PastorHaggis

@PastorHaggis@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The first page of my resume covers my technical skills, a summary of myself, and my most recent jobs.

  When you go past that, it gets to older jobs that are still relevant, then into school, then to side projects, volunteer, etc. basically, if you liked the first page, the rest of it gives them more about who I am.

  I think at this point it’s either 3 or 4 pages and every time I’ve gotten a job it’s been one where they asked me about the hobbies on the bottom of the last page, which meant they liked what they saw and liked my interview well enough.

  When I update it for my next search, I’ll take my first internship off because it’s no longer relevant, but most everything else is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 to JetBrains.

  I started using them like 8 years ago and have never looked back. My dad introduced them to me when I was doing some homework on a family trip and my laptop was dead. After that, I used them for every class in college, then used them at a job where they didn’t provide an IDE but I had the subscription.

  Even when I’m not developing at home consistently, it’s just so much better to have it than not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The PWA app works decent, but, unless I did something wrong, it would open links in itself instead of my main Firefox window which wasn’t what I’d want normally.

  I still use it, but it’s definitely not as nice as I’d want it to be.

  Definitely one of those things that’s minor and I can look past though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, some of us are trying to do a huge server migration before we switch so that we can make sure all of our stuff is backed up properly.

  I can’t wait to go back, especially since proton is so much better.

  Hopefully my Nvidia card doesn’t suck too bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, and there’s also an extension to install a web page as an app similar to Chrome. The point is that, out of the box, it lacks some features that I enjoy. Extensions are great and I use plenty of them, but that doesn’t mean that Firefox has those features, it just has extensions that have them.

  Firefox is great, don’t get me wrong, I’m definitely preferring it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have all the features that I wanted up front.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t a fan of Firefox either and personally lived using edge. When the whole web integrity thing started happening, I felt like I should switch to Firefox and haven’t looked back.

  I still have some complaints, like you can’t install sites native app which I used a lot. I don’t think tab groups have been implemented yet, which isn’t a huge deal but very useful. And there were a few others I can’t remember off the top of my head. In the end I value my privacy a bit more so I’ve decided Firefox is worth it.

  Plus mobile ad blocking is a god send.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m starting to switch over to Proton. I haven’t paid for it yet but my plan is to start paying and potentially grab usernames on other sites so I can have a consistent email across any site I decide to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best instruments for a beginner to pick up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of the best guitarists around don’t really know what they’re doing - they’re just feeling.

  That’s because toan is stored in the balls.

  Also yeah, I used to be a concert snare player and then gave up drums entirely. I picked up guitar at 18 and was a better guitarist after a year with no formal training versus 10 years of snare. Once you learn basic chords, you can generally follow a chord chart pretty easily, only needing to learn more when you get into the more complex shapes. Music theory is great but not required to make neat sounding music (I still don’t know it, I just find notes that sound good with each other).

  Ukelele would be a good starter though, it’s similar enough that it’ll partially translate but is also like $20 to get into and the strings are cheaper.