In the course of talking about job hunting with friends, colleagues, randos in slack, and elsewhere, I end up talking about resumes. A lot. There is, (in my (not so) humble) opinion,…
Category: General
“Do You Have Any Questions for Me?”
When the interview comes to the “do you have any questions for me?” part, your best use of time is to try to uncover things that would cause you to absolutely say…
Remember When Things Were Better? (No.)
A post over on LinkedIn got me thinking, which got me writing. No, I don’t. I’ve been working in tech for 35 years, in all that time, I’ve never observed very many…
Culture, Community, Creation, Calling
In last week’s post, as I was talking about job descriptions, I asked a question I feel is key to a successful job search: “Do you like the company because of it’s culture,…
Job Descriptions and Other Works of Fiction
Last week I was talking about job applications and not holding yourself back by saying “no” pre-emptively. I started to dive into job descriptions before realizing they deserved their own post. Which is…
Who Says “no” in a Job Search?
This is just a quick job search advice post for the week, with a piece of advice I find myself giving out far too often: It’s the company’s job to tell you…
Setting Up a WordPress Test Environment With wp-env
As I worked through the homework challenge round at one of the companies I interviewed at (a company that was very WordPress centric), I found myself struggling with literally every step –…
What I Learned About Salary Negotiation from Kym Possible
UPDATE for 12/31/2024: Due to popular demand, Kymberly has set up a new website to help with intake, coordination, and communication. Check out https://www.sugarcubeconsulting.com/. As regular readers know, I recently changed companies….
Writing your first “Hello Product” script using the WooCommerce API
A lot of folks know about the WooCommerce API, but just haven’t gotten around to using it. Others are just learning about it. Still other folks might have made an attempt to…
Alerts Should Work for You, Not the Other Way Around
(This post originally appeared on the Kentik blog) “A few years back, I was tuning an alert rule and accidentally triggered the alert, which created 772 tickets. Twice.” This (all too true)…