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But the best surprise is that my personal blog occasionally showed up when I was doing a google search years after writing a post.
I started blogging about developer events I was attending in Japan back in 2010. As I was the only one writing about it in English, the content naturally ranked well. That led a fellow Canadian to my blog, who asked how I found a job here. My email back to him started to get pretty long, and so I turned it into an article for the blog. That article attracted more people looking for developer jobs in Japan, so I start…
My CV is two pages long, and it's still too long, recruiters don't read it, probably just look at the keywords or IDK how they work. Previous version was 17 pages long, it was a bad conception (just listed projects, etc., as described in the book, of 30+ years).
But if you look at my GitHub page, you can get a far better picture. I only have my own repos, so you get a relatively good idea of what I do, how I work (most of my projects have documentation, tests), what quality code I write, even if the picture is a bit biased, because of some non-public and of course work projects are not included.
I have a personal blog, a .com with my name since 2001. Soon after, got a .com with my family name and made it into a company. And here are a few events I remember off the top of my head - that shaped my life; - Got my first big speaking engagement in USA (I’m in India). - Got my small service company acquired-hired and got introduced to the world of Startups. - Bought a car, paid rent, and bootstrapped a few Startup…
There is an extensive network of caves under my city that were used by beer breweries in the 1800's to store beer. They are all but inaccessible, and, at the time, kind of a myth. Most people didn't believe they still existed. I was fascinated by this and I compiled as much information as I could find on my personal website in the early 2000's. One day I received an email, "do you want to go into the caves? I know so…
> Best part is I didn't get murdered. I was almost going to say this sounds crazy dangerous and more like a trap, but 15 years ago I would have done the same and probably came out safe. I don't know what changed, it feels like things are getting more dangerous, but unsure if it's perception, or the truth.
In 2000 when some random guy asked a 13yo "hey wanna cyber" the answer was "lol ur a creep", today they'd call the police and there would be newspaper articles how Whatsapp is failing to protect our youth from online predators.
People just seemed to worry a lot less about the internet 20 years ago.
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It's just this: p, .conversation-chat, blockquote, em, strong { font-size: 1rem; font-style: normal; font-family: Menlo, monospace; } That's really the heart of it. I've wanted to try using a sans-serif font like Inter, but I'm stuck in a pit where people expect me to use a monospace font and any attempt to move away from that means I basically change a huge part of the site's visual identity. I'm still trying to fig…
Maybe a quasi proportional font like Iosevka Etoile? You can easily hack it to your likings (see https://github.com/vincentbernat/vincent.bernat.ch/blob/feat... )
Here it is in action: https://xeiaso.net/blog/coffee-isekai
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Maybe a quasi proportional font like Iosevka Etoile? You can easily hack it to your likings (see https://github.com/vincentbernat/vincent.bernat.ch/blob/feat... )
Oh god I have gone down a rabbit hole how. I have a custom font family that I'm probably gonna reuse across my other projects. This is your fault. Here it is in action: https://xeiaso.net/blog/coffee-isekai
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* Some of my new colleagues admitted reading my posts when searching for something. * I was confident linking my (commercial) book in a subreddit in which I post useful and free articles.
2. Improving as a writer.
* You need to write to improve writing (obvious). * Better writing helped me to write and publish a technical book.
3. Marketing.
* I used my blog as a main marketing channel for my book when I released it.
Note that I haven't started for those reasons per-se. I started long time ago to simple share knowledge on the internet.