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Exactly! I've been working on a side project that I started in 2020. If I wanted to implement a new feature it was: - Wait for regular work hours to wrap up around 5 or 6 PM - Get …

I just sent my single client a monthly subscription link via stripe. $875 a month for service and support on a custom built loyalty platform. Make about $25K up front to build it, …

Built a bespoke loyalty points system for a chain of gas stations back in 2020. Thought at first it would be a one time deliverable and then I could move on with my life. Cut to to…

I'm accustomed to seeing large plumes of chemicals coming out the other end in my minds eye when I think about rocket launches. This looks "clean" coming out the exhaust. Why is th…

I'm reading through the book the blog mentions right now and building a small LLM. I'm only on chapter 2, but so far it's helped clarify a lot of things about LLMs and break it dow…

Working on a loyalty points platform. Right now it's been commissioned by one customer and is a hodgepodge of duct tape and glue. Trying to slowly refactor functions so I can truly…

Born Guyanese, but only lived there until I was 3, then we moved to St. Lucia. Have lots of memories from visiting over summers and Christmas multiple times when I was a kid. Mostl…

This is cool, I've thought of building something like this for years now. The price is a bit high, but glad to see it in the real world.

I'm building a loyalty points platform. Started off as a one off solution for a single client, but then I realized that I could generalize it. The one off solution is running for m…

AI is definitely a big part of it. When I would search Google with a technical question and land on StackOverflow I was looking for an answer. Sometimes you get a post which is sim…

yeah check out this other reply thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353838

Broad strokes: I went to school with the son of the owner. For about 3 years off and on he'd been asking me about building apps, where he could find good devs, what price to pay. I…

So back in 2021 I built a loyalty platform for a chain of gas stations in the Caribbean. Thought it would be a quick deliverable, then hands off. It's turning into a full time side…

> Your boss is ok with your performance. Why overthink it? This is what I had to learn to let go of imposter syndrome. All the mental hand wringing, constant worry and fear even af…

I don't recall ever seeing it in the wild, but I remember it as a JS script you could add to your site from a page that I think was http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ I may have played a…

Lots of comments in here disregarding the author's take, but there is a pervasive alcohol culture in most US workplaces. One place I worked at did champagne for birthdays and major…

Sidebar: This is the first piece of content out there in the wild where I've noticed a Dall-E generated image for an article.

Never forget: The original version of Javascript was written in 10 days. Javascript is a mess, especially at smaller shops which may face pressures to ship projects to a client tha…

I moved away from for profit orgs to work for a social movement org a few years back. Your best bet is to find orgs that you like, and reach out to them. Some may have a careers pa…

I gamble with the devil. They sit on a 14 TB HDD. Of that about 70% of my photos are backed up to Glacier, but the remaining 20% needs to be culled (lots of repeated shots from cam…

Yeah, I feel like that a lot. 1. Usually I've found it takes about 1 year to fully understand a significantly large organisation and how it works. 2. After a while, it stops matter…

At the end of the day stories reflect our society and LoTR is just another story. All of the classic stories we tell kids have evolved over time and are no longer true to their ori…

I’m reading through The Pragmatic Programmer again, this time stopping at each tip along the way and thinking about my work and how what the book is talking about applies to me. Th…

Don't fall into the trap of needing the "best specs" for the job. Camera's from the 2010s were producing great images in color and black and white. Go to a store that sells cameras…

I keep telling myself: "He who worries, suffers twice". I can't remember who the quote is attributed to, but it's a helpful little phrase that reminds me that it's better to just s…