I think we need to take a step back and add some context. Every company will have their own hiring process, but they are mostly the same. Where I work it goes like this.

1. A hiring manager sends a job description for an employee they want to hire
2. The recruiter will check the job description for any problems and make it public
3. Usually, a few hundred applications come in. Some are these are from bots. Others are from people applying for every open position at the company.
4. The ATS will score the application and resume by comparing it to the job description. Some will look at your social media like LinkedIn and Facebook. Mostly if you provide those links.
5. The recruiter will then start trying to find the best candidates to send to the hiring manager. They do this by looking at how the ATS scored the applicant and prescreening calls. They mostly check to make sure you are a human and that the stuff on your application is correct.
6. The recruiter then sends candidates to the hiring manager. There is no hard policy on the number of interviews the hiring manager has to do, but the goal is under 10.
7. The hiring manager does an initial interview with the candidate. Depending on the situation this is in person, over video, or a phone call.
8. If they pass the interview with the hiring manager then 2 additional group interviews are usually setup. One with stake holders and another one with peers. At this point it’s usually down to one person. These are sort of like veto interviews.
9. Once someone makes it through all this does the recruiter make the offer and start to discuss, background checks, salary, and if needed relocation and immigration sponsorship.

During this entire process the only people that are going to look at your website are the hiring manager, stake holders, and peers. That is only if they are feeling motived to do additional research on you after having looked at your application and resume. Your application and resume should have already told them that you know the technologies you listed. This means that the user is not rewarded with any additional information. What was the point of me seeing this page? As one of those people interviewing you the only thing this page actually tells me is that you know how to put words on page with a template. That template should be custom and look amazing.

Jeff Geerling’s website is a good example for content. The design isn’t something I would expect from a front end developer, which he is not.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/about

Nowhere does he have a list of icons of technologies used. You learn that he knows how to use git by the link to his GitHub profile. He doesn’t have a dedicated contact page. The only thing that is really needed is mention an email address on the about page and links to socials. It’s almost like he shows us his skills instead of telling us about them.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Board revision was a lot more difficult back then.

I don’t know what the refill process is like.

That's the first issue. They don't really explain that anywhere.

I was under the impression that at week 6 I would have a followup appointment with the prescriber. She mentioned that she would hear from her in about 6 weeks. That's not what happens. So at week 6 I started to wonder what was up so I called. They told me that the first vial contains enough tirzepatide for 8 weeks, 4 weeks at 2mg and 4 weeks and 4mg. The also said before my 8 weeks are up I should get a follow-up form via email.

At week 8 when I took my final 4mg dose, Friday the 5th for me, I got an email with a link to a followup form. I filled it out and hit submit, and didn't hear anything back. When I didn't get a tracking number today I called them up again and explained that next dose is due tomorrow, and I don't have a refill. The guy said that the providers have fallen behind on processing refills. He said he would expedite my refill and gave me a $50 credit. If my refill get approved Friday and submitted, I still have to wait for the pharmacy to send it to me. That probably won't happen until Tuesday since Monday is MLK day. Then add 1-2 days for shipping. I guess I should expect to get my refill on Thursday or Friday. Maybe Wednesday if the pharmacy sends it overnight.

It's not the end of the world, but it still annoys me that they didn't consider the holidays. It also annoys me that they are really tight in the refill process. 7 days from the form being sent to you, and your next dose really isn't a lot of time. If they start the counter to send the refill form out starts on your delivery day does this mean that my next refill will now be pushed out a week.

Overall I get a lot of low profit margin vibes from them. Businesses like that tend to be too cheap when it comes to this operational stuff and errors happen. I'm glad they are not the ones actually running the compounding pharmacy.

Though, compounding pharmacies have their own set of issues. This is the place that filled my prescription.

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/pharmcore-inc-dba-hallandale-pharmacy-605569-03112020

It looks like they took care of the issues.

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/pharmcore-inc-dba-hallandale-pharmacy-605569-05032022

I think I'll end up switching to the brand name stuff soon.

