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  1. I'm not the most plugged in person ever. But I do rely on technology a lot to manage my life. Any.do, Google Calendars, Obsidian.md, Bitwarden, a NAS for device syncing, plex, photo backup, etc. Someday I want to build…

  2. What is your go-to question in interviews that you would expect any competent software engineer to be able to answer. Like, for example, the FizzBuzz test. Though yours doesn't necessarily have to be a code challenge.…

  3. Ignoring for a moment the extra costs of being 1099 (which are easily calculated), how much is the additional hassle of being a 1099 rather than a W2 worth to you? $1000 in take-home? $2000? $5000? More?

  4. Every so often in the discussions under an article someone will bring up a phenomenon where a source will be wrong about a topic that someone is knowledgeable about or an expert on. But then when they source speaks on a…

  5. We are a two developer team who just release a web application to solve an issue in an existing online community. It was a rush job (we only had 3 weeks to get it done), but we pulled it off and we are fairly happy with…

  6. Trolley Protocol (365tomorrows.com)
  7. Nuclear Warfare 101 (giantbomb.com)
  8. Joe Kennedy famously survived the Great Depression by selling out of the stock market once the shoe-shines started giving him advice. I'm not sure if it's just I'm in an industry where people are more aware or not, but…

  9. We've all encountered those legacy code bases that are years old and thoroughly spaghettied. Ideally, you'd like to go through, reformat it all, leave comments throughout, and generally make the world a better place.…