Like LinkedIn, but you get paid to read the recruiter emails
Due to the current pandemic, we're all on at least social distancing, and some of us on full-on lockdown. This has curtailed most people's social lives somewhat (mine less so, but a 1 year old will do that), and so various people are now doing various meetups on Zoom, Skype, Houseparty, etc. I've used these tools before, and they're good for certain use cases, but less good for others.
So we build a pub. Of sorts. Here's the model I've got in my head...
Long time readers will note this post as being similarly clickbait as my earlier ‘How to be a Rockstar developer!‘. Don’t worry, hopefully there’s useful information here. (I’ve been inspired here by Keavy McKinn’s post ‘Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path’, which talks about many good things, but a lot of is about how to…
I’ve been playing the Turing Test recently. No, not the test of machine intelligence, the game named after it
In the wake of Hacktoberfest 2017 finishing (and I’ve managed to get the t-shirt again for the 3rd year in a row), I figured I’d try and convince a few more people to give back to open source projects. This is something I do just as part of my day-to-day work, and I want to…
So earlier today there was a tweet
an app called airDnD where traveling nerds can find a role playing group to join for a night
— reBOOca get it? oooo (@rebeccawatson) 7 November 2017
Turns out it's not a radically new idea but I was still kinda curious and started plotting out how I'd do it.
Every day it feels like there’s some new Internet of Things (IoT) story, telling us how these new devices in our homes and offices are causing more and more havoc. On the other hand, we really like the new and shiny things doing funky things for us, and that doesn’t look like it’s slowing down…
I've had an idea about better ways to do "consumer friendly" storage.