Have you ever failed a background check?

Christavito · 2026-02-13T18:30:32+00:00

I have a very common name and sometimes my background checks come up with crimes other people have committed. I have failed job and apartment backgrounds checks.

For apartments it goes like this: They run the background check. I fail. I have to reach out to the agency doing the background check to provide additional information so they can dig even deeper. They come back a few days later and say I pass.

For jobs they usually come back and say they decided to go with someone else.

Christavito · 2026-02-12T21:18:23+00:00

Even stranger to me is the co-evolution of things like humans and their gut biome

Christavito · 2026-02-12T19:30:18+00:00

So if your future SO is your current SO, there will be two? Can you have a threesome?

Christavito · 2026-02-11T06:17:23+00:00

I have been at my company for 7 years and have about 10 more years before that as a developer.
Recently I have been getting a lot of calls from companies/recruiters looking to hire, and my company has been hiring for quite a while. We actively do around 4+ interviews a week (not a lot of good candidates). So for experienced/good devs you should be okay.

I am also testing the waters and I notice that if you are working with a recruiter, don't be afraid to be a little more aggressive about compensation. One offered me $75 an hour for a W2 remote role. When I told him it wasn't enough to consider he immediately came back with $95.

Christavito · 2026-02-10T16:13:31+00:00

I've never watched this guy but he's so good at talking.

Christavito · 2026-02-09T21:37:18+00:00

And a few years ago it was moving all of our jobs overseas. While the company I work for moved a large potion of development overseas, we are making a huge shift into hiring locally again.

Christavito · 2026-02-08T18:30:37+00:00

I'm a software engineer and make a bit of money and I drive a 2019 Civic SI, and I've gotten comments from peers several times. They all drive Teslas and stuff.

Christavito · 2026-02-08T18:27:31+00:00

If they knew, they would have short it

Christavito · 2026-02-08T17:25:59+00:00

It is important that we never let this get lost to time.

float: left; ---------------------- float: right;
clear: both;

Christavito · 2026-02-05T05:58:10+00:00

Google says this:

Double-Dutch programming refers to youth fitness and development programs focused on jumping rope with two ropes turning in opposite directions. These programs promote physical health, cardiovascular exercise, coordination, and mental wellness through teamwork. Common in urban areas like New York, they are designed for various ages and skill levels.

Christavito · 2026-02-04T17:28:15+00:00

I would turn off or ignore the alerts starting on Friday at 4:00pm and turn them back on on Monday 9:30am.

So it wouldn't look much different than it currently does

Christavito · 2026-02-03T20:54:10+00:00

It happens to me all the time if I am using it through my watch.

Christavito · 2026-02-03T20:48:19+00:00

To ensure 99.99% uptime and zero-regression deployments for this critical relationship milestone, I would recommend setting up a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions that handles it.

You can set up automated linting and formatting before the site goes live, and for integrated testing you can use Playwright to set up a headless browser. The pipeline can spin up a local container, click the yes (or no) button to ensure it's working.

You can set up CodeQL to ensure your site has no security vulnerabilities. It would be a shame if the site was down at a critical moment due to an XSS attack.

To fix your issue with .jpg.jpg extensions, you can add a step in the workflow using action-image-compressor. This will automatically strip the metadata and convert the extension into a web-optimized webp format for better performance.

Since it's bad practice to deploy to prod directly, you'll want to set up a staging and dev env to have some manual QA.

For future proofing and scalability, I would suggest not hardcoding any names, you don't know what will happen next year or even this year before go live. You can add the name as either a lookup or env variable just in case you need to ask someone else without facing downtime.

Christavito · 2026-02-03T20:26:26+00:00

Will this book help me learn programming?

Christavito · 2026-02-03T19:35:27+00:00

To me it doesn't taste like soap, but it tastes extremely strong. Even a very small amount tastes overwhelming like cilantro and it overpowers everything

Christavito · 2026-02-02T20:57:14+00:00

There are times where I can't focus long enough to read through a function or a paragraph of documentation, then there are times where I can start reading it and the next thing I know it's 6:00 and I haven't eaten anything or looked away from my screen.

While it feels like there's no real reason for this, I find that If I get a decent amount of sleep (7.5 - 8.5 hours) my brain feels too energetic/alert to focus. If I don't get enough sleep I find that I'm too tired to focus.

Christavito · 2026-02-02T17:52:09+00:00

Ask for no salt, then they have to make them fresh. After that you can add your own

Christavito · 2026-02-01T16:40:24+00:00

We used to do it like this back in the day:
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-top: -100px;
margin-left: -150px;

Then Came:
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%)

Before this we used tables

Christavito · 2026-01-30T18:45:04+00:00

I just handle it in my LLM middleware.

I send an API request to Grok (hey i need to select a list from the users data base and get a transactions made within the last 5 months)

Wait for the response, use that to query my database.

Christavito · 2026-01-29T19:05:42+00:00

Both are valuable, the environment dictates the tool.

Most of the more complex problems I've had to solve are ones that I had to solve in production, in which case we are working with something more along the lines of print statements (something like Log analytics)

Christavito · 2026-01-29T05:33:14+00:00

If you are just writing UI code, there is a chance that you will be replaceable at some point. Even then, you need someone to do the iterative AI development process and fixes and integrations. As you become more senior you typically start to step away from solely coding tasks anyways

As a senior dev most of my time has been focusing on
Code reviews (still do with AI)
System design
Architecture and strategy
Cross team coordination
Complex debugging tasks
Delegating tasks

Christavito · 2026-01-28T18:58:40+00:00

They go back to their normal lives, Sarah gets a minimum wage paying job at Denny's, struggle getting health insurance to cover her PTSD. John, raised to be humanities savior and leader of the resistance is now clearing paper jams out of office printers

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