Just one 🤷 I’ve always been picky, so anyone who’d get that far would be someone I could see working out long-term. We’re in our 7th year together now.

We should follow in the footsteps of many tech companies and stop numbering the Gs in favour of tagging on the year they were launched. So next year we wouldn’t get 6G, we would get G2027. Sounds much cooler, doesn’t it?

I went to University for Electrical Engineering, switched to Computer Science after a semester and then dropped out after 5 more semesters. I had about half of the required credits after those 5 semesters, so I guess I was on track to graduate after studying for 5 years (which isn’t bad considering my University’s reputation for being so hard that the town opened a second easier University just for the dropouts, but I was still not very happy and really wanted to do real work)

So I got myself into an apprenticeship program to become a Programmer. There was a special one in my town that got you there in just 1.5 years instead of the 3 years that are the norm for apprenticeships here in Germany (again, University so hard they have an entire sector of special programs for dropouts). Just one day of school per week, the rest is spent at an actual company doing actual work. Finished that one with ease, got hired by the company that I did the apprenticeship with and have been working there for over 3 years by now.

I’m now in the job market for the first time because I want to work for a different company, and I’m seeing that I absolutely did the right thing. Because fresh graduates who only studied but never worked are absolutely flooding the market and no company wants them right now. I had a pretty interesting conversation with a hiring manager for a company I’m considering a few days ago, and they said that most applicants they get are either fresh graduates who are asking for insane salaries without any relevant skills to back it up, notorious job-hoppers who spend like 6 months per company and never get deeper skills and vibe-coders. It’s insanely hard to find normal people with relevant hands-on knowledge because those people are staying with their existing companies.

Anyways, what I want to get at is that if you just want to work in a specific field that you’re passionate about, there’s a chance that you can just go and do that. Ofc I don’t know your country’s market situation or work system, but I bet as long as it is not something highly regulated like Doctor or Lawyer, there could be genuinely good alternative paths into it. And once you have a job in an industry and prove yourself, your academic success kinda stops mattering.

There’s a sack of flesh some of us have that can produce computational power at the cost of a granola bar every few hours. Can’t beat the value of that.

I think they’re thinking more about properly caring for the cat. Wherever you get them, you still have costs for spaying, vaccination, food, toys, and you need to be prepared for medical emergencies. Over their whole life, a cat will cost much more than a wedding ring. Not considering that cost because the kitten is “free” is just plainly irresponsible.

No bro! You’re prompting it wrong! Just tell it to be fast and not make any mistakes!! This will totally revolutionize software engineering (we want to fire you) in 18 months, I promise!!

I was applying to a job recently, and their online form had a “Upload your documents here” field. Problem was, the input was set to only accept a single file. Well, I wanted to upload two, so I just went into the html and added “multiple” to the input. Which just worked, I even checked the network tab to confirm that both files were submitted.
Haven’t heard back from that company yet. It was a web dev position so I hope they appreciate my hijinks 🤞

My husband showed me how to solder yesterday ! (although I only did the soldering for the piece we used to test whether our pinout was correct, he did the two final solder points so that it’s not as jank as my attempt)
I’ve been working on setting up proper terrarium lights with all the fancy bells and whistles - zigbee controlled, waterproof, and everything is covered so that my snake can’t meddle with it. Got one side of the terrarium done already so I’ll be working on the second one later today ^^

FreeCAD is so fun! I recently learned it because I finally found one use-case where 3d printing a part makes sense AND there isn’t any pre-made model available online. It was a tunnel to connect my snakes two terrariums and it needed to have very specific sizing, spacing and for aesthetics I wanted it to be hexagonal.

I really hope I find another reason to 3d print something soon. Because I don’t really have fun in 3d modeling things just for the sake of it haha

I prefer the term “load-bearing indentation”

As a reptile, this offends me.

Nah, it’s mostly fine, even though I don’t eat any. I’m super bothered by anything that’s fish or seafood though, cooking anything like that kills my appetite for as long as there’s still any detectable smell in the kitchen

Been working in software engineering for 5 years now, I still look this site up basically any time I don’t remember what an http code means

Måneskin - I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE is a total banger, but I never quite liked the rest of the album (It’s all in Italian??)

Great tip, thanks! I’ll take a look at it since I definitely would prefer it if apps didn’t just talk to Google without asking me first. Kinda crazy how hard it is to even know about all the cracks that Google creeps in through 🥲

I don’t think so! At least I don’t know what a Nabu Casa is, and I have no recollection of ever setting up any VPN or tunneling shenanigans in my home network. I know there’s services like Tailscale or that one everyone uses to play Minecraft together (Hamachi?) but they weren’t something that I felt like fiddling with yet. I only moved into that apartment like 2-3 months ago, so all the network stuff is pretty recent, I think I would have remembered it if I set up some VPN thing haha

Oh, that makes things even more mysterious! I’m running GrapheneOS and while this Profile does have Google Services installed, they’re still pretty restricted. I would have thought that they’d need some sort of notification-related privilege to relay those notifications to me :0

That’s only fine as long as there aren’t coworkers who have to fix all that shit

My project’s currently on hold because I’m focusing my outside-of-work coding on stuff that helps me with my current job search. But once I’m done with that I’d be super interested in collaborating with my artist friends to get out of a UI/UX snag I’ve hit. Getting input from non-programmers on projects is always a really good way to move forward imo