Pephers

SEEKING WORK | Remote/hybrid (Denmark)

Senior front-end developer available for hire!

I have 15 years of experience and I can help your team with: React, TypeScript, Playwright/Testing Library, improving developer experience (CI, build tooling), sparring with team members, and setting up your project for success. Past clients include major financial institutions, pharmaceutical startups, and SaaS businesses.

I'm situated in Odense, Denmark and I'm open for remote or hybrid contracts.

Email: [email protected]

CV/résumé available upon request.

On a previous job we underwent a migration from Lynq/Skype for Business/email to Slack. It was driven by us employees and channels were very active and people engaged. We had dev teams in four different countries and I believe the communication on Slack was a key ingredient to our success.

Years later upper management must have noticed the Slack line item in the sheets and the company migrated to Teams which was of course included in the Office 365 plan. Public channels become almost silent in comparison and we reverted to DM'ing/emails.

Indeed. I was surprised when new Apple TV 4K remote was able to turn on/off my 2009 Panasonic plasma TV. And the Apple TV remote could be IR programmed to adjust the volume of my NAD amplifier, too.

This is perfect for me as I still find the picture quality of plasma sufficient and don’t want a “smart” TV.

Try to follow the Colorado River downstream of Lake Mead on Google Maps with satellite imagery turned on. It's quite interesting to see how much water is diverted away from it, primarily for irrigation.

Nothing to do outside of crop agriculture in Viking times gives time for:

- Building housing and barns

- Chopping firewood

- Shipbuilding

- Wood working

- Weaving fabric (linen) from the summer harvest

- Ropes

- Leatherworking

- Metalworking/blacksmithing

- Pottery

- Animal husbandry

- Hunting

- Fishing

... and probably lots of other things that were necessary during those times. Of course Viking raids are a different means of acquiring a lot of the above.

I don’t believe a Christmas tree made from fossil fuels is more sustainable than my certified organic Christmas tree grown less than 5 km from my home.

That being said I know most trees are sprayed regularly, then wrapped in plastic netting and transported long distances to a Christmas market.

Now that I think of it, I use Facebook Messenger quite a lot as well. In fact, probably more than iMessage/SMS so you're right.

It's pretty much the same in Denmark. It's either a blue bubble or a green bubble. I'm pretty sure it's because of the heavy competition between mobile carriers in the 00's resulting in unlimited free SMS texts, thus having no incentive for using an alternative messaging platform. This meant that once iPhones became popular, every iPhone user's message automatically became an iMessage.

Practically no-one has WhatsApp here, but all my family in the Netherlands use WhatsApp almost exclusively. It's my impression that in the Nordic countries it's iMessage but the rest of Europe uses WhatsApp.

Sadly, also in Denmark as the article mentions, I’ve only had to clean my windshield once this summer (by clean I mean scrubbing, I do use the windshield washer more often). 1995 Defender.

I only have to look outside at my neighbors winter wheat field to find one of the reasons. It’s been sprayed 3 times already this fall after sowing.

EGR systems are known to be a cause of deposits in the intake-side of an engine.

I’ve been using a Mac since Tiger. To me macOS Monterey has been the best version since Snow Leopard. It feels very stable and performant, much more so than Catalina and Big Sur.

I’ve dubbed it the “Snow Leopard” of modern macOS. IIRC it’s coincidentally the second release after a CPU architecture change, too.

Slate roofs are a solid choice. Our 1875 house in Denmark still has the original roof with Port Madoc slates. It's in good condition, and the few slates that have broken can easily be replaced.

Slate has a higher upfront cost than other roofing materials, but it's a shame that so many houses are built with concrete roof tiles or fibercement roofing which only last 25-35 years before needing a complete replacement. In comparison, the typical life span for roofs with clay tiles are 75+ years and slate roofs 100+ years.

In other news: In 2021 the price of a Tesla Model 3 and other EV’s in that price range is estimated to increase by 15000 USD due to tax increases in Denmark.

I live in Denmark where about 60% of the land is used for agriculture. I’m also a fly fisherman and entomology is almost a natural side effect of this hobby. This summer I’ve seen the best mayfly and caddis hatches that I’ve seen in several years. This is totally anecdotal and there likely many other factors, but increased organic farming and possibly already the ban of neonics could be showing its effects.