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Former Director of Engineering @ Houzz

Co-founder / CTO at conx.co (acquired)

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I really enjoyed Leaders Eat Last and Careless People.

2025 brought me to:

The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick

Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School - Mark McCormack

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change - Adam Braun

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski

We Were Eight Years In Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mort - Terry Pratchett

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - Stephen King

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

The Boy’s in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins

Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business - Gino Wickman

Source Code - Bill Gates

Mythos - Stephen Fry

Educated - Tara Westover

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World - John Wood

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism is a memoir - Sarah Wynn-Williams

Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phipip K. Dick

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

I have vague memories back in 1990 of a superman arcade game in a pub broadcasting the games image to my black and white tv with an antenna in a different room. Not HDMI but the concept is there.

There's a reason the FCC has RF standards otherwise there would be anarchy...anarchy I say!

Thankfully my kids are devouring my Studio Ghibli collection. Ny Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo are played multiple times in the day. They've not yet gotten to Spirited Away, waiting until they are a little older. I dread the day they turn on Grave of the Fireflies. I thank the stars they have outgrown baby shark and cocomelon.

While there may not be a clause in your employment contract there may certainly be a clause in the contract between your employer and the client that could possibly be more hassle than it's worth for the client.

The only way to know is to go through the process with the client, declare the possible conflict early on and let them research it on their side to see if it's worth going through with. Best of luck.

I went a different way and purchased a 24" monitor which has the hub built in. Support for the standard display ports, USB / USBC and ethernet. I have one single USBC cable connecting to the laptop for power, ethernet and everything else. Seems like this is the way forward for me at least.

Stripe Tax 5 years ago

Wouldn't most online businesses just need to collect the taxes for the customers that their business operates in?

Posting this on the basis that there should be no stupid questions when it comes to tax.

For example; an Australian business needs to collect GST for Australian customers only. Americans accessing the Australian service would not be obligated to pay GST and as the Australian business doesn't have a US entity wouldn't have to collect US state taxes.

I Still Use RSS 5 years ago

I set up my own rss server using Fresh RSS; got it running in a docker environment on my kubernetes cluster (buzzword bingo). I was an avid google reader fan but only came back to RSS when I abandoned Facebook, Reddit and slowly off Twitter. I don't follow feeds that don't give me the full RSS content (quickly unsubscribe). It's really brought back a joy to reading and I avoid doom scrolling; wonderful really. Oh and there's plenty of open source apps that interact with Fresh RSS, really a great tool.

Can someone enlighten me on storage? Is it stored on the docker container (locally) or does it allow for storage within say Google Storage or S3, even Backblaze perhaps?

I tried the demo on Firefox but I couldn't actually figure out how to upload an image to test it out. Firefox / Linux user.

Wonderful. Doesn't look like the mute button is working in Firefox though. I currently have the eggceptional midi sounds through my speakers and I can't turn it down or off. (Magicland Dizzy)

Write a letter by hand and address it to the CEO of the company. It'll have much more of an impact and will definitely reach the ears of the employee you recommend as well. I heard of this happening a number of times in Royal Caribbean where a staff member went above and beyond, a family member was working there and received a number of these types of letters; apparently they went straight into the employee's file and definitely impacted their promotion opportunities (in a good way).

Does not have my first name of my wife. No, you may not know her name....she goes to another school.

Aside, not that exhaustive though her name is a combination of two first letters from her dad and from her moms names. It is in the wild though, have heard others with her name.