Kunigaikstis

Sorry to hear about your unfortunate experience. I bet everyone would get shaken up after getting an opportunity like that taken away, AFTER it was already confirmed that you're getting it.

One thing I'd like to touch upon is you saying that it cost you 5-7 years of your career. Is that really the case, though? Hear me out. I've been employed in a couple of workplaces where I've had similar experiences: employer dangling a shiny thing in front of me in the shape of a promise. "You're nearly there, it'll come soon enough. You just have to work hard." As you can imagine, the shiny thing never reached the palm of my hand. The first time it happened, I worked insanely hard with my rose-tinted glasses on. Took me a while to realise that I'm wasting my time. Once I made the decision to leave in search for better things, I was well equipped to jump higher than before. I already had the skill set AND the internal bullshit detector was calibrated. The second time it happened, I didn't waste any time. Jumped ship, got employed at, what I consider, a dream job.

The point I'm getting at is that you never truly waste time unless you're coasting. The experiences you've had add up to the person (professionally and personally) you are now. It might've taken you longer to achieve what you've set out to do but you got there in the end. You must be happier that you're the CTO at the company you're in now rather than the one you mentioned anyway, right?

The ol' cliché "the journey is the best part."

Agree with the errors but I believe they've gotten better/you get used to their true meaning after a while. It's a complex piece of technology so I don't bash them for it too much

We use it exclusively in CI/CD to provision/delete resources. It keeps track of everything created via Pulumi (or imported from outside of it) in a config on the cloud. Haven't experienced random resource deletion apart from genuine user error.

I've been using Pulumi for the past few months as a person who's never touched infrastructure-as-code before. I love it. It has its downsides in the documentation. Mostly around limitations in resource name lengths.

Apart from that, it's an amazing tool to work with. The company I'm working at right now uses it extensively. All of our microservices have Pulumi in the CI/CD pipeline. It's an extremely powerful tool and I'd even use it for personal projects over provisioning resources through a vendor like AWS.

I always had this issue but never thought about looking it up on the CRA side of things. Thanks for the drop of knowledge!

There are more countries in the world than just North America, though.

Following the DDD practice at my current workplace. Hard to get into initially but it forces you to write modular code. Ramp up has been slow but nowadays, unlike previously, I'm able to write whole services with tests before even running them. And feel comfortable that they'll work. But that might not be solely down to DDD.

It's an iterative process. Our conversations have gotten better over the years. He has the connections and market knowledge so I have to respect his wishes most of the time. I make it sound bad but it's because I'm, like many of us, tired.

For a couple of years now, I've been developing features for a product that hasn't found product-market fit. Features that nobody _really_ gives a shit about. I can talk directly to one of the cofounders, bring them evidence based on analytics or the past failings of the giants upon whose shoulders we're standing on. His response is, majority of the time, "yeah, I get that. We promised this to a few customers and I really think it'll work". It hasn't worked.

How would I apply?

I gotta say, I'm really loving all the websites built with Tailwind (assuming this is built with Tailwind UI). It's like going back to 2011 bootstrap everywhere days but so so much better.

I believe you can get reinfected with a different strain of the same virus. Not the one you initially got infected with though.

So you're saying Amazon has a toxic work culture? What a surprise

Try out LightShot. Started using it years ago and never looked back. Completely free as well