jecxjo

@jecxjo@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  State cases will definitely put him in jail. They don’t care about any of the political nonsense and honestly I’m not seeing the DoJ backing down either.

  Honestly if they dont put him away i think it will only embolden his group to make them feel they all are untouchable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for software developers: how do you organize your To Do list at work?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use todo.txt format, created my own cli github.com/jecxjo/todo.hs

  I set up tasks with priorities:

  • A: tasks i am doing now/today
  • B: tasks i am planning on soing this week
  • C: tasks that need to be done but aren’t high priority
  • D: tasks I delete if not done by the end of the month

  I make sure all my tasks have a +ProjectName and if i have to deal with a @SpecificService or @EmployeeName i note that. I will also add in things like jira:StoryNumber or other data.

  Due dates are rare, only when there is a hard stop. End of a sprint is not a hard stop. If i need to remind someone I’ll use due date and @Reminder

  100% of the time all tasks go in my list. Nothing is left for me to remember. It goes into my list before it ends up in a Jira ticket or Conflience page. Remind me first, everyone else second.

  First thing in the morning i process my list. Move tasks to A. End of the week at the end of the month I delete all the D tasks.

  As for notes, i use vimwiki with automation to compile into html when files are written. I’ve also setup coworkers with an automated process using pandoc to go from markdown to html. Then i have a little a bookmark on my browser to pull it all up nice and pretty. I’ll post the scripts later, not at my computer.

  Daily diary entry made every morning when i do my todo list prep, entry for each meeting. Add notes dueing meetings and links or other details when looking for solutions to problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you get your job? Any advice?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done a few things.

  I have a mailing list for all my recruiters. They all get added in whenever I get pings on LinkedIn or cold calls. When I am looking for work the mailing list all gets BCC’d a message saying I’m looking, here is my resume, what I’m looking for, etc. When I book an interview I BCC them all saying one of the recruiters has setup an interview, if you work on their behalf do not submit my name as I know there are issues with multiple recuiters doing that. They all get the info, and honestly all the recruiters I’ve worked with have loved this.

  Second is apply to everything. There have been places where their job description was my exact work history and yet I get no response. No one is hamed by you applying all over. They want candidates and if no one applied then the jobs would stay empty. I found a job in 4 months of looking but I applied to probably 70 jobs. Some were me trying to get a huge raise and position job, a few were worst case scenario. The job before my previous one took 9 months of looking and a few hundred applications. I did get a few offers along the way but not things I wanted to do.

  It is all a numbers game. I’ve been a developer for 25 years and it has never been a one and done task. I have all sorts of crap to toot my own horn and I’d say that in 90% of the jobs I apply for I’m overly qualified and yet many times I didn’t get a call because the person fielding my resume and application didn’t move it along. Was the role filled? Did they think I’d get bored or expect more pay? Did they not like the font I’m using? I will never know.

  Oh and your interview skills needs to be worked on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I kept hoping when they said that they meant more like VOY or TNG but now that we get half as many episodes it’s just a natural result that the arcs are more prevalent. Sadly that was not the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are absolutely correct in it being personal preference. I agree I’d definitely watch a random SNW over some of the others. Honestly i think (and this probably goes for everyone else with my view) it’s more about just missing 90s TV. 30 episode seasons that you dont have to schedule your life around. There are TNG, TOS, VOY episodes i watch all the time and some it’s been years since i last saw. Same goes for pretty much anything from that time period that i rewatch now. I think that’s the underlying issue, no one makes episodic shows anymore unless it’s a reboot. Just wish this reboot was the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re missing that TOS and TNG were written as an episodic show and not typically as a serial. Aside from the faintest of arcs, that came via arc specific episodes, you could pick a random episode in syndication and it wouldn’t matter if you could name the previous or next episode as there wasn’t no need to connect them together. Many episodes were written by single episode writers who had the faintest notion of the show and that was all the was needed.

  I don’t agree about the payoff for arcs in shows like SNW because the arc is both too controlling of the episodes while also never really being the point of the episode. If you’re going to do an serial drama then do that. Picard was that, you must watch in order and not miss any.

  The arcs of TNG were sooooo faint you only knew about them if you chose to dig in deep to a handful of episodes in the season that specifically pushed the arc along. Otherwise you could take the middle 80% of episodes and scramble their order and absolutely nothing would change. Instead with SNW every other episode drops a new plot point for Pike’s dooms day, or Spok’s love life or what character died or went to another dimension, etc.

  Character development in TNG was more about us learning about them than it was about having the characters grow. Again, you don’t have to see all the episodes in order to understand the intricacies of a character to understand why they acted the way they didn’t in a TNG episode. At best the growth was seasonal but even then it wasn’t massive. In SNW the character development is probably the biggest tie back to previous episodes.

  The reason why I wanted another episodic ST was that I feel none of these shows have any rewatch abilities. We can binge the seasons before the next season starts but I don’t think it’s ever be sitting in a hotel room and turn on the TV and find an episode of SNW and care to watch it on its own. Though I guess that type of TV just doesn’t exist anymore. Maybe it’s just me who likes to flip on the TNG station on Pluto or turn on cable when I’m visiting my parents and watch a random episode and enjoy it without all the extra baggage. I need to finish the last season of Picard and I doubt I’ll ever watch it again. Same with Discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh.

  I was hoping the ST revival with all these shows would produce just one Alien of the Week shows like TOS and TNG. No season long arcs, no dramas where the events in the episode are less important than the character development. One show out of all of them where it can be tossed into syndication and I can catch a random episode and not have to remember anything else in the series.

  SNW was supposed to be that and yet we get this kind of nonsense. /facepalm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bullshit! working from home increases productivity and life quality⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back then I was doing work that required way more brain power than now and had extremely more ridiculous schedules than now. And I’m WFH on a team that has no desire to go back to the office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bullshit! working from home increases productivity and life quality⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the huge misconception is that jobs that require specific tasks that don’t fit well in WFH means the entire job doesn’t fit. Collaborative tasks many times require in office interactions and whiteboarding. But I’d be willing to bet that out of a given week that isn’t your entire 40 hours.

  Honestly I think a lot of this push is that we are finding manager roles are unnecessary. With collaboration more difficult it has become more effective to go right to the source rather than the trickle down method we used to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bullshit! working from home increases productivity and life quality⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was always an issue I ran into. In a given month I might have two of three days that my brain just didn’t work. I’d stills go into the office and be absolutely unproductive. But to my boss, being in the office was the important thing. As I only got ten days of PTO a year including medical leave and business holidays I was never going to waste it on a mental health day. Was far better to sit at my desk and pretend like I was productive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some independent creators/small projects still have crypto donation links?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are being treated just like every other method to send someone money. They aren’t using them as investment products, just transaction tools. I’m sure most are pulling the money out of the cryptocurrency as soon as they receive it.