I wouldn’t call it a scientific journal, but I always find something interesting to read in the Communications of the ACM.

https://cacm.acm.org

For Java, I guess this as official as you can get.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconventions-150003.pdf

Maybe this is helpful. https://imgur.com/a/TNpqz

If you find any additional information please share it with the rest of us. I have a really yellowed AppleVision 850 in the project pile. It's too big to redrobright and get an even result.

I'm on a team of 5 and we don't have an on call rotation since developers are not prod ops. But in a sense we are all on call all the time. The NOC has our phone numbers and if we are needed for something urgent we will get a call or a text for things like helping prod ops troubleshoot an issue if they get stuck. My boss has texted me while I was on vacation before. Usually it's a quick question for something obscure. Once it was an escalation from a senior executive. I don't have to respond if I'm on vacation, but if I'm getting a call they really need help with something. It also is a good opportunity to lay a guilt trip on your boss that results in a few reward points. Never had to actually log into anything though.

We also have BCP, business continuity plan, events. I work for a company that provides a lot of critical infrastructure. If the BCP event is really nasty, like a natural disaster, and our team needs 24/7 representation on the bridge, we take turns and will relieve each other. You won't be expected to help out on a BCP event while on vacation.

Besides BCP we usually have to be available for certain production changes. Like a few months ago I had a DNS and load balancer change done. I wasn't doing the work, but the team making the change wanted me available between 3 and 5 am to validate the change.

If I were paid hourly things would be more formal. I would get overtime(1.5 x hourly rate) + comp time. Since I'm salaried I just sleep in the next day. Our schedules are really flexible. We basically need to be mostly available for meetings for around 4 hours a weekday from late morning to late afternoon, and complete our projects on time. It was like this in the before times. Back then I would go into the office around 11 am for our daily standup. Get lunch with some team mates. Do some afternoon meetings then go home, and do my more focused work at home after dinner time. Most of my team mates did something similar.

Rest of the compensation is your typical American senior software engineer salary with a 10% to 20% bonus, 7 weeks pto, health insurance, life insurance, short term and long term disability insurance, 401k with 6% match, pension, retirement health insurance, pet health insurance, can use the corporate travel agent for personal travel. I actually like this perk a lot. You still pay for personal travel but it means a lot of discounts and upgrades. We also get to keep our various travel points.

See a doctor in sports medicine, physical therapist, or occupational therapist. Basically someone with a medial background specializing in the musculoskeletal system.

I while back I had an issue with tennis elbow and numbness in my hand. I went to a doctor specializing in orthopedics and sports medicine. First visit was an exam and ultrasound of my elbow. He also asked things like how I slept, and if I was sleeping on my arm. There was some swelling and inflammation, but noting too major. He referred me to a physical therapist.

I saw the physical therapist for a few weeks. It was mostly teaching me how to do certain stretching exercises and strengthening the muscles in the area. There were some massages with a muscle scraper. That was weird and not pleasant at first, but did help.

I dislike having to disrupt my computer activities every hour

Nobody likes being taken out of the zen that is being in a flow state, but humans evolved to walk and move around a lot. Take breaks and go for short walks. If I were to give advice to my younger self, it would be to take up running. Humans and a few of our domesticated species are the only ones that can run for long distances. Some members of the species enjoy running for long distances and do it recreationally. They often say they enter a flow state while running.

I tend to agree with you, but Create is very visually appealing. Since a significant chunk of the Minecraft world is YouTube driven it makes sense to gravitate towards mods that look good in a video.

There really isn't anything like it now. It's from a time when there were not a lot of applications out there any people had to DIY their own tools. Like a database for a repair shop. Now people have spreadsheets with tons of features or small niche apps. Then there are the big cloud apps like SaleForce and Quickbooks.

I don't remember the details, but I read a comment somewhere that a small business, like a repair shop, created a custom application and has been using it for years.

I tried to google but only found this from 2002.

https://www.wired.com/2002/08/hypercard-forgotten-but-not-gone/

Was having problems as well, but the language setting worked.

I was going to say that AE2 is the original with the lore of alien tech falling from the sky. I know AE2 can be a little much, but I like it.