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Not sure what you mean with "Netflix not working natively" but on Linux you just need either Chromium or a recent version of Firefox (maybe not the ERS version) and enable it to play DRM content. It just works.

- anime/subs related stuff

- webcomics (xkcd, alberto montt)

- music (boards of canada wiki, music for programming.net)

- java stuff (adam bien, onjava.com, planet clojure, grails.io, the server side, the cognicast)

- job boards (wfh.io, functional jobs, stack overflow careers, clojurework.com)

- coding stuff (atomic spin, adam bard, ycombinator, /r/clojure, the changelog, infoq)

- mixed bag (ars technica, some reddits, waxy.org, thisiscolosal.com, etc.)

I used FreshBooks.com when I freelanced a few years ago and I think it contained all the features you want and it was pretty inexpensive (~10 USD per month) and invoices/receipts looked very professional and allows setting different currencies for each client (eg. if you work remotely for different international clients).

I follow all of them via RSS. In English: Hacker News, InfoQ, Planet Clojure, O'Reilly Radar (and ocasionally listen their podcast in SoundCloud), Ars Technica, The Server Side. I save some episodes of some podcasts which I find interesting (eg. The Cognicast) but takes me a long time to catch up.

I also follow some tech blogs in Spanish: Microsiervos, Fayerwayer, Manzana Mecanica, Hipertextual, Genciencia.

This was my favourite App from the Clojure Cup 2014, had so many laughs by adding every repo I had to unlock new achievements.

This. Don't wait until everything is perfect. If your side project does a barely minimum to be usable, just release it somewhere (if it's an open source project) or deploy it and send a message for other people to try it.

Other people's feedback is a huge factor in being motivated.

I was on a remote position for several years, maintaining code written by several other developers over the course of 10 years, poorly written and no spec in sight. I sincerely tried to move it forward to current standards, one bit at a time. It improved a bit for a while but from the distance it was a mess and I doubt some of the improvements will ever get deployed.

I went to a lot of stress during that period, but on the other hand it felt comfortable, sharing only a few hours of the day to touchbase gave me freedom to organize the time with the family, there were not many challenges other than managing a big ball of mud, and the hourly rate was much better than my colleagues did working on-site.

On the other hand, there was no prospect of new challenges, or technologies or salary, this was a small business. I did some side projects recently and it gave me confidence to move forward: there were many other companies willing to work remotely with newer technologies and with a better rate.

The show is still on air in Chile in one of the largest TV channels. I'm in my late 30s and I remember the show was rather old already when I was a kid :-)

Now seeing the show with the eyes of an adult feels like a portrait of a much simpler but much poorer era. El Chavo (mexican slang for "the kid") was a boy who slept inside a barrel in the shared patio of a slum ("la vecindad") where most of the action happens. With plenty of physical humor, El Chavo was frequently hit in the head as a punishment in the show, specially by Don Ramón, a character which would never find a job and was always hiding from the landlord.

It's the kind of show it would never pass if it were to be filmed on this date, but we grew up watching it and learning to love it, in the same way we loved racist cartoons by the Warner Bros. or those old episodes where the Flintstones were heavy smokers.

I've written applications using Java, Groovy, Clojure and Scala (in that order) and after Clojure, coding Scala felt specially horrible (yet another syntax to learn! ++: \ ~> and so on...).

Maybe Clojure feels odd for a few hours when coming from C-like syntax, but it becomes so obvious later on. I remember I felt terrified by the parens because I had not written anything serious in it.

Old LG with Cyanogenmod :-)