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Just remembered I still have a Substack account! Check it out https://open.substack.com/pub/edent/p/fuck-substack

The first rule of salary negotiation is the new hire budget is bigger than the promotion budget. It is always easier to negotiate a higher starting salary or hiring bonus than getting a raise or promotion after you’ve gotten the job. I’ve been stunned at how low the bar is for hiring managers to OK a higher offer for a new hire versus fighting for a raise for one of their team members. Never believe a recruiter who says you can get a bump after you start and do well unless it’s in writing.

As a team's infrastructure estate grows, it becomes increasingly beneficial to create a global registry of all people, services, and components. Once you do, you can integrate with tools like terraform, Chef, and Kubernetes to help provision your infrastructure according to a single authoritative source. This post explains how GoCardless built their registry, and some of the uses we’ve put it to.

At Christmas my mum was talking about her neighbours in the street. About one of them: “He’s apparently a detective in the police, which surprised me because he always seems so dodgy”. So close to having a revelation.

I’ve been building out a Calendar section for my #IndieWeb blog, listing out events I may be going to over the next year, so friends (old and new) can get in touch if they want to join me! Being able to post even my potential physical location online is a privilege, but one I’ll happily invest to foster a more connected 2024 😊 Testing out the first few here: https://www.byjp.me/calendar/ (or /ipns/www.byjp.me/calendar/ on #ipfs)

You’re with your loved ones, celebrating Christmas. I’m on LinkedIn Premium sending unsolicited InMail. We are not the same.

I shit you not, I just popped to Asda for something and they’re unloading Easter eggs from a lorry

Attached: 1 image You've heard of Barbenheimer, but have you heard of:

Attached: 1 image World, please meet Finnegan 😄 He was a Christmas gift from my parents.

Attached: 3 images the cat is finally starting to actually use the little beds I set up for her around the apartment 🥺 a story in three parts

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It says a lot for my emotional state that my wife bought me a weighted blanket to help during my autistic meltdowns and I'm too afraid to try it out because I'm close to crying already and I know it'll cause a dam burst meltdown and I don't want to do that on Christmas.

Attached: 1 image I love traditions like "decorating the tree with the kids". I can't take credit for the idea, but it's a good one.

Attached: 1 image Walter's in that post-Christmas dinner slump

Content warning: Food

Attached: 1 image Merry COVID Christmas! I’m with the family (through a window) and riding out rain in the tent. Whenever the rain pauses my family pass gifts and mulled wine out the window! Good enough. Should be allowed inside tomorrow. 😬

I don’t mind flying under the radar. There are benefits for a product to start small and grow slowly. But I’m still kind of puzzled why Micro.blog is rarely mentioned when articles talk about platforms that support the fediverse. We first added ActivityPub in 2018. Must be doing something wrong.

The great dirty secret of the software industry is that an awful lot of the work that is critical to sustainably build and maintain a software system/product/whatever only happens in the wild because one person with a little extra care and a little extra time decided "I'm not going to wait for this to get priority. I'm not going to wait for permission. I'm just going to do this because it should be done, and damn the consequences."

Ha, did not realize that with Microsoft's acqi of GitHub, they pushed it into so many government and enterprise spaces a lot more quickly. Probably why the leadership team there caved to Microsoft, it was more money.

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Just because you love what you do doesn’t mean it’s not work. It doesn’t devalue your work or time. I know we’re so used to it because of capitalism, but work doesn’t have to feel bad, tiring and draining all the time. It can feel good and still be work.

On 17 September, I made a choice. Waking up from 15 hours of lost time, at a friend’s house, when I should’ve been home the day before. I had clarity. Enough. I’ve shared before a…

okay I’ve let Jesus in, what’s next

I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions. I’ve done take-home tests, in person challenges, pair programming with the candidates. All of them were awful experiences for me and especially for the candidate. I can only think of a single instance where a code challenge exposed a poor software engineer and I could definitely have made the same assessment just by talking to them. Lately I’ve stopped doing any software or mental puzzles. I don’t do any of that when I interview designers or QA people or HR people, so why would I be particularly toxic towards software engineers during the hiring process? Instead, I actually read their resumes (which is significantly quicker than doing interviews, asking them to repeat the same information), and then I ask them questions like: - Where do you get your tech news? - How do you learn about new technologies? - What do you most appreciate in your coworkers today? - What is a perfect workday like for you? I specifically avoid trap-style questions like “what is your greatest weakness?” or “why are you leaving your current job?” I recommend that you make a plan for what you want to learn about the candidate, e.g. “are they good at acquiring new skills?” or “do they share the same values as the team?” and then structure the interview around that. Be a non-toxic manager. Make your company look good during the interview process. Get better candidates. #jobs

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Newsletter subscribers might be surprised to see a slightly new design. I’ve moved away from Substack and back to Buttondown, an indie mailing list service. Every email will be free from now on; paid …

ADHD is not “can’t sit still disorder” ADHD is “posting in 10 group chats, subreddits and other posting platforms, never using the search function to see incidents of the same question being raised, asking for tips on how to do complex things like feed yourself and do one task. Upon discovering that you just sort of have to do the thing, you close all the tabs. You ignore your previous attempts to find an answer and do the same post a week later in the hopes that someone has come up with the perfectly suited to you way to do one task. You feel shame and embarrassment and anger and often nothing at all, whilst neurotypical people tell you that it’s easy to do one task you just have to want to do it. You want to do a lot of things but even the things that give you joy are insurmountable” disorder :)