@mikesusz social feed.

ending week 3 of not-working at 104 applications sent, 22 rejections received.

hoping that my revised resume fares better going forward. i had rewritten it to try and differentiate myself _within_ IBM Consulting, but i eventually realized that it doesn't really reflect my strengths and the types of work i want to do outside. i wish i'd realized this sooner.

( side note: hi! i'm on the market. front-end dev, accessibility, kindness, humor. https://mikesusz.dev )

@Ashedryden @darius do you notice a change seasonally? in the winter, my house loves casseroles and homemade chex mix (so much homemade chex mix) but spring hits and we're all craving salad and fruit.

tired: tokenmaxxing
wired: tolkienmaxxing

i guess today is "international run day" but like,
i'm not in great shape
and i'm really really far from our country border

who is this holiday for, even?

i fear
that my use
of em-dash
makes people think
that i used
AI

Schrödinger’s mëssage

@Eric_Neue stop using "compute" this is the ask?

@m750 so... i should pivot into politics?

🤔 so far my cautious, measured, pragmatic approach to using AI agents in software development seems to be reviled by both those who are against AI as well as those who are AI zealots.

@mescutia it was especially ironic to see the CEO enjoy small Ford cars at Team O’Neil rally school while thinking … you killed this. you ended all these cars. https://www.instagram.com/p/DSnSlUMgGtI/

@NanoRaptor @Meyerweb it’s … true. https://time.sqd.co/?date=2003-01-07

@mescutia indeed! on my wife’s side, we have various grandparents and extended fam who worked for Ford. i haven’t bought anything but Fords since 2001. its getting difficult because i want to buy a small to medium sized car soon, and they don’t make cars besides the Mustang anymore.

taken shortly after i got done replacing the APIM in the Escape. we just bought it and in the process of updating Ford Sync from 3.0 to 3.4, someone* bricked the APIM.

* it was me

new fleet photo.

this is how my day went.

🤷

@danyork you could ease into it by instead selecting only days with an “n” in them.

saturday. can’t mow the lawn today. it’s snowing. ❄️

@annika doesn't NASA post huge stitched-together images?

update: this was fun for a while, but the long-term plan is to have another corporate-issued laptop on a shelf again, so the additional 27" was donated to a better cause (a driving sim rig in the basement)

a while back i was doing a woodworking project and i needed a nailset (used to hammer finish nails to slightly under the surface of the wood without denting the wood with the hammer). i couldn't find one forever. and i have two of them!

when i finally found them both, i also realized - i only have two boxes of finish nails.

so i put a nailset into each box.

today is a preemptive ibuprofen kind of day

@annika @mathowie Industrial music is ripe for a comeback!

@mescutia have you considered just github pages? for static sites it's pretty easy and you can map a domain to it also https://docs.github.com/en/pages

@jerzone congrats!

@jdarnold 12:12 indeed.

this little “summer preview” allowed us to uncover and test the air conditioning to make sure it’s ready when “summer preview 2” or “real summer” arrives.

now we’re back to having the windows open and tomorrow morning it might be chilly enough to use the pellet stove.

@akahn

it’s been really wild how much of my “identity” i wrapped up with my employer. but now im realizing what the limitations of that were also. i’m free now.

ooh even better. we’re just hanging out together.

zoom in!

News: my time as an IBMer has ended, after nearly 10 years in Software and Consulting.

I'm looking for new remote opportunities to do UX Architecture, Front-end Dev, Design Systems, or generally bolster teams and contribute to good apps and sites that help people. I have 30 years of experience making things for the web.

I've been building an automated workflow to help me with my search, you can read about it here: https://mikesusz.dev/blog/job-search/

feel free to reach out or forward, thanks!

the lilacs by our deck are starting to bloom and you wish your nose was here.

@atpfm re: overtime, this is how Grady Booch described english as coding language. a new layer of abstraction. (one of the podcasts he’s talked about this on) https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-third-golden-age-of-software

Spicy robot.

@Meyerweb star-crossed netmasks

now that i don't need the laptop shelf, would adding another 27” be egregious? 🤔

the grown-up version of ‘the floor is lava' is 'the kitchen floor is mopped and still wet’

@marcamos for me it's watching their battery percentage in the menu bar dwindle. just plug it in! what the heck?

tomorrow is going to be an interesting day.

i spent way too long and had way too much fun updating my colored design on my website to more closely resemble the album that inspired it. https://mikesusz.dev/

(it redraws a different pattern on every page load or on window resize)

you can see my inelegant but functional <canvas> code here: https://github.com/mikesusz/mikesusz.dev/blob/main/src/components/BlueMondayStrip.astro

less- imagine: dragons
more- imagine: nachos

lol it just keeps digging.

@snugug my kids have tried every brand we have access to, there are some they don't mind but yeah, we went through a lot that feel and taste like you're eating playdough with sand mixed into it

it's monday! this should be a very interesting week.

my oldest turned 17 today and my younger son is practicing driving so i totally don’t feel super old at all thanks.

i’ve got a lot to get done outside tomorrow! oh…

this is perhaps the most beautiful piece of music i’ve ever heard. https://youtu.be/owNOQeplt0Q

tonight i couldn’t remember the name for “crinkle cut fries” so i just called them “corrugated fries”

so to make this less cryptic, unless something dramatic happens, my run as an IBMer is going to end soon. i was never a really great fit in Consulting; i like to care deeply about my work, to make things better and to be a force multiplier that bolsters those around me. in IBM Software i was able to accomplish this. in IBM Consulting, i am “too expensive” in an organization that emphasizes “fast” and “cheap” more than “good.”