> * The number of people in ICE detention hasn't actually increased under Trump from the data I have. It was increased substantially under Biden.
For many people it's much more about predictability than anything else.
> no controversial social media presence
Well, what is controversial or not seems to change by the day. Is posting in support of LGBQT or DEI in general controversial? Nowadays it seems so. Some posts might be well in the past.
If you really need to travel I guess there are precautions you can and should take.
People listen to podcasts because they are personal. If you keep listening is not just about the content but also about the style of the podcast, their voices, jokes, etc. Podcasts are deeply personal, I don't think AI generated podcasts will be of any value.
What could be nice though is if _I_ can tell an AI to summarize and read a set of articles for me which I can listen to while traveling or whatever.
Sure, there are general guidelines that can be applied in many cases (testing, keep it simple, ...). However, many things depend on the company and the team you are working in.
A lot about production grade code is also to make sure it's easy to read and understand (thus maintainable).
A good question to ask is also "What happens when X goes wrong?". What happens to the system in general, how critical is it, and how can you understand what happened. This is about logging and moire general observability.
In the AI/ML field production grade code doesn't necessarily mean that you need to have super abstract things. A lot of this is actually the MLOps part: getting the data to your model, saving the model in some artifactory, running inference, ... . To make this easier it's most important that your code is somewhat modular and not just a plain script that you run when you need it.
Also, don't be to hard on yourself. Your last two lines sound a lot like imposter syndrome. Look back at your code from 4 years ago and see how it has changed and how much you have learned.
As soon as you happen to have more than a 150 to 200 connections you really need to curate your feed to make it useful: Unfollow or click "you don't want to see this kind of content" for specific posts.
Anyway, LinkedIn is really slow and does everything to make it miserable. I believe it's only surviving because almost everyone is on there now.
What annoys me most now is the amount of auto-generated AI content. They all look the same, never really interact with the post in general. It's so annoying.
However, when you found a "community" inside LinkedIn it can be really nice interacting with them: posting, sharing, messaging, etc.
I use obsidian to keep track of most things that are unstructured. This is where I keep my todos, my personal project documentation, meeting notes, etc.
For managing clients (or contacts really) I would use a table or a spreadsheet. This is you most important asset to be honest. Separate clients, leads and other contacts in extra lists. Keep track of when you met them, how you met them, their email, company, phone number and any random comment to understand what you can ask them for. Also, connect with other freelancers and try to help each other out.
For time management I use clockodo although there are many options: toggle, clockify, ... They all have their pros and cons.
Payments shouldn't be too complicated. As a solo contractor you will likely only have 1-3 clients at the same time. So it shouldn't be too hard to keep track of incoming payments. When you bill them, add a calendar entry when to check if it has been paid.
Generally, don't over-complicate things. Use simple tools as long as you are a solo contractor.
Nowadays, there are a lot of positions that are devops engineers, but that's mostly sysadmin-like work but automating a lot by configuring systems through yaml instead of directly working on said machines.
Of course, there are also people who develop internal tooling, and platforms enabling the developers to simply create test environment themselves. The real problem here is that every company has their own version of what they think that is ;)
Backend developers might work on this a little bit, depending on the company but usually providing the infrastructure is usually not they main responsibility.
There are data breaches that leak a lot more information than just an identity. Sometimes the mere fact that your identity is in a breach is problematic already.
Maybe authenticity was not the right choice of works. I meant to say the authentic thing that is the company's business logic. IE the point of the website/application or the product is the data. Which for programmers that should also be a common thread.which is why its good to really define your data model first if you can.
Lol, linkedin really can do whatever they want and I am glad that they stop 3rd party companies scraping profiles, even public ones. I know that linkedin uses the data on my profile as well as my usage data to make money with me, I am not dumb, but that's kind of what I signed up for when i created an account
For many people it's much more about predictability than anything else.
> no controversial social media presence
Well, what is controversial or not seems to change by the day. Is posting in support of LGBQT or DEI in general controversial? Nowadays it seems so. Some posts might be well in the past.
If you really need to travel I guess there are precautions you can and should take.