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Automattic trial year 2 – (probably) my last trial. Thoughts about the hiring process.
I have another post with my trial experience from last year, you might have to read that first, this one will be a little different. Read it here. So… if you read my blog you might know that last year I trialed for a job at Automattic. Even if their canned rejection message on Slack...
Family & Personal #automattic

I think I am going to be able to write a new version/follow-up to this article soon.

I am leaning towards a new refusal this year, but we’ll see. This is one of the most challenging/exciting waiting games ever.

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Diversity visa 2023
I am going to be short with this post: we did not win it. We had two chances, both I and Catalina submitted applications but neither of us got randomly extracted. There is still time for us, to hope that this program will not be canceled or a better alternative to legally immigrate to the...
Family & Personal #diversity #visa
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Romanians and their concern about others
I find it hard to believe that some fellow Romanians are making fun of the US president, either the current one or the past one, but we still have a president that called me and those fellow friends “religiously fanatical”. In the meantime, the US presidents always invoke God in their speeches and also pray...
Life Politics #romania #usa
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What’s a P2 and why does it make so much sense
I remember when Automattic first introduced the P2 WordPress theme. The theme itself introduced a lot of interesting new things and a new approach to WordPress sites: collaboration websites and short Twitter-like posts. I even tried to use the theme for a side project somewhere around 2010 while I was still in high school, but...
Life Work Life #work #automattic #wordpress

Am I the only one that when sees an available update to anything I HAVE TO do it before anything?

For example I enter to wrtite a post here on the blog and I see this:

Cannot write anything before I update.

Or I open VsCode and it has an available update (I use the Insiders edition with multiple updates per day). I HAVE to update it. Same with PhpStorm plugins.

So… am I the only one?

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Status Update #aside

I ordered a WordPress t-shirt on March 7th. Arrived in Romania on April 1st, even though I paid for express delivery. Post is slow worldwide, but especially in Romania. It stayed in customs from the 1st of April until today, the 6th of April. Now it is on its route to my town, curious to see how much longer do I need to wait and how much do I have to pay for VAT and slow customs.

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Automating the Git commit message prefix
If you’re a programmer you probably love automating the daily tasks you do daily, don’t you? Well, if you don’t you probably should. The current project I work on has a specific Git Branching model that follows the Jira tasks number. In a nutshell, here are the requirements: when I tackle a story/feature task, it...
Geek #tutorials #git
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Lawn season: on!
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Lawn season: on!
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Iโ€™ve found the best Apple Watch band so far. It is not cheap but not too expensive also. It is a braided loop model, very comfortable.

I bought it from here.

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Good old internet
It all started with this tweet: It is exactly a sentiment I had for a while now about the current state of the internet. Everything we do 90% of the time on the internet now is controlled by a few companies. Am I the only one that sees this as a potential threat? I remember...
Online #writing #original content #internet #blog
Diversity Visa

We started timidly, with low hopes but confident that if it's God's will, one day we will move to the United States of America. We participated in the visa lottery for 4 consecutive years and on May 4th, 2024 we found out that we were selected for a possible immigrant visa in ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ. We owe everything to God, He will help us until the end.

  • DV-2022 - ๐Ÿ”ด Did not win
  • DV-2023 - โŒ No luck
  • DV-2024 - ๐Ÿšจ Nope
  • DV-2025 - โœ… We were amongst the 1% selected
  • ๐Ÿ•ง Interview ETA - ๐Ÿ•ง Left: days, hours, minutes, and seconds
    • ๐ŸฅMedical
    • ๐Ÿ‘ฎ๐Ÿปโ€Interview
    • โœˆ Flight

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