dragonshed

Are you all hiring?

Trump is orders of magnitude more financially motivated and self-interested than any other US president in history.

To piggyback on what PaulDavisThe1st said.

Record numbers of US citizens seeking to relocate to Canada & the UK. In the last couple months I remember seeing several news stories variously about Doctors, Professors and students applying and/or relocating.

Layoffs in the tech sector haven't slowed at all, and couple that with the DOGE Govt layoffs and the recent jobs numbers stories.

I feel quite certain that if the U.S. is actually measured "at #1" for anything good, it won't retain it much longer.

Bias Disclaimer: I'm a former software engineer working an hourly labor job.

You are not alone. I'm also just shy of 2 decades of experience, and have had extreme difficulty.

My last salary was as a contractor for a 10 month project, which ended Dec 2019. Then came a divorce, the covid lockdown, and a horrendously difficult bout with depression.

I've moved back home, and have been looking for work in earnest for the last two years. I've finally had some nibbles with freelance, but interviews for salary positions are still few and far between, and even then solid, successful interviews have not gone in my favor.

For comparison, in 2013 I was poached after a recruiter saw my linkedin profile, and given an offer I couldn't pass up.

Wow, I haven't seen anything regarding Forth since the last time I was using an old PowerMac as a daily driver. The openboot firmware for those old macs was a forth interpreter.

“Lancre woman gives birth to snake” - C.M.O.T Dibbler

For me, by far the most impactful is: The logistics planning software used by a major sports league in the US. The package I worked on allowed management to comb through a full season schedule, fine-tune a myriad of different associated weights, and push it through a specialized simulated annealing program to yield the schedule for every player, referee, etc for the season. The league went from manually producing perhaps 2 to 3 full schedules a season, then having to almost immediately scramble to handle exceptions, to producing hundreds.

Twenty years between various agencies and contract terms, I've worked countless projects, and the ones which improved business processes, where end users lives were made much easier, were the most rewarding. Conversely, most of the 'fun' projects were almost immediately obviated (I'm looking at you, Silverlight).

The only framework alternatives I’m aware of are PouchDB and BreezeJS. Most everything else I’ve seen seems to tack on offline support.

I’ve had similar backend projects where I setup a reverse-proxy to a backend, along with the frontend dev server, to allow the full site and api to run in the browser from local host.

It’s not the most graceful setup, but it works if your backend build isn’t as flexible as you need.