clintmcmahon

Is the beef with the design or the pop ups, chatbot, banner, etc?

If it's the design, not everyone is a web designer so the bootstrap theme is great to get up off the ground.

If it's the other stuff then, yeah, totally.

Or attending a local job fair with a stack of printed resumes.

The main worker is a .Net API with Hangfire that hits a public facing API from the radio station. That data is stored in a MySQL database that feeds a React dashboard front end.

There's some caching that happens behind the scenes to help with some of the large data crunching.

Yeah, me too. KEXP has a public facing API that could be easily used to create a new KEXPlorer.

I did this about ten years ago when I was feeling burned out. I started a t-shirt company in the off hours which eventually grew to be large enough for my wife and I to live off.

Running a business is a lot of work so I'm not sure if that is the type of transition you were looking for. But a starting a side business doing something you enjoy could be a worthy path to check out. Obviously, it's not as easy as applying for a part-time job at an established company.

The meetups in Minneapolis are still going strong. There was the COVID pause when most went to Zoom but the majority are back to in person now.

A good amount tend to revolve around breweries so their definitely much more social leaning than educational. But our JavaScript meetup is very strong and they do a good job of education/learning with a good mix of socialization. I'm still waiting for the .Net group to come back to in person, however.

It's still crucial for senior level people to review and scrutinize code generated by Jr and AI developers.

There's always been the need to verify the code matches the business requirement, right? It used to be when you asked someone why they wrote the code the way they did, they'd tell you they thought it was the right way because X or Y. But with AI they can respond saying they actually don't know why they wrote it a certain way. That's just what ChatGPT or Claude told them to do. So, that's the nightmare part that people are experiencing.

Code reviews are important and software architecture skills are just as important now.

Just got our Tin Can a few weeks ago. The hardware is "eh", but the service is pretty great. The ability to approve incoming/outgoing numbers before being able to call/receive calls is very handy to cut out any spam calls that you'd get with a normal land line.

We've got a tin can phone and the biggest positive for us is the phone can't make calls or receive calls from numbers that we don't approve first. I know other parents who have the phone line through the cable company that gets hammered with spam calls.

Been working remotely for a long time now and was beginning to feel that loneliness. So, I started going to a co-working space to be around people again. Two/three days a week I'm in the "office" with my new "coworkers". It's been great to get to socialize and talk to other tech folks who are working on interesting and different things.

But I also love that freedom of staying home whenever I want to. IMO, more offices should operate more like this.

I was in the same boat around the 10 year mark as well. I started a t-shirt business on the side. It took a while but after a few years made enough to live off of.

Eventually I came back to tech as a contractor/consultant and like it so much more. My passion for development and engineering is much higher now.

My guess is that it might a couple things:

1. There's a map feature where users can assign their location to a photo that was taken. I suppose this could qualify as 'physical address'.

2. Businesses often have their physical addresses as part of their profile.