You can still get a place in the 700k area but it’s a lot further out, a lot older and will likely need a lot more work. That said many in our generation inherited the boomer attitude of big house and big backyard - I think expectations need to change, but negative gearing really needs to go.

ChatGPT and friends is definitely a good tool to get snippets, like Stack Overflow, just make sure to understand what you get, just don't copy / paste blindly.

No solution is perfect! I see this as more integration / component testing than a true unit test.

I couldn’t cope, so after a lot of soul searching, I found I just had to de prioritize things. I accepted there are some things I’d love to do but just aren’t as important, high enough ROI, etc. Hard pill to swallow.

I reached out to a few people in my network who did related study at the universities. In general, they all had good things to say. I ended up going with the one I thought had the best reputation both locally and nation-wide, which is UQ. Link: https://study.uq.edu.au/study-options/programs/master-bioinf...

I ended up enrolling in a part time Masters of Bioinformatics. I got an exemption from the basic software courses, since I already do a lot of coding in my day job. The remaining courses are split between:

- molecular biology theory (obviously need a good foundation here) - wet lab - statistics - bioinformatics (which is learning the different tools, what they do, how to build a pipeline, which is just a lot of bash and python glue) and then how to interpret the results

I just started so I haven't done the web labs yet, but I am learning a lot with my current courses which molecular biology and bioinformatics. Having classes, assessment, and immersed in an environment with other people learning, along with professors to answer questions, is really good.

Not sure if this is an option for you. I tried to do this in my free time with books, YouTube, etc, but nothing really clicked.

I definitely agree anyone not using LLMs for coding is missing out.

I still find ChatGPT 4 well worth the money. The coding is way better than 3.5. I wonder what their system prompt is, I don’t get as good results from the API (maybe I am doing it wrong).

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I have nearly 10 years experience as a full stack engineer across many industries and technologies. I've also been contributing to major OSS projects in the JS ecosystem for the duration of my career (Vue.js, Cypress, Jest, Vite etc). I can work in a highly autonomous fashion and able to debug complex problems across the entire stack.

I built a bad fence, a less bad gate, and a little shed. A lot was learned, they have issues but damn I’m proud of my creations.

React in general is a bit of a pain, you may need to use `useMemo` etc. You probably want to find out what the bottleneck is, first. Computations? DOM elements? Re-rendering excessively?

It's certainly no harder than BE - it's likely just a lack of familiarity.

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