Hi! I’m a dev with > 10 years of experience and I’ve been laid off twice in the past few years. Both times I’ve spent more than 5 months without a job. It’s not just you, hang in there. The current market conditions are tough with lots of layoffs in the industry and resume writing and reading getting automated.

I’d say keep your friends close - make sure they know you’re looking, frequently, as you’ve noticed an internal referral can speed things up; and keep busy - working on maybe some personal projects, or contributing to things that are out there can help keep you sharp, motivated and doesn’t hurt to have on that resume.

You can start looking at job aggregator sites, not just career pages. there’s indeed, builtin, etc etc etc. I personally also am a big fan of the hacker news monthly who’s hiring thread. It’s frequently a good way of getting in touch with folks who are hiring directly.

what are the demands?

most shells have a CDPATH which works just like PATH but for directories. set it to $HOME/projects/:$HOME/porn/ or whatever, and you’ll get the subdirectories in your cd tab completion, without installing extra stuff

If your team consists of people you don’t trust, that’s the problem to fix first.

The solution to that is pairing - spending a few hours collaborating with, and teaching this person will get them up to speed much faster than asynchronously nitpicking their code.

Mandatory pull requests + approvals within a team are a waste of everyone’s time.

firefox sync has worked pretty great for me, across all devices. I don’t self host it, but seems like once again, they’ve gotten it to the point where you can.

this has been my ringtone since the galaxy nexus

do you live in mississippi, virginia, or utah?