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by shade 4y ago
That definitely simplified it. :) That said, we could (and for a few weeks, did) bring in a second developer with no issues. My last job had me on a ten person developer team and I would not try to use that process there - although I'd
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by shade 4y ago
> The biggest difference I’ve noticed between Agile and agile shops is that ceremonies or lack thereof make no difference. The best project I ever worked on: one developer (me), one project manager on our side, one QA/test person at
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by shade 4y ago
I was on vacation in Utah last week with some friends, we missed our turn onto the gravel road our rented cabin was on. My friend was using Google Maps to navigate and said "oh, Google says you can just take the next turn rather than t
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by shade 4y ago
LanguageTool is useful, I self-host it in Docker and use the VS Code extension to integrate with it, since I do most of my writing in markdown (including Dendron for my note-taking). Even with a degree in technical writing, I still find it
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by shade 5y ago
You can also run it in a Docker container and connect the LanguageTool VS Code extension to it. Works great for Markdown documents!
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by shade 5y ago
We upgraded to an induction cooktop from a resistive electric coil one last year and we love it. Pots heat up fast, to the point that we make sure to have everything prepped and ready to go, because we're not going to have time to do o
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by shade 5y ago
After my daughter was born four years ago, I went through a two year stretch of awful chronic sinus/ear infections, probably triggered by her bringing stuff home from day care. Two rounds of prednisone, probably six or seven rounds of
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by shade 5y ago
Personally, I prefer Rider to VS on all platforms, including Windows. It has much better performance, feels like a modern IDE, and after doing Java for a few years in between .NET gigs using IntelliJ I've gotten to prefer how IntelliJ-
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by shade 5y ago
Yes, this is my approach too - I'll take extensive notes and/or rewrite the material. The way I do thinking and learning is essentially to write things down on paper - it doesn't work for everyone, but it does for me. I also
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by shade 5y ago
Yes - .NET 5 and 6 both have runtimes and SDKs available for Mac and Linux. At least in my opinion, Linux is the preferred deployment platform for it now unless you have a specific (usually older) library that only works on Windows.
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by shade 5y ago
Can second this, I got a Manta a few months ago and I love it. I sleep better when it's pitch dark and the sleep mask helps ensure that it is. The only nitpick is that if you're a side sleeper (I am) it can be a little uncomfortab
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by shade 5y ago
Sort of, yeah. My personal laptop is an M1 MBP, so I can run the iOS version of Otter on it, have the system default audio point to LoopBack with the headphone jack as a monitor (which goes to a device that streams to my hearing aid). Then
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by shade 5y ago
There's a lot of good stuff here, but I have to say I'm disappointed that they still haven't added anything along the lines of Android's Live Captions feature as a system-wide thing for iOS/macOS. I generally prefer
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by shade 5y ago
Instant coffee is also pretty nice for making iced coffee at home, which is what I usually do with it. I prefer a coffee-flavored beverage versus actual coffee most of the time, so Nescafe Clasico and a decent creamer to take the bitter edg
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by shade 5y ago
I don't want to go back. The one bright side from the last 14 months was getting to experience working on a remote-only team and discovering that it's great. We have a team distributed across offices anyway, and meetings go a lot
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by shade 5y ago
This is where I am, too - long time .NET dev, have gotten increasingly frustrated with Visual Studio's awful performance, especially with ReSharper. I've tried taking that out given VS has a bunch of that stuff built in, but worki
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by shade 5y ago
I had my first panic/anxiety attack in my mid-20s, and then more frequently in my late 30s. It sucks, and especially the first couple of times you really may have no idea what hit you. There were a couple of things that ultimately work
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by shade 5y ago
Live Captions, mostly, though lately I've been using other browsers and just dragging URLs into Chrome if I need captioning for them. I'm really hoping Apple introduces a comparable feature soon for iOS and macOS.
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by shade 5y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine - I've worked with folks who were/are good developers but wanted to constrain their role to only development tasks. No effort to get exposure to build automation/deployment pipelines or understand
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by shade 6y ago
I'd actually like to for privacy reasons, but until someone else produces a Mac browser that has live captioning support or Apple adds it at the system level, that's going to be hard to do... quick, easy captioning is a killer fea
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by shade 6y ago
It might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I saw this linked on Twitter recently and have been meaning to try it out, so maybe worth a look? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Wattenbe...
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by shade 6y ago
Yeah, this mirrors my own feelings. At my previous job, I worked from home 2-3 days a week and commuted (~50 minutes each way) the rest of the time, then I took a new job less than ten minutes from home. We got sent home due to COVID a few
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by shade 6y ago
This is a great article and being deaf myself, I have very similar experiences. Some thoughts... I'm a heavy Otter user and find it well worth the subscription - I used it a lot even in person, and have used it more since we all starte
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by shade 6y ago
Out of curiosity - what are you looking at? I'm also starting to think about replacing my 2016 MBP and quite honestly, the current MacBook Air/MacBook Pro line doesn't really appeal to me. Lenovo has a couple of AMD-based Thi
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by shade 6y ago
To add some counterpoints to the WFH criticism here, my team's also been working from home for the last two months and I'd honestly prefer to never go back to the office. I have a unique situation since I can't hear well, and
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by shade 7y ago
What I've personally found frustrating: I'm looking for things (yeast and flour) that I know will be back in stock eventually; it would be nice if sites would let me backorder it so I can get into the queue for when they have stoc
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by shade 7y ago
I actually prefer JetBrains Rider these days. Works great for general C# development, cross-platform, and doesn't thrash my disk like crazy. Granted, I just spent about two years doing Java dev in IntelliJ and recently moved back over
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by shade 7y ago
If you're able (you have insurance/can afford to), the single best thing you can do here is to see a professional. I've dealt with mild to moderate depression on and off for most of my adult life; four years ago my wife final
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by shade 7y ago
I have a question that's kind of adjacent to this. I've wanted to play with mapping and especially with geolocating data, but at least right now, I don't want to put much money into it. Are there any reasonably decent tools f
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by shade 7y ago
As a note - I've done a lot of SQL in C#, and Stack Overflow's Dapper[0] library is _fantastic_ for dealing with that. You can pass in all the SQL you like, or a stored procedure, and it deals with virtually all of the query param

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