Personal Projects
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All this is to say, I don’t ship software and call it a day. I enjoy using it and understanding users’ perspectives and insights into what helps them get their shit done. – Me, duh
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I applied to 76 roles two weeks ago and heard back from six. Something is wrong. I think I’m hindering myself by not tailoring my résumés. My current one is long. I try to prove myself by listing many accomplishments rather than including only what is relevant to each role. A lot of solutions out…
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I’ve explored more of Huntr‘s backend and added it to my huntr-cli! Now I can pull metrics and play with them, let Claude narrate and chart the fateful eviction. Some good quotes: 80 applications are sitting unanswered. They will almost certainly resolve into ghosts, not responses. 3 interviews came out of 107 tries. The structural…
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One of my partner’s hobbies is nail polish—but calling it a hobby doesn’t really do it justice. While we binge horror movies, Hollow’s playthroughs, or our favorite IASIP episodes, she’s often painting her nails, and even that undersells it. These are elaborate, intricate designs I didn’t even realize were possible with nail polish. I’ve learned…
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Of all the shit I jump over on this job search odyssey, nothing grates on me more than Maryland’s weekly unemployment job contact forms. Every time I finish, I spot a dozen ways it could be better. I keep my job hunt organized in huntr.co, a kanban-style tracker with columns for every stage, note, and…
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I’m working on a personal project and have gotten used to working with four coding agent sessions and two terminals. I rarely look at code. This is ridiculous. I started with an empty repo, and in three days, I have an MVP app. I assign senior-level dev tasks to the agents concurrently and review their…