I'd love to tinker with one of these, but have it look and sound like 2XL... my millennial heart would be full with nostalgia.

Don't know about high-level discussion, but the only other active forum I frequent other than Reddit is https://www.tacomaworld.com/. Really active user base and a ton of good info about different generations of the Toyota Tacoma.

Car forums are really popular and somehow seem to survive the tests of time. For example, Rennlist has been around for decades now.

That forum was a godsend and really supportive when I converted my prerunner to 4wd!

Don't know if it's ever landed me a job, but my small Next.js project (https://howmuchadobo.com/) makes for fun conversation during interviews.

This developer only has about 6 years of experience working at Amazon. It seems surprisingly naive how little this person understands about what a decent PM shields them from as an engineer, but I've heard working at Amazon sucks altogether. So, par for the course?

The MyFitnessPal desktop application sucks big time. In my attempt to create a better alternative, I found that their value doesn't come in the form of good UX or performance, but their food database. And it's huge.

I didn't want to pay for PostgreSQL on Heroku, so I just dropped the database, but the application is still deployed.

So, here's my useless calorie tracker NomTracker: https://nomtracker.herokuapp.com/

I don't know, I like keeping up with what my old co-workers are up to without actually hitting them up. It's also my go-to place for job hunting. It seems like the most popular.

I feel like this is true with ANY size company, small or large. It's a business deal, you're not "joining a family".

It's definitely much more true of some companies than others.

Tmux + Vim + TrackPoint (ThinkPad) means I very rarely ever leave home-row. It's amazing!

For those who might care, I summarized a bit more about the project here: https://era86.github.io/2020/04/13/side-project-nomtracker.h...

I used Ubuntu in 2004 right when I started college as a comp-sci student. It was the only distro that worked with my laptop with very minimal effort. I also love the package management (though Brew on OSX is a close second).

Great read, thanks for sharing!