Recently, I’ve felt a bit lost about where to go in my career. I pride myself as a generalist and love to explore new domains and I felt like web/backend didn’t have anything new to offer. I’ve been wondering how specialists found their domain and what types of profiles exist in the wild. We value “T-shaped” people. That is, people who are both generalists (highly skilled at a broad set of valuable things—the top of the T) and also experts (among the best in their field within a n...| Zoe's blog
I use a lot of nerdy tools (linux, nix, river), some tools also have a steep learning curve (vim, dvorak). I also type on a 32 split keyboard I made myself. A lot of developers would say I am wasting time, using tools that have no use or slow me down, and I should stop to ship some products. I also write code in a lot of different language (21 according to my github stats) and I still do not have a favorite language. Nor do I have a go-to language when I want to make a project quickly. Even o...| Zoe's blog
For Kyoo, I need to play video on a variety of clients (browsers, TVs, mobile apps). Clients does not always support the video codec of the source video since videos are user provided. Any valid video should work everywhere. Users should not have to worry about converting videos for Kyoo to work, everything should Work™ the first time. Users don’t always have a stable connection, but they should be able to play their video.| Zoe's blog