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This thread has a lot of interesting anecdata so I’ll add mine.

Over 25 years experience in frontend web, searching since July, and the water is as ice cold as I’ve ever felt it. Low response rates, low interview rates, zero offers. Wondering if the backend grass is slightly greener at the moment or that’s just my perception from the other side of the fence.

Hi, I’m this unicorn, and I’m actively seeking a new role.

Nobody gave a shout out to Robot Odyssey yet?

The map is not the territory. Est (and its offspring Landmark) talked about this a lot: the distinction between the things that happened and the story we tell ourselves about the things that happened. What would happen if we told ourselves a different story? What are we getting from the current story that keeps us hanging on to it? Etc

Robert was not only incredibly generous and talented, but he was always so friendly and humble. Fond memories of that period of time.

This crew has worked so hard for so long. I hope they got a killer payday.

My what an uncharacteristicly quiet comments section.

As an extreme leftist, I find this notion as offensive as I do absurd.

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Oh we’re playing with fire alright

It was a lot more objective than I anticipated, but if you know how to look at such things, the propaganda is definitely in there.

I wish David Graeber was still around to give a rebuttal.

Love my Remarkable 2. Give us an SDK!

If you’re going to talk shit, you’ve gotta throw some links to your work, Mr Shakespeare

Anyone who has ever talked to a cop for more than a few minutes learns really quick they have a terrible grasp of the law.

I’ve been slowly adding puzzles to a little game I made. Shout-out to a few HN commentators who gave early and helpful feedback. https://shovemedia.com/letters

still needs a name :/

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I don’t recall being able to construct XML inline like this unless maybe that was a Flex server thing?

Interesting. I thought “Till We Have Faces” was the main work that dealt with losing his wife.

Man, I really miss a good poetry slam. The judges usually suck though ;)

Funny enough, one of my early startup experiences absolutely included, “here’s your (unassembled) chair and an Allen wrench.”

Positive comments on James Baldwin on the Orange Site? I must be having a stroke. ;)

By Occam’s Razor: the people in charge of the day-to-day running of things at most companies are simply not very bright. I’ll get downvoted for this, because “attitude problem” or whatever, but I’ve been around 30 years y’all. There aren’t many explanations that fit the data.

I’m really curious whether my agree:disagree ratio will be higher in the article or in the comments.

still have this bookmarked from over a decade ago

I have one of these :)

New puzzle just dropped, easier than the first

So far the feedback has been pretty unanimous that this puzzle is too hard. I don’t disagree, however (spoiler alert) it can be solved in 4 moves. The next puzzle (which I’m hoping to release today or tomorrow) will err on the side of being “too easy”.

I spent the last five+ years full-time deep diving the infinite canvas UX problem space if you happen to be hiring ;)

Figma passed on my resume, so I’m not particularly incentivized to leverage my (very deep, thank you) engineering / design / UX expertise and offer my product guidance for free. They have a ton of momentum, so there’s a lot of room to make mistakes before it shows up as more than a blip in the quarterly numbers. They’ll probably be fine without me, but seems like an unnecessary risk. ;)