Things that make me happy: #infosec, chocolate. Things that make me sad: crypto paranoia, misplaced apostrophes. He/him
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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.
@WPalant So, I think bold, italics, inline code and code blocks are probably fine in most cases because not rendering them does not typically result in significant loss of meaning. However, I would avoid headers, strikethrough, blockquotes (unless also surrounded by quotation marks), subscripts and superscripts.
What has the potential to be particularly problematic are lists. I assume that if I write a numbered list, it will get displayed as an HTML list on clients/servers that support that (which is nice bc of the alignment/spacing) but where it isn't supported, the list numbers totally dropped. Which is obviously bad. But maybe it doesn't behave like that?
Until I know how that works, I may just turn off markdown on posts when I want to number some items (see https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/features/rich-text/#authoring-formatted-toots)