mildweed's comments

On: Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up

[mildweed]

Interested in this Homebrew. Share when ready?

On: WordPress Is in Trouble

[mildweed]

All the small/medium branding agencies surviving on Wordpress should devote 10% of their devs’ time to core.

Community: rebuilt.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)

[mildweed]

Cross-posted:

https://engmgrjobs.com/director-of-engineering-42040

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)

[mildweed]

Director role cross-posted here:

https://engmgrjobs.com/engineering-director-apple-78276

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)

[mildweed]

Cross-posted:

https://engmgrjobs.com/director-of-engineering-72065

On: Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

[mildweed]

Dear Jane,

Can I have my drawing of a spider back then please?

On: Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?

[mildweed]

LGA has ShakeShack now too

On: Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job

[mildweed]

> Hard Truth #1: Getting laid off is a profoundly lonely experience.

When I was laid off, it was very comforting to rebuild community with others who were laid off at the same time.

We started a Slack instance where we:

* shared resources with each other

* complained and vented and healed together

* celebrated each other's new jobs

* continued the network for years after

[kyrra → mildweed]

100%. My last layoff was in 2011, but at that time they closed the entire office I was in at the time (50 of us laid off). We helped eachother find places to interview and met up once a week to have lunch. I ended up working remotely with 3 of my old co-workers.

On: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

[mildweed]

Posted a job here once. Got 9 applicants, none of those were hired.

Archive reasons: (4) Underqualified (4) Work Authorization (1) Unresponsive

On: Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year

[mildweed]

What are these alternatives you speak of? Genuinely curious.