Jevin Maltais

I was a Staff Engineer at a small, quickly growing start-up.

Years ago, I wrote up all my notes on how to get gmail working with neomutt Gmail is slow!

Librechat getting context from Obsidian Obsidian + LLM Life Coach For as long as I can remember, I’ve been making notes, journaling and having those feed into planning.

I did my systems engineering undergraduate back in 2002 when our software design professors were convinced that, in a few years, we wouldn’t be writing code anymore—that UML would somehow generate all the code we’d ever need.

Check out last year’s 2023 in review Coach Home Our rental property is conveniently located across the street from our personal residence.

Planning Two years ago, we traveled as a family to Portugal and the Netherlands for two weeks.

My History with Linux In 1999, I installed Fedora 5.2 on my parents’ computer and started down the deep path of exploring technology in this fundamentally different alternative operating system.

TL;DR I took on too much this year and it took a toll on my mental health.

I’m careful about jumping on technology bandwagons too early.

I have a ravenous hunger to build and tinker with stuff.

Need an intro to ADHD?

Whenever I’ve joined the engineering leadership for a company and I start meeting my colleagues, the top question seems to always be: Slow Delivery and Stakeholder Perceptions “Why is the development of new features always so slow!?!?”.

TL;DR Renovations took 5 months of my life, but the result is lovely.

As a family, we had not made a significant trip since going to Florida in Jan 2019.

Repo Available October 2025 - This article got so popular, I decided to put together a repo to make it even easier.

TL;DR ADHD Diagnosis and medication was a lifechanging experience for me.

How an insurance executive turned his vision for chatbot-assisted insurance quotes into a prototype to attract partners and investors OVERVIEW Throughout more than a decade spent in the insurance industry, Alexandre Guilbert—entrepreneur and owner of GC A…

The Danger of Hybrid Teams There are some positive things about working in an office with other people: People can have coffee/lunch together to build friendships; There are watercooler conversations that could turn into “aha” moments for the team; Inform…

Background When someone has a software product idea they often have some sort of rough deliverable that they feel will give a clear picture of their idea to a development team.

Note: I have no idea why I (Jevin) sound like a robot in this episode.

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Well, shucks. 2020 was..

2019 started with a fizzle.

Whether you’re a remote worker escaping the office monotony or an entrepreneur starting up your own business, managing your time when working from home is not as easy as it seems.

Collaborating in Real-Time While Working Remotely So you’ve accepted that remote employees are, or will become, a critical puzzle piece in your business’ success.

Transitioning 20 people from in-office to fully remote #13: Jennifer Raines-Loring(**@**jenrainesloring) Commercially-oriented human resources executive.

#12: Liam Martin (@vtamethodman) Liam Martin went from pro-figure skater to building a business with hundreds of remote employees.

Marvin Liao (@marvinliao) Marvin Liao is a Partner at 500 Startups, a global Seed Venture Capital Firm and Startup Accelerator based in San Francisco.

69% of managers are afraid to communicate with their team: https://getlighthouse.com/blog/afraid-at-work-communication-feedback/ Our complete guide to 1 on 1s (starting, making the most of them, etc): https://getlighthouse.com/blog/one-on-one-meetings-tem…

Remote Team Building You’re busy.

In professions like computer programming, writing, web design, graphic design, and many others, working remotely is rapidly becoming more common.

Shweta Saraf (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shwetasaraf/) is passionate about People and Technology.

Daniel Pupius (@dpup) he worked on Google+ and Gmail, and co-founded the Closure library.

https://dangerouslyawesome.com/ Alex Hillman (@alexhillman) builds communities, started one of the longest-running coworking communities in the world, write a crapload of words every day, tweet a little too much, coach people to be the best version of the…

Matt Davey has been at 1Password for the past 6 years, he leads design, content and marketing as Chief Operations Optimist.

Leonard Souza (**@**jslauthor) A creative who codes.

Kyle Zappitell (**@**kylezapp) Is an entrepreneur who loves making software, hardware, and small businesses.

“Mild positive and mild negative feedback helps build trust.” - Taylor Jacobson https://www.focusmate.com/ Taylor Jacobson (**@**TaylorJacobson) is the Founder & CEO of FocusMate (@focusmate) a tool changes the way you work by connecting you to other prof…

“Mild positive and mild negative feedback helps build trust.” - Ryan Sydnor Ryan Sydnor(@rtsydnor) Is the Co-Founder of Grow (no longer online), a slack tool that facilitates personal growth through continuous and actionable feedback.

“Face to face video calls builds relationships more than text.” - Dan Manian Dan Manian(@danmanian) Experienced entrepreneur and leader with expertise in product strategy and roadmap development, design thinking, rapid prototyping, customer development, a…