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That's what the https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/backdoor-roth-ira.asp is for, assuming you don't have any existing traditional IRA balances

They are largely congressional jobs programs, not traditional business investments

Introvert doesn't mean one doesn't enjoy socializing, just that one needs quiet down time to recharge from it. Extroverts tend to be energized by socialization. It's also not alway…

1:1s don't have to be strictly manager:report I'm a staff eng and have 1:1s with other managers I don't report to and my peer staff/principle engs in other reporting chains and the…

$499 2007 dollars when the first iPhone launched is about $820 in 2026 dollars The basic iPhone 17 starts at $799 The 17e is only $599 If anything the iPhone is getting cheaper in …

Sounds very similar to The Heroes Journey, which was a heavily modified EverQuest emulation server that got destroyed in court by Daybreak Games, the current owners/operators of EQ…

Which is short for "How do you do?"

You've never had a manager or product person take estimates, even clearly communicated as low confidence or rife with unknowns, as gospel truth? Lucky you.

The majority of Americans are W2 wage earners that take the standard deduction.

QA and SDET has been gutted as a role more or less industry-wide over the past 10-15 years. Nobody in charge cares about quality. Devs doing their own QA is like Boeing doing its o…

Resources or the care, tbh. FOSS is a big umbrella and a lot of it simply isn't meant for "customers". Some FOSS apps clearly are trying to build a user base, in which case yeah th…

If manufacturers in general were serious about improving efficiency they'd stop putting huge heavy wheels on everything, instead of chasing fractions of a percent with overcomplica…

I've run many hundreds of hours with two variations of AirPods and they've never once fallen out

Yeah something is very CPU intensive on this otherwise plaintext site. The cutesy concurrent visitor cursors perhaps?

My home fiber is symmetric gigabit in Seattle, for $65/mo

Me too, the hard part is showing that this slower, more methodical process is more valuable than the flashy, quick shallow approach. And it means I might have to chew on a problem …

Having worked full time and saving for the past 15+ years

Honestly I'd love to check bags more often, but it's too frequently an inordinately slow and risky proposition. I get free checked bags through my preferred airline's credit card, …

Yes, and out in the world there are many things that are called "consulting", which adds to the ambiguity of what it even means

"Consulting" is a term so generic and ill-defined it almost doesn't mean anything at all. When I did software consulting, I was basically a decent "modern" web dev brought into cru…

To some extent, yes. Most notably, I published a little browser extension I created to scratch a personal itch. It got a little bit of attention and users, and then the feature req…