Hi! I’m a dev with > 10 years of experience and I’ve been laid off twice in the past few years. Both times I’ve spent more than 5 months without a job. It’s not just you, hang in there. The current market conditions are tough with lots of layoffs in the industry and resume writing and reading getting automated.

I’d say keep your friends close - make sure they know you’re looking, frequently, as you’ve noticed an internal referral can speed things up; and keep busy - working on maybe some personal projects, or contributing to things that are out there can help keep you sharp, motivated and doesn’t hurt to have on that resume.

You can start looking at job aggregator sites, not just career pages. there’s indeed, builtin, etc etc etc. I personally also am a big fan of the hacker news monthly who’s hiring thread. It’s frequently a good way of getting in touch with folks who are hiring directly.

what are the demands?

most shells have a CDPATH which works just like PATH but for directories. set it to $HOME/projects/:$HOME/porn/ or whatever, and you’ll get the subdirectories in your cd tab completion, without installing extra stuff

I really like this hub: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5VTBG8F

It’s the only one I’ve found that correctly passes display port alt mode through, so I can stick to all usb-c cables.

The & is an indicator to most shells to run this command in “the background”. Try and run ( sleep 10; echo hi ) & - you’ll see you get your shell prompt back, where you can run more commands, but 10 second later you’ll see that ‘hi’ come through. ‘blocking’ is the default behavior, if you don’t add the & you’re still going get the hi in ten seconds, but you don’t get a prompt because your shell’s execution is blocked until your command is done.

The doc here is indicating that you havea choice between autostart_blocking.sh and autostart.sh, the latter of which would be run with a &. They could have expressed this better.

As for why your script didn’t work, I’d try executing it in a terminal to see what error message comes up.

try https://old.programming.dev/

As you switch, I would highly recommend you purchase a domain for yourself, and redirect email from it to your new provider. This separates your “identity” from your email host, so you can switch the latter without having to go through this process again.

both mobile and desktop have the plaintext notes in a sqlite db. they’re “easy enough” to export if you’re bailing on the app, but not to regularly switch between two different apps

don’t forget to install gti

Comparing idioms is fun. “Great minds think alike” has an equivalent which is literally translated as “Idiots have similar thoughts”. Kinda reflective of the cultures too: self congratulating vs self deprecating.

Most REPLs can be closed with Ctrl+D which is the EOF character.

the macos file browser, Finder, lets you set a background for a folder, move file icons around to arbitrary positions, other shenanigans. in order for this to work across systems on removable storage media and network mounts, they have this.

it’s mostly fixed now, after convincing fxtec to send me a new USB board, but in the time it took to do that, I’ve moved on to a flippy razr phone. for now, single handed use beats having the keyboard for me

for what it’s worth, the screens are very easy to replace and readily available on AliExpress ( search for elephone u screen replacement )

I loved mine while it worked and it’s quite tragic that we’re unlikely to see another one. f(x)tec, the company, doesn’t have a great record.

check out https://sandstorm.org/ , the project is pretty dead but they had the right idea

I’d like to see this fix the most annoying part about subtitles, timing. find transcript/any subs on the Internet and have the AI align it with the audio properly.

I think we’re closer with hardware than software. the xreal/rokid category of hmds are comfortable enough to wear all day, and I don’t mind a cable running from behind my ear under a clothes layer to a phone or mini PC in my pocket. Unfortunately you still need to byo cameras to get the overlays appearing in the correct points in space, but cameras are cheap, I suspect these glasses will grow some cameras in the next couple of iterations.

start with December 7th

There’s no way you’re “covering up” an antenna. Frequently the antenna is the body of the car itself.

Look up the fuse box layout of the car model you’re interested in to check if the communication system is on a separate fuse that you can pull without disabling anything else useful.