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Long story short, I'm a veteran and I receive treatment for PTSD. I've struggled for years. Treatment is helping but I feel that I am no longer "hacking it". I have an easy job right now, but I have no idea how long it…

EMACS and SLIME are the default development tools for Lisp. I have a desire to go deeper with Lisp but every time I approach it, my distaste for EMACS prevents me. My problem with EMACS is not so much that it's…

A hypothetical company uses infrastructure-as-code tools to provision all of their infrastructure. Managing the resources becomes tedious, and an engineer builds automation that allows all of the infrastructure code to…

I’ve recently taken on a new job as a full-stack developer. In the past I’ve delivered fully completed projects without too much fuss. I’ve also taken on legacy projects and been able to dive in and solve major bugs in…

I'm 36, I've been working in tech for 6 years now and I'm doing ok for myself. I'm genuinely passionate about computer science and I'm thinking about getting a degree. The main reason I want to do this is for the…

I'm in need of career advice. I'm a self-taught developer, I learned programming as a kid and always dabbled in it but I didn't make it a career until 2014. Since then I've done a number of different things - automation…

Hey HN, I'm looking for an opinion. I'm in a terrible company...the environment has become incredibly toxic, almost my entire department has quit, the company is hiring a new CEO but the "interim" CEO has acted purely…

I've resisted jumping on the React bandwagon but I can't do it any longer, every client wants React these days. What are your best suggestions for books or courses that I can use to get up to speed very quickly?

Dear HN, I've been in my current job about five months. Initially the job was supposed to be a simple Python web-dev gig, but the job description morphed and I found myself the "manager" of a tiny development team.…