drunk as a lord
Unlike another top poster, this doesn't ring true for me.
I have a blog with 170-ish posts. About half are technical. Three or four have gone viral on HN.
The other half are personal, but I live in a place where people generally share the same values, so those other posts shouldn't be a problem.
I've got a personal project. It's used in production and ships as part of the base install with FreeBSD and Mac OSX.
It demonstrates high proficiency with C. It demonstrates careful work with every function documented in Doxygen comments and a development manual entirely designed to raise the bus factor to infinity. It also shows I've got fuzzing chops.
I have other code. It's not complete, but I've got hundreds or thousands of hours in it, and it's to the same quality.
And I can't get a job.
Got another programming job. Got fired for "performance." I think the reason wasn’t good, but I also have a hard time building a theory of mind, which means I can’t read code written by others.
If you can't read code written by others, that's going to be a big concern for companies that require you to read and modify other people's code.
Perhaps you need to be a contractor, not an employee.
I'm sure you'll get pissed at this, but assuming hiring managers see your blog and Gitea instance, here are some of my guesses as to why they don't want to hire you:
- You call BLM a "terrorist organization".
- You explicitly object to the idea that the phenomenon of police killings of black people is rooted in white supremacy.
- You give off serious antivaxxer vibes, and refuse to wear a mask during a global pandemic.
- You're petty enough about the above to post a list of businesses you won't patronize because they require masking.
- You are boycotting Rust because they don't want people bringing guns to their conferences.
- You complain about being banned from lobste.rs for posting transphobic comments. (And yes, despite your protestations, they are indeed transphobic.) And also for claiming that gender dysphoria is essentially a mental illness to be cured.
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Holy shit who tf would post their political leanings on a blog they show to potential employers? lmao Wingcucks are the scourge of any job. Keep that shit separated.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Especially when they're basically a list of - and I hate this expression so it means a lot that I'm using it - talking points. These are literal checkbox talking points. Having this shit on your blog just screams 'I am am empty vessel that has been filled up with opinions from the closest available source.' It's genuinely tragic.
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