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I am a UI designer and front end developer residing in Austin, TX. Feel free to contact me for any reason: echo ZW5naW5lZXJpbmdAaW50ZXJuZXRwYXJ0eS5pbw== | base64 -d
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Comment · 1 year ago
Ask an LLM to write it?
Comment · 2 years ago
All the interesting bones are hidden in the Smithsonian.
Comment · 2 years ago
It’s just an anecdote but I quit a job because the CEO fired an extremely good manager that I worked with. If a company has issues, a good person getting fired can lead to a mass exodus. In my case about half of the developers followed closely after me.
Comment · 3 years ago
The chances of this happening before your project is obsolete are pretty slim.

Edit: it depends on what you mean by "bites the dust". If you mean "isn't cool anymore" then I'd say that's kind of irrelevant. If you mean "isn't supported anymore", I don't see that happening any time within the next decade at least. Rails isn't cool anymore but it's still supported and lots of people are still (more or less) happily using it at their day jobs. React is so widely used it'll be kept on life support long after it has been supplanted by something better, if and when that happens.

Comment · 3 years ago
Try searching for anything related to a recently released video game. Chat gpt spam has made it completely impossible. Even the reputable wikis are pushed down far enough to become very difficult to find.
Comment · 3 years ago
Have you tried working with recruiters? In my experience applying directly might as well be sending your resume directly into a black hole. If you turn on the “looking for work” setting on linked in you’ll probably get plenty of opportunities to interview. I was interviewing in the spring and I had a few interviews lined up within a week this way.
Comment · 3 years ago
Try a keyboard running QMK firmware. You can map a single key to multiple codes depending on the length of the key press. I use caps lock as escape if released immediately, and control if held down. Putting the modifiers in the bottom corner of the keyboard was a sadistic design choice.
Comment · 3 years ago
Are you hiring? I'm looking for a job that will allow me to explore my passions. My passions are: video games, anime, and watching youtube videos about video games and anime.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not only that, you could see it in the middle of the day. After witnessing that I understood why ancient people considered them an act of god.
Comment · 3 years ago
The proliferation of LLM spam websites has made it completely impossible to search for any video game related information. Every search returns hundreds of sites with the same garbage chat GPT articles derived from Reddit or game wikis. Ironically, this makes the source material impossible to find. It’s really dire.
Comment · 3 years ago
There’s a website called mynoise that has a bunch of noise generators. No algorithms required.
Comment · 3 years ago
Probably bundling the server side dependencies into the client. I’ve also seen this happen when people add uncompressed 4k png images and the build tool is configured to inline all static assets. Obviously there was a lack of domain knowledge in the company or this wouldn’t have happened.
Comment · 3 years ago
It’s because of yield. More pixels per panel means more panels ruined by dead pixels.
Comment · 3 years ago
That’s interesting, I’ve been on vyvanse for five years now and never felt any of the telltale signs of dependency (which I am familiar with). I had to stop taking it for a month once and it just made me very drowsy for a week.
Comment · 3 years ago
No, the book does.

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