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Congratulations on the job. I had a similar experience where having a public website with published extensions for the server that my future employer was using
by em-bee 3y ago
Congratulations on the job. I had a similar experience where having a public website with published extensions for the server that my future employer was using helped me get a job there, but, I'd like to point out that in both our cases it wasn't the blog/website alone that helped us get the job, but a personal connection. In your case it was meeting that CEO on a bike, who then made a personal recommendation. In my case it was my general reputation as an active member of a community where the job was posted, that I applied to.
What the blog did was to make it easy for the CEO to get to know you without talking to you more. And for me it was my code examples. So that works if you find a job where your ideas fit, but it can also work against you to find any other job that may expect a different mindset. Just recently I had an interview that also came about due to my reputation in the community, after I posted there that I was looking for work. But they desperately wanted to see code too, and the only thing I had to show was almost 15 years old or older, in a language that is not well known, because all my recent work was not public, and I didn't keep code from work on my personal devices. I haven't heard back from them yet.
- swores 3y agoMinor feedback that you're welcome to ignore: I found reading your comment a little bit slower & more annoying because of your lack of upper case letters for sentence starts. It's an interesting comment so I still read to the end, and upvoted, but I was close to not bothering to keep going half way through purely because of it all being lower case. I'd suggest changing your habit and starting sentences with upper case letters, not just because it's "normal" but because it's normal for a reason, that reason being that people find it easier to read.
- em-bee 3y agoI appreciate the feedback. This is a habit that I acquired decades ago, on the basis that it doesn't make sense to write words differently just because of their position or their meaning when there is no such difference in the spoken language (but there are pauses between sentences instead, which I didn't consider then). It is actually through reading HN that I started to consider readability of longer paragraphs. I am considering the situation. Don't know where I will end up. I edited the comment, but now I am stuck between leaving the commented with capitalization to improve readability and reverting the edit in order for your response to make sense and to allow others to judge for themselves. (I'll go with keeping the edits. Anyone curious about the readability can go look for older comments of mine)