jaredandrews

> The other day I was idly wondering what are the strangest combinations of items people buy at grocery stores. The kind of shopping cart that makes the cashier snicker and later tell his friends, "Dude, can you believe this guy came in and only bought condoms and apples?"

When you are a cashier, customers make comments like this all the time, preemptively defending themselves to you for their "eccentric" purchases. Truthfully, as a cashier you are on auto pilot and scanning things as quickly as possible and trying to not make mistakes. We are a store that sells these items and I do not find it surprising or strange that you are buying any of them. The fact that you can buy condoms and apples here is what makes this market "super". It's my job, I'm here to sell it to you. Paper or plastic?

SEEKING FREELANCER - USA - Remote

I'm an experienced mobile developer who is trying to learn more about web dev with React. I recently built a small web app with React, Typescript, Tailwind and a Supabase backend.

I'm seeking a developer with experience in all 4 of those technologies to do a code review with me over a screen share session. This would be fairly high level, as I would like to talk thru a handful of decisions I made and see if I made any mistakes, especially with my relatively simple Supabase setup.

I expect this would only be an hour or two of work. If anyone is interested shoot me an email, showing some experience with these four technologies, to "jared at jaredandrews dot com"

Thanks!

I had no idea Monster sold anything other than over priced guitar cables... About 15 yeard ago, I knew a guy who exclusively bought Monster... well he had two of them, one from the guitar to the pedal board and another from the board to the amp.

But it wasn't because of their alleged improved sound quality or whatever, it was because they had a lifetime warranty. Dude had bought two monster 1/4inch cables and gotten them replaced "for free" like 5 times.

From what I can tell they got rid of the lifetime warranty around 2018 and have mostly transitioned to licensing their name.

This is what I used when I was 11. Been 15 years since I last used it, so no idea how much it's changed. The thing that was nice about Game Maker for young me, was that it had a drag and drop and programming language interface and you could switch between the two pretty seamlessly. This really helped me learn how to code early on.

Thanks!!!

Yes thank you. This is my "actually it's GNU + Linux" tic, please fellow Americans (and I would be interested in learning if this problem exists in other countries) do not accept the framing that a bank giving a loan to someone they thought was you is _your problem_! It's their problem! We should not be normalizing this phrase or practice.

If that is the case, then the job is not one that our hypothetical job hopper wants, so it all works out.

While I personally didn't go down this path and wouldn't necessarily recommend it... if you are going to, the answer has almost nothing to do with any particular tech stack.

NETWORK NETWORK NETWORK, hop jobs every one to two years and make sure each of those jobs comes with a salary increase greater than what you could get via the promotion ladder at company you are leaving. Be a good enough software developer that you can switch tech stacks at will. Learn the software engineering (design patterns, how to communicate with stakeholders, etc) and language design / compiler / networking fundamentals (so you can easily switch programming languages / stacks).

Beyond that, certain subsections of the tech industry have higher salaries so network with people in those subsections.

Also just to be clear, the point of networking is so when you hop jobs you aren't applying to random jobs, you are being referred by employees at other companies.