Got my second chatgpt interviewee. There’s 0 chance this works for a technical job. There responses actually mirrored the first time as well interestingly enough

Just delt with about 10gs in credit card fraud going back two years. Check your statements people. Fraudulent transactions can be interwoven with real ones with the the same merchants. Also very slow ramp up. Quite sneaky

First year dedicated to TL-ing large scale projects. My main lesson is not everyone is self motivated and owners. But even if they are, they may come up with the wrong solution.

I underestimated how little room you have to take your eyes off the ball in this role. Its really the job

Btw, speaking of Mitch, he wrote one of my favorite posts on how to motivate yourself to build things: get yourself to a demo.

mitchellh.com/writing/buil...

I'm doing codecrafters.io over the break. Its pretty fun, they handle all the build and test scaffolding and add the UX rewards passing tests like in a game. Currently halfway through the build a grep exercise

lol they got my birthday wrong on my gc, after getting my name wrong. Its going to be my third time going to biometrics

I got an email saying my quad lock mag battery pack is being recalled, and to submit for a refund with a picture with my name and date next to it. I grabbed the battery from storage and realized why it was being recalled

Anxiety, brain fog, and chronic pain pushes you to be a bad person—usually to those around you. Planning and executing a political assassination… that’s something else

Nine years in the states and my wife has said I’ve lost all my Canadian accent. Do Canadians have an accent? I mean torontonians, not newfies

From people that I know that have worked at Twitter, it seemed bots were a necessary evil to order to boost engagement and show metrics (I worked at a social media co before, fake engagement can boost real engagement)

But if Bluesky is not ads driven long term we might see a healthier discourse

I wonder if part of the shift towards senior+ is that it’s now harder to train junior engineers

Unless superstar, they need a lot more attention and a degree of micromanagement. Also sometimes come with unrealistic expectations of work, support, or their own abilities. Easier to manage in person

Doing a full rebuild of a 65cc two stroke race engine. Mechanics is similar to software in that modern vehicles are way too complicated to work on by enthusiasts so hacking skills never get developed. Go simple, use Linux, and figure out how all the internals connect to each other

Working through the late stages of a project taking two years to finish involving leading multiple teams. Feel like I had to learn basic project management from first principles, a lot of assumptions I had on developer productivity were naive and wrong

Big company life:
- Start using a popular open source library as foundational tech in your infra
- Immediately fork it so upgrades are almost impossible for the rest of the companies life

Feeling too soft when I sell a tv on Facebook marketplace and they don’t even check it before driving away