The Coder Effect - A holiday note from Bob


Listening today to Coder Radio - I really appreciate all the home work that goes into the Jupiter family of shows.

Three years ago - pre-Jupiter days, I worked at a company, used linux mint at home on a machine I pieced together myself, and listened to R podcasts.  Eric Nantz suggested the "Excellent" Jupiter Broadcasting - that is when I started tuning in.

As of Today - 12/17/2021:
1.  I just signed up for the All shows at Jupiter.party - I generally don't subscribe to much but I get a lot of value here and wanted to pledge support.  Thank you.

2.  Last month, I changed from Mint to Pop-OS ........ When I got my System 76 Thelio Mega!  WOW I feel like I am on that rocket on the Jupiter logo. I browsed the System 76 site when I listened to the shows while working - I finally pulled the trigger.

3. I will be ditching my current web host next month and changing to Linode with a static site that is much fresher and cleaner - mostly a landing page.

4. Lastly - I wanted to shout out to the older folks out there who listen to your show.  I recall a listener wanting to move to his own gig but was tentative being in his 50's.  I would like to add encouragement - I voluntarily left my job at 55 in April 2019.  It has been great - no looking back.  I am a radio engineer by trade and want to add another angle that perhaps older listeners may not realize.  

You don't have to sell software to be a successful coder.  I code quite a bit - mainly in R because it is mature in geospatial, markdown and shiny - the simple web app tool.  My clients mostly receive the "output" from my software , usually as polished markdown reports or simple static web sites to simplify digestion of a lot of data.  Being older might mean you have more to sell in your domain expertise than in your code.  Selling "output" also avoids many licensing concerns as well as software maintenance. 

Best wishes - Merry Christmas...I will be listening
Bob,
rfanalytic