Hi! I'm Scott! Most of my experience has been in backend development, with a strong focus on AWS with terraform. The technologies listed above are the ones I have been using more recently. I'm looking for a 100% remote position, with a preference for a remote first company.
Hi! I'm Scott! Most of my experience has been in backend development, with a strong focus on AWS through terraform recently. The technologies listed above are the ones I have been using more recently. I'm looking for a 100% remote position, with a preference for a remote first company.
I haven't used Android as a daily phone since the EVO (I know, its been a while). One issue I had with Android and custom firmware was the time involved. Being on a computer all day, and often times at night, having to deal with tech support issues on my device is a hard stop (for me, personally, plenty of people love it).
That's the nice part of Apple's ecosystem - its pretty simple and requires minimum intervention.
As someone who had an Evo with custom FW back in the day, I can attest the process is much simpler in recent years. If you do your research and ensure the device you are purchasing has official lineage support, the entire setup procsss takes less than an hour. Lineage includes built in update support as well, although to upgrade between major versions you still need to use a computer if I remember correctly.
I purchased my first iPhone since the 3G this year, and it is currently for sale on swappa. I am willing to compromise on a slightly less polished UI and subpar camera to get the UX of android back; at least for me, iOS was lacking many features I could consider essential.
To be fair, once you get past the initial setup, everything mostly Just Works™. But still, I completely understand not wanting to deal with installation and the potential consequences if something goes wrong. (I nearly bricked a device from a botched installation once, so I know how stressful that is.)
I don't doubt that it just works nearly as well as an iPhone, but I want someone else to be responsible if things do go wrong.
For similar reasons, I don't self-host important services like email despite having my own domain. If shit goes wrong, I want the company I'm paying to have their people take care of it. I don't want to have to rush to fix it myself.
This is something that has come up within our company (we are still waiting on official guidance). I love WFH, for all the reasons you've read in other posts.
If we have to return, I won't quit. That's reckless, imho. But my resume will be updated and I will be open to remote positions. Many of my colleagues feel the same way.
> If we have to return, I won't quit. That's reckless, imho. But my resume will be updated and I will be open to remote positions. Many of my colleagues feel the same way.
This is what I assumed it would mean. Not that people would spontaneously quit, but that there would be some 30% of the workforce looking to be out the door.
The reason I wanted to be clear about that is I have heard stories about people quitting on the spot.
I believe the delay in my company releasing their plan for return to office has a lot to do with IT. We are having issues with finding enough folks as is. I couldn't imagine what it would be like if 30% put their notice in.
For Windows support, I thought Apple said something along the lines of: "If Windows wants to add support, we are fine with it" - but I could be mistaken.
Native Windows on M1 would be interesting. But it could potentially embarrass all of Microsoft's hardware partners as well as Microsoft itself (cough, Windows On ARM). Also the market for it would probably be measured in whole handfuls. So I don't think we should hold our breath.
Completely agree! My company has pretty strict rules for creating infrastructure in our upper environments. Devs are not able to do it and we want everything to run through our CI/CD pipeline. We either have to ask our cloud team to create the bucket or hack up our build file to add it.
It would be nice, on the first run of terraform init, if it would check for the remote state bucket and then ask if you would like to create it if it does not exist.
There are a few mid-sized companies that control a large chunk of that industry. Since they don't have much competition, innovation is more or less at a stand still. Companies like bushel ag are changing that, but lots of opportunity.
Nope. We are judged by our individual performance by how many points (tasks) we complete. Since this has been a metric, unit testing is always an afterthought. During code checks / reviews, some developers will ask others to add unit tests, which will be hastily written.
> Have you considered maybe software engineering isn't the right career for you? Perhaps you would find more meaning in another profession.
I have started to think about that. The thing is, I genuinely do love working on fun side projects and coding. Just when it's something interesting or affects people or a cause.
