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Small point but most of the entries Ive seen has been logged on the 23rd of July 2026. Today is the 20th of July 2026.

Thank you, I needed to read this.

I clicked on that link, saw clashing colours and a general lack of UX design principles and immediately closed it.

This is very cool!! Have you considered making a WebGL game that uses eye tracking for things like aiming? Could be very cool and one of the very few accessible games

Dude this is SICK! Well done, it must have taken a lot of determination to get here.

Haven't crawled through the repo (yet) but quick question - where does the data that is being searched over come from? Are you loading a library or searching some large library acq…

In my experience, teams getting laid off are generally (not always) experimental, high risk / high reward, horizon 2 type bets. Ie not the main function of the company or one of th…

Thanks, will put that one on the list :D

Thanks, putting The Culture Map on the list ^_^

Thanks for the input!!

Thanks, really appreciate this input! Finding a mentor is easier said than done but agree that it's an important step.

Some context: I'm a Software Engineer turned Data Engineer working in big tech (not MAANG) who has recently committed to (as in agreed with my manager) transition to being a manage…

Well, the _entire stock image industry_ has surely been disrupted. If you relied on stock imagery last year as your primary source of income, you may be out of work come next year.…

Good job! I've had a number of spotify API side projects that never got this far. +1 for access to source ^_^

A data dictionary of 200+ business metrics used in a large water utility company, listing clear explanations, pseudo SQL and source data lineage. Before this there were 5 different…

I'm having loads of issues with Notion this morning bu downdetector and the official Notion status page says there are no issues. Even the Notion website fails to load some times..…

Yeah not really working as expected. Was interested in this as I'm looking to build a "swearing detector" to help me swear less in video calls but this could not pick up one senten…

So many cans of worms

I have a similar situation - although my gap is much smaller (~4 months) it still is big enough to raise questions. But it hasn't. In the last 3-4 months I've interviewed with over…

PS - If anyone feels like notion is a vibe and want to try it out, I wouldn't be against you signing up using this link: https://www.notion.so/?r=f5b9c5492da44f55bedb473d92a0bfb1 T…

I've recently discovered Notion (www.notion.so) and it's changed A LOT for me. The main selling point is that it's all the other tools - Trello, Kanban, Asana, Google Sheets (to an…

Here's a simple scraper to download the entire collection: https://github.com/Rendiere/vanScrape

Rome 2 rio - https://www.rome2rio.com/ is a great tool to see what the different transportation options are. Say, for example, you want to travel from Lisbon to Berlin, rome2rio wi…

Hey dude, I'm in pretty much the same position: mid twenties, white male, working tech industry etc but with a twist - I live in South Africa where inequality is a dinner table top…