Yes. I just use my own journaling app which I wrote (sorely needs an update). I track some things through there (exercise) and other things using more specialized tools (finances). I do one every Friday, one at the end of the month, and one at the end of the year.

It's pretty valuable.

I've just got a syncthing set up with all my configuration and data.

"Spinning up" a new computer takes me an afternoon, which I doubt I could improve on enough by using more professional tooling to make it worth the time investment.

I'm trying to figure this out myself. I have freelanced for years from Houston and it's been fine. I avoided moving somewhere more expensive because my income was inconsistent, but now I have a salaried remote job and no excuse. It's harder than I thought it would be to pack up and leave a place.

I'm headed to Austin for a month today, hoping to try Vegas later this year as well.

I'll let you all know when I figure this one out...

I just tell them I'm too busy with work...which is eventually true.

I did two months ago on a freelance gig.

I have two pieces of advice:

- Avoid middlemen to the extent possible. Some (not Upwork) can be a good place to fill some hours, but in general they're not a sustainable source of good clients

- Freelancing in my experience was mostly about saying yes to many tech stack choices. I worked with a great number of technologies I never would've chosen for a personal project. I'm sure there are some people being paid to write Rust/Haskell on a freelance basis, but I doubt it's very common.

I've only experimented with Upwork (with mixed results), what are some of the better "middlemen" in your experience?

I'm curious how old those folks were. I was I would guess the only person without a degree in my department at my last job (definitely the only dev without one) and never felt this.

I'm not saying this kind of situation is the norm, but it happens often enough for it to be "a thing".

EDIT: Academic qualifications are also only a small part of what I'm talking about.

Age range was 28 - 35

I use a laptop with a tiling window manager when I'm travelling or at the office, desktop with single monitor and tiling WM at home. Last job had 2x nice dells for each developer, never used them. Eventually they gave my desk to someone else because I worked remote most of the time and I never complained.

I may throw in the towel and get an extra monitor at home now since new job pays for home office stuff. I work primarily on frontend now and it'd be nice to have the browser open to whatever I'm working on permanently.

Which tiling window manger do you use?

I used to use dwm, I switched to Awesome for some reason (I want to say systray). Both solid.

I'd also appreciate one phil@upvalue.io if anyone happens to have one. Have been lurking for a while and interested in participating.

I did this recently and it kept autocapitalizing/correcting things, and I kept wasting time reflexively changing them. There's probably a code syntax option buried somewhere in there but heck if I know where it is.