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Daypage Journal
Thursday, 4/26/2019
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DONE Hang up laundry and start new load
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DONE Push down english muffin dough
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DONE Clean the dishes
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DONE Setup a system like Davemail to keep IMAP in sync
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https://github.com/kzar/davemail
DONE Set tasks for the day
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DONE Write in daily journal
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DONE Submit code sample to Marlo
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[[notmuch:id:5cbf753c860f9_3da87e0f547314e@ip-10-1-13-157.mail][Email from John Keck via AngelList Match: Re: Colin and Marlo]]
DONE Prep for call with ReCharge
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A little about myself
+ Been working full-time as a REMOTE developer for 8+ years
+ Started out in newspapers, actively contributing to open source
+ Used django because it started as a newsroom tool, quick CMS, custom content
types, fast turn around building templates
+ Spent 4+ years supporting a custom CMS and building websites and plugins with django-CMS
+ Built a number of custom donation forms for non-profits that included some
crazy payment processors (PayPal Pro ... sigh)
+ More than anything, I like challenging myself to learn new things
+ Built out a React front-end for a data import tool at my last job, had
responsibliity to build backend and frontend and that was fun
+ Not totally sold on the React model, a little heavy for most things, like
Preact and projects like that that use the same data model but with fewer
toolchain requirements
+ Started out with a fully distributed company, spent the last 2.5 years with
remote-friendly startups
+ Takes time to build culture, not everyone is built for it, and not every
company understands what the tradeoffs are
+ Written communication has to be superb in remote engineering teams
+ I find email is good for whole team communication, Zulip/Slack better for
one-on-one or small teams
+ Salary expectations around 100k, but I'm flexible at this point
+ Originally from Chicago, but spent last deacde in Maine
+ Four kids, ages 1 to 8 on a small farm by the ocean
+ We raise goats, sheep, chickens, ducks and turkeys
Questions
+ Curious about what the engineering culture is like at ReCharge? (Joel Test?)
+ 36-37 folks, looking to hire 5 engineers
+ Product took off and needed someone to organize engieering
+ Mono arch, built on python/flask - vue.js on the front
+ Build out api team, Adam Lick, worked at Shutterstock
+ Store team, feature team, and build team for internal tools
+ Try to keep very polyglot, don't care about language
+ Adam on API team, on vacation ... talk to Brad first
+ Managing our test team, very good software engineer
DONE Call with ReCharge
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DONE Clean dishes
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DONE Start rag laundry
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DONE Upgrade and fix doom emacs
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DONE Watch NBA playoffs
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Journal
Noted when talking to Emma, it's a muddled day. The day started out sunny but
the clouds quickly arrived and it's been drizzly since then. I was thinking I'd
try to get a run in, but between the rain, cold and missing my watch I'm
thinking I ought to just take it easy. That's kind of silly, but it is what it
is.
I have a screening interview with a company out of Santa Monica today. Not sure
how that's going to go. I also submitted an application to Salesforce for a
remote release engineering job. I actually really like the idea of building
release management tools, but we'll see if they even get back to me.
In all honestly, I'm starting to get really discouraged by the lack of results.
I know that HNews posts new Who's hiring threads on the first of the month, but
the lack of interest from folks has me doubting myself.
Listening to the Conversations with Tyler podcast the other day, his guest was
talking about doing meditations that involved having gratitude for the different
parts of your brain and what they're doing for you, even if they cause negative
energy to creep in. To that end, I suppose the discouragement is a force for
encouraging me to get out of my comfort zone. Also, it's a niggler for making
sure I'm actively looking for a job.
Either way, I wish I had some leads.