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midnightmonster

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About midnightmonster

Lead Developer, Johnson Law Group

  email: [
    "joshua@l_tt_rblock.com".replace(/_/g,'e'),
    "jpai_e@joh_so_lawgroup.com".replace(/_/g,'n')
  ],
  url: "https://joshuapaine.com"
Longtime JS hacker, loving Svelte, expert with Ruby & Rails 2.x-7.

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Interests: Art, Books, Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Freelancing, Open Source, Philosophy, Programming, Remote Work, Running, Startups, UI/UX Design, Web Development, Writing

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #42948426

    I think I understand what it does and it looks interesting and appealing. My team would need Ruby support. Not sure if you'll be able to connect the graph properly in Ruby, but it …

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    Comment #42772571

    The law firm I work for (as lead software engineer) did the TN thing for a Canadian software engineer hire for my team last year. [I was not involved in the paperwork but] my under…

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    Comment #42189534

    Remarkably clear, straightforward, and useful material.

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    Comment #42110144

    Ordered, and I'm grateful you showed HN. One of my teenage sons is a brilliant improviser, and I'm thrilled at the idea of having a plug-and-play way to capture what he plays.

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    Comment #41754120

    I have done, and I’m pretty comfortable working for hours in it, but I generally only use it for work when I’m away from my home office, so nowhere close to daily.

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    Comment #40565033

    Johnson Law Group | REMOTE | Full-time | Multiple Roles | $75k-$195k | Benefits We're working with Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Tailwind CSS, Hotwire, Svelte, Heroku, and Salesforce de…

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    Comment #39984081

    ...did not subdue anger in the participants _as much as throwing it away did_. Just writing it down and filing it also seemed to help, just not as much.

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    Comment #39851442

    This might just be the sort of people and companies I hang out with, but at my last gig two of the other three developers on my team had failed startup founder in their career hist…

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    Comment #37785861

    I was glad to have the opportunity to try it, and I’ll probably try it again, but I only made it two minutes into my five minute singing bowls immersion before I got too annoyed wi…

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    Comment #33835241

    This is cool! Re: multiple aggregates in one query, I wrote a Ruby gem that adds an even-more-powerful and multi-database-compatible version to ActiveRecord. (I have tested Postgre…

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    Comment #33330083

    Background: I have only worked on small teams, usually in small companies. I have done hiring and firing and had one newly-hired employee dealing with burnout and others with other…

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    Comment #32410913

    I don't think I'm (very?) autistic. Still, I share all 4 points of experience with OP, most frequently with one person with whom I've worked off and on for 15 years. We've grown ov…

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    Comment #32410580

    When you notice your self-perception is out of alignment with how other people perceive you, especially on an axis you value (e.g., intellectual humility in the author's case), I t…

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    Comment #31684037

    If you had a friend who frequently spends their own money and time to help other people, those other people take credit for their work, they don't get paid, and they feel guilty if…

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    Comment #31586551

    Track1099 by Avalara | Ruby on Rails Developer; Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://track1099.com Track1099 makes it easy to e-file and e-deliver ~40 diff…

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    Comment #31122761

    Sounds like temporary appeasement. ~6 years ago I switched from full time remote freelancing/consulting to full time at a local startup with just a handful of employees and 1 day/w…

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    Comment #29702586

    As soon as I get up, put in airpods and listen to Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours: Morning Prayer and Office of Readings (Scripture-based prayers on a 4-week cycle, Scripture a…

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    Comment #29113354

    Why do you feel like you "need to get [your negativity] out?" What's the connection between thinking these thoughts, like evaluating worst case scenarios, and blogging them or sayi…

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    Comment #27710554

    This looks very much worth a try. I've already ordered a kit. If it works well, there's probably 3-4 people in my household that could benefit from it. Is there a way for us to sha…

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    Comment #27462012

    Key word "desired". Make the slow channel the longest reasonable time that any of them want. If they want shorter, well, there's medium channel or slow. You pick. If they want even…

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    Comment #27234787

    I got a Uniterra Nomad—a different take on a manual espresso maker. The website looks like a fake store, but I found enough reviews on blogs to convince me it was legit. It's reall…

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    Comment #25964232

    In this article: * People are angry about different things. Maybe different kinds of things, but a taxonomy isn't important to the exploration. * Telling people they SHOULD NOT be …

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    Comment #25765386

    Congrats on launching. Page is only working intermittently for me, and the demo hasn't managed to load. I've been tracking my own time for the last ~month using progressive version…

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    Comment #25066051

    Seems really interesting but (alas) hasn't been updated in 5 years.

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    Comment #24101194

    Unless they meant literally a calorie, not the more common large calorie or kilocalorie. In which case they'd be claiming that 1km ride burned ~10 calories, which is at least at th…