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hackers.town: 2025-04-08 Tue 06:40
94% on their silly code test earned me a “we’ve determined that there are candidates who may be better aligned with our needs at this time” and BTW not so much as a phone screen worth of human contact.
hackers.town: 2025-04-08 Tue 11:51
Civet looks interesting. It’s basically #CoffeeScript for the TypeScript world, adding type checking and implementing several TC39 proposals along the way.
Editor support is currently limited to VS Code, but maybe that’ll expand if it catches on.
hackers.town: 2025-04-08 Tue 15:46
Watching a video about the wonders of the Windsurf AI-enabled programmer’s editor.
installing a requirements.txt file, and independently realizing it needed to use Python3 instead of Python—
(stop video)
(check Python 2.7 EOL)
January 1, 2020.
Five full years ago.
You’re bragging about stuff that shouldn’t even come up.
(resumes video)
(pretty much fails to track the rest of it because of that one thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xk2qG2QPdU
Not to mention I use uv—with pdm, poetry, and pip-tools before that.
If they wanted to impress me, “used the correct dependency management tool, then set up pyproject.toml and a venv with development dependencies based on my environment”