The other Thursday I was random-browsing with my XR and suddenly the screen went black, and started to heat up like crazy. The buttons were unresponsive so I quickly searched how to force reboot it on the macbook. I tried it but didn’t work. Maybe the timing? The power button was alarmingly hot already so I had to use a towel between my fingers and the phone for subsequent retries. But to no avail.
Continue reading →Mothballing remote-engineer.jp
After about 7 months in the making and 7 months in operation, I am pulling the plug on my latest side project, a remote jobs board for software engineers in Japan.
So now that it is over, I thought to write a retrospective about the making-of and the lessons learned on this journey to nowhere.
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