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I graduated college and started the digital nomad thing back in 2016 -- first traveling to mainland China and then spending some time in Taiwan. Intending to stay a stay a few mont…

Something I've enjoyed more than I expected is Google and Apple photos sending me photo memories and compilations of various things in my life and my kids lives over the last decad…

Mostly for myself (stripe isn't actually even hooked up anymore afaik), but a Mandarin language learning app: https://nextword.app . Deepseek v4 pro does a pretty good job of actua…

Actually on my list this week to take a look at putting an intelligence escalation flow MVP together (initial assumption would be that flash is good for 60-80% of my user's workflo…

That's about what we've seen as well (even directly from deepseek themselves). We've been using it for async "heartbeat" processing and sms replies, but it's just too slow for live…

Bought the exact same machine (same config and ram as well) around the same time off ebay for ~$280. Part of me wonders if I should sell it, but I do occasionally like to play with…

I actually enjoy it much more than I thought I would. I love tinkering and solving problems on the computer, and it's fun to have a space to do it with my hands in the real world. …

This was around 2020-2022 during COVID, but the whole process from start to finish from Taiwan took a little over two years for us (we had issues with the financial supporting docu…

Just bought that exact kit for my Minisforum 790S7 build at the eye watering $592... Kicking myself as I was just starting to contemplate it early Oct but not yet seriously looking…

Have you checked out Ona [1] (gitpod's pivot)? [1] https://ona.com/

As a mostly java dev, I choose Rails 8 w/ Jumpstart Pro [1] for my latest startup and it's been a joy to work with. There is something about Rails' convention over configuration th…

Curious if the suspend / hibernate "just works" when you close the lid? I feel like I've tried several times to get this working in both Linux and Windows on various laptops and ha…

Although I think Cursor has the best UX (love how they queue up diffs that you then go through and can review/approve/deny easily while the agent still works), I've since switched …

I've recently been experimenting with Jumpstart Rails [1] in Cursor and it feels like a super power (coming from a generalist-but-mostly-spring-boot dev). I'm really burnt out by t…

Kotlin would have definitely been a step up over Java purely for null safety. In hindsight, RoR or Django would probably have been a better starting place considering their financi…

The startup that I work at had started as a project a contracting company had taken on, and they had chosen Java Spring Boot to handle their REST API backend back in 2020. Although…

> Oh, and the original author doesn't work here anymore so no one's here to explain the original code's intent. To be fair, even if I still work there I don't know that I'm going t…

I've always had the entrepreneurial bug (selling websites on craigslist when I was 13), and feel I'm now in a good place financially, skillset wise (my last role was a tech-lead / …

IANAL or Accountant, but just a heads up that under the new Section 174 rules, foreign developers have to be amortized over 15 years (5 years for a domestic developer)

I'm currently a US Citizen living abroad in Taiwan. If I want to run a bootstrapped startup while living in Taiwan that sells to mostly US based businesses, but is developed by 109…

Hsinchu, Taiwan Pro: Taiwan is overall a very convenient place to live. Cheap delicious food; convenience stores on every other block; public transportation is great in Taipei, dec…

Same thing in our case -- we didn't want to move to the US right away (wanted to spend ~6-9 more months in Taiwan anyway). It ended up being a 2 year slog through covid, was brutal…

Had literally the exact same issue with my spouse, but without the luck of finding an insurance person who cared. At the end of the day, it wasn't worth the $200 to continue fighti…

When I was 12-13 I wanted to get a new gaming laptop, and so learned enough HTML to sell custom websites on Craigslist for $50 a pop over a summer, and made close to $600 (my paren…