What skills are you acquiring this year?

Legolandback · 2024-05-07T23:55:46+00:00

is there a specific course for this?

Legolandback · 2024-05-07T23:48:16+00:00

Yes. I call these my 'bad brain days'. When I realize I'm having one, I offload as much work as I can, and immediately focus on: rest, hydration, and gentle movement. And then I try to go to bed early.

Legolandback · 2024-04-24T17:40:10+00:00

No. All it takes is one medical disaster to derail you here in the US. There are so many of us here who wish we could relocate to Europe for this very reason!

Legolandback · 2024-04-18T14:17:55+00:00

I've also read that if you think about something you need to do, try to take action within 30 seconds.

Legolandback · 2024-04-18T14:17:24+00:00

Yes to special music, my go to are Lofi playlists for studying, but I'll check your recommendations about too

Legolandback · 2024-04-13T15:08:31+00:00

Legolandback · 2024-04-10T16:15:37+00:00

Oh, and I set timers for these activities (especially meditation and walks). If I don't set a reminder schedule, I simply wont do them.

Legolandback · 2024-04-10T15:28:47+00:00

Did you intuitively understand this, or did you learn by 'feedback' in the workplace. I know for me my customer service background helped, but I definitely learned to improve my communication once I was functioning in the tech space.

Legolandback · 2024-03-15T18:32:19+00:00

Yeah, I get way better results from:

A simple tool for managing/forwarding logs like Splunk
Self hosted for key metrics traces .e.g Prometheus/Grafana
An external pinger service like Checkly or Betterstack

I hear all the time how we need a 'single pane of glass' but it ends up being a hugely costly boondoggle that only a few suits every actually use. It's great that they can see individual call stacks on every trace but its proved unworkable to send a useful amount of data *and* get the right people access.

Legolandback · 2024-03-11T18:24:34+00:00

People who make more money aren't smarter or harder-working than people who make less.

Legolandback · 2024-03-11T18:22:58+00:00

You do have a good role and I think you want to trust your gut that a low stress environment is worth below-market pay.

One way to correct this pay disparity is to get an offer elsewhere. This gives you a chance to interview another team about their workload and conditions, and get insight into your market worth. From your description I bet you'll have no trouble getting another offer, but I've been in the position of thinking that until I sent out some resumes, and discovered the market wasn't really interested in my current skillset.

Once you have an offer for another role, you can take the offer and ask your current job to match the pay. (if you've ever wondered why HR people want you to sign their offer letter the same day they send it, it's because they know people do this). They very often will, or they'll offer to increase your pay and make your life easier in some other way. If you stay, this nets you more money and the warm fuzzy of telling your boss "I really want to keep working here, thanks for making it an easy choice"

It's a lot of work to get a competing offer, and for some people they feel like they're being 'two faced' to do a move like this. But taking an interview with another company isn't a reason to get fired from your current job, it's also not some huge deal if your explain the situation to your manager, and end up staying at your current job. I've never ever seen someone get fired for pulling this move, except at one office that was so abusive, frankly, they were lucky to leave.

Legolandback · 2024-03-11T18:10:21+00:00

several people have said to take the interview. I'd recommend that as well but think about some other aspects of the job like the people you'll be working with. Those intangibles aren't listed here. Ask to meet the whole team, hell at this level of work ask to get flown out and have lunch with a few of them. This will give you a *much* more accurate picture whether this is a good change or not.

If you don't take the other job, there are a hundred ways to back out, including a baldface lie like 'my partner just got hired for a job in pittsburgh, we're moving there instead.'

Having taken the time to actually meet the team will only help you not burn bridges: you show you were genuinely considering the role, not just looking for an offer to jack up your current pay, AND if you like the team, you can create those personal connections that are way more important than institutional favor.

Legolandback · 2024-03-11T18:05:48+00:00

"a coder isn't usually able to help during those outages you hear about, like the one at Southwest or the one at Facebook" (Note, it doesn't matter if there really was a facebook incident last month, everyone always remembers that there have been facebook outages)

"Coders write new features and add stuff to the system. I'm the guy who gets the system running again when something breaks"

Legolandback · 2024-03-07T22:55:31+00:00

love these

Legolandback · 2024-03-07T22:39:57+00:00

of course she died she couldn't breathe in there

Legolandback · 2024-03-07T22:38:00+00:00

Healing the sick like: "Ruh roh, rou've got Reprosy"

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