2023 certainly ended up being an unusual year. I started the year with one goal Albeit a goal I still have no idea how to achieve. in mind, but that was disrupted a whopping ten days into January and never seriously revisited. If there’s one thing we can know …
2 Months In: A Job Search Update LinkedIn never forgets. The listings I created in their recruiting portal circa 2017-2019 for Lawn Love, connected to my personal LinkedIn account, still show up in their hybrid job search, recruiting/ATS software portal. LinkedIn is keenly interested for me to reopen those …
10 days into the current year, I was unceremoniously terminated with the click of a button. 150 peers shared the experience of one’s laptop abruptly freezing and throwing up a “PROPERTY OF [FORMER EMPLOYER]” lock screen halfway through an otherwise ordinary Tuesday morning. Having never been involuntarily separated from …
Last night, I installed a PC game from my childhood. My toddler keeps going through a big ol’ basket of CDs I have on the floor in my office, handing me various jewel cases she finds interesting. Naturally, a CD with a grinning, green Centipede on the cover is more …
There exists a thing known as O*NET, a project by the US Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration (helpfully abbreviated as USDOL/ETA) to help people navigate the massive, 1,000+ set of careers that exist in our modern workforce. On a lark, Shelley and I took the …
Today, I deleted my Twitter account. If you visit my old handle, you get a friendly message from Twitter that This account doesn't exist and, wouldn’t you please try searching for another? Anything to keep the drip of content going. Anything to propel artificial views to keep advertiser dollars …
Mozilla continues the war against its own users in Firefox 77, disabling workarounds to their horrific “megabar” that were launched with the “feature” in Firefox 75. Kill it with fire with a custom user-defined CSS. Like it’s 1997. UserChrome.org has the instructions for doing this and a fantastic …
Copy-pasting my old interview answers for archive here, since Gitprime’s lovely blog post has disappeared Technically , it lives on in a butchered format under their new Pluralsight branding. Congrats on the acquisition, Ben and team. . I fully believed this when writing it three years ago and still believe it …
The question Hi! I was wondering how you guys do Story Pointing? Do you follow the fibonacci sequence? If not, what do you do? - Senior Business Systems Analyst An innocent-enough question, yes? But this question has created more bitter discussions than almost any other philosophical discussion of business software development …
I am forever losing random blog posts that explain the mysterious inner workings of Advanced Linux Components: udev, kmod, UEFI kernel mod signing, etc. Rather than continue to accrue bookmarks that rot over time, I’m going to start writing down what I’ve learned, so I can reference it …
“CTOs at Sunset” - October 11, 2019. This looked better on my phone. It doesn’t have a shallow-enough depth of field when focused on infinity for the shot I was trying to create. I had the opportunity to attend my third 0111 Conference last week. This year’s emphasis was …
Hiring is the public speaking of the business world. This topic generates more anxiety, nausea, outrage, lawsuits, cargo culting , and wives tales than almost any other subject. Pop some Pepto Bismol and treat hiring like the discipline it is: Something to be learned, practiced, and eventually mastered. This is the …
While researching my next blog post, on the subject of hiring Working title: “Eric’s unofficial guide to finding humans to meet your business’s needs–and whom you want to work with–out of a pool of billions.” , I wrote on my outline a point along the lines of …
The more things change… I was inspired to re-read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 after seeing some salient, eerily-prescient quotations applied to our current American culture. This pair of books is among the earliest dystopian fictions–books that depict the future of humanity …
Or, how to build an anti-Medium.com Two curiously-related pieces of content were shared on Hacker News today. The first was a short article by Joshua Li , explaining how a few basic CSS styles can make for a great-looking website—across varying devices. The second was a longer post by …
King of business books The Goal remains one of the best business books. Facts are true. Their truth does not change with the passage of time. No matter how our hairstyles evolve and computers continue to shrink, the theory of constraints remains a powerful explanation for how work is accomplished …
The Beginning When learning computer programming, it’s traditional to begin one’s journey towards mastering the syntax by instructing the computer to print Hello, World! on the screen. This is Python’s Hello, World! : #!/usr/bin/env python print ( "Hello, World!" ) And this is PHP’s: <?php echo "Hello …