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jjbohn | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Non-tech books that have helped you grow professionally?

I have a lot of the classics on my list, but a new one that I've found extremely growth spurring was "Ego is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday. I never really considered myself an egotists; confident perhaps, but something I never struggled with. This book showed me that I indeed did have more ego than necessary and gave me some really good guidance on how to live a better, happier, and more fulfilled life. Really something for a book I didn't even know I needed.

jjbohn | 10 years ago | on: State of Development Podcast

Sorry if anyone is seeing this for the second time today. I deleted the original post due to a problem with the link. Fixed now though.

jjbohn | 11 years ago | on: Make your legacy code self destruct in Rails to force technical debt clean up

When in the middle of long refactorings, I'm notoriously terrible at going back and removing deprecated code. So, I made a gem that allows me to mark somewhere in the code to self destruct on a particular date. Prior to that date, you will see warnings in your test suite letting you know when and why the self destruct mechanism is there. After the date, it will start throwing exceptions in your test environment to basically self destruct the build. So far, it's been a great incentive/reminder to go back and clean up after myself. permalink

jjbohn | 11 years ago | on: The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Bah, sorry about that. I copied it out of the chrome extension that I use to promote books on my blog out of habit. My bad. Won't happen again.

jjbohn | 11 years ago | on: The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Side note. I use to read a meditation or two every morning as part of my morning routine. I've fallen out of the habit but am going to start again. There's some really great thoughts in here.

jjbohn | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which podcasts do you listen to/watch?

* The Nerdist (comedy, but about half of the episodes have success stories so it kind of falls under entrepreneurship)

* The Tim Ferris Show

* The Ruby Rogues

* Functional Geekery

* The Smart Passive Income Podcast

* The Nathan Barry Show (very new)

* Mostly Erlang

jjbohn | 11 years ago | on: Meditations

I've recently been reading meditations (and carrying it around in my bag always at the ready). Very good book and I highly recommend writing your own meditations as well.

jjbohn | 12 years ago | on: I quit my job

Good stuff. Been in this position a few times and I feel for you. Glad you're in a better place. One piece of advice, if you can take a little time off between gigs, I would do it. Keep spending time doing things you want to do before jumping in with another company. Also, be picky about your next job. Now that you have some experience under your belt, you will have some options.

jjbohn | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier

Very much inspired by it. Wish I could find the post actually. I had some services running for my wife's photography business, but nothing that could really be released in any way. Seeing that other post though made me start taking the steps to turn it into a SaaS.

jjbohn | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier

Right now it's photo centric just to make sure we get that experience down. Eventually I could see it move to other areas though. My wife's a photographer and I saw a need for this kind of service that was focused on photographers. There's lots of other photo backup, but the only ones that do raw files are more syncs than anything. She needed a place to persist images she was done with in a cheap way.
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