Very fun. Would you consider putting years on the timeline to match the events up to? I think from an education perspective it would be a great feature! Nice Work!
One thing I've done to improve my communication with strangers is to stop trying to think of the perfect way to start a conversation or question.
Some of the best conversations I've had started by me asking or telling someone something in a awkward or overly simplified way at first. It takes the pressure off of both of you and a more natural conversation takes place as you both work to get on the same page, which takes time and leads to more conversation.
In the past I'd think of the perfect sentence with little nuances and edge cases covered in that sentence to what I was trying to convey, which would result in no real conversation to even take place.
Of course you will run into people who are unfriendly and won't receive this well but overall it's lead to more pleasant and natural conversations.
Because they are not. If I was 18 years old right now, I'd be going into a trade of some sort. No debt, immediately earning a decent amount of money. AI will push even more kids towards this route.
I've been doing a lot of SE interviews lately for my company and one of my favorite coding assessments is a polymorphism challenge, mainly because our codebases are full of it. I was shocked at the number of engineers with 20+ years of experience who didn't understand it.
I'm not sure if a 'Boring Life' is for me. But I am sure I need some seasons of my life to be boring.
Since I was 20 I've grinded away at my career, side hustles, etc... It made me happy. But at a certain point I got far enough ahead I felt complete. I needed a boring phase.
I now wake up, have breakfast with my family, go to work, come home, play with my kids, watch a show, and go to bed. This is a day I would have scoffed at 10 years ago. But it now makes me happy. I don't think it would make me happy if I hadn't went for something the last 15.
And it might not make me happy forever, but it's perfect for me right now.
Drawing a lot of inspiration from interval.com. It was an amazing product but was a hosted SAAS. I'm exploring taking the idea to the .NET ecosystem and also making it a Nuget package that can be installed and served through any ASP.NET project.
It was a 40 minute long conversation and everything was fine until the last 5 minutes when Zelensky got mad about Vance talking about using diplomacy with Russia.