I'll even take a text hover message. Every time the black bar is shown there are multiple questions about why its there. Seems like an easy problem to solve.
I'm in a similar position and I'm thinking of doing something similar in the coming years. But the one that is really killing my plans is health care. If you don't mind me asking, what did you do about health insurance? Or do you just have enough saved up that its not an issue?
Is it not enough to do just as you said - putting the app in your portfolio (e.g. personal website) such that future prospects can see the work you've done there? Or do you feel that isn't sufficient 'proof' that you worked on it?
My guess is that recruiters know not to spend their time trying to recruit someone who just started a new job. I suspect you'll start seeing those emails again in ~3-6 months (around the time when people who start a new job are deciding if they really want to stay with that company), and again in ~2 years (around the time when people decide to look for new opportunities). I'm not a recruiter, so take that with a grain of salt.
The key features state that the language is "fast" and "occupies less memory". Maybe provide some benchmarks/comparisons? Also, more examples would be helpful.
If I look at the landing page from the perspective of someone who either wants to use the language or contribute to it, there just isn't enough compelling information yet. More examples demonstrating that the syntax could be a nice alternative to python or c would help catch someone's eye.
Scheduled an immediate week off with no regard for current work in progress, and during that week forbade myself from any thoughts of work. Each day I felt a little bit better, and by the time I got back I was in the right frame of mind to continue working.
Few disclaimers though:
- My company puts high emphasis on mental health, so I recognize that I have the "luxury" of being able to immediately take vacation time without warning, something not practical for everyone.
- The last two jobs I had quit was due to burnout, and I didn't want to make that mistake again. So my vacation was a bit preemptive, in that I was noticing signs of burnout and decided to take action before I hit the point of no return.
For me, working on a project that I feel has a high potential for success gives me the 'motivation energy' to continue writing code after already having spent hours writing code at work. It just doesn't work for me if I'm not working on something motivating.
> I'd have to immediately start leetcoding and remembering what all those trees are for so that I could become employed again later on
I hate this so much. I spent three months leetcoding and doing mock interviews to pass the interview and get hired into a FAANG company. After deciding to leave the company after a few years, I went straight into interviewing instead of doing prep first thinking it would be a breeze. I bombed. I could tell from my interviewer's faces that they were questioning the validity of my resume due to how badly I was doing.
I eventually went on to get hired by another company that asked me to solve a small problem prior to the interview and discuss my approach, which went very well. I couldn't bring myself to go practice whiteboarding binary search again.
I think you'd attract/retain more users if you added a way to demo the game without having to login/register (despite the fact that the registration is quick and easy), and then prompting them register after completing one or two quests.
In my experience, people turn away as soon as they see the a registration form if they haven't had a chance to play first (or unless the game is already very popular). Do you have any analytics running on your site to track the bounce rate?
I don't think anything would, however Zuckerberg resigning would be a good start. I absolutely do not trust him, and I don't think I ever will. I'd don't believe any public attempt at 'turning over a new leaf' would be genuine coming from him, and it would just be a not so thinly veiled attempt to appease his irredeemable image. I just think he is a self centered, horrible person and I don't trust Facebook's motives as long as he's the CEO.
This is the sad truth. I spent 2 months studying programming questions, whiteboarding, and doing mock interviews to pass the interview to work at a FAANG company. I can't count the number of times I've whiteboarded the binary_search function by hand (a skill that obviously proved worthless in practice). Once you get past the interview, you can pat yourself on the back and affirm to yourself that you are 'talented', but the truth is that once you're in, its more or less like any other job (ymmv of course).