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I started listening to the Longform Podcast today and I noticed that they had this section underneath the player.
It’s similar, in functionality, to what you can do on YouTube by linking to specific points in the video, but it takes it further by providing direct links. It’s footnotes for the Web and I think it’s an ingenious way to help a listener focus on the podcast.
I’ll be starting this challenge tomorrow (Wednesday). I must admit that I feel a certain amount of professional shame by doing it, but there’s a conjoined sense of need to do so, too.
I’m at an uncomfortable juncture in my professional life as a developer. I have a whole lot of years of experience, but I look at job descriptions and I feel like that experience don’t align with them. It’s like that dream of showing up naked at your final high school exam, but you’re awake and it’s not a dream.
I didn’t make the right choices over the last 6 years in staying current with the latest technologies and picking the companies that would have ensured the right development of my craft. It’s uncomfortable and unavoidable.
So, doing this challenge for 100 days, along with working on my own app projects, is a way to get back on track.
Been in my situation? Mentored or known someone who has? I’d love to hear your pick-me-uppers in the comments!
I attended the monthly #Sthlmtech session last night and watched three startups (Glance, Lunar Way, Happy Tails) pitch live to EQT Ventures. The meetup connects startups to investors.
My notes below:
Sam Cole, KnC Miner:
- You have to listen to VC’s
- Good regular communication with VC’s
- Raise more cash
- Have a strong team
EQT Ventures team are looking for digitally disruptive products from software companies.
Startups will benefit from strong tech team and postfunding support.
- Team is more important than product in early stages of startup.
Together is EQT’s match-making service for startups and investors.
The team’s favorite words during pitches:
AI, machine learning, traction, product, market, metric positive unit metrics, demo, customers, I’m too busy to meet you guys
… Least favorite words:
Exit strategy, we’ve outsourced dev, strategy, constant use of I, overusing words that you dont understand
The stockholmer podcast – looking for sponsors and stories
I was searching for Twitter clients for the commandline the other day and I found Rainbowstream. It’s an excellent tool; this is some serious software right here. You can view images. Images! Images on the CLI…
Check out the docs and give it a shot.
If not Rainbowstream, what CLI clients do you use for your Twitterage?
Hai! Welcome to my tech blog on minademian.com. This is my second post (I wrote a short post about Facebook’s Messenger app for Android a few days ago) and I wanted to introduce myself, along with my dev stack.
I’ve been a web developer for the past eight years. My work has been primarily in PHP/MySQL and front-end development. I dabbled in journalism and data journalism in the last two years. I am now back in full-time development, but I still get itchy feet for open data and some investigations in data-driven stories.
I’m on Ubuntu 16.04, using Atom as my editor (I fall back into vi sometimes because it taste so gud) and nginx. I’m on PHP 7 and PostgreSQL for backend work.
It would be great to know you in the comments below. Introduce yourself and your dev stack. Let’s talk shop!
I never understood why the app hid the search function behind the new message button. Glad the search bar is at the top again, with the redesign in the latest update.
