Craig Alanson also wrote a fantasy trilogy a while back that proved much better than I was expecting. It started off as what appeared to be an uninteresting juvenile fantasy book, but quickly got better and darker. I very much enjoyed reading those.

I tried using it in New Zealand last year, and it wasn't as effective as in the US: I think it hasn't been trained as well on the native New Zealand birds, many of which aren't found anywhere else.

Amusingly, it identified turkeys when we were in New Zealand, which I was irritated with because there clearly weren't any turkeys in New Zealand. It turned out I was wrong when we came across a flock of them in the Waikato area running around in a sheep field. A local told me that they were brought there around a hundred years ago and are mostly left alone because nobody eats turkey in New Zealand.

I ended up buying a new Brother scanner/printer that can do full-duplex scanning and printing. The thing is amazing, and I'll likely have it for another 15 years. It's solid and reliable, and the toner lasts a really long time.

It also gives me strong "The Expanse" vibes. Probably because there are so many orbital bodies shown that were mentioned in those books. I also learned that Pallas is an actual asteroid.

It's really good, and I've since read the next two books. They are all more of a novella length, so I've been finishing them much faster than the average novel.

I wanted to call that one out if anyone is looking for a good read.

Also, Mistborn has been memorable since I first read it about 8 years ago. That's a very good story. I'm considering reading it again, which I rarely do with books I've read within the past decade.

When we go up into the mountains in winter, either the roads are cleared and we can drive on them with normal tires, or it's snowing heavily and we put snow chains on the tires and drive slowly. I've only had to use snow chains a couple times in my life because I generally only go into the mountains when it's not currently snowing, which is most of the time.

Climate change has made the climate drier here, the mountains get a lot less snow than they used to. It also helps that real winter with snow storms only lasts about 3 months.

"Into the Breach", on the other hand, kept me coming back for a long time. It's definitely an iOS game though: completely unsuitable for most devices that use Netflix.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Oregon or Washington

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, C#, AWS, React, Elixir, CI/CD pipelines

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHSqqfCSttQSd6zWs1CKdFsO...

Email: kevin.peter@gmail.com

I'm an experienced software engineer (15+ years) with leadership experience looking for a senior+ software engineer position. I'm comfortable with scalable distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing and deployment, backend services, full stack web development, SQL and NoSQL databases, and AWS cloud infrastructure.

I specialize in full stack web development and backend services on AWS, and I welcome the opportunity to learn new things. I can easily adapt to your tech stack. I also love writing technical documentation.

As a software engineer, I enjoy challenging technical work, collaboration, mentoring, and figuring out what can bring the most value to my organization.

I enjoy experimenting with different languages and technologies. My current project is learning Go, but I previously played around a lot with Elixir. I wrote approximately 80 posts regarding the various aspects of Elixir, which you can see on my blog at https://inquisitivedeveloper.com

I'm looking for a place with a high degree of collaboration where I can work with kind and supportive colleagues to build something that makes people happy.

You can find my LinkedIn profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-peter-2314b38b/

If that sounds promising, reach out to me. I'd love to talk with you!

It's a lot easier to plan an itinerary (especially one when driving over many days) when I can see where and when I'll be with the distances and travel times. Creating overly ambitious itineraries where there's not enough time at each place can be a problem.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Oregon or Washington

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, Java, Node.js, C#, AWS, React, Elixir, CI/CD pipelines

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHSqqfCSttQSd6zWs1CKdFsO...

Email: kevin.peter@gmail.com

I'm an experienced software engineer (15+ years) with leadership experience looking for a senior+ software engineer position. I'm comfortable with scalable distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing and deployment, backend services, full stack web development, SQL and NoSQL databases, and AWS cloud infrastructure.

I specialize in full stack web development backend services on AWS, and I welcome the opportunity to learn new things. I can easily adapt to your tech stack. I also love writing technical documentation.

As a software engineer, I enjoy challenging technical work, collaboration, mentoring, and figuring out what can bring the most value to my organization.

I enjoy experimenting with different languages and technologies. My current project is learning Go, but I previously played around a lot with Elixir. I wrote approximately 80 posts regarding the various aspects of Elixir, which you can see on my blog at https://inquisitivedeveloper.com

I'm looking for a place with a high degree of collaboration where I can work with kind and supportive colleagues to build something that makes people happy.

You can find my LinkedIn profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-peter-2314b38b/

If that sounds promising, reach out to me. I'd love to talk with you!

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Oregon or Washington if I'm really excited about the opportunity

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, C#, AWS, React, Elixir, CI/CD pipelines

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHSqqfCSttQSd6zWs1CKdFsO...

Email: kevin.peter@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-peter-2314b38b/

I'm an experienced software engineer (15+ years) with leadership experience looking for a senior+ software engineer or engineering manager position. I'm comfortable with scalable distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment, backend services, full stack web development, SQL and NoSQL databases, and AWS cloud infrastructure.

I specialize in backend services on AWS and full stack web development, but I welcome the opportunity to learn new things. I can easily adapt to your tech stack. I also love writing technical documentation.

As a software engineer, I enjoy challenging technical work, collaboration, mentoring, and figuring out what can bring the most value to my organization.

As a manager, I turn ambiguity into clarity. I enjoy working on technical tasks along with my team, yet staying off the critical path so I can prioritize supporting my team. I serve my team, not the other way around.

I enjoy experimenting with different languages and technologies. My current project is learning Go, but I previously played around a lot with Elixir. I wrote approximately 80 posts regarding the various aspects of Elixir, which you can see on my blog at https://inquisitivedeveloper.com

I'm looking for a place with a high degree of collaboration where I can work with kind and supportive colleagues to build something that makes people happy.

If that sounds promising, reach out to me. I'd love to talk with you!

It's hard for me to take grumbles like this seriously when I've heard the same thing so many times before. Back in the "good old days", there were plenty of loud people complaining how bad it was compared to times before.

I personally think that although it is a lot more commercialized, the Internet is way better now.

- The houses tended to be colorful

- Almost all the buildings I saw looked like they were just painted, I did see a couple buildings with peeling paint, but I think they were abandoned

- I personally saw around 10 different people in the middle of painting their houses just driving along in remote rural areas, all in the span of about a week. Where I live (in California), I only see this about once every 5 years.

- Paint stores are widespread, even in small rural towns where there are hardly any businesses at all

I don't know why the people of Newfoundland love painting their buildings so much, but it really makes the place look nice.

Any kind of return to office is now impossible. Their (now much smaller office) can only hold about 5% of the employees, and the vast majority of employees are now scattered throughout the United States. Not even the founders or any of the executives live near the office anymore; they're all scattered geographically as well.

I was hired as part of the wave of remote hiring, and it seems to me based on the stories I hear from those that worked there in the pre-remote times that the switch to remote hiring really worked out well for them.

I was looking for an API reference to see what I could do with your API, but didn't find one. It seems that information about API calls is scattered among more "how-to" oriented documentation. That's just fine, but it would also be nice to have some documentation oriented around endpoints and details of the API.

In every project I worked on, the users of the system always wanted it to do things that go beyond what the low-code system was designed for. That always required what was essentially coding, but using some clunky UI for advanced code-like functionality.

In the end, you have a system that would have been much more maintainable if you had just gone with a standard "with-code" solution.

They always sell these things with the idea that non-coders can do most of the work on the system, but that's only true for a very basic system. In my experience, it's coders that end up doing 90% (or more) of the work and it ends up being inferior to a coding-based solution.