john-tells-all

Did you apply directly on LinkedIn?

I've switched to finding companies + jobs on LI, then applying directly on the company's website.

Wife and I adore the podcast. Will be sending money. We love you guys.

There's a big difference between a _puzzle_ and a _mystery_. In a puzzle, the goal state is known, and as more pieces - data - appears, the goal gets closer. You know how far you are from the goal.

A mystery is worse. With each additional piece of data, the goal gets farther away. Everything is more and more confusing.

(Popularized by Malcom Gladwell)

I adore programming books... for a specific use case. If I want to learn a lot about a subject, nothing is better than a book:

- it was edited, so ideas and text are consistent

- the examples worked (at some point in time)

- the author has enough time-space to clearly describe a lot of material well

Nothing beats a book for an enormous amount of detailed information. Even just reading the table of contents helps to help understand what to focus on during study.

My copy of "DevOps Handbook" is covered in tags and handwritten notes. Brett Slatkin's "Effective Python" is way too much for me, but I got a ton out of the parts I focused on. No other media is like books!

My friends subscribe to one service per month. They watch everything they want, and when they run out, they cancel the service and subscribe to another one.

When they want to watch something on another service, they add it to a shared spreadsheet.

It works really well! They get to watch everything on all services, and it's all high quality media that they want to watch.

My wife and I realized we were spending too much _time_ just watching shows we didn't really like.

So we paused on ALL paid streaming services.

The "effort" it takes to a watch a movie on Kanopy, and the fact a movie is only two hours, gives us a lot of value. It's not a money thing, it's a "what am I spending my time on" thing.

Kanopy has a wonderful selection, and ironically its website UI is better than Netflix et al.

Watching movies and other shows without commercials is such a treat!

I haven't tried audiobooks nor ebooks on Hoopla but look forward to it.

I'd love to have a global "toggle Teams mute" button.

Yes. And, a bad test -- that passes because it's defined to pass -- is _much worse_ than no test at all. It makes you think an edge case is "covered" with a meaningful check.

Worse: once you have one "bad apple" in your pile of tests, it decreases trust in the _whole batch of tests_. Each time a test passes, you have to think if it's a bad test...

Patriot is brilliant. Very surreal with pitch-black humor and rare horror. And piping! Lovely piping.

Same.

I like the idea of my money going to the artists. And, you can "buy the catalog", give an artist $150 or so to get ALL their music. I have a couple composers who I adore so that was a no-brainer. If I was going to pay them for most of their work anyway, why not give them the money now?