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About ioddly
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Comment #38411265
I bought a Beelink mini PC to replace the cloud VM that hosts a few things for me. I'm tired of resizing my little EBS volumes, and want to store more data. At the discounted price…
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Comment #37338990
I only use it as a light tracker of what I've read, but I'm moving to Obsidian for this purpose. The main thing it does for me is be a relatively good way to search up metadata abo…
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Comment #26051434
You're in a position where you can comfortably take some time off and explore what to do next. Your spending + assets seem to me like you're comfortably financially independent eve…
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Comment #25409034
I've had this repo starred on GitHub for a while. Sadly it doesn't seem to have been updated, but it's a good start: https://github.com/Yonaba/awesome-one-person-games
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Comment #22650749
How are you finding it so far? I set out to build my own contenteditable based editor and after a couple weeks of banging my head on it, I do appreciate Prosemirror's very rigorous…
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Comment #22350775
Yep, I think this is the fifth? I've lost track honestly. I do use it daily, but I know I can do a lot better. The next one probably will not have any noticeable Trello/kanban heri…
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Comment #22344905
I'm building it for myself, since I don't think anything will do exactly what I want it to. I wrote https://github.com/upvalue/meditations for this, but it's not nearly as powerful…
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Comment #21716717
Fathom has a self hosted open source version which I found to be fine. I checked recently and it looks like commits have slowed down so I'm not sure if it's maintained.
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Comment #21624843
Fabrice Bellard: http://bellard.org Notable: no social media, nothing like that. Just shows up occasionally with something that would take another dev probably a couple years to do…
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Comment #21615965
No. It's never been easier to make high quality software. I can run my own cloud environment, make quality user interfaces, integrate with third party providers to trivially do pre…
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Comment #20815440
> Also, in my exp your manager, boss, lead has alot to do with the amount of stress. To explicate a little, I've found stress mostly relates to the expectations of people around me…
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Comment #20709635
Yes. I just use my own journaling app which I wrote (sorely needs an update). I track some things through there (exercise) and other things using more specialized tools (finances).…
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Comment #20670819
I've just got a syncthing set up with all my configuration and data. "Spinning up" a new computer takes me an afternoon, which I doubt I could improve on enough by using more profe…
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Comment #20600912
I'm trying to figure this out myself. I have freelanced for years from Houston and it's been fine. I avoided moving somewhere more expensive because my income was inconsistent, but…
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Comment #20543187
I just tell them I'm too busy with work...which is eventually true.
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Comment #20512294
I did two months ago on a freelance gig.
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Comment #20496224
I have two pieces of advice: - Avoid middlemen to the extent possible. Some (not Upwork) can be a good place to fill some hours, but in general they're not a sustainable source of …
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Comment #20418375
I'm curious how old those folks were. I was I would guess the only person without a degree in my department at my last job (definitely the only dev without one) and never felt this…
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Comment #20204876
I used to use dwm, I switched to Awesome for some reason (I want to say systray). Both solid.
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Comment #20199087
I use a laptop with a tiling window manager when I'm travelling or at the office, desktop with single monitor and tiling WM at home. Last job had 2x nice dells for each developer, …
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Comment #20024523
I'd also appreciate one phil@upvalue.io if anyone happens to have one. Have been lurking for a while and interested in participating.
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Comment #20011423
I did this recently and it kept autocapitalizing/correcting things, and I kept wasting time reflexively changing them. There's probably a code syntax option buried somewhere in the…
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Comment #20010851
> holding company meetings w/ minutes How do you hold meetings with minutes in a single person LLC? With clients/subcontractors/advisors maybe? I'm not being sarcastic, my accounta…