On the good side… Got through Hiring Manager and Recruiter screens with one start-up and it looks like I am headed toward a full interview round. I have a first call with…
Comcast XFinity home internet vs T-Mobile home internet
I’m going to compare Comcast’s XFinity home internet service with T-Mobile home internet. TL;DR XFinity is both faster AND slower than T-Mobile. Read on to understand why.
Job Hunt Diary 2023: Canonical doubles down on questions that could cause bias
Canonical had a couple of potentially biased questions on their job application that I called out in a previous blog post. I even called it out in my application, stating my university…
What does a Developer Advocate do?
A recruiter hit me up for a developer role and I told them I was focused on Developer Relations, primarily Developer Advocacy. They asked what a Developer Advocate does. Developer Advocates write…
Job Hunt Diary 2023: You’ve clearly mistaken me for someone else
I got an InMail from an agency recruiter on LinkedIn just a moment ago. After the greeting, they said… I saw your extensive background working with C#, .net, and Azure. In the…
Job Hunt Diary 2023: WTAF CareerBuilder?
The “sparse resume” experiment from earlier in the month–where all the resume had was my years of experience in certain disciplines–didn’t get much response. So I went back to the old self-entertainment…
Unintentional Auto-tuning With Adobe Podcast Enhancer
I’m working on a podcast and I was composing the Intro and Outro… a little talk, then a musical sting. But I wasn’t perfectly happy and I tried Adobe’s AI voice enhancer…
Job Hunt Diary 2023: WTF with High School Questions?
January 24, 2023 I was just applying for a role with Canonical, makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution along with other tools and products. Honestly, I was tempted not to complete it…
Job Hunt Diary 2023: A stronger nibble to start the week
A stronger nibble This week, I started my morning with a recruiter request a call to discuss a role I applied for… checks notes… four weeks ago. Last week, I got a…
Job Hunt Diary: Nibbles, No Bites
Friday, January 20th It ain’t easy, it ain’t easy It ain’t easy to get to Heaven when you’re going down — David Bowie Yesterday, as Amazon let 8,000 more employees know their…
Job Hunt Diary 2023: Applying vs. Searching
I just applied for 3 jobs via LinkedIn. I call it “earning my unemployment check.” While I am job hunting all week long, filing and logging three applications to qualify for my…
Job Hunt Diary 2023: A Nibble & An Unwise Recruiter
Sorry for the lack of posts, but the home office remodel took a bit longer than expected. The problem with “a place for everything and everything in its place” is it can…
Job Hunt Diary 2023: Three Unwise Recruiters
Today I woke to not one but three recruiters contacting me via LinkedIn, all from different agencies, all for the same contract role with the same company. Two named the company, one…
Three Takeaways from Ten Years in Developer Relations
I got my first Developer Relations job writing developer documentation for Internet Explorer over ten years ago. Four years of those ten were spent writing documentation for Microsoft or Amazon Web Services…
The First Office Redesign Speedbump
IKEA lost a sale yesterday. Last Thursday, I ordered a couple of desks for the home office redesign with delivery January 2nd. Instead I woke that day to a notice from their…