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Having lived in Texas for 30+ years and now happily living in southern California, I feel pretty qualified in saying that my personal quality of life is dramatically better in Cali…

I'm hacking on Trailbound, a hiking and backpacking planning tool. The goal is combining a light version of the routing capability of Caltopo or GaiaGPS with more granular "leg" ma…

Big Bend National Park, a two hour drive from the McDonald observatory has extremely dark skies, as does the area immediately around the observatory. On the drive to the observator…

I absolutely love this. I wrote a “book” (really a 30,000ish word tutorial) on Rails development earlier this year and I hated the idea of publishing it as a static PDF so I built …

I posted as a candidate in one thread over the summer and got contacted by ~10 companies and did a handful of interviews — a couple were duds with non-technical founders casting a …

I don't mind the "show me something you've coded" as an alternative to code challenges, but the way it is presented in this article reads an awful lot like it is a way to identify …

This feels like an odd assumption to make about my comment. I don't think all meetings are a waste of time and I certainly don't think people with different work preferences than m…

So tiring to get those responses. My old company was forced to go remote when the pandemic hit and the anxiety that the founder had about remote resulted in meetings about meetings…

Yes, it is important to write and I wish that many folks I've worked with in the past had been better writers (and readers). I am job searching right now after leaving a very, very…

I publish on my own website ( https://colby.so ) which I host on Netlify and publish with Jekyll. For the first year or so I also published every new post on Medium and dev.to (wit…

Glad to hear that. Giving them another look is on my list, I could tell they cared about their docs but it was clear they were still filling in the gaps in some areas.

Render is the closest I've seen to the simplicity of Heroku. Fly.io is also good, but when I tried it (6 months ago) it had a bit more of a learning curve and the documentation was…

The folks building the internet are very, very good at exploiting our weak points to keep us scrolling. I've recently gotten way more aggressive about managing my screen time becau…

Interesting to see the process and royalty rates from a big (tech) publisher. I wrote and self-published a book (really a web app structured like a book) on Ruby on Rails to Gumroa…

Thank you for sharing this piece. Navigating a loss like this in a purely remote environment must have been incredibly challenging — grieving feels like an exercise that we do best…