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baobaba | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: A (compact) printable 2024 habit calendar

Thank you for the warning and I completely understand. I didn't aggressively ask for upvotes/comments, but I did share the excitement from adding my own work to Show HN for the first time. I will stay away from sharing my HN submissions the next time.

baobaba | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you grateful for?

I am a backend developer (RoR stack, with some UI chops). I used to work for a well-known US company remotely, got let go a week ago. Right now I'm catching a breath and deciding what's next. I might work on my own projects + freelance for a while.

baobaba | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you grateful for?

A small neighbourhood bakery with a large diesel generator in Lviv that stayed open every day since the war in Ukraine started. Even during complete power blackouts they stayed open, brewed coffee, baked croissants, and let everyone charge their devices. Nowadays it's overrun with programmers like me as it's a reliable source of power and internet.

My small Bluetti EB70 that lets me take hot showers when Russians launch rockets at our infrastructure and disconnect whole cities from the grid.

Electrical engineers that keep fixing the grid so that my Bluetti can charge from time to time.

A friend with Starlink who's happy to share internet. Simple things!

baobaba | 4 years ago | on: Early Retirement (2006)

> Retirement forces you to stop thinking that it is your job that holds you back. For most people the depressing truth is that they aren't that organized, disciplined, or motivated.

This resonates. I took a 1-year sabbatical after 12 years in the tech industry. I kept a big text file with all the things I wanted to do once I had the time. When I finally did, I realized I only wanted to do one thing from that list (of 30+ items). The rest sounded good on paper, but I never had the motivation to do them. This was a harsh realization, but now when I think "I wish I had time to...", I know it's an illusion. We tend to make time for what we really want. Overall, it was useful to realize.

baobaba | 6 years ago | on: Hacker News Classics (2018)

Thank you for making this. I have opened a few links and all happened to be outstanding. Saved for the weekend reading.

baobaba | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Remote people: Do you have a constant voice/video call running all day?

I was a remote full-time solo developer for a client (small UK-based medical team) for 6 years. All work done over email; 2 phone calls in all those years.

Could some things be done faster over a phone call? Probably. However, both me and the client preferred the async nature of emails and avoided calls as much as possible.

baobaba | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to pay $5/month for?

I stumbled upon https://www.dailycodingproblem.com/ recently and it's the first time I want to pay for a newsletter. I don't need to pass a coding interview, but I used to be a competition programmer in high school and love thinking of tricky coding problems to solve. The newsletter includes a detailed solution to each problem (the next day.) What a great idea.

I also used to pay for http://railscasts.com/ by Ryan Bates - back when it was a paid subscription. I paid for how succinct the information was organized, despite there being a tonne of other Ruby blogs out there.

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