Location: NYC Remote: potentially Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: I've mostly worked on web applications. So sql, mongo, ruby (sometimes on rails), javascript (with various frameworks), and so on Resume: on request Email: daniel.sj.light@gmail.com

I'm back in the US after taking some time to shake things up a bit, and am currently trying to find the right opportunity to set myself up on for the next few years. I see software as a means of solving problems, and so the most important thing to me is to be working with a group that has a clear vision for providing value to its customers and take delivering on that vision seriously.

Hey I'm interested in a version with RT in it - do you have a link to the repo?

hey not to derail a thread recommending your app (which I think is pretty nice! I drop into the lw coworking room sometimes), but I've never quite figured out how to take advantage of it, despite feeling like I should be the kind of person who can (I do daily intention / outcome logging, I have a premium beeminder sub, I do pomodoros and stuff like that). I've done the free trial a couple times but never managed to get it into my flow in a way that quite justified the cost.

Anyway this post isn't going to give you enough information to recommend anything highly specific, but do you have any ideas what I might have been missing?

Maybe I've just already got that kind of thing well enough sorted, but then, I'm not entirely satisfied with my current approach to self planning.

Yeah the money goes to beeminder. I've paid several times but it's been worth it since I can make a credible commitment to myself to do something. And the enforcement is very forgiving - if you decide you don't want to do something you can let yourself quit in a week. Also every time I've had to talk to support (I forgot to put data in or there was some issue) they've been pleasant and refunded me completely.

At this point I know my limits fairly well and set goals I'll actually want to achieve. I still pay for the premium features, though, which let me use beeminder as a capable generalized scheduling and tracking system for irregular tasks (e.g. remind me if I haven't called my grandmother in three weeks).

The only word of these that I would assume any given english speaker knows is monogamy, and maybe monologue. I myself know those, epithet and monogram. Perhaps I could guess on the others, but I certainly wouldn't know what epi- meant.

I'm curious to hear your opinion on which ecosystems are likely to replace ruby. I think nodejs and some of the newer jvm langs are well positioned to do well in the web app market, but I can't see what's going to replace it for one off scripts. But then, perl is still being used by some folks for that, so maybe that's where ruby is going.

ruby is really good for solving small problems quickly. Don't get me wrong, proficiency in your shell will go a long way. But when something starts to get complicated I can bang it out in ruby and it's just done.

Web apps do drive ruby's adoption, though. Now that I know ruby I use it for many things, but I learned it initially for rails. Many other languages (like python) can fulfill ruby's scripting usages (I would argue javascript can't - despite its many strengths it's just a little too awkward)

Matches my use case completely. I haven't built a rails app but learned ruby with a view of doing that but never did (I believe it's important to know the language before the framework - in hindsight, a good decision with Rails specifically).

I like the standard library and I love the gems that fill the gaps the stdlib shouldn't really fill.

Many devs I know reach for the language they use day to day and their scripts and productivity suffer. Ruby is almost like an openly secret weapon in that sense.

Where can I actually get toothpaste without this stuff? I looked for one without hydrated silica last time I was out shopping for toothpaste, but didn't actually see one

venmo is good and I appreciate, but at least on my android it's not what I'd call reliable. It suffers some random crashes and failures (although it's never done anything too terrible like double charge me)

I haven't experienced crashes but I've had trouble finding certain people. Not sure if that's an android specific issue.

Why signal? What alternatives do you use / have you considered?

I'm still on facebook messenger but I mostly off facebook otherwise (and have settings to make it difficult to track pictures of me), and I'm curious to hear a good comparison of messaging software.