Double Shot #1706

  • Merging vs. Rebasing - Best explanation I've seen yet of these git concepts, from the folks at Atlassian.
  • Blaze_CSS - Modular CSS framework that tries to be less overwhelming than things like Bootstrap.
  • Barebones - Rails application generator that supports the Rails 5 way of doing things.

Double Shot #1704

I'm back!

Job Search

I'm looking for a new job. On the loose as of July 17. I'd love to hit the ground running on something new that day. The question is, what? I've been thinking about that some, and here's where I net out for the moment.

Even though I'm mostly a software developer, the tech stack may be the last important part of the equation for me. Yeah, I've been mostly working in Rails the past few years, but I've been writing code for 30 years now. That means I've worked with dozens of languages, including many that you should be glad you've never touched. Before Rails, I was working with .NET. Before that, I was working with Visual Basic and friends. Before that...well, go far enough back and you hit Z80 assembler. Or moving little plastic bits around on a Digi-Comp. It's all ones and zeros.

So if you want me to write Rails code, that's fine, I can do that tomorrow. If you want Node, I've done some, it's just a matter of learning more. If you want $NEW_LANGUAGE...haven't done that yet, but I could. Give me a week in a room somewhere and I'll be able to contribute.

Obviously I can also write words. I've done database work and devops and building servers and various other odds and ends. I'm flexible. Though I'm done writing iOS code. That was miserable from start to finish, and I feel the way about Apple that I felt about Microsoft a decade ago. I don't think their corporate interests have much to do with making my life better.

Then what is important from my point of view? Well, relocation is out; I've got four kids aged 10 to 16, and I'm not going to uproot them. So unless you're in Evansville, you'd need to hire me remote. I've been working remote for years and years now, it's no big deal to me.

I also want to go to bed at night knowing I helped improve things. So I'm not interested in the latest scheme to inject advertising into people's lives, or build iOT things that get hijacked for the surveillance state, or even helping make the marketplace for legalized dope more efficient. I'd love to do something with education, or helping kids, or feeding people, or distributing clean water...even if it didn't pay as well as being a professional invader of privacy.

All other things being equal, I'd love to work for someone full-time, but I'd be open to the right consulting gigs while I wait for something to come along. I don't have much interest in running my own consulting firm again; I'll happily give up a few bucks an hour to have someone else deal with taxes and lawyers and all that nonsense.

So, who wants to hire me?

Double Shot #1700

As I look for a new job, I think I'm most interested in getting back to pure web work. Remote is a must. Rails is where my best skills are, but I'd like to move into something new as well.

  • PG Casts - Screencasts focused on PostgreSQL.
  • The Segment AWS Stack - Production-ready AWS infrastructure implemented using HashiCorp's Terraform.
  • Contextual Identities on the Web - Firefox is doing some work starting in V50 to allow you to be logged on with multiple accounts in side-by-side tabs in the same window. That'll be useful.

Double Shot #1699

Looks like I'm back on the job market again. If you've been reading Double Shot for a while, you know the sort of things I've been poking at lately. But like most experienced developers, I can learn anything given time. MikeG1@larkfarm.com if you want to chat.

Double Shot #1698

I thought about linking to one of the "screw you, Apple" articles that have come out since the WWDC thing, but they won't convince anyone who's not already had it with Apple. I will say that I've reached my own limit on developers being shat upon by that company, and will be moving to Linux for my next round of upgrades. Bonus: no more wrestling with the horrible tools, walled garden, and general brain damage of working on iOS apps.

Double Shot #1694

  • 2.0beta1 is ready! Testers needed! - That's of GalliumOS, a Linux for Chromebooks. I'm following this with interest; so far a cheap-ass Chromebook running 1.0 is plenty good enough to run a browser, MySQL, and Sublime Text so I can work on Rails applications. I may have bought my last expensive laptop.
  • Introducing Blue Ocean - A new UI for Jenkins that emphasizes workflows (and prettiness).
  • Abstractions and the role of a framework - A little more exploration of issues surrounding Ruby, Rails, and alternative frameworks.

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