did something wrong.

With a clear feedback loop and the insane motivation of a child I learnt to make games/software on basic which ended up defining my life.

Sometimes we overthink it, all a child needs is a safe environment to fool around and letting them be obsessed about things.

I grew up in a city with temp reaching 48 Celsius in the summer

Of course this wasn’t very good for electronic devices and hence every console I bought died with a year of over heating.

For my PS2 I managed to extend the lifetime by placing big blocks of ice in a tray underneath it and the console sitting on top on a rack to avoid contact.

I had to replace the ice every hour but the system worked well enough till the console died eventually of water damage.

No tracking (no external domain requests or analytics), built using Gatsby.

Your IP only goes to Cloudflare (caching) + Netlify (Hosting) + BunnyCDN (when watching videos on the site), no other personal information is collected.

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Edit as this is flagged by many people already: My opinion is all art and historical text should be discussed and talked about. Apparently an attempt to share the context is not very appreciated here.

No horse in the race but I find it important to try to understand the perspective from all sides.

Apparently its similar to showing a swastika or hail hitler. People have been punished for that as well: https://www.thefire.org/cases/george-washington-university-j...

Self fulfilling prophecy.

It took several near burn-outs and tons of hours of my life lost due to frustrations before I truly understood this. The world is what you want it to be.

Hopeless because everyone in the world is so selfish? You create the world you live in. Live selfless and see the world transform around you.

Frustrated you have to constantly interfere to make someone good at their role? You have to yourself believe they are the best in that role and then see them flourish.

Afraid your relationship might not workout? The fear itself will make your worst thought a reality.

Your life becomes extremely easy once you truly understand the world is what you believe it to be.

Note: There are of-course strings attached to this concept, but understanding the power of this is life changing.

Want to point out how incredibly good the website phys.org is.

I was first introduced to it over 15 years ago and remember visiting it using dial-up internet from Pakistan as a teenager to learn about the latest developments in physics.

Gem of a resource that is still going strong.

I had to search what this graph actually meant and this post gave some context: https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/tracker-the-fede...

Symbian was the era that trains you to never be afraid of debugging the hardest problems and understand how big of a blessing documentation is.

A few examples of my childhood experiences making a game for Symbian:

1) Debugging that one problem which would cause the whole OS to crash

The crash log didn't help cause it wouldn't flush the logs to disk in time. My under developed concepts of multi-threading didn't help much either not that I know much more today 10 years later.

2) Overriding OS memory safety to read accelerometer data from memory in phones that didn't have APIs for it

The patience and creative thinking you learn tackling with such high levels of uncertainty and painful problems is incredible.

I am not aware of how engineers learn engineering (I am self taught) but this kind of patience and endurance does shape a lot of my engineering skills today.

I love the execution of this!

Not comparing but I did a similar project 8 years ago at the peak of Israel / Palestine conflict to compare tweets from Palestine vs tweets from Israel.

Incredible difference when you see them side by side.

It would be great if someone would execute such an idea for more areas of conflict to bring awareness.

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There are certain regulations that make it much harder to implement E2E.

The data in a therapy app can be considered part of a clients medical file and the medical file has various compliance regulations affecting it e.g the data has to be accessible for the organisation for 15+ years.

This has created a structure making E2E almost illegal in some healthcare domains as the policy ensures that the client data can be accessible to future therapists and accessible to the organisation under catastrophic scenarios.

Only the app being E2E enabled is half the picture, the regulation has to either change or the compliance to the regulation by the mental health organisation has to be creatively done to ensure a complaint E2E implementation.

This makes it a bigger, costlier problem than making therapy more effective and hence a ton of hesitation as unfortunately you don't 'need' to do it.

We have had potential employers who wanted employee data back to them and our answer has been a flat out no to them.

We have also had legal consultation on this due to the continuous pressure and can confirm it is not legally required to share your data to the employer at-least in the EU.

Question: With all the industry wide bad practices, how do we convince you that we don't share your data with your employer?

