So I hired a couple of #frontend developers this week and they're getting stuck into things. Now I'm interviewing for a #backend dev, and boy, did the first one not go well. Fortunately it was short enough that I can fit the whole thing in one toot.

<intros>
Backend Dev: I can't agree with the #sqlite and monolith choice
Me: what would you suggest doing instead?
BD: things in the industry are done with #microservices
Me: and why is that?
BD: if you want to learn about this, you should Google
Me: I don't want to know about *how* that's done, I want to know *why*
BD: look, I'm a paid expert...
Me: I know the answers, BD, what I need to find out is if you do
BD: when you go to a dentist, you don't interview them first
Me: I'm not coming to you to clean my teeth, I'm talking to you to find out if you are the dentist whom I want to clean my teeth
BD: ...
Me: look, let's save ourselves some time. We aren't going to work together well. Best of luck with your next job.

I’ve started measuring my sleep in sleep cycles. A sleep cycle is 90 minutes of uninterrupted sleep. If I can get four of those in any given night, the following day will be ok. The fifth seems to be an unnecessary luxury 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Anyway, if there’s some folks out there who would accept $50/hour to sling pixel-perfect React/next.js for the next couple of months, point them my way? Especially if they have experienced assisted reproductive tech and grappled with questions around leftover embryos?

#FediJobs #MastoJobs #FediHiring #FediHired #MastodonJobs #GetFediHired

There is an art to writing job ads, as there is an art to writing anything, and writing in general.

In the corporate world I see a lot of reactivity in communication: "I was asked to write a presentation", "I need to write a doc", "how do I write an <x>", etc, and anytime anyone in my org mentions in passing that they're writing anything, I always pull them up with "what is your goal? What behavior is going to change in your audience as a result of reading/seeing what you're writing?". It's annoyingly rare that anyone has thought through an answer to that.

The bigger the audience, the more important it is to be clear about how you're trying to change your audience's behavior with your message. Just "affecting" them or "informing" them or "advertising" or "advocating" or "visibility" is aiming far, far, far too low.

My recruiting agency is concerned.

Agency response rate specialist: "I am writing about a recently posted ad.

Unfortunately, it has stirred up a controversy among the male community. To make it more clear, I've attached a link to the discussion that broke out under the promotional post. Comments are various, although most are negative about the title of the advert.

In view of this, I have temporarily suspended the announcement until we determine what, if any, actions you would like to implement. :)
For my part, I recommend that you gently rephrase your offer so that it sounds more neutral. 😉

Please let us know what your position is on this issue."

Me: "nah, I'm good. Ship it."

(I wasn't quite that cavalier in my actual reply! Most folks on the forum got that the language is deliberately anti-discriminatory, and I'm still seeing 60%+ applicants with male names, so it's just the MRAs self-selecting out and therefore everything is WAI as far as I'm concerned.)

I listened to over an hour of audio from the Elon and George show so that you don't have to.

TL;DR: Elon doesn't show much interest in anything beyond first order effects. Thinking about consequences, emergent behavior, etc, didn't show up in what he said.

Yes, he said rewrite the whole stack to improve velocity. Yes, everybody was gobsmacked. Yes, he thought people who disagreed with him were morons. Moving on.

He sees the major savings opportunity as the $1.5B server costs, but spends a disproportionate amount of time talking about $13M and $60M cost savings.

Nominates "unregretted user minutes" as key metric, solid B- from me. "Unregretted" is doing a lot of work there viz hatewatching and doomscrolling.

Wants ads to be indistinguishable from content, but in a reasonable way, where ads surface content equivalent in quality and relevance to organic traffic. Gets slammed later on by other participants for having no idea how hard ad systems are. 💯

...continued. Can I thread?