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competitive pinball & uncompetitive bookbinding. https://miri.page
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i'm obsessed with this pair of posts lol
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which means i get:
- a neat plaque AND trophy (!)
- the title "Women’s North American Pinball Champion" for the next year (!!)
- a free pinball machine (!!!!)
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is a.i. art fascist? maxread.substack.com/p/studio-ghi...
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"only nba player who also won a heisman? charlie ward" i remember by "heisman = hockey = goalies = the concept of defense = ward". "the celtics won how many championships? 16" by "celtic knot = 4 by 4 = 16". etc etc. god help me
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and he goes on to make some other point with this, but i've been wondering what the opposite would look like, a shimmering of excess bad around something perfectly bad. all to say: today i saw a dog piss on a squashed, dead rat
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we could have had a world where pullquotes were never invented & journalists looking to not deliver a solid rectangle would instead insert pictures of their pets
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makes sense, but i feel like the grabbiness is b/c it's an exciting line (you wouldn't pullquote filler) but it's a hollow grabbiness because it's missing the context. and by the time i'm reading it again the line is no longer exciting, it's boring, because i just read it like two minutes ago?
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not currently but if you shoot a dm i'd be happy to give feedback on your resume, if that'd be helpful
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imo "personable but professional" is the ideal tone. i don't know many front end devs or designers who are super stuffy people & they're ultimately who you're trying to sway
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+1. it's wild how many don't tailor. e.g. the role i mentioned is 50% svelte. wasn't expecting tons of people with practical exp w/ it but maybe only 25/1000 mentioned the word 'svelte' *at all* (including "i see this is a svelte role, i haven't used it but i'd learn it", which is a passing answer)
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saying this all to try to encourage you. when you see on linkedin "1000 people applied!", remember that at least 80% of them are getting instatossed, 1% had ai resumes that claim to already work at the job they're applying for (love this one), etc. feel to DM if you want me to look at yours
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at my job it's been ~500-1000 apps for dev roles. winnow to ~200 after discarding incomplete apps or nonstarters (wrong country; literally no relevant experience; etc). sort by who seems like a human being; if an LLM writes your cover / answers, we can tell, and you look just like 180 other people.
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agree with everything Kat said about cover letters filling the gap. One thing I wanted to add as someone who's been doing a lot of poring over applications at work lately is that the best thing you can do to stand out is *not* use genai to write your cover letters / resumes / questionnaire replies
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Um, let me introduce you to my website, which I have been building and rebuilding with Dreamweaver for over 20 years:
simkinberke.com
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this rules
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so many perfect lawns online. what about a website with desire paths and weeds? or a website that shows its wear like a public statue; a website with dust in the corners; a website with dogears and a cracked spine and signs of being left out in the sun too long
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for example: start the animation on focus and time it so that the caret has a contrasting color with the background when it is not present, and has a color the same as the background when it is present
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ditto 🖤
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i feel seen as hell by this
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love this post
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the AI resumes can be so egregious. at my current job we had several ai generated applications whose job histories claimed they already work here lmao
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such a well written film, every other line is super memorable. also always a fan of her hot to hot transition sequence
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nippon photoclinic's "not the cheapest option but does the best work" according to a professional photographer friend
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it has romance. it has nicolas cage and, improbably, cher. it has cher getting a glow up from hot to hot with different hair. it has egg in the basket. it has everything.
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straightforward but i spend a lot of time looking at handbindings and this one is premium. that debossed title (i think?) is super crisp & the corners all look clean as hell.
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this is so neat
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actually a genuine q: how do those sit when its closed? meant to be loosely overlapped as a closure or summat?
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looks gorgeous. if you open it too fast do you smack yourself in the face with a metal rod
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brains are cool. neat that intentionally trying to not remember information like this actually works pretty well. have lived with folks whose mail deadnamed them and if it'd been more than a few mins i couldn't tell you what they were
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safeguards take time to make. bosses think like "if they spent a month to save a week, we lost 3 weeks". places w/ great safeguards often have financial/moral/legal reasons for it (e.g. the only dev friends i know irl who have 100% test coverage at work work on medical devices)
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shameful and disorienting. also, i'd hate to be the person tasked with making those phone calls. whichever pieces of shit up top made that decision should have to do it.
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but also i really like the portuguese gambit so probably don't listen to me about chess