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We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising a new way of providing care. We have partnered with the biggest mental health institution of the Netherlands and have built a web and mobile app that is actively used by thousands of therapists and patients.

https://nicedaynederland.nl

We have had immense growth last year and our customer base has grown 20x in 2 weeks! Join us for working with a team of passionate engineers and therapists, working tightly together to help define a new way to provide care for people who need help the most.

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NiceDay | Product Manager, Senior Data Engineer, Backend Engineer | Remote, Netherlands, Indonesia | Full-time

We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising a new way of providing care. We have partnered with the biggest mental health institution of the Netherlands and have built a web and mobile app that is actively used by thousands of therapists and patients.

https://nicedaynederland.nl

We have had immense growth last year and our customer base has grown 20x in 2 weeks! Join us for working with a team of passionate engineers and therapists, working tightly together to help define a new way to provide care for people who need help the most.

You can get some insight about how we work at our blog: https://medium.com/niceday-dev

Remote is welcome as long as you can overlap enough hours with the Dutch and Indonesia time and are also willing to fly to the Netherlands/Indonesia from time to time :)

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The US sanctions on Iran has such a massive impact on Iranians that most of us don't realise.

All US companies have to comply and majority of the tech companies are unfortunately in the US.

I know you can use a VPN and configure it on a router level to make sure that you are always connected via a VPN but just the fact that 1 slip-up can result in account level blocks (which google is notoriously good at and can essentially shut down your business) means no company would want to work with someone working from Iran.

Coming from a 3rd world country, I know the problems of internet censorship which Iranians also face but being too toxic to touch for everyone outside Iran because the US leadership thinks so is just infuriating and heart breaking.

Imagine being a programmer in Iran. Not only do you have less resources to learn and grow, you have a massive handicap to find good work as most work is outside of the country.

Only bet is to leave the country but even there you have a very low probability as you basically can't have a trial period for your job as most companies don't want to risk having their accounts blocked.

Most of us here know how degrading and infuriating the tech recruiting processes can be and now add to it the horrors of working from Iran.

Wars are not supposed to have civilian casualties but this one has a generation of civilians being starved of information and experience critical for them to grow.

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We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising a new way of providing care. We have partnered with the biggest mental health institution of the Netherlands and have built a web and mobile app that is actively used by thousands of therapists and patients. https://nicedaycoaching.com/

We have had immense growth recently and our customer base has grown 20x in 2 weeks! Join us for working with a team of passionate engineers and therapists, working tightly together to help define a new way to provide care for people who need help the most.

You can get some insight about how we work at our blog: https://medium.com/niceday-dev

Skills and expertise - Normalized for keyword search, but this is not the only thing we look for in candidates :)

React / Redux | Redux Saga | Typescript | CSS

Remote is welcome as long as you can overlap enough hours with the Dutch and Indonesia time and are also willing to fly to the Netherlands/Indonesia from time to time :)

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Heads up before opening the link, your IP is leaked to anyone who is watching the same video.

Have spent only a couple of minutes looking at it but it works by connecting to a websocket server where everyone who watches the video announces themselves, when 2 people are watching the same video a WebRTC data channel is opened for streaming video content.

Have you guys considered the security aspect of such a service? Specially a data channel open between 2 anonymous party is a very nice attack vector imo.

Why not just use VSCode for formatting JSON/XML/etc?

https://twitter.com/Rapchik/status/1310843502578880513

NiceDay | Web Engineer | Netherlands (Visa + Relocation), Remote We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising a new way of providing care. We have partnered with the biggest mental health institution of the Netherlands and have built a web and mobile app that is actively used by thousands of therapists and patients.

https://nicedaycoaching.com/

We have had immense growth recently and our customer base has grown 20x in 2 weeks! Join us for working with a team of passionate engineers and therapists, working tightly together to help define a new way to provide care for people who need help the most.

You can get some insight about how we work at our blog: https://medium.com/niceday-dev

Skills and expertise - Normalized for keyword search, but this is not the only thing we look for in candidates :)

React / React Native / Typescript / Javascript / CSS

Remote is welcome as long as you can overlap enough hours with the Dutch and Indonesia time and are also willing to fly to the Netherlands/Indonesia from time to time :)

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Interesting read, makes me wonder as a thought experiment if it counts as downtime if the latency of commands on the machines rises to 5 minutes?

