 Following the groupchat we started there, I've been working on a little project for the last month or so, that I'm pretty excited about! It's a tool that will be hopefully helpful for psychotherapists working in the Internal Family Systems modality, and their clients. My primary customer is my wife, and her classmates from the IFS training, it will be interesting to see what I can learn from building and trying to launch this thing! It's nice that we got a tiny little groupchat going from this post. I've not been super active in it, but little bits of encouragement once in a while amounted to quite a lot of momentum! Looking at twitter it's pretty scary how many tech-adjacent people came out as Trump supporters in the past few days. No one that's outright surprising, but the sheer numbers are baffling. Wondering how many others think the same but aren't saying it out loud. Constantly oscillating between "I want to make cool projects on my own terms and try to monetise them to make a living" and "Everything is so expensive and that gives me so much anxiety, give me the highest possible paying corporate job so that I can at least breathe a bit"   @gosha I hear you. Even in corporate world, there’s now a lot of anxiety about layoffs (which are often not based on your individual performance so you can’t control it) and/or return to office. That said, I know precisely 0 people in your first category who also have kids and don’t have a an alternative stable source of income (e.g. through another low-key job, a partner, family wealth or savings from some previous cashout event)  @gosha What if you find a job that doesn't require much of you, pays enough, and gives you space to work on your projects in your free time? Hi Fedi friends! Popping back in for a minute to ask: do you follow any kind of spiritual practice? Please share yours if you do (and feel comfortable doing so!) I read the DuskOS and CollapseOS websites and now I can't stop thinking about the difference between being a user and an operator. > Dusk OS doesn't have users, but operators. What's the difference? Control. You use a phone, you use a coffee machine, hell you even use a car these days. But you operate a bulldozer, you operate a crane, you operate a plane. I just finished Wiktopher by @rek, and I have to say I enjoyed it very much! I'd love to read more stories set in the same universe :tealheart: https://100r.co/site/wiktopher.html  Started reading the Compudanzas #uxn tutorial and this is exactly what I needed: slow-paced and making complex (to me) things accessible! Will dive deeper into it tomorrow, really looking forward to it. https://compudanzas.net/uxn_tutorial.html Merveilles and fedi friends: Happy new year, с Новым годом, bonne année, 新年快樂, feliz año Nuevo, 明けましておめでとう！ Six years after leaving Japan I finally realised that one of the most amazing things about Japanese urban planning is that it is forbidden to park your car in the street — you can only park in paid car parks. This is so great! In European cities, almost every street is lined by parked cars, which frankly makes them much less attractive as a space you'd want to spend time in.
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 @gosha Holy guacamole cannoli, these are great. Wait.... What?! Holy fagioli ravioli!! All these are also great! Кстати, ребята, если кому нужна консультация по работе в айти на западе (крупные компании, стартапы, фриланс), или там проверить резюме на английском, смело пишите в личку. Работаю в Англии, до того в Японии, Германии, Франции. Помогу чем смогу. Буст приветствуется, вопросы можно в тред тоже. I really like the overall vibes of this person's work area: https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/296-alex-nicolai Big desk, kind of messy, reminds me of Steve Jobs' home office in this Diana Walker photo. |
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I've been building this in Clojure, which has been a great learning experience and very rewarding so far. Though I'm going slower than with my usual tooling of Ruby/Rails, the confidence boost from getting competent with a very different dev toolkit has been very good for me.