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josefdlange

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About josefdlange

I'm a big fan of balancing a thoughtful and responsible life with a career driven by compassion more than ambition. Trying to live up to that standard along the way.

Email me @ josef.d.lange@gmail.com to get in touch.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48945723

    Well, no coffee needed this morning. $103,515,940,301.79

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    Comment #48591090

    Ultimately you're going to have to decide your risk tolerance and how much you value the intangible elements of it as an experience. Practically and fiscally speaking, it's a bad c…

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    Comment #47307698

    I like to alternate yoga and traditional gym days. The yoga is still hard work but has more restorative qualities, and often complements my gym work rather well. That said, I still…

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    Comment #47056827

    Too true! Feels extra nice to be able to spread the sentiment of gratitude so far and wide. Keep it up!

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    Comment #47056772

    Holy moly -- you're behind Relisten, OP? I owe you a great debt of gratitude for the hours of musical joy Relisten has given me.

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    Comment #47056756

    I'm just here for the Grateful Dead reference.

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    Comment #41561532

    When I've had longer-running test/lint suites in the past, I've added simple sounds to the ends of their run scripts (birds chirping for success, alarm blare for fail) that help me…

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    Comment #41096650

    For a long time I used names of (usually) the transitional metals on the periodic table. It started just as "Titanium" for a PowerBook G4 since that was its codename anyway, but we…

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    Comment #40648112

    Universal Access (Control? Whatever it's called) between multiple Macs not only allows sharing input methods but also dragging files back and forth, and works pretty seamlessly. I …

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    Comment #40647619

    Nostalgia unlocked...

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    Comment #40354747

    Just dropping in to say I appreciate the kind and friendly contextualization of your feedback. It would be really easy for someone in your position to be unfriendly in communicatin…

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    Comment #38038723

    So, Mary Shelley (and her character, Viktor Frankenstein) was right?

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    Comment #37659125

    1. Yep. Very small company which made it all the more painful as my former colleagues have become close friends. The hard lesson? The bottom line makes exceptions for no one. 2. Ye…

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    Comment #37358079

    Location: Milwaukee, WI Remote: Preferred (US timezones) Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Falcon, peewee, Golang, JavaScript, React, HTMX, HTML, CSS, (P…

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    Comment #37298597

    Reading this comment and its replies, I think it's evident that there's no "rule" as far as what you should or shouldn't do goes. For example, I had a second major in theatre, but …

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    Comment #36766116

    I would love to see this conversion made into a webpack plugin that logs out the closest "weight" of your build, sort of like those apps that tell you how "big" your fetus is at ce…

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    Comment #36493699

    Well damn, you learn something new every day.

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    Comment #35343481

    I'd love to see ChatGPT read a commit or series of commits, and synthesize the code that they describe. `chat-commit -m "Implemented a new view that returns random images of kitten…

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    Comment #33648021

    I have a corgi and that tracks for me. To people who don't have corgs, they're sweet kind friendly cute delicate beautiful creatures. The those of us who have been blessed with cor…

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    Comment #33532150

    This is a Quality comment.

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    Comment #33334661

    Not to mention explicit language about _not planning to support the Webpack API 1:1_...

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    Comment #31518628

    Every time I mow the lawn, I think about how nice a little popcorn game (think [early] Angry Birds scale) lawn-mowing would make. You control the operator, who is pushing or riding…

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    Comment #31101066

    This, like most apps of its kind, struggles from a bootstrap problem. I live in a fairly non-tech-centric area, one where finding a good remote-work spot would be very useful, but …

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    Comment #30765522

    This is so thoughtful and so kindly written. I appreciate you taking the time to write this out for OP. I hope your grandmother truly did continue to find joy later in life. If you…

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    Comment #30077300

    For simple sharing without giving it away, what about a RotN where N starts at an arbitrary value (13, for example) but increments for each successive character? ALPHA becomes NZEX…