@stmykal.bsky.social
I'm not sure anymore. If I don't follow back, it's not personal.
Job description: senior level unicorn
Job salary range: intern level from 20 years ago.
Seriously. Good luck to you PadSplit.
Job salary range: intern level from 20 years ago.
Seriously. Good luck to you PadSplit.
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Job description: senior level unicorn
Job salary range: intern level from 20 years ago.
Seriously. Good luck to you PadSplit.
Job salary range: intern level from 20 years ago.
Seriously. Good luck to you PadSplit.
How people don't blow out their mics with hard S and plosives is beyond me. How do you do it? Like - using crappy iphone microphones, too. How?!?
December 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
How people don't blow out their mics with hard S and plosives is beyond me. How do you do it? Like - using crappy iphone microphones, too. How?!?
People rely on me for quite a few things. I'm always there to help, to talk, to guide, to assist.
I can only do so much, and only have enough energy for some things right now. In fact, I'm the one who needs some assistance at the moment.
How do you just not?
I can only do so much, and only have enough energy for some things right now. In fact, I'm the one who needs some assistance at the moment.
How do you just not?
December 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
People rely on me for quite a few things. I'm always there to help, to talk, to guide, to assist.
I can only do so much, and only have enough energy for some things right now. In fact, I'm the one who needs some assistance at the moment.
How do you just not?
I can only do so much, and only have enough energy for some things right now. In fact, I'm the one who needs some assistance at the moment.
How do you just not?
As far as I understand it, resumes today need to be the size of an index card.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
As far as I understand it, resumes today need to be the size of an index card.
I now officially know enough about PDF tagging to know that Acrobat is just going to tag things however it wants. Forget trying to format in InDesign because you might as well be trying to change the course of the ocean.
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I now officially know enough about PDF tagging to know that Acrobat is just going to tag things however it wants. Forget trying to format in InDesign because you might as well be trying to change the course of the ocean.
I'm going to go ahead and give up on my dream of having an mp4 file play in the HTML 5 video tag. It only seems to want to work on a page that I'd like to remove.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm going to go ahead and give up on my dream of having an mp4 file play in the HTML 5 video tag. It only seems to want to work on a page that I'd like to remove.
I'm going to join the chorus of folks who have found the DHS Trusted Tester exam process alarmingly terrible. The language of the questions, the lack of definition of terms, and the awful "exam web pages" ensure that you never know if you're being given a completely broken site or a broken question.
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I'm going to join the chorus of folks who have found the DHS Trusted Tester exam process alarmingly terrible. The language of the questions, the lack of definition of terms, and the awful "exam web pages" ensure that you never know if you're being given a completely broken site or a broken question.
The stars have aligned to delivery unto me an in-person interview in the very office building, in the very office suite, where I once worked for 12 years, with a completely different company.
Of all the office parks in the city, I can't seem to shake this one.
Of all the office parks in the city, I can't seem to shake this one.
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The stars have aligned to delivery unto me an in-person interview in the very office building, in the very office suite, where I once worked for 12 years, with a completely different company.
Of all the office parks in the city, I can't seem to shake this one.
Of all the office parks in the city, I can't seem to shake this one.
I'm suddenly painfully aware of something called "cloudflare".
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I'm suddenly painfully aware of something called "cloudflare".
After some years of not writing code, I managed to get a walkthrough from an ai assist.
I mean - I guess it's not ALL bad.
Is it?
I mean - I guess it's not ALL bad.
Is it?
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
After some years of not writing code, I managed to get a walkthrough from an ai assist.
I mean - I guess it's not ALL bad.
Is it?
I mean - I guess it's not ALL bad.
Is it?
Was "Southern Spear" an affectation given to Bubba's anatomy?
Just asking.
Just asking.
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Was "Southern Spear" an affectation given to Bubba's anatomy?
Just asking.
Just asking.
I successfully talked a developer out of overriding a UX decision that was determined through research.
It took a while, though.
It took a while, though.
October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I successfully talked a developer out of overriding a UX decision that was determined through research.
It took a while, though.
It took a while, though.
The DHS Trusted Tester ANDI applet failed to find a live region in its own test page used to demonstrate that very feature.
