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Any evidence of that?

I don't have a lot of answers, but to echo what you're seeing, it seems a lot harder to get a foot in the door than 15 years ago when I was getting my first freelance jobs. This is…

Are they actually verifying identity when you subscribe? If not, a little vamity badge doesn't represent much as a value proposition.

freudian slip

That doesn't bear out in interviews and the remuneration stage of hiring. The main struggle is lack of sufficiently skilled applicants. The problem might be our ability to attract …

Send me your cv and let's see if a suitable project or task comes up. jobs@openup.org.za

> But take it from me, someone who has volunteered for civic tech organizations and have participated in ground work for political campaigns. The most positive impact you could pos…

Openup.org.za and civic tech in general. I work there. See code for all and code for america.

Indeed. I think it's important to bear in mind that it's ok for the abstractions to differ, and for the view to translate between the abstractions inside the system and the abstrac…

Design has gotten blurry - is UX part of design? I kinda see these parts as part of (non-dev-technical) design and designers differ in the degree to which they own these - visual d…

It very much is. A UX consultant we used introduced me to the term and it was incredibly helpful. This training series from webflow touches on it, but perhaps not as much detail as…

Specifically, dokku provides - configuration management as env vars - reverse proxy routing traffic for a given hostname to the correct container, swapping to the new container upo…

Very handy! What might be nice is a quick way to delete stuff if you accidentally send something sensitive to a public instance.

I was literally just posting a story to that effect :)

This reminds me of when I built an amplifier around 2002. Just before this I built a crystal radio - basically a very long wire, a diode, and a crystal earphone. No amplifier.neede…

I don't know, I'm not sure the fridge would give a good indication of the microwave's leakiness.

They don't. I hear the same overstatement of what vpns will provide in terms of security from non-technical and sometimes technical people. Somewhere these misrepresentations are b…

Broken fibres bounce light back. The time it takes for a pulse to return can be used to estimate the location of the break pretty accurately.

The whole article seems full of conjecture and generalisation. A big example: > Another advantage of a conventional cab design is that the truck can be more economical. Surely they…

I recognise a lot of what you say and empathise. One of the reasons i chose comouter science was that it was an engineering discipline where I didn't have to wait for materials. I …

But... UBI doesn't destroy what might be taken away. That money immediately goes and does work, and eventually it potentially improves the environment of those it was taken from. I…

Not directly the answer to your question, but if I may comment on the background to your question: - There's a place for backend focused development for the web. So you don't have …

This touched on a productivity hack I used when I was younger which really bites me now: > Paul advocates cultivating a sense of “discomfort” when you’re not working. I’m not going…