Jean Snyman

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Things that make me happy: #infosec, chocolate. Things that make me sad: crypto paranoia, misplaced apostrophes. He/him

#webdev, #tech

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Just spent like half an hour hunting down an alternate source for something from 2008 all so that I wouldn’t have to cite Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast
Pretty stoked about end-to-end encrypted iCloud Backups

This week has been a roller coaster. Received an award​ from the UK's professional body for the infosec industry. Then got the good news that the people I've been interviewing with are going to make me an offer!

🎢​ But what comes up must come down and it did when I actually received the joke of an offer

Been a couple days now and I still feel horrible about that last job
interview. I don't know how to shake this feeling. I know I shouldn't
feel this way, but I still do.

I'm the kind of person to be open about both my strengths and my
weaknesses. I knew going into it that I'm not that proficient in
Python. I can deal with structured data any day with it, but working
with unstructured data is a different story.

I feel like the interview ended on a sour note... that they might
think that I may have communicated in prior interviews that I knew
more Python than I did. Their expectations of me didn't match up with
reality.

And I think that's what I feel: I feel like I, as a person, failed. By
attempting to utilize my strengths, and still not completing the
challenge in the very short amount of time allotted to me, I feel like
I am a failure as a person. I failed both the challenge and I am a
failure.

I know that's not true, but I still feel that way. And I can't seem to
shake the feeling.

What's true: I didn't have much time. The challenge (and the
interviewing team) was geared towards expecting a certain language. My
strengths didn't align with either the challenge or the team.

Just declined a job offer because of an inappropriate joke made by someone at the company to a room full of guys at the interview. Even though I know I did the right thing, I can't help but feel icky and like I've made too big a deal of it. Can't believe women in tech have to deal with this shit
Anyone know if there’s a way to judge an instance’s reliability without creating an account? It’s hard to know what #Mastodon servers are safe to recommend to people. Would be great if there was some tool that let you see performance metrics for servers. Is it possible to build something like that? #fediverse #instances #twittermigration
Slightly disappointed they didn't use <marquee>. 😂 But they did choose CSS animations over JavaScript, so I can't be too mad #webdev
Look what happens when you Google "Suez"
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A friend suggested I make a timeline of all the places I've lived since I was born, so hacked something together using web technologies: https://jeremy-bearimy.glitch.me/
Jeremy Bearimy

Apparently, #DEFCON is free to attend this year (online, of course). This is kinda a Big Deal ™ for students like myself and I’m surprised to only just be hearing about it #infosec #defcon28

(The conference starts this Friday fyi)