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| Music | https://housefinesse.com/ |
"The hardest career move is leaving a good one that's slowly making you invisible to yourself."
I can completely relate to this situation at times, feeling guilty for lacking motivation in a privileged role.
Does anyone else get this feeling?
https://dev.to/jonoherrington/golden-handcuffs-dont-feel-like-handcuffs-2cdi?
Today’s random topics during our weekly #OnTheSide Office Hours:
WordPress is a loop of custom fields. 🖱️
Basic AirPods are banned for podcasting. Tin can audio is a crime. 🎙️
Multi-bay storage boxes beat an expensive NAS. 💾
Daylight savings remains a confusing mess for everyone. 😴
Duolingo tracker now uses Apple Intelligence 📱
I wasn’t happy with the endless (remote) calls to ChatGPT to parse the screenshot data of my original iOS Shortcut so it now uses on device models to analyse before updating the local Numbers sheet.
Now it’s much more efficient and reliable - plus Apple Intelligence actually works! 🤯
How accurate do you find your personality type?
Mine is Protagonist (ENFJ-T) based on Myers Briggs 16 Personalities which seems quite realistic after a recent refresh.
The more detailed scoring shows me how it’s calculated and I can start to understand how that impacts my job and lifestyle.
What’s yours?
Why is Slack discontinuing support for Safari/MacOS in May?
It's such a popular default browser for so many people, I'd love to know the real business justification behind it.
Most the time, I use the native app but that's not an option for everyone.
Trying something different for https://6nationscalendar.com this year with some simple word-based images for other social media platforms.
What do you think?
As a 40something in tech, I'm mindful of becoming irrelevant and unhirable in the future.
According to recent research, it looks like ageism is squeezing everyone out of tech jobs, making it harder for under-20s and over-40s to stand out.
https://leaddev.com/hiring/ageism-running-rampant-tech-hiring
I'm lucky to have quite a stable job in a company who embraces experience and diversity but am I in a bubble?
All the 6 Nations fun starts next Friday so I've updated https://6nationscalendar.com/2026 with all the fixtures for your personal calendar without having to give away your email address.
Just hit the ADD TO CALENDAR button.
(If you're feeling super kind, send me a drink to enjoy during the games). 🍺
We’re back from our prolonged festive break.
Testing isn’t dead.
QA isn’t a checkbox.
Quality is everyone’s problem.
Episode 2.4 of Managing Engineers is out.
From QA to Quality Engineering.
If you’ve ever shipped something and thought “that’ll be fine”… it wasn’t.
🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts.
TIL the year is not always required in a copyright notice - so do you really need it when updating your footer or credits for 2026?
