moonfleet

I am a self-taught frontend developer with a couple years of experience. Though software engineering is a broad term that may cover some aspects of what I do professionally, I do not consider myself a software engineer. Maybe it's the lack of formal CS education or having minimal experience developing actual products as opposed to UIs for them.

Is being a software engineer a state of mind or an actual profession that comes with certain prerequisites?

Is there a good way to kill time using your phone?

I’m learning a web framework by making a tumblr-like website solely based around movie screencaps. I’m planning to open it to public but I don’t want to get sued. Any advice?

I am a mid-level front-end developer at a startup. I am passionate about the product we are building and enjoy working with my colleagues. Lately, however, things have been stressful at work due to the launch and I had to work overtime. Even when I’m not working I still have to be available in slack. Others seem to be okay with this kind of environment and they seem to be very hard-working.

My question is, how do I demand respect for my free time without seeming like I’m lazy? Is it possible to be a passionate employee and have a life of my own?

Hey, HN.

A few weeks ago, a vertical line about 5 cm wide appeared in the middle of my Macbook's display. The colors inside the line are distorted in a regular pattern: whites are always pinkish-purple, blues are a bit greenish, greens are only a bit lighter, greys do not change at all. This is why I am using dark theme on MacOS and all websites.

I've consulted repair services and they are convinced it's the LCD matrix issue and there is no way to replace the matrix without replacing the entire display itself, which costs about 700 USD. At the moment, I cannot afford the repair.

I was wondering if there is software that can provide a temporary solution to color distortion. Maybe it can adjust the pixel colors inside the line so that they correspond to the actual rgb value they are supposed to be.

I realize it sounds kinda dumb and may not be possible at all but still.

Music has always been the least appealing art form for me out of the music-film-literature trio. Now I am looking to get more familiar with its history, evolution and simply discover good music.

Is there a music buff's roadmap, some sort of a chronologically-ordered list of the best and most influential albums that gives a coherent picture of how music evolved over the 20th century? And is that a right approach to becoming a music buff? If not, what is?

For the past couple of months I have been entertaining the idea of starting my personal knowledge base. However, while this idea appeals to me as a person who likes to document stuff, I fail to see any purpose in having a knowledge base when any information lies within a google search. So my question is, why have it?

I got into programming fairly recently and currently I am working as a frontend dev. Often I find myself at a loss when I need to do simple tasks in the terminal, such as start a db server, handle packages, set up symlinks and paths. So, I end up going on stack overflow and mindlessly copy-pasting commands into my shell, hoping it would resolve the problem. I feel like I have a huge mess in my root directory and I don't know how to clean it up.

I tried to learn unix and shell by installing and using Arch Linux on my old laptop but I just ended up following tutorials without really understanding what I am doing. Right now, I am using MacOS.

What are some good resources that teach you more than cd, ls, mkdir and touch? How did you learn it?