Creating a TODO app is a software engineering trope. I think every software engineer feels the need to create their own at some point or another.
But in the end most engineers that I know end up using a plain text file. I was one of those people for a while, using Window’s Notepad as my TODO app.
However in the last few years I’ve found myself using Apple’s Notes app more often due to a few key features that it offers.
I’m always open to getting messages from companies. I like hearing about companies that I haven’t heard of and learning more about ones I have heard of. But the vast majority of recruiting messages are not good, especially for staff+ candidates.
My wife and I went over to another couple’s apartment that we had recently met. We had a great time playing board games and eating pizza.
On our way home, my wife and I said to each other at the same time, “Did you notice their chickens?”
“AI” is changing the way that people live and work. This is particularly true of my occupation as a software developer.
To try and predict the long term effects of AI on my occupation and on other creative fields, I think it’s helpful to think about times in the past when people’s jobs have been replaced by cheaper labor.
I don’t post that much to social media. I mean, I do compared to people who don’t post anything at all. It’s more accurate to say that I don’t post much compared to the average person who regularly posts to social media.
A big reason for my limited posting is that I stick to just professional content, which means I usually post about an article that I published or a project that I worked on. I also want my content to be relevant to my followers and fairly high quality.
However, I often have a desire to share more from other areas of my life. One example is sharing music that I found and liked recently. Another is dog videos, which I share privately with my wife, but I think some others might also like my highly curated dog videos.
But I think it would be pretty silly to post those things to my professional social media accounts, because people don’t follow me for that content. Furthermore, if people did want to see my music likes or dog videos, why would they follow me when I primarily make web dev posts? I call this the creator’s niche dilemma.
Relatedly, but on the other side of posting, there’s a lot of people who post high quality web development posts that I’d like to see. But many of those authors also post content outside of web dev that I don’t care about. In small portions, I don’t mind, but when they post non-tech posts regularly, I often don’t find it worth the follow. I call this the curator’s dilemma.
I’ve been thinking about these dilemmas for a while but don’t have a good solution for either of them yet.