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NameSilo - $12/y - .com personal site

HBO - $14/m (?) - Legacy ad-free. Can't recall the exact cost off the top of my head

Hulu - $12/y - Will cancel it a year from now

Todoist - Browser extension and phone app for checking off todo items. I get a slight dopamine hit every time I complete something.

Obsidian - Note-taking desktop app with a nice UI, good extensions, tagging, and more.

Leechblock - Browser extension that blocks certain sites during specified time periods. I've got a similar app on my phone, but its free version only allows 3 apps to be blocked.

I use a blocker extension in my browser that blocks X sites between certain hours of the day, including HN. If I wanted to, I could go override it but 95% of the time I don't.

I also use a blocker app on my phone and it's more jarring to get that angry background and "You tried to go to X app Y times today".

I try to buy things with longevity in mind, and I'll research brands that are known to be "buy it for life" (and I'll see if they're still BIFL or if they've dropped in quality). I usually seek out thrift stores in my area, and if not then I'll see if I can get quality products at discounts.

Here's what I'm into:

- Barbour waxed jacket - Bought for brand new at a significant discount from a retailer in the UK

- Two mechanical keyboards

- Patagonia better sweater fleeces - Although I bought one of my fleeces at full price, the quality, warmth, and fit are second to none and it was 100% worth it.

- Two pairs of goodyear welted boots - Goodyear welting means that the soles can be repaired easily, and I'm aiming to have the boots around for years to come.

- A narrow-width backpack from Timbuk2 - I've heard the brand has dipped in quality, but the model I'd gotten was still classified as BIFL at the time of purchase.

- Zojirushi thermos - It's never leaked on me and years later, it still keeps my water cold for long periods of time.

- Zojirushi rice cooker (a Made in Japan model, versus one made elsewhere) - Bought it used on eBay and it works like a charm.

- Good socks (Darn Tough, Smartwool, etc) - I get mine at TJ Maxx/Marshall's/etc and they're significantly cheaper than getting them online or at a retailer like REI.

Here's what I have:

- Standing desk

- Two 24" monitors, each on single Humanscale monitor arms (bought used on eBay, at a significant discount). I switched from dual arms to single because the latter means that I can move one monitor without affecting the other.

- Tenkeyless mechanical keyboard (MX silent red switches)

- 60% mech keyboard (MX brown switches)

- Vertical Logitech mouse on a mousepad (that looks like a mini carpet)

- Work laptop

- Microphone on a Rode arm (bought used on eBay) that's fixed onto a wall shelf

- Custom-built PC in an ATX Mid Tower

- HDMI switch that lets me use my main monitor with my work laptop and my PC

- USB switch that lets me do the same with my keyboard and mouse

- A collection of mechanical pencils in a ceramic sugar skull

Software Engineer: When you open a website, I work on everything that's visible on the page. Sometimes I work on what's not visible, like with databases, passwords, etc.

Specific role at job: I work on a user dashboard and profile page. Users can set up X, can see what X they have, and can check the statuses of other things. My team's biggest problem is figuring out how to get users to do Y without getting stuck.

I created a Gmail account that's specifically for email signups and shut off the notifications for it.

I traveled over the summer and relied heavily on free WiFi, which meant me signing up and giving them my email. I knew that I was going to be bombarded with spam, so I created the junk account to handle all of it.

You can do:

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I used to work with SharePoint professionally (barf), in that we dragged and dropped HTML, JS, and CSS files into a folder that then powered pages on the company's intranet. Luckily we didn't build components using SharePoint's system, but we still had to navigate through the rest of the cruft.

Some of the issues I ran into include (but aren't limited to):

- Files and folders located in counterintuitive locations. Random files that ended up in some locations "just because". After a few years of working that job I knew where certain things were through tribal knowledge.

- Wading through files and documents that were years old. If SharePoint has a system in place that deletes files above a certain age, we didn't have anything like that set up.

- Dealing with a complicated access/security system, that restricted some users from seeing some pages.

- Having to make the intranet pages "work" with IE11. A good chunk of employees preferred using IE11 as their browser of choice so we couldn't not work on compatibility.

- Once, I accidentally moved in-progress HTML and JS files into a prod folder and one of the pages broke in prod. Fortunately it was after hours and I was able to retrieve the original files from GitHub.

- Major performance issues on some of the more data-heavy pages.

- Users not seeing links to docs because they was checked out (like library books), usually by one person with credentials different from everyone else.

That was Job 1 and I'd hoped to never touch SharePoint again. I'm on Job 3 now and I grimaced when I saw that the company used it as its intranet. I'd hate to be on the team responsible for maintenance.

I'm not a recruiter, but I was interviewing recently and I liked it when postings/recruiters expressed the fact that "Experience in X is a must", "We're language-agnostic but use JS frameworks", etc.

Verbiage like "Backend: Python, Kotlin, Java, Rails", etc was misleading because I couldn't tell what exactly they used in their day to day.

New business idea: Wearable that sends out a shockwave if the user gets attacked. The user could adjust its sensitivity, i.e. if they're attacked from a certain angle or they're hit with a certain amount of force.

I'm mostly kidding, but if you're attacked from an unsuspecting angle then no amount of armaments will protect you from that first punch.

Tech stack versus what a company's looking for in an interviewee.

For instance:

- On our frontend we use: React, TypeScript, NextJS, and React Native

- Feel free to apply if you have experience with: Angular, Vue, or other frontend frameworks