nomadiccoder

im just quoting the article

> even allowing for time off, that works out to roughly 300 books a year, or well over 6,000 across two decades. And that is just the professional tally.

Fastmail is worth considering. Ive used it for several years and it just works.

There is much innovation, hacking, etc. in "regular software jobs". Many companies that get launched are about improving efficiency or solving problems that these "regular software jobs" face. Once a startup grows, the product may continue to be interesting and new, but the day to day for the engineers building it begins to resemble a "regular software job".

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pick an open source software, like nextcloud or a game and follow the instructions for "build from source" youll get a bunch of errors for some dependency not installed and that will lead you down a rabbit hole of installing and downloading tools and show you commands like make, mv, cd, ls, curl, etc. error messages usually contain a lot more information that people expect.

This article is long, is there an audiobook version?

> It's a small portion of the relevant data, and it's not scientifically sampled, but it nonetheless suggests a dramatic trend.

that seems like an odd statement to make in the article

The heat map of availability time, 98.58 (Jan), 99.07 (Feb), and 99.71 (Mar) trends upwards.