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Death cults be like...

Europeans are members of the reality-based community.

Bandcamp + iTunes Match is the sauce for folks in the Apple ecosystem.

Teaching myself React for the first time. It's not easy to learn WebDev in today's complexity environment, but at least I have Chat GPT as a tutor.

- 2024 will see the rise of job-keeping as a core skill set for everyone except the most technical or most soft-skilled persons. Individuals will need to prove to their employer or…

Monarch as a financial management tool / Mint replacement. Ref link: https://www.monarchmoney.com/referral/chszg37bgv Regular link: https://www.monarchmoney.com/

This is a bit out-there, and might come off as server recruitment... but if anyone is lonely and wants to talk about weird bass music, dubstep, DnB, Garage, etc. - here's a Discord…

More and more, I'm finding myself using Notion to track "life data stuff". I realize this is a very imperfect choice, but it offers the best tooling I've found so far for this sort…

I also use LibraryThing, and I switched over when GoodReads was acquired by Amazon. I love LibraryThing, and they do monthly giveaways of new books by indie authors. I try to recom…

I use Monarch. I pay a monthly fee for it, but it has zero ads, tracks all the accounts I care about, and gives me a simple interface for the "envelope method" on web and mobile. I…

I manage a team of SDETs, and I've written a formal 90-day onboarding plan with 12 weekly sections that include checklists at the end of each week. We store this in Notion, so for …

Can you name some of the innovation happening in ICE vehicles? Just some terms I can search for would be appreciated. Thanks!

This anxiety is very common. In the best, most blameless organizational cultures, team members are allowed to say "I didn't get much done yesterday" on an occasional basis and are …

I visit the HN site very rarely. I mostly see HN links via the Panda browser plugin. I open stories I'm interested in, which then leads to tab hell, but that is at least a defined …

I'm a similar late-bloomer who had to work my way into a tech job the hard way. No college degree, etc. Yes, it's possible - though it's quite hard. My advice would be to ask aroun…

Good mentorship is REALLY hard to find. If you can be a good mentor to someone, that's a big deal.

Make art.

1. Accept that you may never lose your stage-fright, but you may be able to turn that fear to your advantage (motivation to prepare, or improve performance style). Winston Churchil…

Do our eyeballs have vanilloid receptors? Why does it irritate our eyes if the full effect comes from taste bud neurotransmitters? I think capsaicin must be doing some other work a…

I do test automation in Javascript (Cypress) as part of the QA team at a small (less than 100-person) startup solving a real problem and making revenue from customers. I like it a …

Came here to suggest this. I find the Dev.to community to be generally beginner-friendly, helpful, constructive, and kind.

An overview of what a typical software team looks like, and some sort of role rotation so young people get a taste of all the jobs that come together to create software. Obviously …

+1 vote for Namecheap, for folks looking for a registrar. There are several good ones, Namecheap is just the one I like.

The answer never loads if using Brave with Shields up, even after allowing JS.

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