Category: General
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Professional Updates
Work I’m working! For the past month I’ve been ramping up at Skyward as a mobile automation engineer. Unlike my last few roles, I’ll be able to get my hands dirty with manual testing as well, which is something I’ve been missing. I go on paternity leave tomorrow so I haven’t accomplished much, but I’m
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Mein Favorite Zoom Backgrounds
You asked for ’em! Lots of great ones on Reddit. My rotation: Pop Culture Funny Standard Videos Download Tiger King Download Ghosts Download Stay On Target Download This is Fine
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Book: Pilgrim Spokes
Trying to get back into the habit sharing of reading notes. This will only be for Kindle items as I don’t highlight physical books. Generally, that’ll mean a heavier dose of fiction than what I’m collectively really reading because I’ve read that helps me fall asleep and I use only my Kindle in bed. Yeah, this
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One Month Into Full-Stack
As mentioned in my post Reboot, I’ve been working on a Full-Stack development course. Let’s check in after a month? I’ve completed 7 of the 53 lecture hours, reviewing HTML and mostly learning CSS for the first time (the age of CSS is when I stopped “doing” code-based web-dev – I’ve always been capable of
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An entirely unscientific study of Facebook usage as evidenced by birthday wishes per year
And that, friends, is my longest post title ever. Hypothesis Facebook usage is in decline as evidenced by a sharp decline in the number of birthday wishes received this year. Method Visit Facebook Activity Log, copy + paste from top to bottom of “Others’ Posts To Your Timeline” from approximately February 14-17 (we can assume
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Reboot
For the third time in three years, I’m being laid off. This time my company is shutting its doors. A good portion of folks are already gone, but I’ve been given two months to wrap up my work, document it, and hope someone at a firm specializing in maintaining failed businesses will be able to