mardonet

mardonet

@mardonet.com

Engineer, dog-lover and avid sleeper.

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Wild discovery from Wes Winham Winler whose company (Woven) specializes in helping companies screen applicants: They just "caught" an organized group of "AI fakers:" real engineers who pass interviews, but fake their identity. We saw this before: but now proof that it's at scale:

If you’re just starting out and struggling to find a job as a developer, learn Java or C#/dotNet. They’re not trendy, but there are many well-paid opportunities available.

I spent 4 hours writing an email with a business proposal, which is not uncommon when dealing with complex negotiations. Even so, people who have a similar reality insist on measuring the productivity of developers by lines of code. Weird.

Opera comes with a very competent, free to use LLM called ARIA. It's free and can summarize anything you're reading or even chat with you about the tabs you've got open 👌 Give it a try: www.opera.com

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This is pixeltune.org, a project I've been slowly building for the past 10+ years and recently relaunched. It's a web VGM/chiptune player that plays songs in their original format, and features an archive of over half a million songs which I've been collecting through the years. Have a listen! ;)

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Twitter acqui-hired 7 tech recruiters for more than $10M (so more than $1.5M apiece?) Amusing that they spent more on this one purchase (which does not even net them engineering capabilities) than the complete seed funding of Bluesky!

Unless required, disable read receipts in whatsapp, imessage or the messaging app of your choice. If people has the power to ping you anytime, keep the power to reply whenever you want. —Unsolicited productivity advise of the day—

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You needed blocks. We cleared our calendars to finish building out blocks. Blocking has shipped to Bluesky web app users and will be available in mobile shortly (version 1.25, when it passes App/Play Store review — hopefully tomorrow morning). You can access this feature now at staging.bsky.app.

I just read the concept “fractional CTO”, which is basically a fancy (new) name for a technology consultant with more than one customer 😅 #SameOldSameOld

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