Many years ago (maybe 2008), I wrote a GreaseMonkey script to synchronize my tweets to my Facebook status. This was way before Zapier/IFTTT could be used to do this, and before there was a Facebook API that could do this.

It worked by having a browser window open all the time to Facebook, and the user script installed in the browser. The script would periodically fetch my tweets from Twitter's RSS feed (I don't think same-origin policy was being enforced for XMLHttpRequest at that point), and if the latest entry was new, it would set the status's input field value to the new tweet, and submit the form.

Now, I work at a company that uses both Slack and Mattermost (Slack for internal communications and Mattermost for working with clients), and I'm thinking of making a newer version of this to keep my statuses between those two synced so that I don't have to install Slack/Mattermost apps to do it.

I just got a rejection letter for a job I applied to over six months ago, and even met with the internal recruiter about. What‽

I saw the pilot for the new Australian The Office series, and it was interesting.

In the UK/US versions, the series starts with corporate announcing layoffs (bad) and David/Michael trying to save the branch (good). In this version, corporate announces they're going fully remote, which the workers obviously like, but the boss, Hannah, doesn't like this, so tries to keep her branch in office, because she genuinely enjoys being with her employees. But, to satisfy corporate, her branch has to meet certain sales goals to justify the expense of the office. Once the employees figure this out, they figure they can just do their jobs poorly so that they can get to work from home.

We didn't see much of the other characters, to be honest. The main ones are there: the overzealous Assistant to the Manager, the sales guy who plays pranks on her, the receptionist who's slightly flirty with him, the HR guy whom the boss can't stand.

The dynamics are there to make this a good adaptation. I'm a bit disappointed they followed the common formula nowadays of an entire, very short, season dropping all at once. But I'm excited to see how it plays out.

#TheOffice #OfficeAU

Remember four years ago, when the winner of the US Vice Presidential Debate was a fly that just landed on Mike Pence's head for like five minutes?

I'm now happily employed, but I went through a layoff that took three months before I finally found my current job.

During that time, I sent out 91 job applications. Of those 91, eleven of them sent me an automated response saying they'd received my application, and nothing after that. 22 of them didn't even send that automated response. I didn't keep track of those that I got an initial contact from, but then got ghosted, but there were a few of those as well.

Do better. Have some respect for the people who are spending time applying to the jobs that you posted. I know hiring managers and recruiters are hardworking and have a lot of applications to go through. But, you could at least have the respect to have a form rejection letter to send out when you drop a resume in the rejection stack.

I started a new job yesterday where I work as a contractor (I'm a full-time, salaried employee at my company, but they contract my work out) on a US military project (writing code for the Department of Defense).

Due to all of the requirements for working with the Department of Defense, I'm now realizing that this will be the slowest onboarding process for a job that I've ever gone through.

I was just told that sometime next week I'll get added to the daily stand-ups. An entire week just before I even start going to stand-ups is just crazy.

UPS says my new Steam Deck is going to arrive today between 11:45 and 3:45. It's already 11:52 and it still hasn't arrived, so, I'll just be pacing back and forth for the next couple hours.

#LinuxGaming #SteamDeck #CantWait