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The slightly strange parts of job market news
Ever think to yourself, "I know I need to change jobs, so why can't I make a move?" 🤔I was looking at news about the job market yesterday, and I felt a bit puzzled. Because even though it says, "It's a seller's market, the job opening-to-applicant ratio is up, and wage increases are continuing,
Checking Market Value Through Job Hunting | Aiming for Career Advancement [#MyFirstNote] [Part 1]
Three years ago, one night.In my company housing, I registered my resume on a job change site.It wasn't that I wanted to quit.I just wanted to know.Without a Toyota business card, would I be able to make it outside the company?This time, I will share the story of how I started job hunting while
Show HN: Personaforge – Make your portfolio out of your resume in 3 minutes
Personaforge is an instant resume to portfolio generator. It convert a resume into a live portfolio and also provides with deployment option, along with natural language editing. Personaforge is still under development, and so you might face a 500/503 error which I am dealing with but would love to know your views on such an application? Is it worth it ?
Ask HN: How are companies hiring developers nowadays?
Hi, using a throwaway for obvious reasons. I'm currently in a situation where I'll have to both create a hiring process to hire a couple of programmers at a startup where I'm working at, but at the same time I'm also starting to think about looking around and start sending out job applications.Since it's been a while from my last job interview I'm wondering how companies are hiring programmers nowadays. Do they still require leetcode exercises? What about take-home
“Don’t think… feel”
With writing, there are times to think… and times to feel.“I’ve had a sign over my typewriter for over 25 years now, which reads ‘Don’t think!’ You must never think at the typewriter — you must feel. Your intellect is always buried in that feeling anyway.”— Ray BradburyI do a lot of thinking about the craft of screenwriting. I come by it honestly. I never went to film school or had any formal training before I broke int
Feedback requested on possible scam employer
I've spent the last year thinking, with growing concern, that my current company is some sort of scam. They're owned by private equity and behave in a very anti-consumer and anti-employee way. The quality of their product has deteriorated greatly, yet senior management show no signs of caring. There appears to be a plan in motion that negates all of this. Their 'technical issues' cause problems with payment providers constantly, to the point where Stripe and Mastercard may bl
How I prevent double bookings in Postgres (advisory locks + Supabase)
I built a booking app for gyms with React, TanStack Start and Supabase. The part that looked easy and wasn't: two people booking the same slot at the same moment.This post explains the approach I ended up with, with a simplified version of the code.The problemA client opens the booking page, picks a service, a date and a time slot. Two clients can do this for the same trainer and the same slot within milliseconds of each other.If your app does this in two steps:SELECT to check the slot is freeIN
# API CaseTracker: Eliminating API Support Rediscovery with Customer-Partitioned Persistent Memory
Live Production Application: https://api-casetracker.vercel.appSource Code: FastAPI Backend & React TypeScript Atelier ArchitectureMemory Infrastructure: Hindsight Client by Vectorize 1. The 4-Hour "Déjà Vu" in Enterprise API SupportIf you have ever worked in technical support for an enterprise API platform, this scenario will feel painfully familiar:It is 2:15 AM. A priority-one incident is filed by an enterprise client:HTTP 401 Unauthorized: Invalid Token during Scheduled Batch Sync.A
Tech stocks stage partial rebound while dollar gains after US jobs data
Tech shares rose Friday, recovering a fraction of losses from the prior session's rout as the dollar rallied after better than expected US jobs data.After slumping 5.5 percent on Thursday, the tech-focused Nasdaq clawed back 1.1 percent on Friday.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1659083421277-748aceac4943?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8NXx8VGVjaCUyMEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTY1OTIwNTY4OA&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
Treasury yields continue to fall after midterms, traders look ahead to jobs data
U.S. Treasury yields moved broadly lower across the curve on Thursday.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1648827768123-e779c18927e1?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjZ8fFRlY2glMjBKb2JzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NDkwMjY0Njk&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
4 companies cut 478 jobs across media and tech, and the common thread was not AI
The latest layoffs at Hello Sunshine, People Inc., Dropbox, and Front reveal why companies are cutting jobs even as they ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1735225147804-81534d31ea85?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTl8fFRlY2glMjBKb2JzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE3Mzc1NzA1MTR8MA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
Screenwriting 101: Nancy Meyers
“My first draft was exactly 250 pages. I didn’t have brads long enough to get through the script. It took me about eight or nine drafts to edit. How do you do it? It’s impossible to see what it is at first. You just keep taking away and taking away, and it begins to shape up. You just keep following the story.”--Nancy MeyersFor 100s more articles in the Screenwriting 101 series, go here.The Protagonist’s Journey: An Introduction to Character-Driven Screenwritin
Job market showed signs of life in October, in an otherwise disappointing year
All told, 10 months into 2026, the U.S. economy has created 861,000 jobs so far this year, which remains an underwhelming total.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715929344430-83e121770bb2?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8M3x8Sm9iJTIwTWFya2V0fGVufDB8fDJ8fDE3MTYyMjEzMDd8MA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
US job growth beats expectations in October; unemployment rate falls to 4.1%
US nonfarm payrolls increased more than expected in October and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, suggesting the labor market remained resilient and giving the Federal Reserve more scope to focus on ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715889872741-8cc4cd25a04d?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTF8fEpvYiUyME1hcmtldHxlbnwwfHwyfHwxNzE2MjIxMzA3fDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
US labor market regains ground as job growth surges, unemployment rate falls to 4.1%
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - US job growth accelerated in October and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715667553434-67fc3ed41b52?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MzB8fEpvYiUyME1hcmtldHxlbnwwfHwyfHwxNzE2MjIxMzA3fDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
Could the blue tsunami jolt the US job market back to life?
The US labor market has been amazingly resilient in the face of a barrage of economic shocks.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715576958102-fec64b4960e5?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8Mjl8fEpvYiUyME1hcmtldHxlbnwwfHwyfHwxNzE2MjIxMzA3fDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
One of Logitech's best gaming keyboards is down to $150 on Amazon
Logitech's G PRO X TKL wireless gaming keyboard is currently available on Amazon for $150. While the current regular retail price isn't listed, this is significantly lower than the $220 listed price, making it a strong value for a tournament-grade peripheral. The tenkeyless layout saves valuable desk space, which is crucial for low-sensitivity FPS gamers who need ro
BoopFace: an MIT-licensed SVG robot avatar Web Component for AI agents
Hey everyone, about two months ago I shared an early black-and-white version of this component here (back when it was called agent-robot-avatar). I've kept iterating on it since then, gave it an official name (BoopFace) and built a website. Everything finally went live yesterday, so I wanted to share how it looks now.If you haven't seen it before: it's an MIT-licensed native Web Component (<boop-face>), written in vanilla JS and SVG with zero runtime dependencies. When an LLM or Agent runs
US job openings rise by 333,000 to 7.52 million in September while layoffs fall by 127,000, fresh government data shows, although economists caution that the labor …
The number of unfilled jobs across the United States rose unexpectedly at the end of the third quarter. This happened even as ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1660492041144-eea9db857659?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8OXx8Sm9iJTIwT3BlbmluZ3N8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTY2MTgxMzY4NQ&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
Job Openings Are Rising, but Hiring Is the Slowest Since 2013. But How?
Employers are posting millions of open jobs while hiring sits at its slowest pace in over a decade, and that contradiction is sending mixed signals to SPY investors caught between steady paychecks and a Fed that just made hiring more expensive.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1675813914317-6fd8410b209b?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTR8fEpvYiUyME9wZW5pbmdzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NzYyMDI1MTE&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />