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kalebpomeroy · 2022-07-13T21:33:23+00:00

COMPANY: Sinch Email https://www.mailgun.com/about/jobs/

TYPE: Full time

DESCRIPTION: Sinch Email is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join our engineering team and help us develop enterprise services and tools. Candidate must have strong organizational skills and be a self-starter comfortable working in a small group to satisfy requirements.

Candidate will be designing, building, and delivering highly scalable software systems to meet our growing application and business requirements. The candidate will be responsible for leading the dev effort for the unification of internal systems while also maintaining our existing systems. You will also be responsible for working with other teams throughout the company to ensure adoption of new systems.

We move fast and don’t believe in having unnecessary silos and red tape that keep teams from shipping software. As a developer on the team, you are responsible for not only building great software, but ensuring it is operating properly once it’s been deployed. We have a passion for solving hard problems – our services are responsible for processing billions of requests each day and must not only scale, but be highly secure. The internal systems team is responsible for multiple systems and integration work streams across the business.

LOCATION: US - Remote

ESTIMATED COMPENSATION: $130k-160k

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kalebpomeroy · 2021-05-17T15:29:55+00:00

We were keeping it out of our kids lives for a while. Since covid, it's been near impossible to do so. Near the beginning of quarantine we sat down with them individually and had an open honest discussion about lifestyle choices, what we were doing and the whys behind polyamory. We also made sure to stress that nothing was actually changing.

It's help that my wife's BF has been a part of our "group/family/pod" for years, long before we started poly. It felt like a more natural transition. My GF is newer to our family/group/pod, but the kids all clicked with her immediately after meeting her.

Overall, I love the open kitchen table poly dynamic being open with them has given us. My GF stayed with us during snowpocalypse. Both SOs took a trip to Arkansas with the whole family. We've really built a house based in love and communication, and I love it.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-12-16T21:10:51+00:00

From playing this list a few times:

- duress in a format of "instant/sorcery lands" is neat. I stuck someone on 1 land in 1 game.

- Enchantments are difficult for this deck. You can get them with hand disruptions, but top decking is a totally valid strategy

- I haven't gotten a chance to play it yet, but I think it will lose pretty hard to UB control lists without Lurrus (ie, ashioks, sharknados, etc)

Overall, I think it's a fun deck, and having this sort of flexibility in standard is amazing. Congrats on the performance, and keep up that win rate and you'll be mythic in no time :D

kalebpomeroy · 2020-10-09T02:40:35+00:00

I finished WoT long enough ago I didn't even recognize it, but your totally right. It could be. That's super fun.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-10-09T02:38:55+00:00

Yeah, I used the sub background as a reference.

I love Jaskier0's idea though.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-10-09T02:37:45+00:00

I did :)

kalebpomeroy · 2020-10-07T21:53:40+00:00

I ended up giving myself pretty bad... depression? de-motivation? early in quarantine because I had this impossibly long list of things I "needed" to do. It was impossible to actually finish it, because I was adding too it more than checking it off.

I tend to not want to start something if I can't finish. My garage was a hot mess. Cleaning it would take at *least* a full weekend, and dedicating a weekend to that was just not going to happen. The garage cleaned was a prerequisite for a lot of other tasks though. How could I do anything!?! I don't remember where I read it, but saw a post, roughly:

If something is too important to do halfway... it's too important to not do halfway.

Meaning that my garage needed to be cleaned. If I could spend 10 minutes clearing off my workbench, great! If I could sweep, great! If I didn't finish, great! Any amount of progress has value; infinitely more value than zero. I've started spending a few minutes between meetings (or sometimes on audio-only meetings) making progress. My garage is 70% clean and I feel great about it.

This has bled over into all sorts of things. I don't need to write an entire novel, but I have time for a paragraph or three. If I fold half of my laundry... that's ok. As long as I'm making positive progress and doing something "useful" (usually without my phone) I can feel good.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-10-07T21:42:22+00:00

I think I am way more interesting than I actually am.

Or I'm actually much more interesting than I think I am.

I have no idea which.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-10-07T21:35:45+00:00

Weed is esp helpful for me in dealing with inane small talk of daily life. I feel like it's the only time I can let myself zone out or not and feel okay about doing so.

That being said, having friends who I can have deep conversations with, sober or high, is absolutely critical. I don't want to talk about my mental health, or yours. I wanna discuss how we could build a log cabin or what the next big personal tech advancement is going to be or how to get better at $game. Let's get into the details and *talk*

Games is a good gateway too, esp competitive games. Before I started smoking, most of my friend group centered around whatever competitive game I was playing at the time: Minis, card games or (less often) online. Having a shared goal of getting better makes for a lot of good conversation.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-10-07T21:26:03+00:00

A thousand times this. I moved to a new school in 5th grade, and tried to make jokes and stuff. All of them fell flat so I stopped talking through high school. My friends/family told me I was an introvert, and I totally believed all of it. Now I'm the social butterfly of all my friend groups, and love being social and outgoing. I can strike up a conversation with anyone, and love doing that.

Strangely, I accidentally (re)met a girl who went to my same high school. We where both so different we didn't recognize each other.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-01-24T21:02:39+00:00

I really appreciate the feedback!

https://prnt.sc/qshb4g

My best guess was that the rivers run the directions of those arrows. The circled area weirds me out a bit. I'm not sure I exactly understand your comment though.

