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My eye sight got MUCH worse after a covid infection. I was 20/20 or better before covid, now everything is blurry outside of a very narrow distance range, and white anything can hu…

So I was part of a company that did this. They used XML as a programming language, then built apps to manage the "code". This was all done to create mobile apps for old Windows Pho…

Long Covid and ME/CFS can make you fragile. At least it has for me. I never used to get emotionally overwhelmed, now I do. I don't have it as bad as she does, but I've been bedboun…

IPOs also kill a lot of companies. Now you have a new list of investors you are obligated to attend to, and what those investors what is not always to make your company more succes…

* How much stress? * How many hours?

Braden Health | Boise (ONSITE) | Full-time We are writing and maintaining health software for rural hospitals in Tennessee and Virginia. Small team, products in active development.…

AI is somehow supposed to generate $1T a year by 2028? From where? Never mind the lack of electric grid capacity to keep all of this running.

She wasn't even reading it, I was telling her my name, all she had to do was repeat it and she couldn't do it.

And you will forever have your name mispronounced by English speakers that can’t wrap their tongues around the -sma or -stra ending. Things like TerpSON, TerpSmith, Terp…. One time…

* Step 2: design is "tested" with the users, later we find out the users really had no idea what was going on because they weren't really paying attention. Then the real product is…

That sucks, since I developed a neurological issue from Covid I could really use a refresh of my nervous system.

Doesn't look like they are paywalling existing feature, just some new AI back functionality. Considering how much is costs to run those sorts of features I can understand. Plus, th…

The language that could have been. I did a bunch of Delphi around the Delphi 5 and 6 era. It was a nice middle ground between VB6 and C++. Unfortunately it made my startup more dif…

You forgot: Engineering is requesting this. So no.

Same boat with having a chronic illness, not fatal, but no cure either. It gets tiring wading thru all the snake oil salesmen selling false hope. And it isn’t them directly, becaus…

I can easily tell the difference between the two, but I really don't care so long as the coffee is brewed well. I still like Maxwell House Black Silk, but at home I grind my own be…

it is highly regulated, but legal in some states. The inspection process for the dairies is pretty intense as well. I would not buy it to drink, but I have used it to make some rea…

Containers is a good example of how things can go wrong as well, especially when you aren't familiar with them, and you are looking into related technologies, like kubernetes, and …

Penatrate and Patch: because if it doesn’t work the first time then throw everything away, fire the developers, hire new ones, and start over completely.

Thank you, I was scratching my head trying to figure that out.

Lets not forget how long it would take to spin up an enterprise database, even in memory, there are hundreds (or thousands) of tables. Also there can be multiple databases with the…

Just like every other year.

My designer will do that, and is pretty good. The problem is my product team, who have very little technical background. They look at the designs are start messing with everything.…

Oh gosh, I have all of this going on right now. My CTO read about microservices and now everything has to be in a microservice. Nothing wrong with that, but for a small development…

Are you a woodworking software engineer or a musician software engineer? Actually, that is probably the same group.