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After years of building for companies, I finally built something for myself. Aura Tracker: Habits & Goals is now live on the iOS App Store. It's an opinionated productivity system …

Hey everyone, I'm a Senior Engineer at a large tech company with over 20 years of experience. For the last 5 years, my role has primarily revolved around devops, tech leadership (s…

My feedback would be to not restrict to books. You would get more traction with movies / web/tv series or even video games.

Taking some inputs here, is solo game dev (something of the scope of stardew valley) still a viable career option in 2025 to earn a decent revenue ? Or is it more of winning a lott…

I'm always curious to know whats the motivation behind these kind of side projects ? Is it just to scratch a technical itch ? To build a product for oneself because you are not rea…

I know the answer I would get if I ask chatgpt on what to do if you are stuck in a rut in your day job. But in reality, if you are in a day job which's mostly mundane work with lit…

How is this different from Power BI ? Or is this software on similar lines as Power BI ?

Looks very good and really impressive if it was built all by your lonesome !! Not trying to be pessimistic, but doesn't notion give you all these already ? Or did I miss something …

Not exactly 30 years ago, but I started my career in early-mid 2000s at a IT services firm. We were working on fixing bugs/building small features for a telecom network equipment o…

Lately, I feel exhausted with all the late night meetings thats required of me at work. Discussed it with my manager few months ago and he offered to take me off on-call rotation a…

Eating is not just to survive, human body is not an automobile that you fill gasoline in and make it work. If thats the expectation, then whats the difference between a human and a…

The reasoning provided by someone to me was that at a org level, it's more cost effective for the org to replace those 1-2 departures with the market rate salary, than raise the sa…

Maybe a wild guess, but anything thats not related to ads/marketing/analytics etc., are too difficult to monetize by a solo founder ? Or maybe the other areas too difficult to get …

Congrats on the milestone. As per my understanding, Google doesn't support paid chrome extensions anymore, so how are you monetizing it ?

If you know c#, then .net6 released recently, which is a LTS release and has really cool features like hot reload, minimal API etc. It also has sufficient performance improvements …

I'm employed at one of the big software giants as a senior engineer. Life has been good so far, except that a sense of job stagnancy is creeping in. I talked to my manager about pr…

Hi Guys, I've been reading a lot of articles about budding/full-time entrepreneurs and their successful ventures. I'm motivated to start a few side projects to see if I've that str…

What's the second A in FAANG for ? Apple / Alphabet ?

I read this somewhere that, instead of focusing on "what to do ?", shift your focus to "why do you need to do it ?". If you focus on the why and can convince yourself on the import…

I'm surprised at the no. of recommendations for resharper even now. I thought most of the new features of resharper was already included as part of VS2019. Any specific feature tha…