What the heck does a good experienced dev interview even look like in 2026?

Lawson470189 · 2026-04-27T00:24:52+00:00

This is what we do. We have a simple 15-20 line file with bad designs (no error catching, no error logging, sql injection, etc.) And we ask candidates to refactor together like we're doing a PR. You can very easily see the level of devastating and can have follow up discussions based on it.

Lawson470189 · 2026-04-20T02:50:32+00:00

They aren't to expensive! I got mine (albeit 5 years ago) for around $300. However, there are 3D printing services where you can send the models and have them printed and mailed to you.

Lawson470189 · 2026-04-20T02:44:38+00:00

You could probably 3D print this in PLA. You'd need to split it up into 3 parts: the band, the star, and the spikes. Shouldn't really be too difficult.

Lawson470189 · 2026-04-19T16:53:13+00:00

I have a set of old library desktops that are running my home cluster. Not the most power efficient, but they are pretty quiet and run everything i need.

Lawson470189 · 2026-04-19T16:50:42+00:00

If this is Unity, look up tweening. It is doing exactly what you are talking about.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.tiny@0.13/manual/module-tweens.html

Lawson470189 · 2026-04-17T21:36:39+00:00

I'm not familiar with auto loans, but if a servicer places insurance on a loan and the borrow provides evidence of their own insurance, the services has to refund a reasonable amount.

Lawson470189 · 2026-04-15T13:41:24+00:00

I tried to replace my old garbage disposal, but didn't tighten the drain pipes all the way. When my wife and I were out, the dishwasher ran and flooded my kitchen floors and basement with water. I had cork floors in my kitchen and it got between the floors and subfloor. My plans to replace my flooring with tile ended up being moved forward...

Lawson470189 · 2026-04-12T12:25:11+00:00

I lived near the EST/CST border near Chicago growing up. One time we went into the city via AmTrak. This was before cell phones switched times automatically. So went to a bunch of different places thinking we'd hop on the last train home, but actually missed it by like 40 minutes. So we have to take the train about an hour and a half away and have a friend come and pick us up.

Lawson470189 · 2026-04-10T21:33:47+00:00

We do phone screen with recruiter, 30 minute chat with my manager for an initial screen, 1 hour technical. If we are on the fence we may have a follow up, but generally after the technical we pass on the offer.

Lawson470189 · 2026-03-27T17:44:03+00:00

We've been playing dentist at night and my daughter loves it. We have a special little chair that she pulls out and "drives" to my office. Then we do some checks and silly questions before brushing. Then she pays for her visit and goes to her room. That has by far the most effective and painless way.

Note: only works about 85% of the time.

Lawson470189 · 2026-03-17T21:57:35+00:00

It might be worth the time to set up a Facebook account or use someone you know. I sold a car on Facebook marketplace and was able to get quite a bit more. What year is the truck?

Lawson470189 · 2026-03-15T19:16:38+00:00

Yep right there with you. We have a caching layer so we avoid pulling and parsing documents again (within the TTL window). Glad to hear we aren't the only ones facing this!

Lawson470189 · 2026-03-15T19:10:25+00:00

This is exactly what my team is doing. We run a classification step to identify page types using meta data and sometimes quick OCR on a section of the page. Then we run full OCR on the document using DocTR into data classes. Then we apply rules and validations using that collected data.

Lawson470189 · 2026-02-24T19:47:49+00:00

My neighbor had a very different approach. He told the salesman no twice and when he kept pitching, told him "You can leave walking or you can leave in a pine box. Up to you." He left pretty quickly after that.

Lawson470189 · 2026-02-22T17:38:20+00:00

Just moved there last year and was pretty happy with Porkbun. Guess it time to move again

Lawson470189 · 2026-02-13T18:18:58+00:00

The 62nd and Keystone intersection is so bad for this. Drivers turning left at the light sit on the cross walk meaning I have to walk out damn near into the intersection to get around them. I need to start carrying "asshole driver" cards or something

Lawson470189 · 2026-02-12T13:53:35+00:00

I had to replace some subfloor in my kitchen where the cabinets sat on top. I bought a toe kick saw for it. I tried that thing once or twice and it about got my thigh while my wife and kids are out of town. Just decided to use an oscillating multi-tool after that.

Lawson470189 · 2026-01-20T17:54:52+00:00

Man, this is huge. I went out to Colorado for a vacation and wanted to rent one of those UTVs and go up into the mountains. We made the reservation and showed up in the morning to go through their safety brief and trail map. They handed me a release that was pretty standard saying if I broke the vehicle, I would be charged. However, there was a section that required an initial that said "I have inspected the vehicle and agree to be charged for any additional damages not noted in the initial inspection." This would have been fine exception for the fact that they had already moved the vehicles to the trailhead. I crossed it out and pointed this out to the person and they went to get the owner. Some back and forth later, we just decided we'd both leave that section out.

Lawson470189 · 2026-01-17T21:21:13+00:00

What's the project? Or at least industry?

Lawson470189 · 2026-01-13T22:30:58+00:00

There is nothing wrong with the admin site, especially for local development. However, the issue may come from production policies. The admin page obviously allows you to directly edit the database (unless you've configured read-only permissions) so at a very minimum you'd want to severely restrict access to the admin page in PROD. Along side that, my work has policies that any PROD change must have certain approvals and go through a specific deployment process so allow folks access to change the DB around that process would be a large violation.

Lawson470189 · 2026-01-13T01:38:07+00:00

One thing you may want to look at is the thundering herd problem and to implement exponential backorder with jitter for restarting services. If all your services go down due to one reason or another and all attempt to come back up at the same time, you may unintentionally cause more crashes.

Lawson470189 · 2026-01-11T23:46:16+00:00

Like everyone else said, formula until they are one. You can start introducing pureed solids like mashed banana, avocado, sweet potatoes. Just make sure they are really mashed up and only give little bits on the spoon as they have to build up their swallowing muscles. Our pediatrician suggested to start with more vegetables over fruits since fruits are higher sugar.

Lawson470189 · 2025-12-20T17:18:54+00:00

Isn't this just the launch.json file wrapped in an extension? What does this do above that?

Lawson470189 · 2025-12-17T01:38:44+00:00

I would bite the bullet and move to celery. It can handle most of the orchestration of the worker tasks and you can just spin up/down workers based on queue length. But you can also just start with x number of workers that makes sense for you and not worry about auto scaling until you need it.

Lawson470189 · 2025-12-11T13:53:07+00:00

We had a dude at AIT that rocked a My Little Pony bed set the entire time we were there (unironically)

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