It also undermines your leverage if you want to bargain with the company over things like a raise in salary. You also have less protection against malicious actions from your work.
I have the similar feelings as the author when randomly dealing with tasks one by one. These feelings were gone when I grouped the tasks by some criteria firstly before dealing with them.
Currently I use node.js + rsync + duplicity to create two backups, and it works pretty fine. Firstly I create a backup to a local server via node.js and rsync, then upload them to the remote server via duplicity, which supports both encryption and compression. Both tasks run periodically and automatically, and backup files incrementally.
Though a little bit off-topic, before the service http://freegeoip.net/json/ ceased, I used it a lot in testing. I built one myself with the simplified source code from https://github.com/voyagin/freegeoip since I want to minimize the response time. BTW, the listed repo isn't mine.
Baidu has worse UX after google search exited the mainland china. The many so called newer internet companies are actually copying and localizing. Blocked by the GFW, the inaccessible instagram can never be the main stream. Instead of the detecting intrusion, DPI plays a huge role in controlling the freedom of speech. And with the help of ML, DPI is even smarter than before. Fewer people of new generation in China know Google, Facebook and Twitter, and they only know the second-class analogue of these service providers.
Go is an opinionated language, but opinion is not just right or wrong, and it’s getting complicated with time passing by. Opinion might be prejudice.
Anyway, I like the multiplexing and go routine in go.