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Then again, maybe to become someone who doesn’t need LinkedIn, you need to leave LinkedIn. Maybe the cause and effect are the other way round: not to do because you are, but to become because you did.
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I do wonder if LinkedIn is dead centre of the smiling curve of white-collar technical workers. Those at the top don’t need it as their abilities are self-evident through their work, or they have the necessary connections. The bottom would probably consist of entry level jobs or those that don’t need any experience, and could accept anyone who knows their way around a computer. It’s those in the middle that are reliant on the platform. Those with some skills and experience that are in demand, yet are still interchangable from anyone else with those same skills.
I don’t know. This could all be just the imagination from someone who’s not believed anything else other than needing to be on LinkedIn.
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Just read a post about someone leaving LinkedIn. Wish I had the courage to leave LinkedIn. I hate being there but being where I am now professionally, it feels like leaving would have an impact on my career prospects. Is this how people who can’t leave Facebook feel. 🤔
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Argh! I really could pick the days to do laundry. It’s supposed to have been 19°C, 20 km/h northerly winds, and partly cloudy. Instead, it’s fully cloudy, still, and (checks Bureau website) just under 12°C. Guess I’ve got an appointment with the dryers at the launderette.
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Dear Apple™,
I never heard of Apple™ Inkwell™ until I’ve heard of Manton constantly getting rejections for his app that shares that name. Congratulations on pissing off your customers with some legal B.S. for a trademark that you’ve not used since the 2000s.
Sincerely,
An annoyed Apple™ customer
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Okay, after my first few hours of using MacOS Tahoe, I concede that it’s not as bad as I was expecting. The rounded corners are… tollerable. They do make the title bars are little large for my liking, but most apps put controls there anyway, so it tends to balance out. I even like the transparent menu bar.
I did have to seek out the icon-laced menus. Most of the apps I typically used — those not from Apple — are pretty restraint in their choice about which menu items get icons. Zed does pretty well in finding a good balance. Vivaldi has very little, outside those that come from the system. But the Finder? Yeah, maybe dial it back a little next time, Apple.
I’m not in a rush to upgrade my personal system just yet, but I think I can live with Tahoe.
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On the Character of Objects
Some random musing about the difference between an object with character, and one that just has damage. Continue reading →
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Ah, I guess it’s inevitable. A new laptop means upgrading to the latest version of MacOS. Will have to cut my teeth on an OS with window corners that can’t cut a single thing.
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Jeroen Sangers: You never learned to delegate. AI just made it obvious.
Delegation and management were once skills for people who had teams. […] That changed.
If you work with AI in any meaningful way, you are now managing something. You are setting direction, communicating intent, and evaluating output. The same skills apply, and the same gaps get exposed.
The irony for us techies that preferred staying in a technical role over a managerial one is that the technology has made managers of us all. 😏
Via: Hunter Gatherer 21C
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Also, kudos to Apple for making it super easy to pair the keyboard and mouse to this new laptop: just plug them in using the Lighting cable. They pair and operate wirelessly after that. Pretty nice!
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Got a new work laptop. Moved from an 2020 M1 to a 2023 M3. Transfer was super annoying — Migration Assistant stalled on “starting up” and kicked me back to the login screen — but I can definitely feel the difference. I will miss being able to lock the old one with the Touch Bar.
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I’ve been listening to Music for Programming during evening coding sessions. And it’s starting to have an effect on me. The music is starting to play in my head during the day, turning it slowly from background music to active listening music. Probably inevitable, but not quite ideal.
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Argh, betrayal! The barista’s stand at the station was closed this morning so I went to another cafe to grab a coffee. When I returned to the station, it was opened, and I had to sheepishly walk past with my ill-gotten coffee from elsewhere.
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TIL, the string returned from
c.Params("id")in Fiber 3 are not immutable by default. They are only valid for the duration of the request and nothing else. I had records disappear from a map running in a separate goroutine because the underlying byte array was being clobbered. -
Man, friggin’ crypto ads. “Welcome to a new world of crypto.” Aren’t we in a new world of crypto at the moment? How many new worlds are we going to need? 😛
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Also, I wouldn’t say that I like the fit, but it felt a lot nicer after turning off noise cancelling. Not sure if anyone else feels that noise cancelling “presses in” the headphones, like it’s applying pressure to your ears. Not a great experience.
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Some minor teething issues with my new headphones. While trying to turn off noise cancelling I pushed a button which paired it with someone’s device, and started hearing their music. Had to resort to getting the app, which doesn’t thrill me, but it’s better than randomly pressing buttons.
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My commuter headphones have given up the fight. After probably around a decade of use, and two pad changes, it now refuses to charge. So I’ve retired it with honours, and pressed its replacement into service: a pair of JBL Live 670NC.
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Something in the rear cab of this tram is clicking. For a moment I thought it was the blinkers but it seems to correlate with the speed we’re going.
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It’s easy to get roped into the boil-the-ocean approach that coding agents tend to prefer when solving problems. Sometimes a subtler approach is called for. There’s still room in this world for the craftsman’s hand knowing just what tweak to make to have the system singing again.
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TTL that h2c, the Go HTTP handler that allows for unencrypted HTTP/2 connections, does not do graceful shutdowns. When you call
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I appreciate people’s thoughts around best practices, but it does get quite tiring hearing them constantly editorialising the work, saying how bad or problematic it is. It’s especially grating when they’re explicitly task to improve it.
