Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ A day late!
We’ve had our granddaughter this weekend so yesterday was filled with activities. I managed to get started on this post but had to put it down and do things like play tea party and go to the lake and play a game she made up, as far as I know, called zoo keeper. I’m the zoo keeper and she was a black panther. 🥰
Anyway, we’ve had a great time and we’re both pooped out, in all the best ways.
With retirement imminent — this is my last job, and June 6 is my last day (maybe I’ve buried the lede here) — I want to thank my team publicly for how they’ve made me a better engineer and, more importantly, a better person. From the bottom of my heart.
Congratulations, Brent! Go read the post to get the full context. Brent talks about his biases going into his job at Audible and how it changed him. It’s a really great, heartfelt, tribute to his co-workers.
Today, Mozilla announced in a support document that it will soon end development of Pocket, its read-later app that’s been around since the early days of the App Store
Welp, there goes a piece of my workflow for Saturday Morning Coffee. Pocket sits at the middle of my process and tooling. I save links through the week and save them to Pocket. On Saturday I find all the properly tagged saves and use those to write these posts.
I’m not sure what I’ll move to, yet. Unread has a read later feature, I may give that a go. I’m also looking at Plinky.
I’ve had read later support on my Stream list of features for years. Just haven’t done it.
Son of a bitch Epic did it. This was like a double bank shot.
I had to go download Fortnight as soon as I saw they were back in the store. I still haven’t fully configured it yet and all I’m really interested in is seeing their in app purchase screens.
I wonder if this is John’s way of Claim Chowder’ing himself? 😄
I like John’s writing because he calls it as he sees it. I think the shock and surprise are real on his part.
Jensen is among an increasing number of job seekers who have found themselves being interviewed by A.I. programs as part of the recruiting process. Pitched by tech companies as a cost-efficient means of automating a laborious screening process typically done by an HR representative or recruiter, this A.I. software has the capability to “interview” hundreds of candidates, whom it can then recommend for further interviews with actual human beings. But for those on the other side of these chats, the experience of auditioning for a computer can feel somewhat surreal—and leave a rather unpleasant impression of a potential employer.
This is a bit much folks. Let’s keep humans in the interview process. I know this was a screening call and all but I don’t think I’d care for it either.
As part of my interview with WilllwTree I had to record myself answering a set of predefined questions. I understood the assignment right away and was happy to do it. WillowTree is a client services company. Even developers need to be good with the client. They wanted to see how I may operate with a client. The questions weren’t tech questions. They were easy questions as I recall. All about the interaction and presentation not about my knowledge.
I got to the next round of human interviews and managed to land the gig.
OpenAI, made the biggest acquihire in Silicon Valley’s history. Sam Altman and his crew bought Jony Ive and his coterie of ex-Apple hotshots for a whopping $6.5 billion. It is an all-stock deal for io Products, a 55-person company that is building an “amazing AI device.”
My goodness that’s a lot of cheddar! And I can’t get anyone to throw a paltry $1MM at me to go do what I want. 😂 Namely work on Stream and Rooster(my top secret project. 😂) 🐓
