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…
Home Office 2: Return of The Couch
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
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”
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
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
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…
PRODUCTIVITY HACK: Spring Cleaning Dumpster Bags
As we head into the new year, I thought I’d share a secret… Dumpster bags. If you have a LOT of stuff to clean out during your spring cleaning and want it…
Watching Udemy Or Netflix on A MacBook Air with A DisplayLink Adapter
I’m running a MacBook Air M2. It’s slotted into my multi-monitor desktop with a CalDigit Thunderbolt hub and an Elecable dual HDMI adapter using DisplayLink technology. I have to use DisplayLink because…
Facebook Jail… Again
On Tuesday, I replied to a post on Facebook. A friend works for them and was recently relocated to another country. He was in the U.S. on a business trip and his…