I totally forgot to mention I got Product Hunt access the other day! I can comment and hunt things all on my own. Follow me there if you like, no promises anything I post is stellar.
Category: Bullshit
Oh hai!
Posted onI have this problem. It’s called “Sometimes I check out for no reason.” Yeah, I’m not good with names. But seriously, sometimes I just get caught up in one thing or another and I completely forget about things that were so important I was staying up late and squeezing them in just to be able to do them…and then I always get a little withdrawn around my birthday as well.
Hence why I haven’t posted regularly in months! HOLY SHIT. So, there’s something going on that I can’t talk about yet, but it’s a good thing and should help my family make extra money. Let’s just say I might have found a job. 😉
Happy Birthday to Me and a Year since Sir Terry Pratchett’s Death
Posted onMy birthday always makes me ponder the future and the past and my path and my existence. Makes me all existential as it were. I wonder if that happens to anyone else on their birthday.
A year ago today, my favorite author Terry Pratchett died. I hadn’t even looked at the news that day when I got up, and my husband came to me with an absolutely shocked looked on his face and asked me if I was okay; he thought I had seen it already. It was a shock to say the least, and was the final straw that threw me into what has been a year long soul searching episode. Well, likely longer, since I’m not really done searching my soul just yet…
Anyways, Sir Terry was an amazing author, and his books have been a part of my life almost as long as my second favorite author Stephen King. I grew up on Sir Terry’s Discworld and the antics of its denizens, and learned about life from those pages. It was a good 3 months before I could think about Sir Terry being dead without crying; I truly felt like I lost a family member.
I planned on doing some CSS stuff, maybe a drawing or two, but I have been sick this week with a damned cold that went through my family first so of course I got the ultra-hardy mutated version. Hopefully I’ll be done with my drawing tomorrow or Monday and can post it.
I would be a great fit for your company because…
Posted onWhat the front-end applicant wanted
Hey, we know you, we follow you on Twitter and you’re a funny dude/tte with balling front-end skills. Applications are so boring and we don’t want to read them any more than you want to fill them out so join our Slack chat and get to know our team let’s see how we like you as a person. Oh, and if we decide not to hire you, we’ll be super honest about why so that you can learn and grow in your field, because we value our industry and our role in it as a support and mentoring system.
What the front-end applicant expected
Tell us why you’re interested in this job. Don’t be afraid to say, “Because you’re hiring!”; we understand that you probably came here from a job posting board and we want to give everyone the opportunity to work at our company, even if they weren’t familiar with us when they applied. Also tell us what you want out of your career. Don’t be afraid to say you eventually want to work at Google just because you want to work here. We understand that life is about change.
What the front-end applicant got
Tell us in 49-232 characters why you would be a good fit for our company. Be sure to use words and phrases you find in the 5 minutes browsing our company website and manifesto, because the robots we have screening the applications like buzzwords and we can’t expect you to stick around longer than that. After that be sure that you have a portfolio on Behance, even if you maintain an updated portfolio somewhere else. Individuality means everyone using the same tools. An active Dribbble profile automatically moves an application to the 2nd round of reviews, where an actual human sees it, so don’t even waste your time if you don’t have one. Also tell us an arbitrary fact about yourself to prove you were reading, even though we have a program to automatically reject or approve applications and this question is irrelevant to them.
Life’s a glitch and then you terminate.
Programming philosophyHonestly, I think good relationships are harder than bad ones. I don’t mean cultivating them, obviously that’s harder, but I mean actually dealing with them day to day. When I get upset or irritated at my spouse, it’s a “but yet” type of thought: “Well, I do feel a little ignored since that video game came out, but yet, he does make sure I eat when I go on 9 hour coding binges…” When I was in a shitty relationship, it was more an “and also” thought: “Well, I do feel a little unappreciated since he cheated on me, and also he ate all my goddamned Doritos.”
Footer?
Posted onDoes anyone give a shit about the things in the footer? Should I just put them in the menu? Decided to run Optimizely to test things out. WE WILL SEE HOW THIS SHIT GOES.
Journal #4: File System Commands
Posted onJournal entry #4 for my Operating System class (others are here if you’re interested). Here we had to outline the disk capacity and usage of each of our computer drives using the dir command or the File Explorer on Windows.
Journal #2: Process and Thread Scheduling
Posted onNOTE: We use APA citations in my Master’s program, which I have retained here.
Entry #2 (although posted as the third…whoops…others are here) in my Operating System class. This time we are asked to examine our system’s process states using the command line. (This is to help us with our final project and recommending process management requirements to our fictitious organization. This class is also known as “OPS-prov”.) In Windows, that command is tasklist /v. We’re supposed to research what scheduling algorithm is used by our operating system as well. Let’s dive in.
Post preview: unused product page redesign
Posted onPutting the final touches on the unused product page redesign I did for Bass Pro Shops. This was actually a pet project that I did in my spare time, so it was a bit of a departure from my normal work for Bass Pro.
Hoping to get that posted for tomorrow.