I'd suggest you at least get very familiar with AI tools like copilot and cursor. Get good at using them and leveraging them for efficiency. Also get a feel for their limitations. Within those, there may be opportunities. Beyond that I think as always, participate in professional networks - meet people in tech, contribute to open source - connections help you stand out when there's a whole globe of competition.

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If not, a little vamity badge doesn't represent much as a value proposition.

The main struggle is lack of sufficiently skilled applicants.

The problem might be our ability to attract them! But it's a tough market.

jobs@openup.org.za

I don't really agree. Perhaps we're incredibly lucky as a civic tech non-profit, but our limiting factor generally isn't money. It's skilled people who can take responsibility and deliver. So if OP is an experienced developer who is willing to look a bit beyond just code, but still bring serious tech skill and experience to the table, I'd like to talk to them.

See code for all and code for america.

If we see coding as an exercise in describing the system in a way the computer can execute but most importantly, other developers can understand and maintain, developers are simply another persona, and a card sort between developers would elicit the abstractions and names we should strongly consider using for things in the code. Same methods as information architecture for users.

I kinda see these parts as part of (non-dev-technical) design and designers differ in the degree to which they own these

- visual design towards a design system - abstract system of "this kind of thing looks like this so that the user can see it's this kind of thing and it looks good"

- information architecture - actual things we have on the site or page or app or system, and how we organise them so that they make sense and match the user mental model

- ux design - the use of the above two to sure it both looks good, and people find stuff, and are able to use stuff

- copywriting - hopefully happens somewhere in there

This training series from webflow touches on it, but perhaps not as much detail as you'd like https://university.webflow.com/lesson/freelancer-220-develop...

- configuration management as env vars

- reverse proxy routing traffic for a given hostname to the correct container, swapping to the new container upon deploy

- plugin for tls cert generation using letsencrypt

- zero downtime deploys - it starts and smoke tests a new container before taking down the old one on deploy

- plugins for running databases and connecting your apps to them

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What might be nice is a quick way to delete stuff if you accidentally send something sensitive to a public instance.

Just before this I built a crystal radio - basically a very long wire, a diode, and a crystal earphone. No amplifier.needed because the earphone is so sensitive.

As I got the amplifier all soldered up, I heard radio on a speaker without any signal connected if I touched a metal tool on some contact.

I asked about this on an electronics mailing list and if I recall correctly people were mostly annoyed that I was talking rubbish. But I'm pretty sure something was acting as the diode, I was the antenna, and the amplifier put the signal out.

Somewhere these misrepresentations are being taken as fact.