Just because you love what you do doesn’t mean it’s not work.
It doesn’t devalue your work or time.
I know we’re so used to it because of capitalism, but work doesn’t have to feel bad, tiring and draining all the time.
It can feel good and still be work.
On 17 September, I made a choice. Waking up from 15 hours of lost time, at a friend’s house, when I should’ve been home the day before. I had clarity. Enough. I’ve shared before a…
I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions.
I’ve done take-home tests, in person challenges, pair programming with the candidates.
All of them were awful experiences for me and especially for the candidate.
I can only think of a single instance where a code challenge exposed a poor software engineer and I could definitely have made the same assessment just by talking to them.
Lately I’ve stopped doing any software or mental puzzles.
I don’t do any of that when I interview designers or QA people or HR people, so why would I be particularly toxic towards software engineers during the hiring process?
Instead, I actually read their resumes (which is significantly quicker than doing interviews, asking them to repeat the same information), and then I ask them questions like:
- Where do you get your tech news?
- How do you learn about new technologies?
- What do you most appreciate in your coworkers today?
- What is a perfect workday like for you?
I specifically avoid trap-style questions like “what is your greatest weakness?” or “why are you leaving your current job?”
I recommend that you make a plan for what you want to learn about the candidate, e.g. “are they good at acquiring new skills?” or “do they share the same values as the team?” and then structure the interview around that.
Be a non-toxic manager. Make your company look good during the interview process. Get better candidates.
#jobs
Newsletter subscribers might be surprised to see a slightly new design. I’ve moved away from Substack and back to Buttondown, an indie mailing list service. Every email will be free from now on; paid …
ADHD is not “can’t sit still disorder”
ADHD is “posting in 10 group chats, subreddits and other posting platforms, never using the search function to see incidents of the same question being raised, asking for tips on how to do complex things like feed yourself and do one task. Upon discovering that you just sort of have to do the thing, you close all the tabs. You ignore your previous attempts to find an answer and do the same post a week later in the hopes that someone has come up with the perfectly suited to you way to do one task. You feel shame and embarrassment and anger and often nothing at all, whilst neurotypical people tell you that it’s easy to do one task you just have to want to do it. You want to do a lot of things but even the things that give you joy are insurmountable” disorder
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They should let you download 12 hours of randomly selected TikToks for a flight.
Do not spend the Friday before Christmas replying to this post about how you don’t like TikTok. Just enjoy your night!
How did I only just find out that antidepressants can reduce dopamine?
I might try and titrate off my Sertraline, as perhaps my lifelong depression was more about the lack of dopamine that ADHD gives me?
(Yes I will be sensible, yes I will consult with a doctor)
It's been a year since I last did one of these, and to think I once thought I could do it monthly maybe! Once a year will do for now.
(It's actually Saturday as I'm writing this because I was lazy …
Current situation with being ill:
1. Do nothing
2. Not-completely-shit-feeling because I'm doing nothing
3. Feel guilty I'm not doing more
4. Do something
5. Feel like utter crap because I did something
6. GOTO 1
Feeling smug about folks saying to avoid a site I already avoid.
I should bookmark this so I can boost myself as needed. Need to be careful though. Don't want to throw my shoulder out patting myself on the back too hard.
Here are other ways to frame what Substack's CEO is saying:
"But if we don't pay the Nazis who will?"
"But if we don't pay the Nazis, everyone else loses!"
"But if we don't pay the Nazis, the Nazis have already won!"
"But if we don't pay the Nazis, we wont make shit tons of money and they're a fucking goldmine that we want to make bank off and fuck everyone who dies we never liked them anyway BECAUSE WE ARE ALSO FUCKING NAZIS!!!"
Dang, but I love being able to set a filter on the server side so I no longer see the flood of posts about the main character of the day.
Thanks, #Mastodon!
Interactive code examples for documentation, education and fun. - GitHub - nalgeon/codapi-js: Interactive code examples for documentation, education and fun.
so I have a new rule of platform engineering if I can't have (with experience) that platform I want set up as a working prototype within the afternoon it's too complicated and yes I'm serious. make. shit. simpler. and give me a single binary I can throw anywhere and just start and do stuff. if you are a cluster, make single instances work out of the box.
Watching the episode of Voyager where Janeway has to use her own personal holographic smut fiction barkeep to rescue her own crewman from the holodeck.
God I love Star Trek.
i havent seen this movie since the theaters and apparently it sucked so fucken bad that my mind made me forget everything about it and watching it is like reliving hell for the first time
Jamie Tanna
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