remotedev

Sorry if this isn't allowed, I wasn't sure where I could post this. Thought this community would appreciate it the most.

Anyways, I built an extension for FF while I'm applying to jobs. I noticed when applying at the same company again, the applications were basically the same and asking the same questions. So I built the extension that will auto save the data submitted to the application to reference when seeing the same question again later.

It is still a WIP, it will recognize the application platform/page about 80% of the time and save on submittal, and if its not confident enough for auto-save there is a manual save option as well. There are some rough edges where the fields may not be saved correctly or bugs like that, but I'm at a point where I'd love for some others to test it out and get a better idea of what platforms are being missed or fields, etc.

So if you are job hunting, or know someone that is, please check out AnswerHoard and let me know what you think!

Couple concerns out the gate:

• privacy: everything is saved ONLY on your browser. I don't get any of it unless you share it with me with your feedback.
• permissions: turns out it's a pain in the ass to try to recognize a job application page. Everyone does it differently, with different URLs, multi-page, SPA, in-frame, etc. So as of now the extension runs on every page to detect if it is an application submission page or not. Again, I don't get ANY data from the pages you view/data you submit. You can read the privacy policy here
• if you'd like to report pages that were not detected, detected but not saved, saved but the fields are wrong, please feel free to submit an issue here

Thanks to anyone who checks it out! Sorry again mods if this is not allowed

I've been doing some interviews lately, and my most recent one seemed to be my most promising one so far, until he started doing what he called "light tech screening" and did some trivia questions to test my knowledge on what goes on under the hood. I do admit, I should have been better prepared on the topics, and didn't do as well as I could have. At the end, he said my experience was interesting but I needed a better grasp of the fundamentals, and that we should keep in touch. Afterwards, I messaged thanking him for his time, and that I needed to review my course material, asked if he thought I should review anything specific and if I could do that for a few weeks and revisit it like he said. He suggested I do a deep dive into JS/TS to really understand what goes on and why, and would be happy to revisit it in a few weeks, and again said to keep in touch.

Does that really mean keep in touch regularly or often? Or is it just a throw away yea reach out again in a few weeks when you're ready? I'm already pretty stoked to get a second chance at this, the company seems cool and I like that they aren't weighing everything on leetcode problems. If I should keep in touch regularly, what would that even be about? I also don't want to annoy him before meeting again.

Any advice would be appreciated!

If I just swap from app to app without going to my home screen, I get a black screen. I have to got to my home screen and then back to see any content

On android, Samsung 22 ultra.

I'm going nuts here. I hope dual boot questions are ok here.

For backstory, I was dual booting windows 10 and linux mint. Things were fine, until I think when windows was trying to update and on a restart it went to linux, and afterwards I wasn't able to boot up windows. I tried repairing windows with a usb but that was giving me hell about drivers, so I just wiped that hdd and installed windows fresh. Worked fine, got to play a game on there which was why I wanted to get back on windows, lol, all good.

UNTIL, I try to boot back to linux. Getting the grub screen, everything I'm seeing online about setting root to the harddrive where grub is was not working. Back to my tried and true method of wiping it all and starting fresh. I wipe it, get a new linux usb iso, boot into it, install linux, it says to remove media and hit enter to continue. I do that. reboot, get this zoomed in grub window where I can't type at all.

So I'm on windows, trying to hope someone here has had this happen before and knows what I'm missing or what I did wrong because this is really making me crazy.

I'm in the middle of a systems design class, and we're supposed to get our own VPS up and running. For quick background, I found a PERN app on GitHub, and cloned that onto my digitalocean droplet, and have it connected to my domain and nginx. I have the dist directory for the production build, copied it in the backend folder, and I see my app on my domain path. I'm getting an issue with an index#####.js file that's causing a cors error for localhost:4000, which is confusing since I have a reverse proxy for that port on my domains nginx conf. I did some digging and found a (very long) line of code that goes through the http methods and they each have a "localhost:4000/" for what route to go to for each method. I tried changing these to just / for each and it got rid of the cors error but now I'm getting an error with the promise failing. Do I need to add my domain to those paths? Or am I missing something else here?

I know this is a very generalized question, as it depends on the company, product, position, etc. But in general, what sets someone apart as ready for a senior position over an intermediate or junior position? Experience I would think would be a big one, but say you have a candidate that shows problem solving abilities to solve code problems, but is newer to the tech field vs someone who's been in the field x years, does the first guy have a shot without really knowing the ins and outs of working as a software engineer, hoping to pick it up quick?

I'm following a tutorial for creating docker containers, and it is having me go through the AWS beanstalk to create the environment to host the app, but I can't get the environment all the way there. Everytime I get some error about an instance profile I think it was called, and I've tried creating users, roles, and giving the roles the permissions for the beanstalk permissions, but it's still giving me errors. Does anyone know what I should be doing different?

I should have known better, I usually don't like flavored coffee because (personally) I feel like it's made to go with some kind of creamer or something. But I bought a bad of hazelnut vanilla beans, ground it up, and meh. I've tried mixing it with my wife's creamer but it just gets so sweet and I like to drink it black. I've tried making it weaker than usual and it's helped, but did anyone have suggestions on ways to not waste this bag I got?