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  So, uh, job search update: About a month ago now, I pleaded on mastodon for help. I didn’t really have a goal in mind. I was just miserable at work, not getting paid enough to do too much work. I posted a big long, rambling post that ended with, effectively, “will someone please help me” A lot of you reached out, actually. It was a truly overwhelming outpouring of help. And I _definitely_ got overwhelmed by it. I’m sure I dropped at least a few opportunities right on the floor. If you’ve bee...

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  Ahhhh, I love finding a nice new fedi handle to follow. The initial “I must scroll through their posts and like every post that stands out” is always a blast. The feeling of “following” on here feels markedly different. I don’t post stuff because I care if other people see what I’m doing; I post stuff on here because it makes people _talk to me_ about stuff I enjoy. And that seems to hold true for most folks on here; most of us did our time in the walled gardens. We want connection, not ads....

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  Listen… The tool is “speak English and get code” I do not need seventeen thousand different tutorials that all have someone typing some text and getting code out of it. I do not need to be reminded to “look at it myself” as if that advice is meaningful when the fucking thing spits out ten thousand lines of subtly (and not-so-subtly) broken code in an hour. You’re not going to get big on YouTube telling AI to make software. Stop trying. Even if I believed this stuff was as revolutionary as...

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  My company is hiring #DataEngineer s! Stack is #DotNet and #postgresql #postgres Team is fully remote, and I've been very happy with them. DM me for a link to the posting. #GetFediHired #DataEngineering EDIT: To be clear, I am not the hiring manager, I'm just a guy who works here.

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  Alright #TTRPG #parents who are looking for ways to get their kids into the hobby, go have your kids watch S4E5 of Ada Twist on Netflix. Just do it.

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  Less than two hours until my tech interview. Quick, folks, give me advice. Bad advice only.

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  LinkedIn is trash and terrible. But hey, you should be using every avenue to improve your odds at getting a job, and quickly glancing through the profile of someone who is going to be interviewing you is _really really_ helpful. Problem is when you’re interviewing with someone who is as cautious and careful about personal privacy as you are. OSINT only goes so far with folks who know what “OSINT” is.

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  _turns volume down_ This is your periodic reminder that you don’t need permission from anyone to rock the hell out to whatever you want. _turns kpop demon hunters back up_

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  Like, seriously, we make people get a piece of paper before they can put together a bridge. We do that because the downsides of “a bridge being built by someone who hasn’t gone through at least a minimum of intensive training” are _much_ worse than the downsides of “making people get a piece of paper before making bridges”. When you write code, you’re…probably (_probably_) not going to kill anyone. This is a thing some juniors need to hear and internalize, but also: Everything is computers now...

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  “I wish I was as good as you at programming. How did you get so good?” I didn’t. I never got good at it. It’s just that every time I don’t know something, I look it up. Over time, you look up lots of things, and you start noticing patterns. That’s how you get to where I am. Practice. Lots of it. For years. There’s literally no other way to do it. No one is smart enough to just “do” it. Your brain is excellent at pattern matching, but you’ve got to train it.

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  I wrote a thing about old video games again. This one is spicy: https://write.bauxite.tech/retro-ramblings/hardly-harder/ Also, to be clear, there are _lots_ of great and well-designed games today. This blog post is discussing a few specific dimensions I have noticed changing, but not _every_ game has these problems, and plenty of games that have these problems are _absolute bangers_. There is no wrong fun here. #retroGaming (EDIT: I fixed the name of the post, oops)

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  Alright #retroGaming, we have a minor emergency 🚨. I know thIs a long shot, but I bought the gamesir pocket taco for my son. It’s a really neat little device, turn my old cell phone into a kickass gameboy-through-early PS1 emulation handheld. But unfortunately, my _other_ son got his hands on it, and now it doesn’t clamp to the screen. I’m going to fix it (“why not just buy another one they’re so cheap” get out of here with that crap), but I need help. I i’m reasonably sure that the proble...

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  My few contacts on here who know me at work now know that I’m looking for a job, so, uh, yeah, I’m looking for a new position. I’m a stereotype. Long-time developer, perpetual polyglot (if pressed, I’m probably strongest in #dotnet, both framework and modern flavors, and favoring f#, but if you look at the list of languages in Rosetta code, you’ll see “my goal”), plenty of experience in different kinds of organizations, have a history that includes dedicated infosec work (pentesting, architect...

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  My few contacts on here who know me at work now know that I’m looking for a job, so, uh, yeah, I’m looking for a new position. I’m a stereotype. Long-time developer, perpetual polyglot (if pressed, I’m probably strongest in #dotnet, both framework and modern flavors, and favoring f#, but if you look at the list of languages in Rosetta code, you’ll see “my goal”), plenty of experience in different kinds of organizations, have a history that includes dedicated infosec work (pentesting, architect...