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I can’t agree enough. It’s sort of like those massive paintings recreated in CSS. They are a neat achievement, yet sort of reveals a vast emptiness that exists within the author.

My solution is pretty easy to this problem: I don't.

Yeah severance is pretty good. I'll try to get a gig quick and then push off the start date a bit.

The info about layoffs leaked about 3 weeks ago, which was messed up.

Overall though the severence is healthy, so I'll be plenty ok while I find another gig.

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I'm down to see what you have going on there.

Changes in life are an opportunity and that's always something to get excited about. Full steam ahead!

I'll be ok, but your thoughts really are appreciated. Nice words from nice people are always a welcomed thing.

It's a long tail starting back in the days of my great great great great grandfather. Back in the mother country he was tired of the same old same old and decided to travel to the New World to start anew. 300 years later I was born here :)

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I was let go today from Uber. If anyone is looking for a Frontend/Fullstack with 7yoe. I'm here :)

Find me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-lawrence-b77400b8/

My wife is a 3rd grade teacher in the Bay Area and to hear stories from the other side of the online classroom. She's perfectly internet savvy and there are a lot of online parent/teacher communication platforms that she uses. Normally, being a teacher is pretty damn stressful and the hours are looong. But this has taken a step into a new direction of anxiety and stress.

Adding to the list of things that a teacher already is responsible with doing is Tech Support. Because now parents are emailing her stupid questions that are easily google-able about Google Classroom.

* "How do I upload a picture?"

* "Can you email me the google classroom link again?"

* "What's the login for my kid? (omg this question)"

* "Where's the thing to click on? (fuuuuuuu.....)"

The district is now starting to have a minimum of 8 mandatory teaching sessions to parents on how these things work. EIGHT.

We cannot translate online classrooms 1:1 with the real thing. I wish the district would take a breath and approach this with a little bit more understanding that this is a whole new ballgame. I know parents need their kids to be somewhat occupied during the day (I have 2 kids under 4 so I get it), but overall it's not very pleasant for teachers.

An easy startup is a headwind; a hard startup is a tailwind...

Is that backwards? Wouldn't a tail wind represent "easier"?

I miss the old internet, but if I had the magic to go back to 1997 to browse for a bit I'd be over it in about 30 minutes. Just like I'd be over Mac OS System 7.5 in about 10 minutes, or my SNES, or Darkwing Duck, and on and on.

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I naively thought this would be an article discussing overpronation and supination.

Over the past few years I've built out this Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) Chrome/FF extension that shows an APOD as your new tab page. Just recently I've overhauled it with React to try and reign in the features I had built in Vanilla JS originally. Anyway, with these updates I've added a service worker to make it load as fast as possible and in case there are others here that really love the APOD I wanted to share.

Here's the Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/apod-by-the-t...

I'm impressed he only had one day full of googling for Date stuff in js. I easily could fill a week with such queries.

Over the past few years I've built out this Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) Chrome/FF extension that shows an APOD as your new tab page. Just recently I've overhauled it with React to try and reign in the features I had built in Vanilla JS originally.

Anyway, with these updates I've added a service worker to make it load as fast as possible and in case there are others here that really love the APOD I wanted to share.

EDIT: Here's the Firefox link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/apod-by-the-t...

Yes.

This comment makes me realize, I need to get back to my RoR roots and build a server side rendered site again to see what I've forgotten with building React sites for a while.

"Can I finish...?"

This article seems to be saying that getting the data infrastructure built (i.e. backend) is the exciting part, but when it's time to build the front end it becomes boring.

Is that because it's boring, or is it because people think front end is easy/straightforward and then realize it's not? I'd argue that the front end is a much more difficult task than the backend in the beginning of a startup.

More youtube tutorials should take this into account too. I really don't need to see someone type out the code. A walk-through of pre-written code is much more interesting.

Step 1: Build wet plate studio

Step 2: Take pictures that are creepy af.

Step 3: Profit.

The G5 is cool and all, but my fanboy dreams really started with the 8100/110.

601 PowerPC baby.

This especially applies to Trello tickets that you're writing to your own colleagues/developers.

Prior to going to DevBootcamp I worked as an engineering consultant, my product was informational reports that had to describe specifically what the problem was, how we determined that, and what we recommended to resolve it.

Sometimes my reports would be returned to me in a blood bath of red ink on changes but eventually you understand what it means to get the point across objectively and concisely.

My point is, get your copy proof read, limit the jargon, and get to the point in the first sentence.

I really like the particles.

Seriously, I was debating opening my dev console and just selecting them all deleting. Then I started thinking, how long would this article look without all this shit in it?

Lucky for them it was interesting enough of a read or I would have closed it outright.