You could clone the VM to another instance and record commands going to VM1 and replay them to VM2 after 5 minutes.

This whole brain fart of mine doesn't make much sense but if you play along with it, does it still count as a downtime or just very high latency?

NiceDay | Web Engineer, React Native Android Engineer, Data Analyst | Netherlands (Visa + Relocation), Indonesia, Remote

We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising a new way of providing care. We have partnered with the biggest mental health institution of the Netherlands and have built a web and mobile app that is actively used by thousands of therapists and patients.

https://nicedaycoaching.com/

We have had immense growth recently and our customer base has grown 20x in 2 weeks! Join us for working with a team of passionate engineers and therapists, working tightly together to help define a new way to provide care for people who need help the most.

You can get some insight about how we work at our blog: https://medium.com/niceday-dev

Skills and expertise - Normalized for keyword search, but this is not the only thing we look for in candidates :)

React / React Native / Typescript / Javascript / CSS / Android / Data Analyst / SQL/ Python / ETL / DBT

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NiceDay | Web Engineer, React Native Android Engineer | Netherlands (Visa + Relocation), Indonesia, Remote We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising a new way of providing care. We have partnered with the biggest mental health institution of the Netherlands and have built a web and mobile app that is actively used by thousands of therapists and patients.

https://nicedaycoaching.com/

We have had immense growth recently and our customer base has grown 20x in 2 weeks! Join us for working with a team of passionate engineers and therapists, working tightly together to help define a new way to provide care for people who need help the most.

We are actively looking at new React and React Native developers to join our team. You can get some insight about how we work at our blog: https://medium.com/niceday-dev

Skills and expertise - Normalized for keyword search, but this is not the only thing we look for in candidates :)

React / React Native / Typescript / Javascript / CSS / Android

Remote is welcome as long as you can overlap enough hours with the Dutch and Indonesia time and are also willing to fly to the Netherlands/Indonesia from time to time :)

https://careers.nicedaycoaching.com/

Sense Health | Web Engineer, React Native Android Engineer, Data Scientist | Netherlands, Indonesia

We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising a new way of providing care. We have partnered with the biggest mental health institution of the Netherlands and have built a web and mobile app that is actively used by hundreds of therapists and thousands of patients.

https://nicedaycoaching.com/

Join us for actively working with a team of passionate engineers and therapists, working tightly together to help define a new way to provide care.

We are actively looking at new React and React Native developers to join our team. You can get some insight about how we work at our blog: https://medium.com/sense-health

Skills and expertise - Normalized for keyword search, but this is not the only thing we look for in candidates :)

React / React Native / Typescript / Javascript / CSS / Android

Remote is welcome as long as you can overlap a few hours with the Dutch time and are willing to fly to the Netherlands/Indonesia from time to time :)

https://sense-health.com/careers-2/

You can always ping me directly as well: tech [at] niceday.app

We are still building the vacancy page for it right now but you are more than welcome to email your cv straight to tech [at] niceday.app :)

Sense Health | Web Engineer, React Native Android Engineer, Data Scientist | Remote, Netherlands, Indonesia

We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising a new way of providing care. We have partnered with the biggest mental health institution of the Netherlands and have built a web and mobile app that is actively used by hundreds of therapists and thousands of patients.

https://nicedaycoaching.com/

Join us for actively working with a team of passionate engineers and therapists, working tightly together to help define a new way to provide care.

We are actively looking at new React and React Native developers to join our team. You can get some insight about how we work at our blog: https://medium.com/sense-health

Skills and expertise - Normalized for keyword search, but this is not the only thing we look for in candidates :)

React / React Native / Typescript / Javascript / CSS / Android

Remote is welcome as long as you can overlap a few hours with the Dutch time and are willing to fly to the Netherlands/Indonesia from time to time :)

https://sense-health.com/careers-2/

You can always ping me directly as well: tech [at] niceday.app