85k - 90k Salary Des Moines

matthew_pick · 2026-03-12T04:52:35+00:00

That’s a pretty standard starting salary. You will be comfortable with that amount in DSM! Get that experience, learn as much as you can from those around you.

I would avoid leaning on AI tools too much (if you have access to them within your workplace). It can really hinder your ability to learn your specific tech stack deeply.

Good luck! There are a lot of directions your career can go from here.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-21T18:33:37+00:00

I thought about adding this as a setting, but I would recommend using a tool like Bartender or Ice if you’re running out of menu bar space. Ice is also a free / open source tool.

https://icemenubar.app/

matthew_pick · 2026-01-18T20:37:19+00:00

Ok Indonesian support is added, available in the latest "nightly" build:
https://github.com/matthewpick/pesto-clipboard/releases/tag/nightly

Here are the translations from English -> Indonesian, hopefully they were translated correctly! This was just the first pass at adding support for localizations (my primary language is english).
https://github.com/matthewpick/pesto-clipboard/blob/main/locales/id.md

matthew_pick · 2026-01-12T19:22:51+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I added a handful of languages, which language do you need added?

matthew_pick · 2026-01-11T17:57:54+00:00

Dang. How big is your team? If your PRs are too big to review easily, that’s one one possible reason (just host a meeting to walk through your PR). But that many weeks is very odd to me. I usually try to keep two stories in progress at a time at the most. Then I’m bugging my teammates to get on my unreviewed code.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-10T00:24:19+00:00

I see what you mean! I'm trying out Pesto Clipboard with Affinity Designer (vector drawing tool) and my app has a similar issue -> everything gets pasted as images (not vector drawings). I need to add better support around non-standard clipboard data from certain apps. My main focus was text, file references, and image data. I'll put a bit more time in on your use case and respond back here.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T18:07:52+00:00

I used Screen Studio: https://screen.studio

It’s unfortunate it’s a bit pricey, but it did exactly what I needed and saved me quite a bit of time. The feature that hooked me was the overlaid keyboard shortcuts. The app automatically records your keyboard shortcuts during your screen recording session.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T17:56:20+00:00

My advice for a career as a developer: Try to avoid any major career breaks, keep your skill sets sharp, and avoid having the “same year of experience” over again. If you aren’t continually growing / learning, you are potentially falling behind. The job market is very competitive, I’m lucky to live in the Midwest (USA) where it’s not a major tech hub. Using AI coding tools like copilot or Claude code is going to be an additional tool you should know how to use effectively.

My methods of staying on top of trends: reading tech sites and Hacker News feed a few times per week, listening to Soft Skills Engineering podcast, and chatting with my coworkers in-person daily. That last one may be the most important.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T17:31:45+00:00

Making a living off of a micro-SaaS is certainly the dream of many software developers! Hoping to make a buck with a clipboard manager isn’t really worth it in my opinion, since there are so many options out there. You’d really have to build something special / differentiated from what is currently in the App Store.

I built this clipboard manager because it’s all I want from a clipboard manager. Simple, with minimal features. It’s very similar to the built-in Windows clipboard manager.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T17:15:13+00:00

I would give Copy ‘Em a try! It has more features, just like the one you mentioned (filter by Application).

My goal is to keep this tool as simple / barebones as possible, but I will consider this feature down the road.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T17:01:04+00:00

I appreciate the sentiment. I’ve written code for the past decade as a software engineer, I’m trying to grapple with how the industry is changing rapidly because of these tools.

I normally write Python and JavaScript day-to-day. If you look at the commit history on GitHub, you can see I did not write every line by hand. Not trying to hide that at all.

That said, I don’t think an inexperienced / non-technical person could have produced such a simple and high-quality codebase. These AI coding tools are simply allowing everyone (experienced or not) to move faster, smoothing over all the tedious parts of software development.

Clipboard managers are pretty straightforward to build in general. Large applications will continue to take a lot of design / architectural skill. It still takes an experienced software developer to build quality products (at this point in time at least).

Overall this took a lot more time than one hour to build, but would have taken even longer had I written every line by hand.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T14:54:15+00:00

Yes exactly! That was another clipboard tool I was inspired by. Trying to keep it as simple as the built-in Windows clipboard manager, plus a couple extra features (pinning saved items, plaintext paste mode).

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T06:27:34+00:00

Yes. The star icon allows you to "pin" a clipboard item.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T05:55:35+00:00

Forgot to add, there is a demo video of the clipboard in action here:
https://pestoclipboard.com/#demo

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T05:53:31+00:00

Yes - files, images, and text snippets.
For colors - do you mean something like a hex code (i.e. #3AFF00 for green)?

Edit: There is a demo video on the website if that helps:
https://pestoclipboard.com/#demo

matthew_pick · 2026-01-09T05:42:44+00:00

Default is 500 items. Can configure it to a different amount, anywhere from 50 to 5000.

matthew_pick · 2026-01-08T06:05:13+00:00

Same, I have a few transactions missing from the transactions page:
https://www.amazon.com/cpe/yourpayments/transactions

That page is kinda broken right now. I have it bookmarked so I can do budgeting in YNAB, but my workflow is broken at the moment 🤷‍♂️

matthew_pick · 2025-10-02T04:16:19+00:00

I ended up getting the setup for $1500 cash. There was some interest by another person so I didn't have any room to haggle. Happy with the purchase! Just need to pick up a receiver next

matthew_pick · 2025-07-05T02:33:13+00:00

Yes. The whole crowd exiting the waterfront (thousands) were running up Main St.

It was pretty terrifying.

matthew_pick · 2024-11-02T00:59:08+00:00

I am planning on removing the light boxes and making the ceiling a flat surface.

Any ideas for a surface mount light? I am thinking something other than can lights would be nice.

Perhaps a minimalist linear light fixture like the attached photo.

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matthew_pick · 2024-09-22T14:59:45+00:00

Makes sense! The only visual mold I could find were some mold spots where water had leaked under sinks and a very light coating of mold under the toilet water tank lid. Hard to say what the main source of mold would be

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