Your bank balance and job title are not measures of your worth

I wish more job descriptions would cut the shit and focus on telling you what's actually unique or interesting about a role. I'm amazed how often I see things like "familiar with source control systems" cluttering the JDs seeking experienced engineers.

Should I change my last name so that me, my wife, and our forthcoming baby all have matching names?

Captchas are getting weird

Yall know that feeling in an interview when somebody is trying to "help" and all you need is for them to please just stop talking?

You know it's a really top-tier opportunity when the recruiter advertises a company-provided laptop as a perk of joining the company.

We need federal laws to protect us from people who think it is acceptable to take video calls from cafes

I can't believe as an industry we decided leetcode-style BS is the way we want to filter potential employees.

If you are curling an endpoint with multiple query params, don't forget to put the url inside quotes. Otherwise your shell is going to background when it reaches the first & and drop the other params. 🙈