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While that is a possible sequence of events, it may have been a different cause/effect relationship. From what I saw losing the Nintendo World Championship wasn't something she was…

As a former amateur Twitch.tv streamer, I've always been fascinated by the rise and fall of internet personalities, and some of the biggest personalities seem to be game developers…

I definitely feel you, as I also went to Christian school for my whole academic career and decided I didn't believe right at the end. Some thoughts, The people who are making a str…

Like all advice, this is good for some people and bad for others. I've heard a whole lot of advice to slow down, make sure you don't burn out, and don't miss life. And for people w…

SEEKING WORK - Remote, Indiana USA - Full Stack Web Developer Do you find yourself or your employees doing the same thing over and over again? I'll build you a back office webapp t…

I had this idea once that I would pay $10 an hour to have a fairly new programmer sit next to me while writing freelance code and be a human sounding board, design helper, and comp…

Funny you should say that - when I first started doing this I tried to get some of my friends to join me. They all fell apart from the lack of structure and went back to their old …

I'd be happy to talk - I'll email you.

I spent most of the last 5 years working about 10 hours a week at $90 a hour on a recurring freelance gig, which was enough to live comfortably in the midwest (my rent is currently…

That's fair enough, but also why I looked for other people who had similar experiences. I'm definitely not always right, that is true. I am not a doctor, lawyer, or accountant.

A good hypothesis can be used to make predictions. I'm just saying with my foot issues that the heuristic of "subtractive medicine is better than additive medicine" was able to pre…

I would argue that yes, sugar is natural, but the degree that people tend to eat sugar these days is unnatural. I'd argue that is the root problem. And to respond to the first imag…

I think some nuance here is needed. My understanding of "natural" primarily comes from an understanding of evolutionary history. If humans have been doing something for millions of…

In one of my favorite books, Antifragile, Nassim Taleb argues that health is largely subtractive - if you want to be healthy, remove unnatural things from your body (sugar, medicin…

I'm attempting to start do the whole solopreneur online make your own business passive income thing, and it hit me one day that I was spending a whole lot of money in expensive pla…

I play around with NodeJS and front end frameworks like React for my own side projects, but all of my paying client work is made with good ol Django. It just does so many things we…

This year I want to get my first SaaS app out the door. Just started working on making a tool with my friend for documenting and testing apis. Tangentially related, I've been readi…

Some of the books I enjoyed the most and found most helpful: - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain - Helped me better understand myself …

Using Sharpkeys ( http://www.randyrants.com/2011/12/sharpkeys_35.html ) I remap Alt to be Ctrl, the Windows key to be Alt, and Ctrl to be the Windows key. Especially on laptop keyb…

SEEKING WORK: Remote only (based in Indiana, USA) Hi, I'm David. Together with my colleague Jesse, we are a small but effective dev shop, having built web apps for a number of busi…

Test-Driven Web Development with Python. Very well written and engaging. The prerelease version is available free online at http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754 . I'…

If you are interested in seeing more of the best speedrunners, Awesome Games Done Quick is happening in January. It is a week-long 24/7 marathon of speedrunning to raise money for …

When the url flashed up on screen at the end, I felt compelled to go to your site, so I'd say it worked. Very since production quality for a low-budget video. I would be highly tem…

SEEKING WORK - Remote or Lafayette, Indiana Hi! I'm David Colgan, a web app developer specializing in Django. I especially enjoy creating the MVPs for new startups. I am as much at…

SEEKING WORK - Remote or Lafayette Indiana. Available for part-time work or one-off projects. I worked for two or so years in a young web marketing firm and am now freelancing on m…