JSavageOne

Joined 6 years ago

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Software engineer

https://twitter.com/jeremybernier

Personal Site https://www.jbernier.com

Some personal projects:

• Open source offline-first Notion clone - https://mindgarden.app (work in progress)

• https://zsync.xyz, an attempt at a better Hacker News / Reddit

• https://nomadz.app, a crowdsourced site for useful places for nomads and remote workers, specifically work cafes.

Other social media:

https://www.youtube.com/c/JDiculous1 https://www.instagram.com/cityofjeremy

Posts here don't necessarily reflect my views as I may steelman an argument for the sake of greater understanding.

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Recent submissions

Comment · 4 days ago
Better AI -> Labor is more expendable -> Employers demand more from workers

The Great Irony

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Yea fair point.

I do think it's a good experience to try either way since the challenges are so different from that of startups. These large multinationals look for different skills some of which you can't really develop at startups.

And the money doesn't hurt.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yea the job market is brutal. Being unemployed and getting rejection after rejection is really the most demoralizing thing.

Behavioral interviews are actually my least favorite and I have no idea why I'm not passing them. Either my experience is not good enough, or I'm not presenting it well enough.

Anyways to anyone struggling out there - hang in there. Remember that all it takes is one offer to be employed.

Comment · 2 years ago
> "We already have UBI, it's just the overblown bureaucracies housed by American corporate structures."

Don't forget disability insurance, which is massively abused, functions like a UBI

Comment · 2 years ago
Asians aren't counted as "diversity" either. This is why they're referred to as "an inconvenient minority" in the context of DEI.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes Spotify UI/UX is absolute garbage. It's not even possible to simply view a list of all songs by an artist. Also I had to turn off autoplay because the recommendation engine wouldn't stop autoplaying the same song.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think you're underestimating the amount of things built with nocode.

I don't think most people are building landing pages anymore by handwriting code anymore. Same with blogs (eg. Wordpress). There are MVPs of successful businesses that've been built by Bubble.io. Internal dashboards and such can definitely be built without code such as via Retool or Looker or whatever.

WYSIWYG obviously makes sense for frontend, but less so for backend. For backend code I don't really see how some visual drag and drop editor could make for a better interface than code. And even if it could, the advantage of code is that it's fully customizable (whereas with a GUI you're limited by the GUI), and text itself as a medium is uniform and portable (eg. easy to copy and paste anywhere).

Not to say that we can't create better interfaces than text, but I do think some sort of augmentation on top of a code editor is probably a more realistic short-term evolution, similar to VSCode plugins.

Comment · 2 years ago
This looks awesome.

Some suggestions though:

- Would be awesome to be able to open an existing animation (eg. like any of the ones showcased). It's a built overwhelming for a noobie opening up to a blank editor page.

- Could also consider putting a tutorial video

Anyways I'll have to play around with this.

Comment · 2 years ago
Such a bloated, meandering, poor written article. Just get to the point. Gave up halfway through and author still hadn't addressed the title.
Comment · 2 years ago
How would that solve anything? In San Francisco drugs are practically already legalized, and filled with junkies openly doing fentanyl on the sidewalks.
Comment · 2 years ago
Fascinating and confirms my suspicions. The point when the questions popping up in my feed were obviously not genuine is when I lost interest in Quora. The worst was how it'd always show me variations of questions fetishizing working at Google. Seriously every single Quora digest email had some variation of a question like "What is the best thing about working at Google?" Unsubscribed and don't miss it.

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