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hamatti, 5 months ago to random

Reading comments on Youtube is always such a bad decision and still I did it, only to ruin the mood.

odddev, 5 months ago to random

https://designsystems.surf is pretty cool. Good for everyone looking for #DesignSystem references.

KathiCat, 5 months ago to Starwars German

Bin gerade online angeschrieben und gefragt worden, ob ich solo bin.

Meine Antwort: „Kommt darauf an…Sucht das Imperium nach mir?“

Verwirrung auf der anderen Seite.

Was soll man nur mit Typen anfangen, die keine Star Wars-Anspielungen verstehen?
#starwars

odddev, 5 months ago to random

I still think we have the best smoker in the existence of #christmas.

anders, 5 months ago to random

I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions.

I’ve done take-home tests, in person challenges, pair programming with the candidates.

All of them were awful experiences for me and especially for the candidate.

I can only think of a single instance where a code challenge exposed a poor software engineer and I could definitely have made the same assessment just by talking to them.

Lately I’ve stopped doing any software or mental puzzles.

I don’t do any of that when I interview designers or QA people or HR people, so why would I be particularly toxic towards software engineers during the hiring process?

Instead, I actually read their resumes (which is significantly quicker than doing interviews, asking them to repeat the same information), and then I ask them questions like:

• Where do you get your tech news?
• How do you learn about new technologies?
• What do you most appreciate in your coworkers today?
• What is a perfect workday like for you?

I specifically avoid trap-style questions like “what is your greatest weakness?” or “why are you leaving your current job?”

I recommend that you make a plan for what you want to learn about the candidate, e.g. “are they good at acquiring new skills?” or “do they share the same values as the team?” and then structure the interview around that.

Be a non-toxic manager. Make your company look good during the interview process. Get better candidates.

#jobs

odddev, 5 months ago to UX

I'm out of the loop. Why is everyone pretending we don't have scroll bars anymore?

#UX #UI #Web #ScrollBar #dev

ErikUden, 5 months ago to random

If you can, you should support your local Mastodon instance this holiday season :blobcat_santamelt: and give your admin the support and need to continue their, often entirely voluntary, work!

Winter has been especially rough for our instance mastodon.de :MastodonDE: as we still (partially) run physical servers and the energy costs are tied to our solar panels, which produce less during the winter!

If you have the resources and ability, please donate: https://mastodon.de/@MastodonDE/110808633497349326 :liberapay: :paypal: :patreon: :kofi:

However, keep in mind we're in a very privileged position and may not need the money as much, so donate to your local, a small, or just favorite / a random instance if you can! Give back the love and care these projects often rely on, but don't feel bad if you can't; we do this for you, after all!! :blobcatsanta:

aronow, 5 months ago to random

Normal people brains at 2:30am: sleep

My brain at 2:30am: is it legal to own a capybara in California?

hotforteacher, 5 months ago to random

This is the first time I’ve seen Die Hard since I learned that Stockholm syndrome isn’t about hostages falling in love with captors.

It’s really about how in some situations, hostages can feel that their captors are more invested in their safety than the police are.

This seems entirely rational to me.

Boundborg, 5 months ago to random German

Ich glaube, der Rettich will mich anmachen. 😳

MJung, 5 months ago to fedibikes German

#Autokorrektur #Mobilität #Verkehrswende #Umfrage #EMobility #EMobilität #EAuto #Pendler

Das Umfrageergebnis zeigt auf den ersten Blick ein gewisses Dilemma 😉
Doch es dokumentiert für mein Dafürhalten auch den Wunsch der Menschen, bei möglichst wenig Aufwand (Tank-/Ladevorgänge) weit zu kommen. Unabhängiger zu sein.
Die künftige Entwicklung der Fahrzeuge und der verfügbaren Ladeinfrastruktur wirds womöglich richten.

@SheDrivesMobility
@fedibikes
@fedibikes
@mastobikes

fuzztech, 5 months ago to random

Seeking a web developer to migrate a friend's site from WP to a modern, static generator like Hugo or Jeckyll, and provide some UX/UI design work. Please DM me if you are (or if you know) a candidate for this. Remote, contract, immediate (January)

odddev, 5 months ago to dadjokes

Saneagascar the less successful cousin of Madagascar.

#joke #DadJokes

allenu, 5 months ago to random

Went to a neighbor’s holiday party. It was so nice to just hang out with complete strangers, and my neighbors, who were complete strangers as well.

LadyDragonfly, 5 months ago to random

In Ireland they don't say Santa they say Daidí na Nollag which literally translates to Daddy December.

You're welcome.

Screenshot of Google translate confirming

taraprice, 5 months ago to random

Enough about what you hate.

Tell me about what you love.

apps, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Now, when pasting a long text while composing, #Fedilab will automatically split it into a thread with replies depending on your instance max chars. Mentions are automatically reported in replies to keep the visibility.

Should this feature be:

snugug, 5 months ago to CSS

Ok y'all: #css architecture question time: I'm building a dark mode toggle, can switch between light, dark, and auto. Because of this, it needs to be JS powered. Anyone have an opinion on how to accomplish first view without a potentially bad flash of wrong theme?

I was thinking I could jump through some hoops w/prefers color scheme and style queries to set dark mode quickly before JS kicks in, which is probably the 80% case here, but seems very complex. Otherwise Modernizr style selector pivot

pearlbear, 5 months ago to random

Hey ex-academics and independent scholars not attached to institutions: what's your go-to method for getting paywalled scientific articles (other than requesting them, or finding them on open access sites?)

cs92, 5 months ago to random German

Auf dem Weg zur #WebDevBBQ in Stuttgart. Bin gespannt auf die Vorträge! 👌