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UnreachableCode··on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
Not sure if it's been missed or I'm an anomaly. But as a senior level software engineer who graduated in the 10s, with a wealth of experience, I too (like the juniors who get reported on) am struggling to get a new job. Either I'm just not as good as I think I am, or the barrier is ridiculously high for the next type of job I'm trying to achieve (high paying, product focused developer).
UnreachableCode··on We're losing our voice to LLMs
LinkedIn bothers me the least, even though it definitely has some of the highest level of cringe content. It's still a good tool to interact with recruiters, look at companies and reach out to their employees. The trick is blocking the feed with a browser extension.
UnreachableCode··on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
Is it at all possible he has an Intel Mac from 2018 that he hasn't been able to upgrade yet, likely due to insane cost?

Because that's my thing

UnreachableCode··on .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser
This. Xamarin is MAUI. Xamarin was founded in 2011, acquired by Microsoft in 2016 (a year after Flutter was created).
UnreachableCode··on Smartphones and being present
https://untrap.app/ for YouTube customisation has been a lifesaver for me. It can even be added to Safari as an extension, for £2.99.

Also UBlock Origin for blocking specific elements on the screen is a lifesaver for reading articles or tutorials.

UnreachableCode··on F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
>Apple really cares about my privacy, or they tell me they do and I believe them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

UnreachableCode··on F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
GrapheneOS.
UnreachableCode··on FreeDroidWarn
I don't use Google login any where and have a lot of accounts with many different websites? Youtube and other Goolag ecosystem being the exception, but, of course they are?
UnreachableCode··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
I'm curious why you need a phone for banking at all, at home as you say. Wouldn't a laptop suffice? Granted, not all banks have a web app these days
UnreachableCode··on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
Tech people? I have met utter goons obsessed with porn that barely understand how their phone actually works.
UnreachableCode··on Claude Code Unleashed
Am I the only person who hasn't found the time, money, permission from work, resources, etc to be able to produce software like this? I'm still at my corporate 9-5 where they're still making the decision on whether we're allowed to use copilot yet.
UnreachableCode··on I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets
What I've never understood is, how is this an issue with private repos? Aside from open source projects I can't see the problem with accidentally doing this, even though it is a smell.
UnreachableCode··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)
Heads up, your Google doc appears to be private
UnreachableCode··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)
Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Android and iOS, and cross-platform using Xamarin/.NET MAUI. Experience with platform camera stacks and machine learning. Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI also.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nZp69EVM_lesNf28qcaJrCn3...

Email: hackernews.82m3s@passmail.net

I'm looking for a native Android position with the possibility of doing iOS also or Kotlin Multi Platform.

I have a tonne of experience working on native Android projects of my own, and contributing to open source projects. My career has mostly been in the Microsoft mobile space - Xamarin and MAUI. Sometimes recruitment don't see that this has given me a huge exposure to native code with the native bindings for these platforms.

I'm hugely interested in security and privacy and I'm hoping my next role involves these areas.

Above all else, as the resume says, I'm looking for a company that is trying to build high quality software and putting the user first.

Thanks for reading!

UnreachableCode··on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
It's a shame. He's clearly very talented. Mental health is no joke, you're right.
UnreachableCode··on How I use my terminal
Hm, Cmd+; seems to work! I will try it more out in the wild. Thank you!
UnreachableCode··on How I use my terminal
Can somebody help me, a CLI layman, out? How can I easily navigate printed directories like he does, in zsh, and paste them right into my prompt, e.g. for Git use? Is that where the tmux regex stuff comes in? Can I use that in iTerm 2?
UnreachableCode··on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
Thanks for the vid. I've been down the rabbit hole now. Looks like he departed the project though?
UnreachableCode··on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
Massive cost.
UnreachableCode··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
Right, I think I understand the nuance of your original point more now. As a Brit, with Visa, MasterCard and Amex, this is really a non-issue.
UnreachableCode··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
True enough. But I think in this case it's worth just enjoying how great Signal is. Maybe one day it will bend to enshittification, but for now, it's the better app.
UnreachableCode··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
>Way to flippantly shit on

o_O

UnreachableCode··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
>The latter are not accepted by online platforms

This is not true.

UnreachableCode··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
But Signal is free. And ad-free
UnreachableCode··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
Europe isn't a country. And we have credit cards here.
UnreachableCode··on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
Android and iOS developers need to explicitly request network access in their app's configurations.
UnreachableCode··on Comparing Claude System Prompts Reveal Anthropic's Priorities
Sounds like you need to use Grok in Unhinged mode?
UnreachableCode··on Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules
>Instead, users must verify their age using a credit card or a government-issued ID. This check must be carried out by an external service, not the porn site itself.

>This system, referred to as “double anonymity”, means the porn site receives only a yes-or-no confirmation that the user is of legal age. The age-check provider knows who the user is, but not which sites they visit.

So is there an issue here if the external service disposes of the card details immediately following confirmation? I'm not exactly sure how this would/could work though.

UnreachableCode··on Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules
I'm thinking for many less savvy websites, a VPN will get around this instantly?
UnreachableCode··on Binary Wordle
Don’t you mean 10 moves?
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