Hi 👋

Work stuff

I recently left the job I'd been doing for more than 11 years. Words like "restructuring" and "position eliminated" were read to me over a Microsoft Teams call with a freshly-hired CFO. My manager was not consulted, nor was his manager. Ruthless corporate math. So it goes.

If you need the services of a versatile software engineer, let me know!

Henge Finder

With some of my extra time, I've been working on some personal projects, including a little app called Henge Finder. It's not done yet but I'm working on it in public.

I was going to make this a longer post, but I also want to post more often, so I'm ending it here and will save the other things I was going to talk about for another post.

I've been working on my résumé lately. I attended a webinar offered by a career advisor firm that I connected with, and I learned a little about how job seeking has changed since I last did it. Some highlights:

• Cover letters are rarely expected now (cool!)
• Every résumé you send out needs to be customized (less cool!)
• LinkedIn is the center of the jobseeker's universe

A custom résumé for each job application?! Mostly this involves providing a professional summary statement at the top and filling the whole thing with keywords lifted directly from each respective job description.

This is a housekeeping post. I updated the host plumbing on zeigert.com to the new Deno Deploy since they sent out the ominous "the old Deno Deploy will be deleted soon" email.

I understand that the new deploy architecture is quite different, but offering no automatic path from the Classic to the New is a bold move, even for a contemporary web project hosting platform.

Anyway, if you notice any trouble around here, let me know.