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rasfincher | 3 years ago | on: The Raspberry Pi 400 in My Bedroom

The Renegade BBS inspired dashboard definitely tickled my nostalgia as well.

rasfincher | 3 years ago | on: Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold

Like Michael Avenatti?

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: My essential Firefox fixes in 2022

Do you know when userchrome is going to be axed? I haven't seen anything about it.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

I wasn’t a part of the interview process, but I was told some of the details. The interview was remote and they did well on the video interview and on the take home challenge. My best guess is they were being given help.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

My company hired a senior developer for an Angular project we were working on. They did great in the interviews and on our take home coding challenge. When it got down to time to work, I was walking them through the codebase and it very quickly became apparent they not only didn't know Angular, they didn't even know much at all about web development in general. They were let go three days later. I'd heard of things like this happening but I couldn't believe it until I saw it in real life. I just can't imagine what someone like that is thinking. I get "fake it 'til you make it" but this was on a whole other level.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: Nude pictures on early retro PCs – was it possible?

I had not thought about these ads in forever, but when I saw the ad in the article I had a somewhat Pavlovian response.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light

I've lost two multitools that happen to have small knives on them this way. Very frustrating and embarrassing.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: Books that changed my career as a software engineer

It would be nice if the table of contents marked where to start if you're already familiar with programming concepts.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

Thanks for your RPi content Alex. Even though I'm not really active in the space, I still enjoy reading/watching about what's going on.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)

Tailscale is great. It's really changed my world and it's so dang simple.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: Vivaldi Replaces Firefox as the Default Browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon

It is sad. Especially considering I think it's a damn good browser, especially on the Mac where it doesn't seem to burn as much battery as Chrome.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

I love these two videos.

TLDR,

Defense Attorney: Don't talk to the cops.

Cop: Yeah, what he said.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: Vieb – Vim Inspired Electron Browser

Same reason I switched to Vimium-C.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: Disney Claims Trademark over Loki

Watch out Wednesday.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: Tech Interviews Are Stupid

One of the companies I interviewed with did what he described and it was nice. I thought the cool thing was that in the second interview they wanted me to walk them through some of my thought process for why I did/searched for certain things.

I didn't end up taking the job, but boy was it a breath of fresh air compared to some of the other interviews I've done.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: How Intuitive Are Macs Really?

I'm convinced 90% of my love of the Mac was the customizing I had done to it.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: Poor in Tech

I've never seen it happen in person either. As someone who used to be terrified of going to the gym because I didn't want to look like the new person at the gym, I can say for myself that it was all in my head.

"..you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do." - David Foster Wallace

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: New book contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up

Con man turns out to be con man.

Granted the con isn't as glamorous at it was made out to be, but still a pretty effective con.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”

Looks like it's behind their paywall.

rasfincher | 4 years ago | on: John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”

I enjoyed this article. Especially his discussion of writing filler text in scripts that would be ironed out later during rewrites. I see a nice correlation to writing software. Get it working in general and then go back and optimize it.