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@aral Thanks, I'll do my best! ☺️

@aral In case you missed my last post and because you asked to keep you posted, I got the job! ☺️ Thank you again for your encouragement. I hope this goes well, it really looks like a good position, it's a big enterprise but they use quite a lot of FOSS... I hope I'll have my chances to contribute some FOSS code in any of the projects I'll be working with. :)

OK so my second job interview went great and I got the job! I'll be code-monkey-ing some #Java, #Angular and PL/SQL for a local multinational enterprise, so expect whole new categories of bugs and ways to nuke your production servers that will amaze the Computer Scientists for years to come. :darthvader: A big thanks to you
fediversers who have suffered my lame adventures as a crappy dev student, and even crappier unemployed crappy dev wannabe, now the Null Pointer Exception is the limit! ♥️

@aral Thank you again, I really appreciate the encouragement... And I *really* need a job. <3

@NeonPurpleStar Banning Java entirely? :__(

@clacke FWIW, in the comic books she spoke with what was supposedly a heavy *french* accent. ;)

@clacke He plays himself in most, if not all, of his appearances, right? XD I know he's the kind of actor that polarizes the audience, but I count myself with the unconditional fans. For good and bad, he's a genre in himself. :D

@clacke Also, Nicholas Cage on some of them. :)

@clacke Yeah, it's really pervasive. And very good at what's good, as I said, I like it too. It's just the point that you raise, "best language for almost nothing", that brings me some doubt. As in, why not just use "the best tool for the job", when there are arguably better options in some domains? Using Python for *everything* sounds just a bit... Lazy, I guess? :P

I like #Python. It was the first programming language I tried, it had a reputation of being easy to learn and yeah, it was. What I don't really understand is how it has become so popular (# 1 in the TIOBE index...) and pervasive (you find it in areas where it seems like logic for a scripting language, but in others where you wouldn't bet for it too). It shines where it shines, but aren't really there better options in some of the niches it is being used for?

Gnome is "rethinking window management". Yet again, yes. I like the actual behavior, but it's always interesting to see new ideas. https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/

The first round of freshly-graduated developer job hunt has gone as expected, and I have now a nice collection of rejection emails. Either there were no open positions, or my profile wasn't exactly the required for the job. Most enterprises demand a minimum of 1 year experience... How I'm gonna have that if noone will hire me without that experience?, that old song. :P And yet another day starts tomorrow... Stubbornness has brought me here, so expect I'll keep on trying. :D

This Friday if nothing in contrary happens I put an end on my Associate Degree on Programming studies. It will be my last day in my intern gig, and I'll have to defend my final project later (a wacky Laravel API, why not). So I'm officially looking for a job. I've been looking for offers and it looks like it will be... Hard. From Delphi seniors to "juniors" with *years* of experience and the responsibilities of... A junior with years of experience, AKA a senior. :P Wish me luck! :D

@RL_Dane @fedops Includes newsgroup and feed client and IRC... That comes straight from the time machine, for sure. ;) In fact, I just have downloaded it and made a test run... It *looks* pretty outdated (and too many bars!), which doesn't really matter, but that's what it is. Main problem I found is that finding a suitable adblocker may be difficult, ublock isn't there. It reminds me of Pale Moon a bit, a bloated Pale Moon indeed. ;)

@RL_Dane @fedops Now that you mention it... SeaMonkey still exists? https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ ;)

@RL_Dane @fedops TBH I knew this existed because I came into it a while ago, but until your comment made me remember it again, I haven't found any mention elsewhere... Is really nobody using it? And if so, why is that? It seems like it's still maintained and pretty up to date (last beta was launched on August 31...) :(

This is my Void Linux setup in a (very) crappy laptop. It's very fast and lightweight though. It's using a simple suckless environment (dwm+dmenu+st), without a file manager installed, so term windows it is. ;) Less common options are oksh as shell and opendoas instead of sudo. And uses ~100 MB of RAM after boot. :D

#screenshotsunday #voidlinux #dwm