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Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Hey folks, it’s easy. Leave your leaves in the fall. It will take two years of this. The first year they’ll nest there the next they’ll hatch. I’ve been doing it for two years and have more. Especially my front yard where I’ve never seen them before.

    Also, the other day I saw one in a spider web and it flashed back when I put my flashlight on it. (Which is really sad lol.) I did it a second time to check and it did it back a second time. Definitely wasn’t coincidence. So all the talk about lights on in your house absolutely is true and it probably confuses them. To the best of your ability turn off lights or at least close curtains and blinds. Definitely turn off porch lights.

    They’re magical. The sounds and sights of a summer evening are truly an enchanting experience. Especially after dealing with a stupidly hot day lol.











  • Inflation adjustment doesn’t really tell the whole story though, it’s not like salaries have gone up by the same amount. Regardless, I don’t like dealing with the Zero unless I specifically need something that tiny. It’s just too annoying. Don’t get me wrong! They’re cool! I’m just saying unless I really need a Pi Zero I wouldn’t wanna work with one. I’d rather work with x86_64 than Arm. Like even just getting Java working was really tricky on Zero. Much like a microcontroller has limitations for what you can run on them but they have other benefits, Zeros aren’t really general purpose.

    So yeah, dirt cheap used laptop for general purpose server beats out dirt cheap Pi in my book.






  • Also, Raspberry Pi first got popular because of the size and cost. Now it’s popular because it’s popular. Not hating on them, I think they’re cool, but they’re not cheap any more. Especially with the scalping.

    Getting x86_64 based systems is going to mean much less headache. Unless you truly truly need the size I wouldn’t consider getting a Pi or other SBC. Just go to literally any used marketplace (Facebook, Craigslist, etc) and get anything.



  • I say it sometimes as a bit of a joke. It depends on when it comes up. It’s moreso with third party recruiters through forms that refer your resume to other places because they ask things like “what are your top 3 wants.” So I’ll typically say salary is number one because I wouldn’t work for free.

    If the question is ever “why are you looking?” No. I wouldn’t say I “needed money”, even if I was taking a sort of unpaid sabbatical and ran out of savings. The reality is everyone knows you need money. Another reality is looking “desperate” is a negative at times. Frame yourself as someone confident and ambitious. “I’m looking for the next step in my career journey.” “I’m looking for an increase in responsibility and an increase in compensation to match.” Things like that.