colund

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Freelance software developer
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Comment · 5 days ago
I have never thought of myself as merely a code writer, but rather as a creative person who gets satisfaction from solving problems, helping people and exchanging ideas.

Since you asked: I'm 40+ with decades of experience in tech.

In the age of AI I feel the possibilities in terms of what software products I could build have expanded enormously. So lately I've been thinking about things I want to create with the help of AI and I am genuinely inspired.

Comment · 6 months ago
I've been thinking something similar. Then I thought about all the people who get up early to do construction work etc - fixing things day by day without worrying about fomo or time wasted. That though made me calm and feel that things are ok...
Comment · 1 year ago
Rustacean Station, Startups for the Rest of Us and Programming Throwdown.
Comment · 2 years ago
There are reports of blurry text on monitors with resolutions around 1440p or less than UHD. macOS doesn't always scale fonts optimally on these, which can make coding feel straining over time. My recommendation is to look into a 4k or higher monitor for sharper text rendering on macOS, even on a smaller screen size.
Comment · 2 years ago
I find that Jonathan Blow ranting about Rust game development here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk. He adds interesting perspectives to the discussio, how the language makes the Rust game developer resort to arrays and their so called Rust point of views.
Comment · 2 years ago
Out of curiosity, how did you support yourself financially while creating the game? Did you also do freelancing or did you use savings etc?
Comment · 2 years ago
There's also a fun option to use PyO3 to easily generate a native Python module from Rust.
Comment · 2 years ago
Very interesting article and it was interesting to see his desk without a display and mouse.

I posted a long and very moving story the other day about a software developer who was getting blind on an eye in six hours. https://elye-project.medium.com/i-became-blind-within-6-hour...

It made me think about how much time we spend in front of screens these days and that eyesight can't be taken for granted.

This article was a nice contrast describing the possibilities to do work as a blind developer.

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