I'm also curious about what kinds of posts were good enough to get job offers. In my experience it's hard to consistently produce thorough, accurate, and useful technical posts. It takes so much time.
If you have the time, though, open-source is a good way to work on non-proprietary, useful things.
I left a nice job (willingly, on friendly terms) to experiment with a new line of work and to take some time to care for myself. I was happy to return a couple years later.
I think "web fundamentals" here might mean DOM manipulation, browser-native APIs, default form inputs. Stuff like <input type=date> and document.querySelector() and appendChild(), which are often abstracted over or replaced with frameworks.
This is also a good approach for Windows since aliases on Windows don't really exist. Make a directory like C:/path/to/aliases that holds all your batch files.
Nice, I was about to go to the beach today. Pretty useful.
How do you get the data?
On mobile: every time I type in the search box, the app closes my keyboard. I think it's every few letters, on the debounce function? I'm using Android Chrome and Firefox.
I like the idea of LLM-assisted coding on a phone since typing on mobile is a pain. Curious to see how this would look with the UX fleshed out -- specifically, with a compile->run workflow, like at https://editor.p5js.org/.
As always, yes and no. I'm a single father, my partner died when our daughter was 1.5 years old. A baby requires constant attention and care, so I didn't quite have the option of falling into some kind of depression and just doing nothing.
That said, I quite miss the abundant free time I used to have in my other life. Nowadays is constant battle about the littlest things. I pour the milk the wrong way and get screamed at for 15 minutes.
It's difficult to say what is a choice and what isn't. Is anything my choice? Perhaps the world is deterministic, so nothing is anyone's choice. But also, I have seen people who seemingly choose to wallow in their grief.
Also what is depression? I'm very sad that my partner died. I miss her. Some people have a chemical imbalance in their body. These are entirely different things. Perhaps I shouldn't have used that word, which has so many different meanings as to lose meaning altogether.
When you have a kid and don't want to get out of bed the whole day, eventually the kid is hungry enough to start screaming, and it will keep screaming until you get out of bed and feed it. It really is in everyone's mutual interest, depression or not. It's harder to stay depressed when you have to do things. It's easier to stay depressed when you can lie in bed the whole day.
Thanks for restating, I get where you're coming from.
Also your reply to another comment made me realize this is also a language mixup on my side. I didn't realize there is a depression (mood) in English. My native language has the major depressive disorder as depression, not sure if there is a term for the mood. Sorry for not checking this assumption before but I guess my perception of suggesting 'have you tried not being depressed?' just didn't sit well with me.
It is never a choice and it is always a choice because it is fundamentally an internal psychological battle.
I personally think that viewing it as a choice is the more productive of the two. That is to say, people have the choice to persevere, keep trying to improve, and trying to recover. Nothing will change without intent.
Wikipedia says "Depression is a mental state of low mood and aversion to activity" - that's what I meant.
Mental illness is I think a different thing. Depression doesn't imply mental illness, nor does mental illness imply depression. I understand and agree that many people let mental illness come between them and whatever. It's a problem. It's just a different problem.
It was an experiment. I realized it was too clunky, but I also realized that it would've worked really well as just a single row. It took alot of thinking to realize that though. I spent a lot of time imagining more complex systems before realizing that a single row worked best. I imagined things like a kanban for writing but with twists, with inspirations from Gingko. https://gingkowriter.com/
If you have the time, though, open-source is a good way to work on non-proprietary, useful things.
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