Based on your experience, have you considered doing consultancy for companies migrating onto K8 etc?
A consultant can easily invoice 1k a day for a week before the company decides it was sufficient.
The biggest concern is phones store location data in EXIF. It's likely cheaper for most websites to just strip everything rather than modifying those records alone.
Also if you throw a TIF(F) into Imagemagick and resize it the original image could be part of the EXIF data as a blob. (been a few years but I remember 400x400px images being 8mb the same as the original input)
I signed up, the idea sounds cool. However I wouldn't focus on _only_ outdoor sports. I have my phases where I'm really into being outdoors and then periods where I just want to hangout in a bar.
The site and the description here kind of seems to shame people who enjoy being in a bar, for example:
> or hang out with party-hard hostel crowd.
I'd recommend to focus on creating a community where remote workers can get in touch with each other and not too much on the activity they can or cannot do.
I hope around between two major EU cities and hanging out with other remote workers is definitely different. However I wouldn't want to ONLY go do an outdoor activity with people.
It should be possible to generate a Client from the Swagger (OpenAPI) specification. Pick a language you like, generate the client and setup the end-to-end (e2e) tests for the API.
In Go I do this for gRPC using the build-in unit tests of the language.
It'll be painful but once complete you can hammer away at the code with a sledgehammer and know you didn't break endpoints if the tests pass.
I personally think this just has to do with less openness from projects to talk to designers and/or UX designers.
Most OSS projects are maintained by a small group that wants to do everything themselves and consider "modern" things as unneeded cruft.
This makes the step for a (UX) designer to propose to help a lot more difficult as rejection is high because besides them giving some input and maybe a few designs they cannot just do a PR where they send over some HTML/CSS that makes it better.
Also a programmer as a hobby can kickstart a project, find a buddy to help maybe on the UI a bit here and there and they call it a day.
I have a Panasonic GX85 / GX80 (depends on the market) which is a model inbetween the GX7 and GX8.
I started out with a GX1, loved it and eventually upgraded to this model. I have a Panasonic Leica 25mm f1.4 which is an absolute dream to use. Also got a Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake which is great for travel.
I've considered a FF with a fixed 50mm lens as it's the focal length I use the most but... I'm so happy with the combo that I don't really see a reason to change.
Before I had a Canon 500D with an EF 27-80 f2.8 USM however the weight was actually insane (it was around 1.7kg) especially compared to what I have now. Yeah I could've put a prime lens, but the bulk would not have been worth it. Currently at 505gram for the body + 200gram for the lens.
2k max out of pocket expense to me sounds absolutely ludicrous.
In Germany you can have private health insurance (if you make more then 63k a year you can opt-out of public health insurance) and there the out of pocket is usually around €350. In the Netherlands the out of pocket is also something like €300, which most already consider too high.
The option to get it to zero is of course possible but usually doesn't offset the savings.
However the notion of having to need savings to be sick is... to me extremely foreign and strange.
Equity is not really as thing, most companies you end up working for are not publicly traded and if they are of that size they're generally not offering equity to hire you.
Your company at the end of the day doesn't care about you, those 5 weeks you could've spend on a trip doing a hike or just chill on the beach. That is what you'll remember later in life. That deadline you crushed, your boss enjoyed but won't be remembered in a few years, and if your "team needed you" comes up, your company overworks you and needs to hire additional staff.
A lot of people confuse welfare with unemployment, I assume you mean that welfare isn't contribution based which is correct.
In some countries, e.g. NL/DE, unemployment however is contribution based and you always pay for it (it's tacked on next to your normal taxed), which when needed is limited to 2 years based on 60% of your last net income. The idea is that you should still be able to afford your current way of living without too many compromises when you got laid off and haven't found a new job yet.
In Germany for example welfare isn't great, it's around €400/mo though the state pays your rent directly.
Denmark and the Netherlands have the highest income tax bracket at 52/53%. Germany is 43%. However they are stacked taxes.
In Germany (where I reside), the first €9744 (2021) is untaxed, then 14% until a certain amount (can't find it atm) and max 43%. However, if you do your tax returns your effective tax rate will drop significantly.
I'd wager that most pay around 25% in total income taxes, excluding things like the health insurance and other taxes.
However, we indeed do not worry about saving up money to put our kids through school.
Earning 65k which what most companies in the tech scene now offer to lure them in as a SWE in Germany is a great salary realistically, considering for example an architect with a masters degree will earn around 55k and no real improvement in sight.
Also don't forget to factor in that the concept of being fired for PROPER reason is nearly impossible in most European countries. Even if an employer hits hard times they cannot just lay off an entire department to quickly green out the numbers in the books, there needs to be proper grounds. I currently need to give my employer 3 months notice before I can even leave, same goes for them to me.