i am applying for jobs again and it’s going slightly better, some initial interviews coming up, some follow ups. hopefully this time i find a new job. i’ve had to study a lot to prepare myself for this latest round of job searching. some things i’ve worked on recently in order to be better prepared:
AWS
ECS, ECR, Fargate, S3, ELB
Docker
Terraform
Javascript
also html & css a lil bit
Chrome extensions
Make
Unit & integration testing
Logging
API building with Flask
API testing with Postman
Git
i also read through some repos in Go and C.
i don’t feel as confident as i would like to in any one of these things but i am steadily making progress in all of them. and they kinda pop up in weird places. like the other day at work one of my coworkers was working with a vendor to solve a problem, but they couldn’t understand what was causing the issue. i took a look and traced it back to a Makefile, and due to my recent exposure to Make and Makefiles, i had a pretty solid grasp on what the file was doing and how to troubleshoot it, whereas my coworkers had never seen Makefiles before.
i finally set up a website that i had the idea for last year. pretty basic site but all the same, feels good to have it done. and it’s a nice exercise in deploying and managing services via AWS using Terraform.
i’ve been listening to a lot of new music lately and i haven’t been reading books nearly at all. i’m way behind in my goal of reading 50 this year. i’m only at like 15 or whatever. i don’t like getting behind on it but frankly it’s hard to stay motivated when reading is so fucking boring. i keep blaming the book im reading rn (the glass bead game) for why i’m not reading, but idk if any other books would hold my attention either. side note: the glass bead game is dull as hell. it’s so boring. i’m like 200/500 pages in and i can barely keep myself focused. it’s written like the worst fantasy novel of all time. nothing happens, the characters are useless, and herman hesse has this way of writing that makes everything he touches less compelling than it otherwise would be. i should’ve known i’d feel this way since Narcissus and Goldmund sucked so much ass and Siddhartha was the continued colonial bastardization of religion. so maybe i just drop this and move onto the next one. i’m thinking of forcing myself to finish gravity’s rainbow, which i got 200 pages into and stopped.
the playlist is a good one: each song here is from a new album that is wonderful. the highlights:
Lankum is an irish folk band from dublin and their entire album, False Lankum, is phenomenal. Go Dig My Grave and Newcastle are my favorites.
Y La Bamba is a Mexican American band out of portland, oregon. Their newest album, Lucha, is very strong.
Midwife and Vyva Melinkolya’s album Orbweaving is amazing. i am biased since i have been friends with Vyva Melinkolya for years, but it is excellent.
Feist has a new album out and i am stoked about it. i’m a big feist fan and this album just makes me want to give her a hug.
Kara Jackson’s album why does the earth give us people to love? is incredible. her voice is unbeatable, instrumentation is excellent, and the lyrics are perfect. the eponymous track is exceptional.
Lankum - Newcastle
Y La Bamba - Walk Along
Lonnie Holley - Earth Will Be There
Yaeji - With A Hammer
Midwife and Vyva Melinkolya - Hounds of Heaven
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily - Sajni
Brandee Younger - Brand New Life
Feist - Love Who We Are Meant To
Fenne Lily - Dawncolored Horse
Fire! Orchestra - ECHOES: A Lost Farewell
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - Toilet Paper Romance
Indiana Mandy - Pinking Shears
Monaleo - Goddess (Feat. Flo Milli)
Susanne Sundfør - alyosha
Alfa Mist - Apho
Water From Your Eyes - Remember Not My Name
Yazmin Lacey - From A Lover
Kara Jackson - why does the earth give us people to love?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4bUgvWbrZGKYdn8D7iztNPk5RYPZC3h2
