> His work is also really well sourced, so it's a great jumping off point if you are looking for more work on the subject.
That’s why I love his blog. His reading recommendations are almost all very approachable to non-historians and are always fascinating, especially the books that look at the nitty gritty details of warfare.
I just read Waging War by Wayne E. Lee based off of his recommendation from his logistics/command collections and it’s been a great read start to finish about innovation in warfare (in the broadest sense).
They also use patreon as a significant source of recurring revenue, so they can create a small number of high quality videos instead of putting out content constantly.
It's a very different business model, and it doesn't have the potential to become as profitable as Mr Beast.
Patreon subs also boost their video's performance on YouTube, since a subscriber committed to paying a monthly fee will definitely want to "get their money's worth" by watching videos as soon as they drop and participate in discussions and comment sections.
If you have 15k patreon subs those are guaranteed views around your video's publish time, which presumably is a good thing for their algorithmic weight.
The polity novels by Neal Asher scratch a similar itch - the polity is much less utopian than the culture, but the world building is quite similar. I would recommend the Transformation arc as a good starting point!
If you are looking to become more competitive as a candidate, I strongly recommend that you look at one of the more popular languages / frameworks instead of focusing on Ruby on Rails.
Despite the major investment made by Stripe and Shopify, my experience is similar to that of this commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161561 - like them, I've found the open source libraries available in the Ruby + Rails ecosystem to be aging and less well supported than that of more popular languages / frameworks like GoLang / Java / Python.
Rails is delightful to work in and very thoughtfully constructed, and the Rails community is helpful and welcoming. However, if your priority is to maximize your chances at getting hired, I would look towards GoLang / Java / Python etc, which are far less enjoyable to work in but far easier to find jobs for.
Could you share the kinds of situations in which you've seen Stimulus and Turbo really shine?
My team inherited a Rails app, which used Turbo and Stimulus and we really struggled to create UIs that matched our design team's vision. We eventually had to move to react + MUI just so that we could build a webapp with a modern look and feel.
None of us come from a rails background, so I'm sure that a big part of our problem came from us trying to bend Rails to our will rather than embracing it - if you have any advice on articles / books that embody the rails approach, I'd be really grateful if you could share them.
How Stimulus and Turbo work together, is basically this: Turbo lets you do partial page updates. Stimulus works a bit like a super light framework for UI only functionality (Toast messages, Error notices, etc). We have made both applications that are pretty stateful and more display and read only, and its way faster to both develop and run than React pages imo. Compared to standard ERB pages in Rails, where if you want to change some value on the page, you need to reload the whole page. Turbo lets you split these up into components with their own controllers, and views, and components. Then only reload the components you need to reload. So you end up with a lot more performance, a lot less redraws, and a lot less database activity for complicated pages.
Fevo | New York City or Remote (NA/Europe) | Full time | https://fevo.com Fevo is an ecommerce platform specializing in social selling. We help people buy things and enjoy them together. Come build things with us!
What we do: We've been changing the ticketing industry since 2016, and now we are expanding into hospitality, travel, insurance and luxury industries.
Things we love about Fevo
- We've been fully remote since before COVID, though we have an office in the meatpacking district.
- Excellent compensation; we work hard and Fevo takes good care of us financially. All employees have stock options.
- We welcome diversity, and are an inclusive workplace. We're excited to work with you.
- We create useful software using exciting technologies, with an established and talented global team.
Stack
- Backend: Golang (1.19), some modern Java (via Quarkus), some Scala
- Frontend: Typescript, React, Redux
- DB: Postgres
We are looking for enthusastic engineers with 3+ years of experience. We are open to candidates in North America and Europe, and we require that your workday has some overlap with core-east coast hours (9-5 EST).
Your full list of roles seems to suggest that each particular role is available only in specific countries. Are you only hiring Golang focus in the Czech Republic?
Fevo | New York City or Remote (NA/Europe) | Full time | https://fevo.com
Fevo is an ecommerce platform specializing in social selling. We help people buy things and enjoy them together. Come build things with us!
What we do: We've been changing the ticketing industry since 2016, and now we are expanding into hospitality, travel, insurance and luxury industries.
Things we love about Fevo
- We've been fully remote since before COVID, though we have an office in the meatpacking district.
- Excellent compensation; we work hard and Fevo takes good care of us financially. All employees have stock options.
- We welcome diversity, and are an inclusive workplace. We're excited to work with you.
- We create useful software using exciting technologies, with an established and talented global team.
Stack
- Backend: Golang (we've already upgraded to 1.19), some modern Java (via Quarkus), some Scala
- Frontend: Typescript, React, Redux
- DB: Postgres
We are looking for enthusastic engineers with 3+ years of experience. We are open to candidates in North America and Europe, and we require that your workday has some overlap with core-east coast hours (9-5 EST).
