Townley

A relative of mine recently suffered a serious injury to their dominant (right) arm, which will have a long recovery period (likely several months). Ideally finger movement will be restored sooner, but even if so it might not be comfortable to keep the injured arm in an ergonomic typing position.

So I wanted to prepare some options for one-handed typing that they can review. At first glance, it looks like solutions fall into one of three categories:

- Trainings on how to effectively use a keyboard with one hand

- Keyboard remappings on existing hardware to use alternative key layouts that favor the keys on the left side

- Specialty keyboards that are intended to be used with one hand. Some of these seem promising but also shockingly expensive.

Any thoughts on what solutions you've seen work / you might pursue in a similar situation?

Curious to hear the community’s perspective on where our next move should be.

I’m an engineering manager at a fully remote US company with long-term plans to stay (and even if not, no desire to return to the office regularly). I don’t drive but like to walk to the supermarket and restaurants. My wife doesn’t like living in a big city, so we’re in the burbs within walking distance of a little “downtown” area.

It’s a bit of an unhappy medium because the homes we want still cost $1M, yet it’s a long and limited walk. Plus we’re ready for something new. We’d likely both be happier in a town, living just off some Main Street with 20 or so shops. The city is great but honestly I don’t need more than a good diner, a supermarket, and a friendly bar. Nice to haves are a pleasant climate (not too cold), an airport within an hour or so, and decent public schools.

I’m asking here because I hear so much about NYC/SF tech workers being set loose by remote work and leaving. I’ve experienced this with colleagues relocating to SC, Lancaster PA, small towns in Maryland… etc.

Any ideas on whether this mid-sized town dream exists, ideas for cities, and/or how we’d go about finding it?

Sites like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok host a large amount of space-intensive, user-generated content that’s made available for years. Image crops and different video resolutions need to be persisted and made accessible in ways that would quickly add up to expensive S3 buckets.

I know that these companies garner tremendous value from this data and user engagement, and view these offerings as profitable, but I’ve never seen details about what the server costs of an Instagram power user might be (both in the unlikely scenario of paying market price for cloud storage, and in the per-user cost of running replicated data centers)

So my question is: if I put down a credit card in AWS, started up an Instagram clone, and had thousands of power users uploading images and videos daily, how much would I likely be paying per user?

As a follow up, what would be some of my first cost-saving and mitigation strategies?