October 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The DHS Trusted Tester ANDI applet failed to find a live region in its own test page used to demonstrate that very feature.
I'm pretty sure we have QA engineers who should have been prosecuting attorneys.
September 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I'm pretty sure we have QA engineers who should have been prosecuting attorneys.
People are cranky today over things that don't need the crank.
September 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
People are cranky today over things that don't need the crank.
Lord help me. I want to paint a very large canvas. But I don't have room for one in my house. I'm pretty sure my wife wouldn't be into it if I hung it up. It's just an image that needs a large canvas.
Someone please buy the painting that I haven't painted yet, so that I know I can paint it.
Someone please buy the painting that I haven't painted yet, so that I know I can paint it.
September 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Lord help me. I want to paint a very large canvas. But I don't have room for one in my house. I'm pretty sure my wife wouldn't be into it if I hung it up. It's just an image that needs a large canvas.
Someone please buy the painting that I haven't painted yet, so that I know I can paint it.
Someone please buy the painting that I haven't painted yet, so that I know I can paint it.
There was that one time that my ex decided that she was going to give my old skateboard to one of the kids she mentored through AmeriCorps.
Maybe ask me first?
I still have the skateboard. Bury me with it.
Maybe ask me first?
I still have the skateboard. Bury me with it.
September 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
There was that one time that my ex decided that she was going to give my old skateboard to one of the kids she mentored through AmeriCorps.
Maybe ask me first?
I still have the skateboard. Bury me with it.
Maybe ask me first?
I still have the skateboard. Bury me with it.
I'm so tired of finding people that I enjoy working with and then, suddenly, they're no longer co-workers.
Whether it's restructuring, layoffs or they choose to move on, I always find it hard to move on. While sometimes the bad apples take themselves out, often the good ones are plucked too soon.
Whether it's restructuring, layoffs or they choose to move on, I always find it hard to move on. While sometimes the bad apples take themselves out, often the good ones are plucked too soon.
September 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm so tired of finding people that I enjoy working with and then, suddenly, they're no longer co-workers.
Whether it's restructuring, layoffs or they choose to move on, I always find it hard to move on. While sometimes the bad apples take themselves out, often the good ones are plucked too soon.
Whether it's restructuring, layoffs or they choose to move on, I always find it hard to move on. While sometimes the bad apples take themselves out, often the good ones are plucked too soon.
Me, enjoying updating an abandoned wiki page, hoping to preserve some history.
The admin, who noticed all of my edits and flagged the page for deletion.
Seriously - go fuck yourself.
The admin, who noticed all of my edits and flagged the page for deletion.
Seriously - go fuck yourself.
August 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Me, enjoying updating an abandoned wiki page, hoping to preserve some history.
The admin, who noticed all of my edits and flagged the page for deletion.
Seriously - go fuck yourself.
The admin, who noticed all of my edits and flagged the page for deletion.
Seriously - go fuck yourself.
How will I know when the change will happen? Will I just wake up one day and be so old that I'm afraid of everything different and spewing hate at everything that I choose to not even take the time to understand?
Will a bell ring, or something?
Will a bell ring, or something?
August 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
How will I know when the change will happen? Will I just wake up one day and be so old that I'm afraid of everything different and spewing hate at everything that I choose to not even take the time to understand?
Will a bell ring, or something?
Will a bell ring, or something?
Going through the DHS Trusted Tester training documentation and finding grammatical errors is always fun.
August 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Going through the DHS Trusted Tester training documentation and finding grammatical errors is always fun.
The latest cat trend is for the cat to come into the office around 2pm, nose around, leave, and repeat. Sometimes there is meowing.
Dinner time is 3 hours away. There's crunchy food in the bowls.
Dinner time is 3 hours away. There's crunchy food in the bowls.
August 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The latest cat trend is for the cat to come into the office around 2pm, nose around, leave, and repeat. Sometimes there is meowing.
Dinner time is 3 hours away. There's crunchy food in the bowls.
Dinner time is 3 hours away. There's crunchy food in the bowls.
It's one of those moments where I'd rather be doing absolutely anything else.
August 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It's one of those moments where I'd rather be doing absolutely anything else.