I’ll carry the odd opinion here and say there’s actually a way this could be useful. You have to add value to a product to make it worth your time and effort, increase adoption, and make it at least self-sustainable. Find reasons to justify why this should exist. For a start - This could save time on projects where similar data has to be loaded on a page from multiple api endpoints but it doesn’t match. - an old example, but one that I fought once - looking up the time zone of a city from one api, then the time offset from UTC from another api, and trying to relate it all together. That meant my functions had to match that data up on the client side because there were imperfect text matches.
As a second example, if you were able to cache or keep record of data from upstream endpoints that often takes a while to gather because they can’t/won’t, you might offer a performance advantage or datasets which were previously unavailable to a user without monitoring data coming from that API over an extended period of time.
There’s more you can do, but that hinges again on what I previously said, find your pitch and solve problems that the others have created and won’t fix.
Hello everyone. This is my fifth month taking atomoxetine, and my third month with a 100 mg dose. I can say that life is better with medication than without medication, but not everything changed for the better....
It was really helpful to me when i took it. All the loud thoughts running at once got quiet and I felt like I could focus on one thing at a time, however, you still need to practice discipline and priorities to get it right. I could get distracted on the wrong thing without a thought of needing to pivot. Stopped taking it due to some allergy issues and we had to rule out everything.
I’m cool with this, I don’t need these articles telling me about musk/zucc/spez running the old platforms into the ground anymore. It’s stuck in the past and ragebait. I think it’s best to look forward. Walking away from old platforms completely means not letting them live rent-free in our heads anymore.
I’ve been trying to find one throughout the Steam summer sale and come up dry, and now I’m out of money until the 15th. Hopefully y’all can help me find a good one before the winter sale. Here’s a rundown of what I’ve tried so far and what I’ve liked and dislike about them:...
I started my first web development job a bit later in life than most but attended university rather than being self-taught. When I began working, I had to self teach because the languages I was working with were not much of what I’d learned in school. A few years later we revamped the product and I had to go learn a different stack so again, self-learning on the fly in order to maintain what we had going. I stayed at that place for about 9 years and felt like I was stagnating, plus I was siloed off into my own realm and had no help to rely on aside from what I could find in books or online. I deeply felt I needed mentorship, not from a coding perspective but to catch up with the industry & create a clear career path for the future.
I did eventually receive mentorship through a consultant to work through the next phase. We determined the causes of what I was feeling, coached on some new skills, and I found myself running my own business a few years later to realize a dream which hadn’t been fulfilled. Now, several years have passed since that point - during the last year I was forced to dissolve that business because I had to step back to focus on my health instead of continue grinding and growing for my and my family’s sake. During that time, I turned to a few trusted contacts for advice and mentorship. The perspective from the outside helped me get through that process and pick up and carry on to the next thing when I felt like a failure.
I share these anecdotes to show examples that there is tremendous value to you to find networking, gather contacts, and turn to people for mentorship and advice wherever you can get it. One thing I learned is that it doesn’t matter as much what the hot new framework is or what hosting infrastructure solution the companies are moving to - those things are always going to be caught up in a constant churn cycle. The news sites and communities are going get caught up in hype but it matters more what can be created from the hype than the hype itself. Businesses care most about what keeps their sites cost-efficient, highly available, performing well, and secure day in and day out so they can keep their doors open and the lights on. You will find tools to help you accomplish this and pick up this knowledge through learning from others as you go. Don’t just seek out web-related mentorship either. Talk with people in other fields no matter what they may do, you will find knowledge which you can bring back and apply to our field.
In many projects, you might have custom DNS entries, for example for your development environment, or because something is prototype without a real DNS entry yet, or simply for convenience to not remember weird IP addresses....
Most new projects / experiments would run under a directory for a testing subdomain that was already established for the sake of saving the most time. I once asked for and was granted access to our company’s DNS server and outside provider for setting these up if needed. Otherwise it was editing the local hosts file on my machine or doing that for a different user for collaboration purposes. Looking back, I probably could have scripted these host file edits but didn’t need to this very often.
There’s a creature or creatures talking outside where i live and i’d like to learn a bit more about them. Does anybody know how to tell coyote/fox/coydog/similar dudes apart or have a source for what what the different kinds of calls might mean? They’re not exactly the same as the ones I’ve heard before, so now I’m...
A fox sounds like a woman or child screaming in the night. It’s a very unsettling sound to hear.
Coyotes have a very high pitched dog-like sound. Typically I’ve always heard them in groups yipping and howling, almost like a group laughing type of sound.
I mean Trilium is fantastic app, lots of potential but the developer is struggling on his own, maybe it's because it's younger than logseq or maybe because is open source compared to obsidian. I think it's the best note-taking/knowledge-base/second-brain i know it virtually could link everything you posses toghter to create a...
Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded vote-by-mail access for people with disabilities — specifically people who are blind or paralyzed and need assistance marking their ballot.
What is your Depression Anthem?
"The Mystery of My Burning Esophagus" (www.nytimes.com)
A very interesting article about an individual’s personal struggle with a not very well known condition - eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE)....
If i create 100% API are you going to use it?
Greetings,...
Charles Martinet is retiring as the voice of Mario (twitter.com)
People who take atomoxetine, how did it improve your life?
Hello everyone. This is my fifth month taking atomoxetine, and my third month with a 100 mg dose. I can say that life is better with medication than without medication, but not everything changed for the better....
General Megathread for Elon Musk Nonsense and Twitter News
Hey folks -...
Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse (www.wired.com)
Where are all the good stealth games?
I’ve been trying to find one throughout the Steam summer sale and come up dry, and now I’m out of money until the 15th. Hopefully y’all can help me find a good one before the winter sale. Here’s a rundown of what I’ve tried so far and what I’ve liked and dislike about them:...
Seeking Advice: Is Having a Mentor Essential for Entering Frontend Development at 30? Where Can I Find One?
Hello fellow programmers,...
How to automate local DNS entries per project?
In many projects, you might have custom DNS entries, for example for your development environment, or because something is prototype without a real DNS entry yet, or simply for convenience to not remember weird IP addresses....
Coyote/coydog/creature calls?
There’s a creature or creatures talking outside where i live and i’d like to learn a bit more about them. Does anybody know how to tell coyote/fox/coydog/similar dudes apart or have a source for what what the different kinds of calls might mean? They’re not exactly the same as the ones I’ve heard before, so now I’m...
Why is Trilium so unknown? (github.com)
I mean Trilium is fantastic app, lots of potential but the developer is struggling on his own, maybe it's because it's younger than logseq or maybe because is open source compared to obsidian. I think it's the best note-taking/knowledge-base/second-brain i know it virtually could link everything you posses toghter to create a...
[Texas] Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes bill that would give people with disabilities new option to vote by mail (www.texastribune.org)
Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded vote-by-mail access for people with disabilities — specifically people who are blind or paralyzed and need assistance marking their ballot.