Glad the post helped! I totally agree about the notebook price, it is expensive, but I also enjoy using it all the time so it still feels worth it for me.
I have a formal diagnosis and informally discussed ADHD with the same professional but it was secondary :) I'm a bit reluctant to medicate when I feel like I have enough systems to "cope", but it's something I might try in the future.
I enjoy writing about server-side Kotlin (and a bit about livestreaming). I've found the process of writing about side projects to be really helpful in getting perspective, after being buried in them for a while. Hope folks enjoy reading :)
I think it's often better to "pick your poison" in terms of cloud providers and commit to it, with a rough migration plan that you can execute if you have to. There'll be common patterns in your systems that can be repeated if a large-scale lift-and-shift has to happen for some reason. But it's never easy, and I've found different clouds to have their own idiosyncrasies that make migration difficult - larger migrations will inevitably take time, effort, and lots of planning.
If you're looking for alternatives, or something lighter weight than Kubernetes, I've used Nomad (plus Terraform and Ansible) and some shell scripts to get repeatable clusters deployed and migrated between cloud providers: https://www.nomadproject.io/
I'll usually want to use a custom domain, like carrot.blog, in front of a GitHub Pages site. But it's not strictly necessarily if you're OK with something.github.io
I'm a big fan of the GitHub Pages + Jekyll + Cloudflare "stack" for getting a fast, cheap (free, usually) website or blog up and running.
If you're strong in a particular ecosystem you can switch Jekyll out for something like Hugo, but Jekyll continues to be rock solid for my purposes, and there's usually a guide or plugin for additional features.
Daisy is a Kotlin (server side) message processing library based on some boilerplate I’ve written a number of times privately https://github.com/CarrotCodes/Daisy
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying using Kotlin for backend development for a few years, and gave coroutines a chance this year. Feels great to open-source something that’s been privately useful, and hopefully contribute to the wider ecosystem.
I have a formal diagnosis and informally discussed ADHD with the same professional but it was secondary :) I'm a bit reluctant to medicate when I feel like I have enough systems to "cope", but it's something I might try in the future.