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99 percent invisible did a whole episode about this! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/658-the-em-dash/

Didn't he used to say "concretely" all the time as well? That was such a cool course. It seems ancient now, but I remember enjoying it at the time.

This is a very rich-world view of work. Most people can't just "unilaterally rescind" their employment if they decide they don't like it anymore. I don't disagree with what you're …

I've seen this software used on a couple different video lesson platforms (I am currently subscribed to Open Studio). It works really well. Occasional browser funniness, but otherw…

> Getting a different job in a startup or an agency sounds like the last thing I want right now. From what I’ve heard big tech is not all that much different, and a non-tech progra…

We used to have unlimited PTO, and even in my interview I chided them that it's obviously not "unlimited". For a small, organically growing firm like my employer, unlimited PTO is …

> a rational person will blame the repairer, not Apple Assumes facts not in evidence. My experience has been people tend to blame the platform supplier first and foremost. 1990s OE…

Rather than looking at titles, I would focus on what you want to do. "Software dev" encompasses a wide variety of work. As a simplified example, if you were a senior frontend JS de…

My coworker and I used to run this on our work PCs (which were generally left on 24/7 and rarely rebooted). It was a delightfully simple "game" and we enjoyed comparing stats. That…

I was afraid my reference was too old, and people would just downvote not understanding what the heck I was on about.

Did you tell them you could build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted fil…

You can't, so don't bother thinking about it. You can make changes today that will pay dividends in 10 years, so maybe focus on that instead. I was widowed pretty young (as widower…

> Meanwhile, everything interesting/challenging I might have liked to work on is already being worked on by someone else, who is probably doing a better job than I would have You m…

Lots of great sentiments in that article. You don't have to love every day of a job to love the job. You can love the organization even as you need to let it go (or it needs to let…

My kids will be in 9th and 7th grade. My school district is starting 100% distance learning. I did opt for hybrid when it's available. I'm setting up study areas in the house for t…

This is a good question to ask regardless of your career. It's a combination of factors: specialization narrowing the range of possible jobs, experience tending to command a higher…

Stay private. I don't think publicly traded companies can be values-driven, but if you maintain control over the ownership of the company, you can. Here I'm thinking of something l…

I'm sure someone trying to survive on $10/hr in America today would be heartened to learn it's better than living in the Middle Ages.

I slogged through it. I appreciate the sentiments expressed in the book, but it was not a breezy read. I found it to be dry and long-winded.

The chip is nearly 100% reliable (absent any manufacturing defects). It's the network in the U.S. that is stuck in the 1970s. Even with the supposed requirement to move to chip ter…

And Garmin is welcome to create an API to host your data and integrate with other services. Uploaded Garmin data isn't originated by Strava, but since they're hosting it they are s…

> But the problem is those workout files are actually your data. I'm a long-time fan of DC Rainmaker, but here he is just wrong. Once you put that data into Strava, it's not yours …

Amazon is so much more than a "web shop"... its logistics infrastructure alone is worth actual money, to say nothing of AWS, Prime lock-in, etc.

I enjoyed Joey Hess's interview on there. https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/ An interesting juxtaposition of working on technology in a decidedly austere living arrangement…

I'm convinced that almost nobody is good at the whole cycle of creating/maintaining something. Some people are great at coming up with new ideas but quickly bore with the implement…