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Hi Peter, thanks for doing this AMA! I'm a US citizen and my girlfriend is Iranian. She's been in the states for 7 years, first on a student visa then applied for her green card 1.…

> If you know CSS, you also know the style framework. If you understand JavaScript, TypeScript is not a big problem for you. And that makes you a Senior or Principal. Mastery of th…

"Transformers for Natural Language Processing" by Denis Rothman on Packt is a good one. Make sure to get the 2nd edition for the coverage of newer models, particularly the ones fro…

If I remember my high school biology correctly, algae is the old kale.

I started playing around with GPT-3 and it led me down the rabbit hole of NLP and Transformers. I'm kind of blown away by these tools and what they're capable of, particularly when…

I suspect you already know the answer here. The organization, culture, and fit with the role are massively important to your success. What you're describing in Company B sounds lik…

Sorry to hear that you going through that. Not and MS patient personally, but I've been going to a special clinic in Mexico for more than 10 years and MS is one of the conditions t…

I primarily use mine for content creation, reading/learning, and as a machine I can take with me when I'm out-and-about for those times when I need jump online and fix an issue. On…

For pseudonymous ones I usually farm old Ice-T and Opgezwolle lyrics. (Ice-T in the case of my HN username). https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ can also be fun for this.

Indie Hackers has a "partner up" section: https://www.indiehackers.com/group/looking-to-partner-up

Wagtail for Web CMS. It's powerful and well thought-out with all the Django goodness. Plone for CMS that goes beyond web content, and in security-critical environments. About 7 yea…

Two decades in, I still enjoy the work itself. Not every single moment, but on the whole. The people you're working with, and what you're building have a big influence on this.

[1] Considering hiring an engineer or two that you respect, starting with small tightly-scoped projects. I did this when I was solo consulting. It helped me learn new things and id…

On the software side, Reason is a really fun program to work/play with. It has about half a dozen virtual instrument synths, and they are all first class. Particularly: Maelstrom, …

My personal favorite is Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé and Michał Jaworski. Python High Performance by Gabriele Lanaro is also quite good.

I think you'd be better off transiting between urban areas where there's good 5G/4G service, and save your more off-grid adventures for the weekends. I've traveled both US coasts a…

Leetcode and similar sites are a poor proxy for programming ability for most programming jobs. People can be good at the kinds of sites and not be very good programmers in a profes…

Answer emails and Slack messages, review PRs from colleagues, read books/articles, write docs, check the markets, walk my dogs...

Nope. The same magic from the early days is still alive and well. A big part of that is that at times when my work or some aspect of my life starts to interfere with that, I figure…

1) Akai Force (sampler, looper, sequencer). Superb creative tool for making music. I've been recording/looping my djembe and Hang Drum into it. Thinking of picking up a Digitone so…

Nope. Somehow I got all the mania and none of the depression. Lucky draw.

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----- Software engineer focused in the Python/Django ecosystem. I've designed, maintained, and supported mission-critical applications and services for clients including Cisco, Eli…

------ SEEKING WORK Software engineer focused in the Python/Django ecosystem. I've designed, maintained, and supported mission-critical applications and services for clients includ…