Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:
Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.
Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.
"Online conferences will never work because no-one wants to sit through a bunch of talks on Zoom," they confidently type before closing the tab and settling in for three hours of tennis while their spouse watches the latest videos from a favorite online chef and their kids chat with literally hundreds of fellow fans during a real-time stream of two strangers playing Minecraft.
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Unfortunately as a white guy I have noticed that occasionally Da Algariddem will notice I am white and male and decide I must be interested in being an ignorant bigot. Right when I turned 40, for a hot minute the ads were all guns, trucks, "EDC tactical" shit, you know, insecure masculinity and insecure masculinity accessories.
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YouTube has started putting various transphobic, homophobic and ableist bollocks in front of me, and I don't know what I clicked on to make it think I was into that.
My YouTube viewing is pretty much entirely music videos, guitar YouTubers and some microcontrollers and other electronics stuff.
Bloody internet…
"I think maybe Tolstoy actually never figured out happiness. I can always tell the hallmarks, because people who have never been truly happy tend to think there are a set of failure states they have to remove to get there, to that perfect state that looks like everyone else's happy family."
-From a speech I delivered years ago and just found
🎵 Scary Pockets does With Or Without You. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxAPzZAHt8M
This is at least a thousand times better than anything on that self-indulgent nonsense of an album U2 released earlier this year.
🎵 It’s a good music day today. New albums from the Foo Fighters and The Aces. Then I saw this, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Rwg0bQfTg
🎵 Well here’s a thing that I never would have considered. https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cotton-eyed-joe-feat-chaka-khan/1671659898?i=1671660465
I am chuffed to an irrational degree with the Solarized-themed keycap set that arrived yesterday. https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/
🎵 The YouTube algorithm did good today and served me up some Joe Pass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kUJa1PueM
Programmer. Reads books. Plays guitar. Belfast-born, living in Leeds. he/him.