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Job Hunt Diary 2023: WTAF CareerBuilder?

Posted on January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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

Posted on January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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?

Posted on January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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

Posted on January 23, 2023January 24, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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

Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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

Posted on January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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

Posted on January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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

Posted on January 3, 2023January 5, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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

Posted on January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

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…

Home Office 2: Return of The Couch

Posted on January 1, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

Last week, you may have noticed I posted about how I removed the futon couch from my office, which completely opened up the floor plan. That set off a manic couple of…

Three Tips For Time-Shifting: Modern Work Patterns And VCRs

Posted on January 1, 2023January 2, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

In 1995, I joined the video sales department at my local Circuit City, a national consumer electronics and appliance retailer that shuttered in 2009 and is spoken of (by some) with nostalgia…

2022 Was The Year of “Hulking Out”

Posted on December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

In 2022, it felt like there was an unending barrage of stories about people snapping in public. Every day or two there seemed to be a story of someone who became verbally…

JavaScript v. Python: Type Coercion

Posted on December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 by Greg Bulmash

While I’ve got the time, I’m refreshing on the basics of Python before I delve into becoming better at it, and I’ve run into some things I either missed the first time(s)…

The Couch… He Is Gone

Posted on December 27, 2022January 5, 2023 by Greg Bulmash

I don’t know why I used a title that sounds like some foreign character in a movie, but it felt a little more entertaining that a simple “the couch is gone.” And…

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