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I'm a middle-class person from the US. I've even had several short stints of living in Europe. I'd love to live in one of the countries there, but being a little bit older now I re…

I was going to read it, but that pop-up asking me to sign in or sign up for your newsletter kept blocking my view. For a blog, with what I'd imagine would be limited readership, wh…

I've played around with Lazyvim a fair bit and it seems pretty solid. It's a bit more hands on than kickstart. Currently working as a laravel dev and really enjoyed Jess Archer's c…

Another vote for Carhartt shirts. I'm large and it's difficult to find shirts that fit well. Their shirts are cheap and last me years. Also if branding is an issue for you, it's ve…

I don't have a novel solution to your problem, but here's my experience. I had a mac laptop for a previous job and I went down the route of using separate a iCloud account. I used …

I don't actually fall asleep, but every day after work I lay down on my bed for about 10 minutes. Sometimes I close my eyes and sometimes I just stare at the ceiling, but I just br…

This is a solid argument, thanks for taking the time to write this out!

That's an interesting take! I'm still early in my career and I ask with genuine curiosity, but why do you think "clean code" has a bogus meaning?

I'm currently using Laravel at work. It's very opinionated, and some folks say it uses anti-patterns with regards to its use of facades. That being said my last job was C#/.Net and…

This hasn't been true in my experience. People were very critical of Picard season 2 and the whole of Discovery. I posted criticisms myself and never got banned.

I currently pay for a few things: Proton Mail - Solid email service. I'm not hardcore about privacy but I do like their ethics. Spotify - Love having instant access to any music, t…

I just took a job as a Laravel dev. I was previously a C#/.Net dev before that. Not making any claims about one being better than the other, but you're right about the ecosystem an…

I mean that they used versions of frameworks that were no longer supported, and they did not use best practices which resulted in lots of security concerns (and messy code).

Wow that sounds eerily similar to my experience, I'm sorry you had to go through that!

Oof, my condolences. As someone who was a junior somewhat recently I narrowly avoided a couple of projects like that. The desire to push off important work to cheap labor blows my …

I know the person who was in charge of the redesign. This may sound unbelievable, but she was not a reddit user prior to working at reddit or being put in charge of the redesign. R…

I got hired from a Who's Hiring post last year. I doubt my experience is the standard but I landed at a really terrible company. Used outdated tech in really unprofessional ways. T…

Is that true? Last I heard (I just looked it up) over half of people in the US read at least one book per year.

I've gotten two jobs from Linkedin. I don't much care for it outside of when I'm looking for jobs. Whenever I'm employed I put it into the "hibernate" mode and only reactivate it w…

I'm a mid level developer and probably about 5 or 6 on any given day. I do a lot of designing/coding and by the time 3pm rolls around the part of my brain that can think in that wa…

We didn't have any clients, it was a marketing department for a CPG company. I was just a peon; I didn't have any say in how things got done. Say all that to say, you would think t…

Eh, I'd rather just play the game and get to travel, socialize, eat, and learn cool new stuff for free.

I've often wondered about that. Spotify has never failed to have the music I wanted to listen to. Though their app interface has always been a little painful for me to use.

I definitely couldn't "make" anyone click on anything. But delivering it wasn't the only thing we had control over. The format and content of the email we had complete control over…