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I recently tried out Task Warrior for tasks and this is why I switched back to Obsidian + DataView. Forgetting to check TW is the big reason it didn't work, but the secondary reaso…

It's been a while since I've used Logseq, but IIRC you can use yaml front matter. The very first block in the page is special and if you enter YAML there, the underlying markdown w…

I had recruiter pull that in my most recent job search. Has to stick "C#/..." in front of everything because they didn't understand that ASP.NET, WPF, WCF, WinForms and several oth…

My previous job used GitLab. I agree that it's less polished and more clunky, at least for the overlap of features it shares with GitHub. (Mostly code hosting and collaboration m.)…

Several years ago, at my previous job, I worked on a short-lived project in Moodle. It came to me because I had some PHP experience, a decade prior and no one else had any. I hooke…

In case you haven't seen it already, JetBrains also makes a C# IDE called Rider [0]. Personally, I find the JetBrains IDEs overly complicated. More so than Visual Studio, but that …

It's not even new. I've been doing this professionally for 15 years, and the "web development isn't real development" was a common attitude at least since I started. If anything, i…

I've been searching for about 2 months (laid off early February), and I've not had a lot of luck. Lots of recruiter calls. Several phone screens. A handful of post-phone-screen Rou…

Has this been working for you? At times, I've had panic mode set in and _feel_ like I need to apply to every little job that looks remotely decent, but I don't know if that's _actu…

Is the coding question that is representative of the work you do at your company, and that you expect candidates to have done? Or is it a toy, "write a function that does X" questi…

"Forgive me Borrow Checker, for I have sinned"

Making medical software that people actually want to use is impressive. I just applied for the Senior Software Engineer role via the Greenhouse link. Looking forward to speaking wi…

> ...forbid you from alt-tabbing or anything that you would normally do while on the actual job, ask for trivia knowledge you'd normally google... I had to fill out a literal IQ te…

> One overlooked aspect of this humiliating process is that it saps your confidence. This has been me on occasion during the last couple months of searching. I've been worried that…

I posted last month and didn't hear anything from it. I'm hoping this month is more fruitful.

I'm not sure I could go back to in-office work, but also moving cross country isn't even feasible for me at this stage in my life, even if I wanted to.

Yes, I meant C. Reading too quickly I guess.

Location: Greater Seattle Area Remote: Preferred (will consider Hybrid in Seattle Area) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: .NET (Framework and Core); JavaScript (Vue.js, Node); …

I'm curious about this, and also how hard of a requirement C++ experience is.

It's surprising how many developers won't even bother to read an error message. At my list gig there were a few folks who would regularly message me anytime there was a failure in …

There can also be a lot of what I'll call "political inertia" involved. In my experience, the existing process has a way of appearing invisible such that any change will feel like …

It consumes a fair amount of resources just idling. I'm currently using a laptop that was mid-to-low spec when I got it a couple years ago. It was chugging, especially during video…

GP specified "internal revolt", i.e. Microsoft employees. The composition of the customer base is a non-sequitur here.

Learning to work "quick and dirty" is something I'm actually working on improving, personally. I don't necessarily do BDUF or anything, but I generally do more "engineering" than i…

In my current reading conditions (on my phone, outside, nighttime) I couldn't even tell there was any text. They all appeared the same solid grey.