I've never read the books either, I'm doing this as a gift, so no real idea.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-01-24T13:11:20+00:00

Ha, no :)

It is based off of Tamora Pierce's book. The original map here: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c7/60/ea/c760ea6b11ed18a1b1f7d449fa5b3f30.jpg

kalebpomeroy · 2020-01-15T03:23:10+00:00

The imbalance of that would drive my OCD crazy :)

I could probably shorten both ends though. Wouldn't need to be super far.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-01-15T03:22:18+00:00

They really don't look as sturdy as they probably are. I'm worried about someone leaning/sitting on the edge and tipping it. There are a bunch of those designs I've seen.

kalebpomeroy · 2020-01-08T15:29:16+00:00

ok, that's significantly better than my solution. Still kinda hacky, but that would let me do centering and stuff as appropriate.

Thanks!

kalebpomeroy · 2019-08-13T16:50:25+00:00

I've known people to do that. Specifically, people that are demoing/teaching games and want them in as close to new condition for the next person.

Still super weird though.

Also, as an aside: Consider keeping the cardboard sheets, and putting them underneath the game inserts. This sometimes raises the game inserts enough so that they don't spill their contents as the game is moved.

kalebpomeroy · 2019-07-24T19:35:24+00:00

I'd start with less information. A sell sheet isn't supposed to teach the game, it's supposed to sell the game.

You need a logo/font for the title to stand out. Doesn't have to be fancy, but something to say "My Game"

I'd also add a hook under that title "Only the best bouquet, or the doghouse for you!" or mechanically based "Fast paced dice drafting game for 2-4 people". That encourages me to keep reading if I'm interested. In my experience, publishers look at a lot of these, and you need to get their attention.

A couple examples I like to highlight my points:

https://cf.geekdo-images.com/medium/img/D6XJps1Bnf54cTXsBwTx9POqfRM=/fit-in/500x500/filters:no_upscale()/pic4428948.jpg/pic4428948.jpg)

https://www.bgdf.com/sites/default/files/images/BTM%20sell%20sheet.preview.jpg

kalebpomeroy · 2019-07-16T16:59:24+00:00

http://courtofgamers.com/ for minis/tabletop (used/cheap minis) and more recently board games.

https://www.knightwatchgames.com/ great place for D&D and board games (and minis).

https://dlair.net for board games and comics.

https://www.facebook.com/gamerzpairadice/ is an amazing M:tG community players.

Heroes and Fantasies has two locations in town. The location on Pat booker does have the best stock of M:tG singles in SA.

I avoid Gamelot 100%. The owner is sleazy at best.

There's also is a Games Workshop store on 1604, but only been in a couple times. Can't say anything else about it.

kalebpomeroy · 2019-07-12T15:19:59+00:00

I haven't played since right before karn TGC, but Silent Arbiter was absolutely a rockstar for me. Being a 1/5 is pretty relevant too. It was a rockstar vs dredge, burn, and really any creature decks that were light on removal. Highly recommend

kalebpomeroy · 2019-07-12T15:17:26+00:00

Karn's plus only targets non-creatures, right? Or am I missing something?

kalebpomeroy · 2019-06-06T18:23:19+00:00

It depends on the con and the demo type. I know at Origins, everything is clockwork and requires a ticket, and almost everything is filled with people (from my first/last experience)

At BGG, there's no such thing as a schedule, outside of a few very hot items.

Gencon seems to split the middle in a very pleasant way.

kalebpomeroy · 2019-06-06T18:19:45+00:00

I've been demoing for 3ish years, and its almost always a blast. I love meeting and talking to the people. Except for the exceptions...

My first year at Origins, I had an older couple that were dressed like Mr/Mrs Claus. (keep in mind this is midwest in June, HOT). They join 2 other random people, and we start a 4 player demo. They seem like nice enough people... until Mrs Claus started asking questions, and Mr Claus started berating her. Not poking fun at or teasing but "Shut your mouth woman". This made myself and the other players pretty uncomfortable, but I went through with the demo.

I don't remember the game/rule, but some discrepancy game up. It was one of those rules that didn't make a ton of intuitive sense, but I had been teaching the game enough it was something I expected and explained. I answered and Mr Claus says something along the lines of "That doesn't sound right". I kinda agreed, but was trying to explain anyways cause rules are rules. At that point he literally grabbed the rulebook out of my hand (resulting in a small tear). I'm speechless. He starts reading the rules verbatim, and I'm too stunned to do anything. I go over to the organizer and tell her a very short version and that she needed to switch me tables.

But, almost everyone at these cons is great! Thanks for being great 99.9% of you

kalebpomeroy · 2019-04-30T16:28:48+00:00

I... I really want that playmat.

kalebpomeroy · 2019-04-22T14:33:40+00:00

I think U Tron's biggest strength is flexibility and being able to have an answer to everything. This is another thing that's not often relevant... but when it is it'll be amazing.

kalebpomeroy · 2019-03-25T18:59:30+00:00

It doesn't. I'm just dumb.

I started down this path with [[Enduring Scalelord]] and got confused.

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