Potential client once asked for a clone of Amazon, for $5000, in one month. I did not take the project.

VSCode on a desktop, vim on a server. And because power, extensibility and usability without bloat

I don't have context for this... I've worked from home forever

I know this is selfish, but this whole COVID-19 thing is driving me insane. The virus and quarantine I don't mind too much. What gets me is the number of people I see every single day having legit panic attacks because they can't buy "x" right now and it's the end of the world. I can't stand people who are literally in tears because they have to take an extra day off of work each week because of the state of the economy. I've been virtually unemployed for two years (not for lack of trying) and borderline homeless for six months. Grow up. You have a Lexus, a Range Rover, and a four bedroom house for you and your partner.

Never stop improving. Also, the quick and easy option isn't usually the right one.

Atom... or git...

I can immediately spot and fix any one-character typo in any block of code at a glance.

Those 10k other projects I want to work on...

@dfox Can we get a sorting option for rants/comments on profile pages? Or at least some way of determining what rant/comment has the most ++s?

My first dev job didn't start out as a job. I started out writing a database querying program just to see if I could do it, and the software ended up being purchased, and me along with it! Seems like such a long time ago now...

I've never been to one, but they do tend to flood the industry with people who think they're the next Bill Gates, but everything they write sucks...

...wait, was that redundant? I can't tell...

Any time I go to a conference.

That moment when you REALLY want to work on something new, but have no idea what to work on...

!rant
Wrote a Franz integration for devRant!

Focus? What focus? Its easier for me to define what ISN'T my focus. I don't do web UI/UX. Pretty much anything else is fair game.

Learn and use the command line

Mixed tabs and spaces

Lights off, coffee, and Lindsey Stirling

Why does the devRant web interface not show the weekly group rant???

OK... I give up. I've ranted before about brainstorming myself in a corner with my current pet project. I've known I'm out of my element for a while... Anyone have any tips on how to find a development partner in the node community on a tight budget?

Before I left corporate America, I worked with a guy who was basically the definition of 'idiot savant' sans the actual diagnosis. He was ridiculously smart, but couldn't stay on task to save his life.

Like one time we landed a project with a major client. My team was running backend, his was running mobile integration. After a month of little to no visible activity, we approached him and he just said 'oh yea, i got sidetracked'... but he wasn't working on anything else. Just found some random shinny pebble that caught his attention and he bailed on everything else.

To make matters worse, his personal hygiene was nonexistent (I don't think he's showered since either), and he LOVED writing things in super-obscure languages that even the best we had hadn't ever heard of, with nonsensical (and often totally misleading) variable names and no inline comments. Trying to put someone new on something he'd touched was like asking an English professor to translate a 10K year old tablet dug up in the middle of the desert. Just didn't work.

But... the CEO flat out refused to get rid of him for years, until virtually every other employee simultaneously turned in our two weeks.

I bit off more than I could chew with this project... Of course, it's my own fault since it's MY idea. Why would I do this???

Santa,

All I want for Christmas is to finally have the resources I need to actually make some progress on this project...