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I've recently taken to scanning documents and images of things that I can see someone wanting to find for minor historical purposes. Nothing critically important, but some of the images are things like old conference…

I'm interested in the potential to move towards doing contract work over full time work at some point. I knew there are a lot of pros and cons, but setting those aside, how do you find contract work? The contractors…

My work recently instated a learning stipend. I'd rather not say the exact amount, but it's in the low thousands per year. I'm a backend engineer at a growing company that also does ad hoc devops work when needed. I…

I've been working at a PHP shop for the last year. I think it's a fine language, but a lot of things I've grown to love from other languages aren't supported out of the box in PHP, like unused variable warnings. I…

I'm a recent CS graduate (undergrad) and I'm working full time. I like my job a lot, but there are a lot of subjects that I don't encounter at my job, like complex data structures, compiler development, and other topics…

What scripts have you written and use to automate little things in your life? Example: I have a script that's run by a cron job to update my podcast libraries and rename the podcasts appropriately so that everything in…

I can write code just fine, but I feel like one of my biggest draw backs is not having a formal understanding of how to design a large piece of software. I can draft a piece of software, but when it comes it…