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I built a small app to follow my infant son's feedings and diaper changes. Simply used the shortcuts get content of url to call the API rest endpoints. This is much better !
I built my career as a software engineer exactly like this. Learned all the pain points in mid corps/ corps and went on taking work in the "gutter". On call, learning rare languages (like COBOL), or unusual file formats (like AFP) and db admin (oracle especially) are parts of my tool belt to open black boxes and rebuild or refactor. But as mentioned before, this kind of work pays if you're freelancing, not as an employee, since you rarely get any kind of advance if you are providing meaningful groundwork. But you also need a lot of soft skills to be able to get information to provide the work, unentangle a spaghetti mess or simply get access to a specific server or codebase.
As an engineering manager of a team spanning 5+ time zones, i don't do any remote huddles, too cringy in my opinion. I offer free Friday afternoons for personal fun, and i travel to meet face to face every 2-3 month, on a volountary basis.
"I also have black friends" is anecdotal evidence at best. Regarding the diversity of the tech scene, it's not that good in France.
"And of course, it should be needless to say that no one is forced to come here and that on the contrary, they are urged to leave as soon as possible if they find out that they have a burning desire to murder journalists- cartoonists when those draw their prophet the wrong way. That is non-negotiable."
And this is where I disagree. One of the biggest issue of France is that in reality, there's always a difference between "visible minority" and the rest of the people (economic, social and politic), even when you cleary agree with the valors and culture. Then, there's the issue of the killers themselves : they are byproducts of France, born and raised in Paris, not first time immigrants! Even if they were trained outside from France. While I am _not_ excusing what they did or saying they're victims, I honestly think they're something broken in french society.
I honestly think the Muhammad satire was just an excuse to spread terror.