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The only supermarket work going to in the UK is Waitrose.

Classified ads for jobs were still a thing up until around Y2K. MonsterBoard (what it used to be called) was one of the first online job platforms and then Dice came along. I used to have good luck finding contract gigs through dice.

It would be nice if they had Bart first class with fast wifi and premium interior. The green vinyl seats are better than the old cloth ones but it’s still pretty gross.

It’s disturbing. I sometimes wonder what would happen if I were pulled over and my window and door is closed. If I reach for the door handle will the cop think I’m reaching for gun? Do wait for him to scream at me through the window? How do I keep from things escalating? Is there a place in the US where the cops aren’t totally insane? SF? Santa Barbara? Maybe Marin County?

Just reading the title made my tinnitus come back.

Same. The other good track on that album is Slippery People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx2_iHftARo

For some reason I was thinking it was that $99 dollar Sinclare from the 80s which had the most unusable keyboard on earth.

Totally agree on ai assisted coding resulting in randomly changed code. Sometimes it’s subtle and other times entire methods are removed. I have moved back to just using a JetBrains IDE and coping files in to Gemini so that I can limit context. Then I use the IDE to inspect changes in a git diff, regression test everything, and after all that, commit.

I looked this up. "10 of the 11 recessions between 1953 and 2020 began under Republican administrations”. It seems Republican = Recession.

My job as a software engineer is not going anywhere. It’s only getting more interesting. Nice vibe blog / fear mongering piece.

Also, manufacturers that make 3d printers simply wont sell in NY. They’ve solved nothing with this.

The fed would almost certainly intervene aggressively resuming large scale QE to buy up treasuries and stabilize yields.

The way I learned to write software was years of cutting my teeth on hard problems. I have to wonder what happens when the new developers coming up don’t have that teeth cutting experience because they use language models to assist with every algorithm, etc?

Looks super awesome. Strong work! It showed the karman line at 98-99km. Maybe a tiny tweak needed.

What swe would want to work there after reading this.

I think you can see the actual numbers on capitol trades. https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians

Thank you ;)

You don’t know until unemployment and GDP numbers are released. Generally when the fed starts making successive rate cuts, the economy is doing poorly. Since 1953 10 out of 11 recessions happened when republicans held power. So maybe that is also why I think we have a little way to go before things get better. I’m not sure why that is and I don’t want to start a political debate. Things will get better. They always do.

Give each victim 100 shares of company stock. You lose your company to the people that you hurt. Seems fair.

It seems we are nearing the bottom of the business cycle. I lived through 2001 and 2008. Both were worse than now. It will get better.

There is also a nice ice rink next door that looks like a Swiss Chalet. I think it’s also part of the museum.

https://www.snoopyshomeice.com/

Maybe it’s in part because films from the 80s and 90s were filmed on actual film.

I love C#. When combined with JetBrains Rider it may be the most satisfying dev experience I’ve had in my career.

You can sue the government for violating your 4th amendment rights.

I read a while back it’s a language called zil based on MDL.

https://the-rosebush.com/2025/07/studies-of-zil-part-2-how-d...

I have owned a few homes over the years and have also had many landlords. The house we rented in Lafayette, Ca in 2010 was in a nice hood. At the time it was 2 years past the financial crisis and homeownership was not something I wanted to do for a while. The land lady we rented from wanted to sell the house for 650k. That house is now 4.3 million on zillow. Granted it has since had a renovation and an addition, but still. We also rented a townhouse in Encinitas, Ca. The rent was 3k a month in 2017 and now a similar townhouse in the same complex is renting out for 6500. The problem with renting is that eventually you get priced out of the nicer hoods. The problem with not buying a house when a deal shows up in a decent hood is that eventually that hood will never be affordable to mere mortals again. Maybe these rules only apply to California.

"Domain-driven design has some great points, although it is often misinterpreted”. Agreed. The worst shops I’ve ever worked in are ones where the DDD/evans/fowler orthodoxy has run amok.

I test drove an EV and the regenerative braking was difficult to get used to. You have to constantly ride the gas pedal. I would buy an EV if it weren't for this feature.

I think what he is trying to say is if there is mass unemployment as a result of "all companies following suit", no one will be able to buy their products.

I usually add this at the end of the agreement and if they wont go for it, I move on:

This agreement shall not apply to any inventions, conceptions, discoveries, improvements, and original works of authorship that [my name] developed entirely on their own time without using [the employer](s) equipment, supplies, facilities, trade secret information, or anything not based on or received from [the employer].