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Yeah I used to use Pidgin to chat with people on Facebook! I miss those days.

Prosody was a breeze to set up and it worked pretty well for me. I set up a simple bot to get notifications on my phone. The whole set up works great until you get to the notificat…

Personally, I am happy to see someone else thinking about cutting down stuff and simplifying. Similar posts have started popping up more frequently and as a fan of simplicity, reli…

I guess this can be view from Jung's point of view where you adopt different personas in different situations. If I understand correctly this is necessary for normal existence but …

Why did the title of the post change? It doesn't reflect what's on the page.

> What does the unit "year of experience" represent, and is it comparable across domains? In my opinion, "years of experience" should not be disqualified as one of multiple evaluat…

Looks like I am on a similar path to you but you are a couple of steps ahead of me. Is there a place I can contact you with a few questions. I'd really appreciate it.

I think sometime we, software engineers, forget that we are hired to do a job and not to play around with toys in the sandbox.

Congrats! That is really cool. I recently built something very similar out of annoyance with spam that I was actually interested in: https://pobox.host/ The difference is you don't…

As others have said, this is great! A simple but very useful idea and a great execution. Thank you for not making it an amalgamation of heavy javascript frameworks.

Great post! Something I have found very valuable for myself is accumulating experience. Having gone through a process, task or problem even once brings a lot of knowledge and insig…

Fair point! I guess if I can edit my statement a bit I'd phrase it like that: If from my application you can see that I have work that we can talk about and discuss, let's do that,…

> You Can Ask the Candidate to Present Code they Wrote. I have always wondered why this isn't more common, it makes so much sense to me. When you submit an application you usually …

I am currently trying to transition to remote work/consulting and was wondering can you share some details on how you find offers like that. I am also based in Eastern Europe. Do y…

From what I understand the author is against a bad implementation of microservices. I don't see a good argument against microservices but rather "We just chopped up a monolith and …

Hey, I wasn't sure where to leave the feedback so I'll leave it here: it might be a good idea to get a microphone to improve the sound quality and clarity. It's a bit hard to hear.…

I think I understand what the author is trying to say. For me the feeling that you are browsing a "web of documents" is that you know that you are clicking around for information. …

Do not rely on a single drive or you'll end up in a situation like me where one day your external drive decides to stop working and 20gb of photos are gone.