Having lived in Texas for 30+ years and now happily living in southern California, I feel pretty qualified in saying that my personal quality of life is dramatically better in California. The cost of living is higher,…
Big Bend National Park, a two hour drive from the McDonald observatory has extremely dark skies, as does the area immediately around the observatory. On the drive to the observatory from Fort David you’ll drive past a…
This feels like an odd assumption to make about my comment. I don't think all meetings are a waste of time and I certainly don't think people with different work preferences than me are dullards. My experience has been…
Yes, it is important to write and I wish that many folks I've worked with in the past had been better writers (and readers). I am job searching right now after leaving a very, very meeting heavy culture and one of my…
I publish on my own website (https://colby.so) which I host on Netlify and publish with Jekyll. For the first year or so I also published every new post on Medium and dev.to (with my site as the canonical URL on both)…
Render is the closest I've seen to the simplicity of Heroku. Fly.io is also good, but when I tried it (6 months ago) it had a bit more of a learning curve and the documentation was still pretty sparse.
Interesting to see the process and royalty rates from a big (tech) publisher. I wrote and self-published a book (really a web app structured like a book) on Ruby on Rails to Gumroad earlier this year and so far I have…
Thank you for sharing this piece. Navigating a loss like this in a purely remote environment must have been incredibly challenging — grieving feels like an exercise that we do best together in the same physical space.…
Having lived in Texas for 30+ years and now happily living in southern California, I feel pretty qualified in saying that my personal quality of life is dramatically better in California. The cost of living is higher,…
Big Bend National Park, a two hour drive from the McDonald observatory has extremely dark skies, as does the area immediately around the observatory. On the drive to the observatory from Fort David you’ll drive past a…
This feels like an odd assumption to make about my comment. I don't think all meetings are a waste of time and I certainly don't think people with different work preferences than me are dullards. My experience has been…
Yes, it is important to write and I wish that many folks I've worked with in the past had been better writers (and readers). I am job searching right now after leaving a very, very meeting heavy culture and one of my…
I publish on my own website (https://colby.so) which I host on Netlify and publish with Jekyll. For the first year or so I also published every new post on Medium and dev.to (with my site as the canonical URL on both)…
Render is the closest I've seen to the simplicity of Heroku. Fly.io is also good, but when I tried it (6 months ago) it had a bit more of a learning curve and the documentation was still pretty sparse.
Interesting to see the process and royalty rates from a big (tech) publisher. I wrote and self-published a book (really a web app structured like a book) on Ruby on Rails to Gumroad earlier this year and so far I have…
Thank you for sharing this piece. Navigating a loss like this in a purely remote environment must have been incredibly challenging — grieving feels like an exercise that we do best together in the same physical space.…