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Yeah I used to use Pidgin to chat with people on Facebook! I miss those days.

Prosody was a breeze to set up and it worked pretty well for me. I set up a simple bot to get notifications on my phone. The whole set up works great until you get to the notifications. Super unreliable. I believe that's an issue of the iOS client I am using.

Personally, I am happy to see someone else thinking about cutting down stuff and simplifying. Similar posts have started popping up more frequently and as a fan of simplicity, reliability and maintainability I am very happy! Don't get discouraged.

I guess this can be view from Jung's point of view where you adopt different personas in different situations. If I understand correctly this is necessary for normal existence but identifying too much with a specific persona can lead to undesired side effects.

I've adopted a mindset where each persona is just a tool for a specific situation or setting, but I always try to be aware that it is just the self using the persona, not the other way around. I had fallen into the trap of strongly identifying with a persona and was wondering why I was feeling so confused, so stepping back a bit helped a lot.

Reading about Jung's map of the psyche has been quite interesting and useful.

Why did the title of the post change? It doesn't reflect what's on the page.

> What does the unit "year of experience" represent, and is it comparable across domains?

In my opinion, "years of experience" should not be disqualified as one of multiple evaluation tools for skill. I think it signifies that you have had the opportunity to go through a variety of situations, challenges, projects etc. and you have accumulated knowledge and experience that cannot be learned by reading tutorials or working on side projects.

From personal experience and by talking to and working with other much more experienced engineers than me, I have noticed that some of the most important knowledge is obtained just by working on something for a longer amount of time.

Obviously, there are many exceptions to this rule, there are engineers with years and years of experience that are just bad at what they do. What I am trying to say is that this tool for evaluation should not be discarded.

Looks like I am on a similar path to you but you are a couple of steps ahead of me. Is there a place I can contact you with a few questions. I'd really appreciate it.

I think sometime we, software engineers, forget that we are hired to do a job and not to play around with toys in the sandbox.

Congrats! That is really cool. I recently built something very similar out of annoyance with spam that I was actually interested in: https://pobox.host/ The difference is you don't need an email to register. I am happy to see that the idea is validate and people actually pay for the service.

As others have said, this is great! A simple but very useful idea and a great execution. Thank you for not making it an amalgamation of heavy javascript frameworks.

Great post! Something I have found very valuable for myself is accumulating experience. Having gone through a process, task or problem even once brings a lot of knowledge and insights. If I had to put it in numbers, I'd say mastery as a whole is 50% knowledge about the layers on one side of the pyramid and 50% experience, at least for me.

Fair point! I guess if I can edit my statement a bit I'd phrase it like that: If from my application you can see that I have work that we can talk about and discuss, let's do that, if not then let's do the predefined questions. That's fine.

I've had a couple of situations where I go in an interview and the interviews ask me questions that show to me that they have not even looked at my CV and the cover letter they asked me to write. They were just reading off a list of generic tech interview questions.

To me that feels like if I went to interview at a company and told them I have no idea who they are or what they do, I just know their name and that they are looking for a coder. That's just counterproductive.

But I totally agree with you that there is no single solution. I just think there are different "good" questions for different people, interviewers and interviewees need to adapt to that.

> You Can Ask the Candidate to Present Code they Wrote.

I have always wondered why this isn't more common, it makes so much sense to me. When you submit an application you usually submit links to your blog, GitHub, projects etc. When I attend an interview I expect us to talk about those things. This is what the person is supposed to be good at. Instead you are met with a predefined set of puzzle questions.

I think the purpose of the interview is to allow the candidate to show what they are good at and what they are excited about and to see if this fits well with what your company is doing.

I am currently trying to transition to remote work/consulting and was wondering can you share some details on how you find offers like that. I am also based in Eastern Europe. Do you have an email I can ping you at?

From what I understand the author is against a bad implementation of microservices. I don't see a good argument against microservices but rather "We just chopped up a monolith and things are not better therefore microservices are bad". Am I missing something?

Hey, I wasn't sure where to leave the feedback so I'll leave it here: it might be a good idea to get a microphone to improve the sound quality and clarity. It's a bit hard to hear. Keep it up!

I think I understand what the author is trying to say. For me the feeling that you are browsing a "web of documents" is that you know that you are clicking around for information. It is very basic. You look at and read a page with some links. You find something interesting and click on a lick. This produces a deterministic action: another page loads with some links. That's it. It might look slightly different but it doesn't move around when components are loading dynamically, no pop-ups, no red "1" badges that try to grab your attention. It will either load slowly or it will load fast, it won't alternate between the two while loading.

The main focus is the content of the document and the other content it leads to. Not the style, the features, the tech that it uses to load the content. I compare it to books. Most books are the same, predictable. They will have text and some images on pages. When turning a page it will show another page. It wont suddenly ask you to log in or go buy another book in the middle of this one. The covers of the books are slightly different but the basic function is the same. That's it.

Do not rely on a single drive or you'll end up in a situation like me where one day your external drive decides to stop working and 20gb of photos are gone.