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Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052 Recently went through this discussion with two friends. For now we are doing PocketBase for a simple, extendable BaaS,…

Following up, a note on infrastructure. We are cheap, so our LAN is Tailscale. One of us provided a Mac mini where we installed Dokku to host containers and development servers. Fo…

What a timely question! A couple of friends and I have been wrestling with the question, and coming from the enterprise world, have been retooling for producing code over producing…

Pretty much a continuation of what I started in late 2022 * I want some certifications, and just finished studying for Microsoft PowerApps. I'm going to scheduled that test, go for…

I have battled this since programming became my profession. Over years I was trained to create in ways that maximize income, and stop when there is no income link. Decades later, t…

I would assume that you will have basic utilities without interruption -- water, electricity. Supply chains could, theoretically, have disruptions as the disease runs through the w…

This is the key issue. If a company is built to be remote -- over documentation; excessive communication; no two people are local to each other; a culture around the online communi…

This is a common issue, but most do not recognize it. Fewer do anything about it. My feeling is that the author's definition of what is needed, and what is normal, is out of whack.…

Technically my advice is to expand his focus to building wealth from more than just increasing income. But yes, you get the idea. Stock, options, etc.

Much good advice has been given here. You should consider it all. I am here to offer another approach for consideration. My perspective is from working in Silicon Valley in the US …

This. Though I also may be old and crusty. Mark Twain said it nicely: "If you have to eat a frog, do it first thing in the morning. If you have to eat two, eat the bigger one first…

Congratulations on your promotion! Let me recommend the classics: _The Phoenix Project_ and _High Output Management_ by Andy Grove. The latter is from 1983, but the principles are …

I am not the original poster, but you can do much worse than reading and really thinking about _The Phoenix Project_ and _High Output Management_.

I read alot on Kindle Unlimited, but mostly it's garbage. Fills the time while waiting in lines. My better quality reading is on Audible as I have one of those long Silicon Valley …

I am having trouble relating. As an engineering manager, not jumping in and doing what the team should do is a major challenge for me. It turns out that as a manager I've greatly i…

I'll be counter-cultural. Get a Bible.

My approach is to try to make the discussion irrelevant. Instead, I'm going a bit extreme and making all my real machines VMs, and working off a chromebook. The theory is that I ca…

Steve Gibson of the _Security Now!_ podcast recommends ProXpn. They do sponsor the show, but Steve has vetted them, and in the absence of vetting services myself I'd go with his re…