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  • fubarx@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Completely Lost on What Path to Take as an unemployed SWE
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    9 days ago

    A few suggestions:

    Create a portfolio site. Pictures, logos, and a little text. If you have the skills, install Wordpress and set it up with a portfolio theme. Each entry shows off something you did. Built an app that saved $10K? Put that in. Screenshots if you have them. Opensource code, college projects. If you don’t have a good screenshot, get a semi-relevant image from freebie image sites like unsplash.com (with credit). Not too wordy. Punchy two liner. Also, make your PDF resume available from the site.

    If you don’t want to deal with Wordpress, create a static HTML site using Jekyll (with a theme) and host it on github pages or Cloudflare for free. Vibecode it if you don’t know how. Set it up with an easy, memorable domain name related to your name.

    Next, write some short articles on things people in the same background as you might be interested in. You mentioned Python, SQL, and AWS. All are good. Post them to Medium or Substack. Crosslink them on social media.

    If you have the skills, make a video screencast covering the same topic as the blog post, and post it up on your own Youtube channel. Do one per week (or more often) while you wait. Put a link in your portfolio. Link from video description back to your portfolio.

    If you have the energy, start a related podcast. Start with a survey of the latest news in areas you’re interested in. Just need a cheap USB mic. Post once a week. Again, cross-link with your portfolio or other channels.

    Join local Meetups and show up. If one doesn’t exist, consider starting one. Host it at a local bar. People will show up just to chat and grab a drink. Invite someone interesting to give a short talk. Post links everywhere. Expect a lot of no-shows. Don’t take it personally.

    Volunteer to help a local non-profit. Help them put up a website, clean up a database, or run some reports. Maybe a stretch project. Use it all in your portfolio. It’ll help you learn new things and stay uptodate.

    Ask on Nextdoor or some other local site if people need in-person IT help. Setting up computers, fixing networks, or cleaning up phone problems. Charge a modest fee for individuals. Slightly higher for small businesses. Insta-print business cards with your contact info at Kinkos or Office Depot for $15. Leave 2-3 everywhere you do a job, so they can hand them to a friend, especially if they’re elderly. Pin them up in the local senior center and laundromat.

    And lastly, consider getting a teaching cert and teaching high school, or going back and getting a graduate degree. Will likely have to borrow money, and it will take a year or two. But by then, job market might have turned around and with a graduate degree, you’ll be worth more.

    If hard up for cash, pick up gig work, but leave time for doing these other things.

    Best of luck!

  • fubarx@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Simple Blog options?English
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    20 days ago

    I’ve had good luck with Jekyll, saving the source on github, and setting it up so pushing to main auto-deploys to a Cloudflare site. Using Markdown and for larger media, uploading to S3.

    Much easier to set up and maintain than github pages. Since it’s static output, pretty snappy. Also includes RSS feeds and permanent URLs.

    Have also set up several Wordpress sites. Slower, but if you want wysiwyg editing, user comments, or there are several contributors, would work better.

    Have also heard good things about ghost, but haven’t actually deployed one yet.

  • fubarx@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•LogwatchEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Saw a posting this past week on SSD drive failures. They’re blaming a lot of it on ‘over-logging’ – too much writing trivial, unnecessary data to logs. I imagine it gets worse when realtime data like OpenTelemetry get involved.

    Until I saw that, never thought there was such a thing as ‘too much logging.’ Wonder if there are any ways around it, other than putting logs on spinny disks.

  • fubarx@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Best tool for creating a basic business websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Have used Jekyll, Hugo, and Docusaurus to generate static sites, and Wordpress and Ghost for blogs.

    A few things to think about:

    • Where do you plan to host and how much is the monthly budget?
    • How much traffic do you expect to get?
    • Will the content be static or updated often (i.e. landing page site vs. blog).
    • Will more than one person be updating the site?
    • How technical is the person/people updating the site? Are they OK with using terminal and command-lines, or GUI and point and click.
    • Will there be ‘member-only’ features, i.e. things that require users creating an account and logging in?
    • Will you need to offer a way for people to get in touch? Like, contact pages, email, etc.
    • Will there be a need for public to post and answer questions (i.e. a forum).
    • Will you need future support for things like newsletters, shopping carts, etc.

    If one-person, technical, static, I’d go with Jekyll and Github pages, or Jekyll/Hugo/Docusaurus on Cloudflare pages. They all have templates. But you need to know how to setup github repos and tools. Cost is $0 to operate, other than annual fee for custom DNS domain name.

    If more than one person, non-technical, or dynamic, then hosted Wordpress or Ghost. Budget for DNS name and ~20-50 dollars or euros/month (plus or minus, depending on features and traffic). There are free versions of these, but they slap ads all over them.

    You can self-host all these, but it’s much easier to have someone else deal with traffic spikes.

    If you need community forums or a way for users to communicate with each other, then none of the above.