alligatorplum's comments

My manager technically has a "one on one" (30 mins) meeting every week with me. But the type/purpose of this meeting alternates.

One week its an "Alignment" meeting between me and my manager. This is a time where the manager can talk to me about my current tasks and if I need any assistance from him. We also go over our yearly goals on a regular basis here, just so we can make sure that I am on the right track.

The next week we have our 1:1 meeting. These are lead by me and gives me dedicated time to discuss anything I would like.

What I described above is the only structure to the meetings. If manager doesn't have much to discuss in our alignment meetings he opens the floor for any 1:1 type of discussion and on the flip side, if I wanted to talk about my current blockers during my 1:1 meeting that is also fine.

So to answer your question, our 1:1 are biweekly.

I would disagree, but it comes down to what kind of manager you have. I have seen plenty of people here on HN say that their 1:1 are basically just a manager going through the motion but there are still many 1:1 who are highly effective.

1:1s between me and my manager are usually very productive. Our project had non existent tests and through 1:1s I was able to advocate for tests and TDD to my manager. 6 months later our entire team is all-in on TDD. There were other gaps that I noticed on my team too that I would bring up in our 1:1 and we have a discussion about it. Are all my suggestions going to be implemented? No, but it's still worth having a discussion.

that poor calculator

I might be misunderstanding the service you are suggesting here, but are you suggesting printing a physical book containing a bunch of saved blogs, articles and twitter threads? If so, the number of articles that I would want to have them physically printed are very few, if any.

But on the other hand if you mean a book as in making a small little ebook, that I could read on my phone offline, I would be interested in a service like that. It would also depend on how the articles and blog posts are extracted, as in, if the blog is technical in nature with code snippets and stuff will the ebook version have that too.

I recently was looking to add my yubikey to one of my banks (BofA) and I could not for the love of god figure out how to add one. I know BofA supports it because there are many articles about adding it, but I couldn't find a way of doing it from their website. The best I could do from there was SMS 2FA.

I finally found a link from just googling around that took me directly to a page where you could add a security key. But the catch was that I had to have an active session if I wanted to add a key. If you weren't already logged in in another tab, it will redirect you to the BofA dashboard after you log in. From all the time I spent, there is no way to get to that page from the BofA web dashboard. Very frustrating and annoying experience. But atleast it is out of the way now.

FYI you can only have a max of 2 yubikeys.