JRCharney

Can you make a version with cats in it? Like cats jumping at the cursor or trying to catch the cursor with their paws.

(Real quickly, because I was over by 400 characters)

What thing that I ever write publicly online that makes me such a pariah to ALL employers? Is there some background history I don't know about? Some doctored photos of me? Did this Palintir "dox everybody to find the anti-Christ" thing Peter Thiel been working on get started without us? What rules did I break that make me unable to find ANY job? Or is this the peak of Job Enshittification?

[Scene: Homer is in the Kitchen on the day after Christmas. Alien robots that transform into other things have quietly taken over objects in his house, but Homer is unphased by this]

Homer: [Reading the Springfield Shopper where the headline reads "Christmas Occurs"]

Kitchen Appliance Robots: [Transform into their robot form behind homer]

Homer: "Hmm. Is there something different about the kitchen?"

Kitchen Appliance Robots: [Collectively reassuring] "No!"

Toaster: [across the kitchen] [Transforms into the word "NO"]

Homer: [Convinced] "Well, the toaster's never lied to me before."

--"Untitled Robot Parody", "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (S20E4, 2008), The Simpsons

We should have done this 30 years ago when the web was young.

So we're back on the "blame Ukraine" side again. Did Putin give Donnie another paycheck?

Location: St. Louis, MO

Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, or on-site in St. Louis City or County

Willing to relocate: Unless you plan on paying for it, NO.

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++, Java, Bash, Git, Linux, SQL

Résumé/CV: [redacted]

Email: [redacted]

Github: https://github.com/jrcharney

Codepen: https://codepen.io/jrcharney/

I wish the universe would give me the option not to restart and apply this update right in the middle of a project! It's not like I was working on something or had my browser tabs the way that I like them.

As a young child with ADHD and Autism, one of my first memories was being called out for daydreaming by the teacher. The problem is that daydreaming has been ridiculed even before there were smart phones, from having kids needing to be on Ritalin to pay attention to smartphones occupying our time, to the chaos of politics "flooding the zone" by taking away all those things about the government that were likeable. (I know this isn't the forum for it, but trying to shutdown the National Weather Service is probably the biggest assault on all those ADHD/Autistic people who liked playing with all the computer stuff the NWS produced. It was like once I found out about that, who needed The Weather Channel anymore?!)

The point is, we've been driven to be more "productive" than creative. After a while, that productivity creates burnout. Being prohibited from collecting your thoughts or wandering about other stuff has created more problems.

Discouraging daydreaming then making it into a commodity to be exploited by capitalism is probably the most terrible thing we have ever done.

We need to create a society that allows for daydreaming again, gratis. The phone is not the problem, only part of it. I can leave my phone on my desk or in the bedroom. We just need to stop being on-call for people who don't need--nay, deserve--our attention.