This past Thursday, I made my first trek into downtown Seattle in a LONG time. The last time I visited an Amazon building was over a year ago when drove in on…
Author: Greg Bulmash
Lenovo P12 Review: A Second Screen – With Caveats
The Lenovo P12 is advertised as being able to function as a second screen for your Windows PC or laptop. It can, but there are a LOT of caveats that make it little more than a gimmick.
Defective Quidel QuickVue COVID Tests
Thanks to the repeal of masking mandates in our schools, our youngest already brought home a head cold. When it was at its worst for him, we took him to urgent care…
The Great American Browser Hunt
I’m quitting Google Chrome (on the desktop), so what’s next? Join the journey and find out.
Chrome’s Usability Crime
Maybe you’ve noticed the tab search feature on Chrome (see image). It’s that down arrow. For YEARS, the leftmost icon in that group was “minimize.” Not only did Google make the Tab…
Job Hunt Diary – The End of The Job Hunt
Hello from a hotel room in Santa Clara. I got up at 4 a.m. on Monday morning to fly down from Seattle and meet my new co-workers in person. In the past…
The truths and fallacies of “10,000 hours” for developers
In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers stated that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to truly master something. That is, however, a ballpark figure and the meaning of the statement has been…
Buh-Bye Netflix… and Hulu… and Paramount… and Apple…
Netflix has raised prices three times since 2017. In the last round, they knocked it up another $2 for the premium 4k service and $1.50 for the standard HD service. Since the…
Job Hunt Diary – Week 6 – Day 2
10 p.m. No news is no news While I did get contacts on LinkedIn from a couple of recruiters about new opportunities, nothing from the four companies still in the hunt on…
Job Hunt Diary – Week 6 – Day 1
1 p.m. Everything finished up on Thursday. Slept in on Friday and got a 91 sleep score on my FitBit. Always happy when I score an A in sleep. This morning, I…
Job Hunt Diary – Week 5 – Day 5
I finished up with two more companies, but one with which I had believed I was finished, emailed to ask for a presentation.
Job Hunt Diary – Week 5 – Day 4
11 a.m. Apologies again. While in the heat of interviewing and interview prep, daily blogging has not been as big a priority. Three down – two to go Quick recap: Two small…
Job Hunt Diary – Week 4 – Day 5
I like to believe that I’m a seasoned, experienced professional who does good work, yet there’s still a nagging doubt in the back of my mind telling me I’m somehow just good at spinning my past accomplishments and nothing I’ve ever done is good enough.
Job Hunt Diary – Week 4 – Day 4
ME: “Well, brain. It’s 11 p.m. Seems like a good time to go to sleep.”
MY BRAIN: “Seems like a good time to REHASH EVERYTHING YOU SAID IN YOUR INTERVIEWS TODAY!”
Comparing Two Arrays in Any Order (JavaScript)
How do you tell if two arrays are equal regardless of the order of their values? In doing some programming exercises in preparation for interviews, I ran across a task that required…