Jira is much better than a lot of similar products and people in this post seem to think that their dislike of their job is caused by their tools and not crappy PM process.
Jira's main problem is that for most developers, this enormous piece of enterprise software is strictly inferior to a swimlane app they could build in a week. Lots of features in there for the benefit of managers and PMs that ultimately amount to more administrative work and process for developers.
Some places it's bad enough that Jira is used to appease the people with the purse strings, and the inputs have no bearing on reality at any given moment, while all the real workflows are tracked using paper note cards pinned to a cork posterboard that sits on Joe's desk behind his monitors.
Jira's slowness became worse and worse in the past ~5 years. I used to remember the Jira hate and not understanding it because it indeed got a bad rap because people blamed Jira for a shitty PM process - with a proper process, Jira itself wasn't bad and I enjoyed using it.
However the last few times I've used it, it wasn't the PM process that sucked - in fact I loved my PMs because I got to offload most of the Jira upkeep to them and never touch the tool myself. However every time I have to use the pile of shit myself I end up mumbling quite colorful language.
I started doing a lot of contracting through recruiters which could be anywhere from a few days work to 6-12 month longer contracts. This allowed me to meet a lot of different people in my industry/city and build a reputation as someone reliable. After that's done then it's a matter of growing those relationships and once the recruiter lock-in period ends you can start to approach them directly and offer your services. This can be either independent if you want or it could be with a team.
The most important thing in contracting is being reliable and showing up. So many contractors just don't show for work or leave before the signed end date so if you avoid that you're already ahead of the pack.
Can you elaborate on "contracting through recruiters"? Did you respond to recruiters who were reaching out to you with full-time positions and say "no thanks, but what about a contract instead?" If so, do you have any particular strategies for getting to a "yes" with that approach?
Or did you mean that you reached out to recruiters and worked out a finder's fee arrangement if they brought you contracts? If so, how did you find recruiters to work with who weren't already engaged with clients and might therefore have a conflict of interest?
I live in Australia so it might be a bit different in your country. The work started for me as shorter term contracts e.g. a recruiter would say "I'm looking for someone on a 6 month react JS project". I would provide them with a day rate and go work for the client as a standard employee. Overtime this has led to me meeting a lot of people, getting a lot of experience and building a client roster of my own.
I’ve found some recruiters just default to W2 because it’s less headaches (and potentially more money) for them. Sometimes it’s a requirement for the contract. You don’t know unless you ask
You wouldn't have paid for Lichess but you can donate to keep the site alive (and get some neat wings). You can also view their costs over at https://lichess.org/costs
I can say that it captured my social group precisely because 1) the clipboard-based sharing works just as well in our private chat as it does on Twitter or Facebook and 2) the total lack of ads, monetization, or growth-hacking gimmicks meant that people felt comfortable sharing their results without feeling like they're spamming their friends.
My understanding is that it's because the entire blockchain would need to be stored on the device which from even a data perspective is too much for a phone. The processing of data on the chain will also be too computationally difficult/expensive for the phone. You would either run out of battery immediately or the phone would crash.
Decent analysis and I agree with all the points. I think if chess.com didn't have the streamer network behind it and Gotham/Hikaru etc moved to lichess that people would entirely forget about chess.com.
I'm sure we have different definitions but I think software is taking the place of traditional teachers. You no longer need to have a teacher learn content then run a short course at an adult education centre, some big name teacher can record their content once and distribute it across the internet forever.
It's not the same as AI producing content but people like people so I'm not surprised by that.
Yes, and it's so profitable that someone will inevitably try to use AI-animated "people" to harvest market demand for organic people. Similar to cloning popular software or movies with lower-rent talent. Andrew Niccol, creator of Truman Show, Lord of War, Gattaca and Lord of War, made a film called Simone about a computer-generated fashion/celebrity avatar. Some of the dynamics in that film have already been seen on social media and will likely expand in future metaverses.
Such a huge number of sites. It seems like it's mostly US based sites and Australians are okay. Sending good vibes to whatever poor person is on support right now.
As per report above - most (or all?) of Asia/Pac servers are down.
This incident affects: North America (Ashburn (BWI), Ashburn (DCA), Ashburn (IAD)), Europe (Amsterdam (AMS)), and Asia/Pacific (Hong Kong (HKG), Tokyo (TYO), Singapore (QPG)).
