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hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 07:48
The buzzword soup variety of job description is unpleasant — where they drop every tech they use, have used, might use in the future, and saw once in a vlog — but when they don’t mention any tech at all that’s a little unnerving.
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 10:24
Eight job submissions with a couple tabs open for others when I get back from my appointment.
Glad my hyperfocus chose something that feels useful this morning.
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 13:14
“Do you…want to continue being a backend engineer?”
Hey whoa damn way to throw the existential questions at me on a Monday.
But I mean yeah. My “full stack” is pear-shaped, with a chunky backend and the simplest frontend I can come up with.
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 13:22
i might at least get a callback on that one
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 13:39
“we want to challenge standard thinking”
couple hours with me and my neurospicy friends will have you rewriting that claim
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 14:02
@masukomi hackers.town uses Glitch, a “friendly fork” of Mastodon. Markdown is one of its features.
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 14:03
@masukomi it doesn’t always come up right downstream though — especially mobile clients. So I add little hints like the quote markers.
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 14:04
@masukomi basically yeah it’s HTML under the hood.
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 14:19
@somarasu hey where’d Kid Creole go?
Well, I suppose everyone wouldn’t equally appreciate the 80s aesthetic.
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 14:21
The most entertaining part of today’s acupuncture appointment was when I expressed curiosity about the specifics, and the doctor went straight to enthusiastic infodump mode, showing me the charts and which bits he stabbed and what they affected.
hackers.town: 2023-10-02 Mon 15:06
Rapidly diminishing returns when you’re trying to come up with decent cover letters and the jobs are starting to blur together.
But I got ten solid submissions today. I’m gonna call that good.