I am a solo dev at a university and a couple advantages I enjoy is that I choose my own technologies, and I am learning all about other aspects of web dev including sys/server admin. I can legitimately say that I am a full-stack engineer, albeit because I was semi forced to learn everything...
A Salute to Solo Programmers
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#52"make a dent"
funny how OP nods to steve today when he snitched him to sculley back in the day
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#53Fabrice Bellard is the greatest solo programmer IMO. He wrote FFMPEG, QEMU, A PC emulator in Javascript and a ton of other stuff - http://bellard.org/
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#54I've been doing the (unpaid) solo thing for years, and I'm almost sure I'm gonna give it up now. I built Tiled Text ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tztmgCcZaM4&feature=youtu.be... ) while working at a grocery store and dealing with a repetitive strain injury, and it was a miserable, awful experience. I designed and built this 'abstract visual debugger': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvfMthDInwE while my savings s…
Oh yeah: I've also put some work into a website based on a novel scheme for idea representation/debate: http://westoncb.blogspot.com/2015/06/improving-idea-represen... And there's this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8u8VxjtgJs which is 99.99999% done, but still unreleased for some reason :)
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#55There are quite a few of these guys still out there. Look at dwarf fortress great example of one guy "doing it on his own"
Just the other day... Terry Davis showing a game using his own graphics libraries, compiled with his own compiler, running on his own OS: https://youtu.be/EsFPq6I13vA?t=300 Though I suppose the article has a commercial/organisational slant.
Well, that guy's kind of a huge racist, so an ode to him is probably in poor taste:
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just the other day... Terry Davis showing a game using his own graphics libraries, compiled with his own compiler, running on his own OS: https://youtu.be/EsFPq6I13vA?t=300 Though I suppose the article has a commercial/organisational slant.
Well, that guy's kind of a huge racist, so an ode to him is probably in poor taste: https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337551685285195777
I didn't take the time to delve in to other tweets, but if you know more about him, can you tell me whether, based on what you know of him, he is saying "black people are niggers"(0) or "I won't be shamed into not using a word"(1).
Based on just the tweet, it sounds like #1. If so, I can only repeat "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". And, furthermore, I don't think that, in itself, says he's racist.
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#57I have been doing solo development of http://bit.ly/1MPBDze for so many years, now just business development and occasional coding
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#58I'm the only developer in my ad agency of about 80 people. It's super cool to write all my own code, make all my own stack choices. To know that I wrote everything here is a really cool feeling. At the same time, I really miss talking shop with other devs. And given my extremely young age (only a few years out of school) sometimes it can be hard to be sure I'm making the most efficient choices. There's a lot of times…
> At the same time, I really miss talking shop with other devs. I'm in the same position, it's really lonely being the only technical resource. Just someone to bounce ideas off of. On the other side, everything works and when it doesn't I know exactly why within moments because I wrote it all.
Yeah, and if you build it using some wonky code built from legacy PHP, I'm sure the next person in will love you for it.
(Not saying you do it, I see it all the time).
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, that guy's kind of a huge racist, so an ode to him is probably in poor taste: https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337551685285195777
I didn't take the time to delve in to other tweets, but if you know more about him, can you tell me whether, based on what you know of him, he is saying "black people are niggers"(0) or "I won't be shamed into not using a word"(1). Based on just the tweet , it sounds like #1. If so, I can only repeat "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". And, furthermore, I don't think t…
He often makes those kind of comments. But he's schizophrenic, so it's probably not entirely his own fault.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had this problem for years. And then I picked an open source project that uses the same language and tools and started contributing to it. I made some great friends and the mailing list was always live with discussion that was often much broader than the thing we were building. Over the years we also met live on a couple of conferences, had drings/dinners together and it really helped me fill the void of working al…
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