I'm a fullstack dev, and I routinely fill up the 16GB in my laptop. I generally have two full IDEs, SSMS, Illustrator, Outlook, OneNote, Excel, Visio, a bunch of browser tabs, and now Teams or Zoom. I tend to be more constrained by core count than RAM though.
I try to use my desktop as much as possible (which has 64GB and 16 cores), but I can't always be tethered to my office.
I did my part by holding on to the money. We took a vacation a few weeks ago and spent it that way. I think we're in the vast minority though. The stimulus really should have been held so the money could go to businesses as they reopened.
As for the vacation, we drove to our destination (a resort in San Diego). We disinfected the room ourselves before moving in. We canceled daily cleaning. We avoided crowds and stayed masked up. People are critical of vacationing right now, and rightly so, but it can still be done in a safe way.
I worked from home for 10 years without asking for a thing. Last year, I asked for a $3,000 office chair. They asked for a few weeks to think about it. I still haven't received a thing.
I personally don't feel like I need my company to pay for tools to do my job, outside of software that's priced outside of what an individual could afford. I think of the mechanics and contractors in my family who have spent an order of magnitude more on their tools than I have, and earn a fraction of what I earn.
I only asked for the chair because it was really nice and would have helped my posture, and I can't justify dropping $3k on a chair.
It was a Lifeform chair with some upgrades. It was over the top for sure. I've been happy with the X-Chair I bought for under a grand. The Leap chair came up a lot when I was doing research. People love them. I didn't find one locally where I could use it for a while before buying though, so it wasn't in actual consideration.
I loved WSJ online, but I had to temporarily cancel while cutting down on spending a while back. Their cancellation process left a bad taste in my mouth, and I decided to not restart my subscription when I was ready.
AWS is infrastructure as a service (IaaS). You need to worry about load balancers, backup scripts, firewalls etc. Ie you need a plausible sysadmin to run it. Even Elastic Beanstalk requires some sysadmin.
Heroku is platform as a service (PaaS). It abstracts away the complexity of AWS. The base cost is more expensive than raw AWS but you don't need to source and pay for a sysadmin.
AWS, Heroku and DO aren't "better" than each other, they serve different use cases.
After failing with Heroku we migrated to using Dokku on DO. And yes it is more work to do it ourselves, I didn't want to do that but here we are :) It was not a lot of work, dokku is really nice, but it was/is some work. I was hoping for almost no sysadmin work but that didn't happen.
How do you like using Node for CLI? I started playing around with it a couple years ago, and at this point, I don't even consider BASH scripts if they involve the slightest bit of logic. Part of me feels like by going all-in, I'm going to lose touch with my ability to write direct BASH scripts, which are likely to work literally forever. Meanwhile, I expect my Node scripts to have a relatively short lifespan, particularly in that I'm leaning on NPM. It's been so nice though, I've decided it was a worthy tradeoff.
I've been doing pretty much the same thing. If the logic gets crazy, of if I want lots of subcommands, I'd write it with node & commander. There's only so much you can do with `jq` when it comes to processing JSON.
I don't think a generic version would have ever caught my attention at all. I'd think Instagram's jumped the shark if they branded it with that. Like, that would just sound like a photo frame that only shows IG posts or something; I'd roll my eyes and move on. I don't know anything about WhatsApp other than people were hacked or something.
For non-tech folks, I think the Facebook brand great. They chat with friends and family with Facebook messenger. This must be where they can make video calls to those same people. You get it just by seeing the name and the product together.
Small thing: Your "Built with" links at the bottom are broken.