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Australia here also. I'm a Tech Lead with a solid CV looking for a new gig. I'm finding it noticeably more difficult to get recruiter attention (let alone interviews) than I'd expe…

I highly recommend joining your local makerspace: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces A makerspace gives you a place to explore + learn new skills and hobbies as we…

A lot of people here seem to take the "Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and therefore is worthless" line. I don't hold any bitcoin and I don't feel strongly either way. But this piec…

I second this approach. I often find myself in similar situations as OP's, working with a client to understand a complex or ill-defined problem space and developing solutions in an…

Making and fixing things is a very rewarding way to spend your time. A great way to develop your maker-fu is to join your local Hacker/makerspace: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Lis…

In an ABC (Australia) news story this week a journalist who was involved back in 1989 recounted that families were only allowed to collect the bodies of victims from hospitals and …

A lot of comments here bemoan "Full Stack Engineers" as being Jacks of All Trades but Masters of None. But that misses the point. Don't forget that the full quote is: “A jack of al…

Apparently because their special phones have "new, long-range radio hardware" that makes this all possible. But radio technologies are pretty widely understood and while I'm no exp…

Join your local makerspace. If you don't have a local makerspace, start one.

"If the industry and government would reach a solution that would enable access that doesn't go to removing electronic protection, and doesn't attract that prohibition against syst…

Frame situations in such a way that you're happy with whichever outcome eventuates. Simple example: Tomorrow's Saturday. If it's Sunny we can go on that family picnic we were talki…

Highly recommend joining a makerspace. Our makerspace (sparkcc.org) is quite tech-focussed and attracts a lot of people with a professional or hobbyist interest in tech. I've been …

+1 I used Tornado in the past because it had an async event loop before it was native to Python. So much simpler than having to set up wsgi servers etc with the added benefit of ea…

Andrew gave a great talk on this very topic at PyCon AU in August. Still at the formative stages it seems... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7taKQnndfo

I used aiohttp for a small project recently and found that it to be very good. Combined with aiohttp-json-rpc I had a very effective websocket-based JSON RPC backend service up and…

Circa-2000 I was in my final year of university and working as a Windows service desk monkey in the SysAdmin team of a Sydney-based company that developed a platform for hosting (l…

Living in a share house in London (I'm Australian) with my fiance while earning decent money working for a tech company and taking every opportunity I had to go to gigs, travel Eur…

Any fans of Bosch's work should also check out Dave Patchett ( http://davepatchett.net/ ). I'm not sure if Dave's been active recently but he's best known for the use of his painti…

There is now potential for side-projects involving small-scale manufacturing thanks to recent advances in 3D printing. A friend and I created Enstaved [1] ("Customized Staves and A…

Several people have mentioned Flask. Eve is a well-written and actively-developed Flask framework for building RESTful API services: http://python-eve.org . It's most at home with …

I co-founded and run a makerspace called SparkCC ( http://sparkcc.org ). It's not-for-profit but I've met lots of amazing people. I've been able to use my skills and knowledge to h…

You can also train your brain to be better at coming up with ideas. In his book Choose Yourself (my review here: https://jimter.net/book-review-james-altucher-choose-yoursel... ) J…