Is the Secure Boot shim thing related to Windows breaking dual-boot setups of late? Are they all updating to avoid some kind of Secure Boot issue in general?

I just found https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/ today. Structured course developed by Google for its Android devs.

I found it completely by accident. Was looking at their GitHub repos for something, and saw this in there. I might even try to go through some of it (though I also want to get better at Nim).

I got on Hired; the other three seem to be more for full-time devs (I’ve done dev work in support of my jobs, but not as a job in itself).

I’ll have a look! Thanks!

Indeed bought out GlassDoor, so I’ve been using that instead; as well as LinkedIn & whatnot. Market’s also apparently more amenable to novices and specialized folks right now, so you’re going to have better luck than a lot of us I think!

Thanks for digging into this on your end. Yeah, that 7 year stint was with an outfit wherein I was the constant, and everyone else kept coming & going. The 3 year job, I got canned for an overtime dispute; and they replaced me with two people after. The rest are a mix of layoffs or other reasons for not staying: I’m not one to just “quit”. Give me the right org; that’s not overly worried about being cheap, or has too many people coming & going; and I’d be happy to stay. Otherwise, I feel like my career has been more or less a “firefighter” vs a “builder” (I had to do both in the 7 year job). I hope that makes some kind of sense?

By fake recruiters and spam for PMP training…

Struggling a little with this too. The distance of time is my biggest grief: it’s hard to apply for jobs, when my most relative experience for various roles is 5-10 years old. And the further along in my career, the less there is to show, or people to speak up for what I accomplished. “Did I really do that, at all”… worst case of imposter syndrome I can think of.

I think that’s been asked before. That’d be a massive undertaking, and they also support architectures that I don’t think Rust does (yet).

A lot of commercial apps are built with it. And if you’re not using Kotlin, you’re probably using Java for Android dev.

He went from a let-and-let-live, free-loving libertarian; to a more “kooky” libertarian. IMO, he was more palatable 20 years ago than now; though it’s hard to top the fall-from-grace Stallman has had…

If any of you happen to still be on Reddit, I actually maintain a “catalog” of these newer languages, as they come across my radar. One of my more recent finds is MiniScript, which the author of that has been using to port a fair amount of classic BASIC games from that GitHub archive I posted about recently. I got sucked into Nim, which seems like a good synthesis of Python, Javascript, and C++; c/nim exists for anyone interested.

It looks like ceev.io is winding down, so may want to do something else instead. My current one is based on a Google Docs resume template, saved to an ODF file for LibreOffice: I find its editing and PDF export to be more reliable for this purpose. Scanning resumes, https://www.jobscan.co/ has come up in searches & I think I used it in the past; can’t remember off-hand what it was I was using before.

1. Unemployment will ask you to track your job applications and will usually demand documentation as well; I had to do this in Florida and California. Keep a log of your applications, and use it to follow up with places as you can. I have an example I posted for showing others.

2. You may need to reformat your resume to ensure it can pass the ATS systems for acceptance into HR systems and/or auto-filling applications. Some resumes & CVs like to have you rank your skills: skip that; it’s arbitrary & throws off the scanners. But you may need a keyword section, ugly as it is, highlighting what you have used in the past. Also, a friend gave me a tip to reformat some of my job summaries with the help of ChatGPT; this will have some trial-and-error, but it might be helpful.

3. As you start looking for jobs, notice what people are asking for. There might be skill sets you are lacking that you can use this time to improve upon. I’m an IT generalist myself: I struggle to figure out what exactly I should be targeting, but cloud-systems (AWS & Azure especially) come up a lot in my searches.

4. Actual job hunting… I’ve had luck with LinkedIn, GlassDoor/Indeed, Reddit, and even have looked on Craigslist. There might be other websites that folks have come up with to help laid-off folks find work; I see those posted to LinkedIn a fair bit.

5. As was already said, don’t forget to go over your budget & start figuring out the hard breakpoints between staying in your field, vs “I need work tomorrow”. That being said, nobody’s shared with me the secret to looking like you’re not going to bail for something better / more-fitting; remember that they’re hiring with basically the same criteria for their needs, as you will in your own field.

I hope this helps. Good luck out there.

If you’re not opposed to AI-tooling, Rubberduck and GitHub Copilot are useful. The former is free, but requires an API key (and subscription past trial use) from OpenAI; the latter is $10/mo for individual users.

I saw some folks posting that they were doing Lemmy instances with cheap Vultr instances. Are you using something similar? And how’s the bandwidth going with peering to other nodes? I’ve toyed around with the idea of starting my own node.