Not Best Time For An Open Source Contributions

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If intro sounds like an existential crisis to you, then yes – it should!

In the times before AI, there was a reason. You could add this to your CV and it would be valuable, someone could admire your work, find your PR, and even debate the decisions you made during an interview.
Some other resources, like the old Stack Overflow Jobs, allowed you to add your open-source contributions as widgets visible to anyone, and they had a very prominent place on that HTML page.

Theory vs Practice: Why Technical Interviews Go Wrong

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR

Match interview complexity to job complexity.

Interview for what the job actually requires
System design interviews test interview prep, not engineering ability
Copying FAANG processes for non-FAANG problems is cargo cult
Knowledge you don’t use, you lose

An Exaggerated Hiring Story

HR contacts an engineer and asks them:

Hi, %username%
We are fast-growing, extra efficient, super sufficient
LIST of Fortune 500 FORBES %company_name%

Want to enlarge our staff and hire one another scintillating developer (YOU) to join our super friendly team
Let’s schedule a call to share the details and proceed with next steps

Software-Engineering on @zhisme :: signal over noise

Not Best Time For An Open Source Contributions

Theory vs Practice: Why Technical Interviews Go Wrong

TL;DR

An Exaggerated Hiring Story