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Mad hatter

They’re still using tables for layouts so

I have never worked at a startup and am interviewing with one. I’d like to ask some questions to suss out whether it’ll go belly up in the near future. Also, it’d be nice to determ…

I have a fantasy of writing a technical book but not sure I could really put in the required effort

I am impressed

This does not sound like it happened recently

As an interviewee, regardless of whether you got the job or not.

Honestly I just found it irksome that the recruiter was trying to tell me how to prioritize my needs in the job search when it was obvious he was just trying to make a placement.

Outsourcing any part of the interview process for a small company is definitely one for me. Any hire is going to be absolutely critical and you’re going to let someone else make th…

And even if it wasn’t a good idea, the fact that the person couldn’t be respectful when they’re trying to impress you the most is a very bad sign.

I had a recruiter trying to convince me to take an offer lower than my current salary, telling me it’s not all about the money. I told him I’d do it if he made up the difference by…

The sort of stuff where if an employee interviewer says it you think to yourself “nope, this isn’t the place for me.”

On the first point - I’m not sure there’s a difference to internet users between 1 billion junk articles on a topic and 1 trillion junk articles. On the second point - this is prec…

There’s going to be a lot of garbage content out there—but isn’t there already? People have been writing junk to try to get search engine placement for 20+ years. I’m not necessari…

Ideally “success” defined as extra income, but I’d also love to hear about projects that you have that are successful in other ways

I’ve just been doing rss for a while but some readers prefer email. I wouldn’t opt people into it somehow, they’d have to subscribe themselves

Trying to find a low friction, low cost way to send my blog posts out as emails to subscribers. Thanks!

Yeh doing something that’s not scalable is uniquely something you can offer

Who’d have figured a bunch of people who didn’t read the docs would go on to become software developers

At least from my experience looking for jobs in the US, I rarely see Laravel come up in an enterprise tech stack. Why is this?

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I like it. The distinction between Authn and Authz isn’t nearly as obviously as login and permission. Sometimes I feel like we enjoy fancy terms more than we enjoy unambiguous term…

Yeah it’s pretty much identical to what ChatGPT spits out. Looks like the comment is removed now.