From working on my side project I was able to show a lot of companies the project. This actually gave a foot in the door and an eventual job. I am not saying start your own project, however if you see a project online that you want to jump in and contribute I would highly recommend. You can then use this experience for your CV's STAR.
As for improving my knowledge, this is not just programming. There are many things you can improve on that can help, for example I noticed a lot of companies were using AWS or Azure. So I spent my time learning AWS - which was a second pillar for me getting my current job.
Those are the two main things that kept me sane during those 3 months. Good luck at getting a job - it is horrible being knocked back :(
I've been doing both of those myself, but it hasn't really paid off in any way. I made a CLI for interacting with Neocities and I've been sitting on Pluralsight a lot, but I don't get far enough or get people who want to hear about my projects or work.
AWS is a good topic, I'll probably sink a bunch of Pluralsight and grind time into it. Thanks for the wishes.
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Note: the servers are oversized for the load we’re currently seeing. The reason for that is that we tried to solve a production issue by increasing the server specs. It didn’t solve the problem, and now we can’t down-size the servers without re-provisioning them ️.
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Does anyone know the minimal provisions they could potentially use in this case?
I think part of the exhaustion is that there's no in-between phase from work to home. A commute helps, because I have time to mentally cool down after ending the day. WFH, I get jumped by my kids as soon as I leave my office, but my brain is still working on that software architecture design document.
What helped me was to aim to stop working about 30 minutes before leaving the home office. During that time, just read a book, post on HN, answer/delete emails, all this lighter behavior.
I have been working on NearBeach for nearly 4 years. I have always done it in small steps.
- Implement projects functionality
- Implement customer/organisation functionality
- Implement tasks
- etc.
I find this helps me keep myself motivated. That and I couple it with a set goal - a very achievable goal.
Currently NearBeach is a minimal viable product currently going through a UI/UX and backend refactoring, with the goal of improving UI/UX and backend readability of the code.
Don't multi-account containers just separate cookies (and maybe other storage mechanisms)? I'd expect that a lot of people want separate bookmarks and extensions, too.
I think you have to use multiple profiles to do that, which is kind of clunky. Anyone know of they have plans to make managing and using multiple profiles smoother?
I went through a 3 month stink last year where I was without a job. The main reason why I stayed sane was due to;
1. I worked on my side project https://github.com/robotichead/NearBeach. 2. I improved/studied my knowledge
From working on my side project I was able to show a lot of companies the project. This actually gave a foot in the door and an eventual job. I am not saying start your own project, however if you see a project online that you want to jump in and contribute I would highly recommend. You can then use this experience for your CV's STAR.
As for improving my knowledge, this is not just programming. There are many things you can improve on that can help, for example I noticed a lot of companies were using AWS or Azure. So I spent my time learning AWS - which was a second pillar for me getting my current job.
Those are the two main things that kept me sane during those 3 months. Good luck at getting a job - it is horrible being knocked back :(