Godot is written in C++ not Rust…

Unfortunately all of those dark patterns actually do work statistically speaking, that’s why they’re so prevalent. It really sucks because it means they’ll never stop.

Vscode even has a terminal built in haha

This is amazing, going to recommend this to my team as a JavaScript replacement on Monday!

This hasn’t been true for years…

“You can learn how to develop apps for Apple platforms for free without enrolling. With just an Apple ID, you can access Xcode, software downloads, documentation, sample code, forums, and Feedback Assistant, as well as test your apps on devices.”

https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/

Not to mention you can already side load apps using a free account as well, you just have to refresh the signing once a week. Presumably “real” side loading will remove that restriction and make the process simpler.

iOS dev here, especially when using Swift, supporting older OS’s greatly restricts which new Swift features you can use. Especially any OS lower than iOS 15.

Give the fact that the vast, and I mean like 95% or more, of iOS users update to the latest iOS version within months of release and over 99% of users are on at least the previous iOS version, it’s preferable to start a new app on the latest iOS version possible.

Unfortunately that means older (usually 5+ years) devices get left out, but with small volunteer dev teams or solo devs it makes practical sense.

Yep my go to is MIT for libraries/frameworks and GPL for full applications. I don’t want to restrict the use of my libraries to only GPL code unless I have a specific reason to do so.

That’s awesome to hear! I’ll give them a shot of one of my domains and see how it goes.

How has email deliverability been for you using Proton with a custom domain? I’m trying to move off of Google for everything but I’m still on Gmail for my personal email and a few custom domains. I’d love to move to Proton but have heard of problems with email going to spam or never being delivered but not sure if that only applies to their domains.

I’ve been using Namecheap for years and have been happy with it. Why do you prefer Cloudflare? Is it for easier integration with Cloudflare services? How’s the pricing compared to Namecheap?

Sorry for the interrogation lol

I’m glad I saw this comment because I was also about to skip it, but found the article to be a worthwhile read as well. Thanks for sharing it.

I was an Ubuntu user for many years, mostly out of inertia. I used it on all my servers and used Ubuntu or Mint for desktop usage. Once they started pushing Snap hard, I finally switched to Debian on all my servers and it’s been great. For my PC at home where I dual boot Windows 11 and Linux, I switched from Mint to Manjaro as I didn’t want to use anything based on Ubuntu anymore and I wanted something with all the latest packages (and hardcore reliability/stability is less of a concern) so Debian was out, but Arch seemed like a pain to get set up. I have a feeling I’ll end up moving from Manjaro to Arch eventually just like I did from Ubuntu to Debian, but for now it’s working for my needs.

Project lead (or maybe one of them I’m not sure) just left too: https://stgraber.org/2023/07/10/time-to-move-on/

As I’ve told colleagues and upper management, Canonical isn’t the company I excitedly joined back in 2011 and it’s not a company that I would want to join today, therefore it shouldn’t be a company that I keep working for either.

Ouch lol

The last time I updated my resume, I took a bit of a different approach to formatting it that I think worked really well. Instead of the standard sections, I wrote it in prose where I basically list each job and wrote a couple of short paragraphs describing what I worked on and things like if/when I was promoted (as in some companies I had multiple titles as I was promoted up). Having been on the hiring-people side more often than the getting-hired side, I find it much easier to read than a big list of bullet points and a (IMO useless) “list of technologies I know” section.

To answer your question of where I put it, yes I put it as another “job” in my experience section. So after my startup folded, I was working on one of my personal projects (an iOS app that’s in the App Store that I previously worked on as my job as an indie developer and had picked back up). In this case I modernized it to properly support the latest iOS versions and devices and started porting it from Objective-C to Swift.

This worked out great as I had essentially no gap in my resume since I started working on it again right after I stopped working on the startup. So even though I wasn’t getting paid, it showed I was working on something at least (and in this case, something on the appropriate level since I was rearchitecting the code).

Here’s a part of that section as a reference:

I approached the project as a senior engineer cleaning up and modernizing code written years ago by a junior — who happened to be me. Within a few weeks I was able to fix all of the core issues preventing its use on iOS 14, modernize the UI, and remove all deprecated APIs (some going all the way back to iOS 3).

In addition, I’ve been working on a major re-engineering of the data model, porting the entire app from outdated Objective-C to modern Swift 5, and beginning to add new user facing features allowed by the new data model.

I also linked to the GitHub page so they could see the work I did.

As for your question about when a project crosses into resume territory, I would argue any non-trivial project is fine. Even if it’s a new project you start from scratch, I think as long as it’s the type of work your would be doing if you were hired (in my case I was doing architecture work, etc) or even if say I had started a non-trivial project in a new language I didn’t know just to learn it (let’s say I started a non-trivial Rust project or something) I think it would also be fine. And I don’t think it matters if you’ve finished it, in progress work is fine as long as it’s on Github so they can review it. It’s really up to you, but I think the point is just to show you continued to work at your “level” and/or continued to learn it’s fine.

This is all just my opinion both from having used it successfully in my own resume and from having been part of the hiring process of many developers, but I can at least say I didn’t get any negative feedback about it and I did get the job. This was with a full 6 month “gap” after ending my last position.

My Github username is the same as this username so you can see my projects there if you want (the one I’m referencing here is called iSub), and I’m happy to DM you my resume if you want to see it as it contains personal information I’d rather not share publicly like my phone number (though I guess I could redact it and just post a link, this profile isn’t exactly meant to be private or I would have used a different username).

Hope that helps!

I wouldn’t worry about resume gaps. I’ve found that as long as I’m working on some kind of non-trivial personal project (in my case, usually something I have on Github so employers can see it), I can put it on my resume to fill that gap and it’s not a problem.

Also, since you still have a job, it’s actually the best time to start applying since you can just keep applying and interviewing until you find something while still having a job and receiving a salary. You are clearly unhappy there and are not growing, so there’s no reason not to start the process.

Obviously since you’re still there you can’t just post to LinkedIn saying you’re looking (which is how I found my last job, after a more than 6 month gap btw–though I was working on a personal project during that time as mentioned), but you can start reaching out directly to companies.

Even if it takes 6 months to find something, the sooner you start the better.

Thanks, yeah looks like it was a Memmy app bug. I just opened the post in a browser and the link is there.

I feel like I also had the “if it compiles it works” experience with Golang as well, but holy cow is it a much simpler and easier to work with language. I want to like Rust, I really do, but even just the syntax is painful to look at lol.

Also the cult-like community is a bit off putting…never seen anything quite like that for any language…

It does seem to have some genuinely solid benefits though so maybe one day I’ll get into it.

I’m genuinely interested in reading this blog post but looks like you forgot to link it

I guess it’s not so much “hosting” as having it on your home NAS with some scripts to backups channels and videos that you like. At least that’s what I do.

Thought I should make a point to mention youtube-dl is dead, yt-dlp is the replacement and it works great. Even has a command line flag to make its options work the same as the options in youtube-dl so it can be a drop in replacement for existing scripts.