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What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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serial_dev ◴[] No.44420665[source]
I'm finally getting my online presence in order...

This week, I'll set up a Hugo blog with the Ed theme, love it, looks exactly what I'm looking for, and as a former LaTeX enthusiast, it's pretty close. It's readable, minimalist. I'll need to customize the theme, though. I plan to publish blog posts about anything I find interesting.

https://gohugo-theme-ed.netlify.app/

In parallel to this work, I'm setting up a simple system to keep my website + subdomains easy to build, rebuild, and deploy with Caddy on a cheap Scaleway compute server. In the past, I had some ideas I wanted to publish, but the system I went with made managing the sites dreadful.

Once that's ready, I'm back to learning Rust and crypto. It's fun, interesting, challenging, remote-friendly, and the salaries are usually 30-50% better. My current tech stack feels like a dead end: it has a low ceiling in terms of salary, the projects are generally not very interesting (I'm grateful for my current project, it's the best there is with this technology), and I believe the technology will see a slow and steady decline.

Apart from work, I'm building the playground for my 2 yo son, and planting blueberries, he loves them.

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mrFinance ◴[] No.44421687[source]
What tech stack are you currently using that you see as a dead end?
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1. serial_dev ◴[] No.44424290[source]
Flutter and Dart. It's not that bad, I'm not saying it's dead, I'm saying it's a dead end for me.

I don't see many opportunities that pay well, are interesting, and available for remote. I'm happy at my current position, but if they were to ever "right-size" the team, I'd be fckd, so I spend my nights learning other stuff.

I started Flutter in 2018, back then it felt "magical" for mobile development, now all the competitors caught up. They also (IMO) waste their time reimplementing Flash on the web, it's horrible for 99% of the cases. The community is also off-putting, you observe obvious flaws, 10 GDEs come at you that you are a POS.

In general, mobile has a lower ceiling than backend, frontend, systems, etc... Mobile is also usually a lower priority for the business than web.